The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCIISSTER.—The market, during the past week, has been
animated, and the prices of most descriptions of our staple fabrics
have an upward tendency. Many parties, doubtless in anticipation
of an advance of wages and a correspondent rise in goods, or that of
" some contingency",—a general turn-out, have entered the market
rather more promptly than, but for these reasons, they might have
done. In Ashton-under-Lyne and neighbourhood an advance has
been made itt the wages of a certain portion of the operatives, whb h
advance must become more general, or it is apprehended the work-
people will refuse to continue at their labour. In Preston the ques-
tion of advanced wages is being agitated; but we have not learnt
what course the millowners have decided to adopt. The general
impression is, in the present healthy state of trade, (the result of
abundant capital and bounteous harvests,) and with the raw staple
of our manufacturers settled down at exceedingly' low rates, our
manufacturers can afford to meet the claims of the workpeople and
"grow rich" beside. A much better feeling generally prevails
between the employers and their hands; and we hope to have the
pleasure of reporting that the operatives in our mills have shared
in the general improvement which has obtained here. Printers
are still very busily occupied, and prices are well sustained. The
yarn market is firm, with an upward tendency. Printing cloths are
in good demand, and 80 and 40. inch shirting in large request.
During the week buyers for India, the Mediterranean, and Getman
markets have been operating freely. Good 27-inch 66 and 72 reed
printing-cloths may be quoted at 5s 41d to 5s 74d and 5s 10Ad to
6s 11,1 respectively. 36-inch shirtings, 66 reed 8s lid to 8s 43d-, and
72 reed 9s 6d to 9s 9d : 40-inch 66 reed G. E. longcloths 811bs,t1s 7/2d
to 9s 9d, and 72's, 9lbs, lOs lid to lOs 6d.—Manchester Advertiser.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—There was a tolerably brisk mar-
ket on Tuesday for fancy woolens. in the warehouses, also,
a good amount of business has been done since our last, and
the trade of the district continues brisk.

BRADFORD MARKET.—The tone of our piece ma: let on
Thursday was rather flat, there being few buyers at hand, an,:
the business done at the warehouses having been on a some-
what limited scale during the week. The wool and yarn trades
are al•o rather flat, the demand for neither article being equal
to the stocks on hand. Several of the spinners and the manu-
facturers are adopting what we mentioned last week— namely.
lessening the number of hours of keeping their factories at
work, and thereby preventing an accumulation of stock.

HALIFAX MARKST.—We had on Saturday a fair average sale
for p.ece goods, and wools are a shade lower. The mills are
pretty fu ly employed, and the stocks of manufactured goods on
hand are not heavy, though they are more so than they were a
few weeks back.

HECKAIONDIVIKE BLANKET MA KERT.—The .at'endanee of
buyers this week has been limited. aid the markets have been
very heavy ; goods are more plentiful, at a shade less in price.

ItocunaLs FLANNEL MARKZT.—The flannel market has
been again dull, and the sal. s limited. There is but ittie aite
ration in the wool market; manufacturers do nut appear eager
to purchase, probably expecting, before long, a fall in pi ice.

HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES. —lt Ca' not he said that the
cotton hosiery trade has in the least improved : the fine branches
are in the most depressed state, with very little hopes of a
speedy renovation. The fashion of wearing long petticoats
(said to he introduced by the Duchess of Sutherland from
France) has had the morn fatal effvets upon the hosiery trade,
as regards elegant stockings, which are now scarcely' required,
even for ball dresses. The drawer branch is still very dull, and
many of the workmen are suffering much from scarcity of em-
ployment. The plain silk glove trade is a shale farther im-
proved, and some few of the lain silk shops have begun to feel
a momentary stir : on the other hand, the silk-knotted branch
was never worse. The warp-lace trade cannot be said to be
much amended; it is still depressed, but hopes are entertained
of a revival. The bobbin-net trade is, if anything, a little tri-
proved.—Nottinghain Journal.

CALICO Prelim:4n —This trade continues in a state of un-
wonted briskness at this period of the year, and oar varions
factories as yet evince no symptoms of the relaxation that used
to occur about the same time. A most gratifyinf, circumstance
is. that all the goods ar, being manufactured' for the home
market, in which the declaimers, from the superiority of the
fabric and the judicious display of colours, are quite in vogue,
• opera, ding the more expensive articles of dress. The trade has
thus got round to a healthy state, and affords a remunerating
profit and a ready market to the manufacturer. For some time
past, about go printers have been employed in the various fac-
tories in town, the monthly wires for whom, &c., will amount
to a large sum.—Kilmarnock Journal.