The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—Since Tuesday last a continued succession
of alarming accounts from Paris, brought with great rapidity
by telegraph, have exercised some influence upon our market.
During the uncertainty which those accounts were calculated
to produce, buyers, whether for export or the home trade, were
little disposed to purchase anything which they did not imme-
diately want. The business done has, consequently, been on a
Imolitgef!, sycale, and prices, both of goods and yarns, have
wnwards.
Rocu DA LE.—There 15 no improvenlent in the flannel market
to report this week. There has been but a thin attendance of
buyers, and no eager desire, in those who have been present, to
purchase. Wool has been rather firmer, but the business done
has been light.
LEEDS.—Upon the whole more business has been done this
week, at the Cloth Balls and the warehouses, than for some
weeks past. Prices are very steady, and stocks are not large.
especially of those kinds of goods for the coming season of
spring. The shipping houses are doing more than they have
been doing for many weeks. The unsatisfactory ministerial
budget tends, however, to check trade for the home market.
. BRADFORDWoot Market: There has been a great dullness
during the week, and the purchases less than for some time
back. The supply coming to market is not materially increased,
and prices sought by the growers totally precluding all hope of
realising a profit in this market. Noils and brokes are ready
sale at somewhat better prices. Yarns: The trade is still in a
depressed state, but mohair yarns have been in good request,
both in single and twofold, and c nsiderable orders in the hands
of the spinners. Pieces: There is a great thirst for anything
decidedly new, and particularly cheap, in fancy goods suitable
for the spring. but so small are the profits in this trade, that
none are disposed to make, except to actual order. Plain goods
are moved off in small quantities, and stocks on hand compa-
ratively low, occasioned by the immense number of looms which
have been standing since last autumn ; and with the confirmed
opinion of nearly all the manufacturers, that the least loss has
been incurred by that course.
HALT FAX.—Pieces : We have had again a flat market, only a
few buyers attending, and a very small amount of business do-
ing. Yarns are much the same as they have been for some
time back, and very little doing, but some of the larger spinners
are commencing running full time, and this indicates that a
demand is expected. Wool continues much the same, and not
much doing, though some of the larger spinners have bought
more freely.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Very little business has been done in
goods here this week, either in the public market or at the
warehouses. The ministerial budget is universally condemned,
and its announcement has certainly tended to check trade.
NOTTINGHAM.—The silk glove branch still continues in a
pretty good condition, but this is by no means the case every-
where. The drawer branch in some quarters has again retro-
graded, and the material is delivered out with a sparing hand,
so that the workmen in many. of the large shops have little
more than half work. There is a considerable amendment in
the cotton glove trade at Bulwell, most of the hands being once
more employed. The cut-up hose trade has somewhat improved
in the town, and there are a good many frames to let. We have
not heard of any material improvement in the bobbin-net trade.