The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

LEEDS CORN MARKET. JAN. 18

We are fairly supplied will] grain to-day
the best Wheat has only been slow

The demand for
I a decline of Is. per gr.;

secondary qualities and those wanting condition at 2i. los4r.
Barley obtains last week's rates. Oats rather cheaper. In Beans

no alteration

HULL CORN MARKET, JAN. 18

We had to-day a tolerably good supply of Wheat from our
own farmers; the condition was various, a good deal much
worse than last week ; our millers were only buyers on terms
corresponding with the decline in other places, hence the mar-
ket must be written very heavy at a decline of 2s. to Sc. per qr.
For foreign we had but little demand, and new Hamburg and
Holstein selling at 51s. tkl. to 525. ; but 535. generally asked.
The demand for Barley is very sluggish, and grinding sorts
only go off' in mere retail. Beans fully as dear, and Peas in
good demand. Oats continue very dull.

DUBLIN CORN MARKET. JAN. 21

Although the supply of grain to our corn market to-day was
not large, the market was extremely heavy; and we have again
to report a decline of Is. on Wheat, and 3d. to Gd. on Oats and
Barley. Indian Corn was also ls. ier quarter cheaper; but at
this reduction rather more business was done.

White Wheat
Ited ditto.—
Barley
Bere
Oats

27s Od to 31s Od I Oatmeal 12s Gd to 13s Gd
23s Od to 28s Od Second Flour 16s 6d to 17s Gd
14s Od to 17s Od lndian Corn 28s Od to 33s Od
12s 6d to 14s Od (per 480 lbs.)

lOs Od to 12s Od

DUBLIN CATTLE MARKET. JAN. 20.

We had but a moderate supply of cattle, and very few of
prime condition in market. The supply of sheep was larger,
but the greater portion of middling quality. Prime cattle and'
sheep readily sold at our last quotations. Other descrip-
tions in dull demand, and difficult to obtain last day's prices.
Beef, 58s. to 565. per cwt. Mutton, sd. to 7d. per lb. Veal,
60. to 70. per lb. sinkingoffal.

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—We are sorry to have to report the continu-
ance of great depression in our market. Since Tuesday last,
no change for the better has taken place: The tendency. of
prices is still downwards, and some descriptions both of yarns
and cloth have been purchased even lower than during themost
depressed months of last year. The briskness of demand which
has for some time prevailed for low cloths, suitable for the Le-
vant trade, has fallen off considerably during the last few days.
The home-trade houses continue very flat. It is quite evident
that should a revival of trade fail to manifest itself very soon,
our spinners and manufacturers will be reduced to the necessity
of materially curtailing their present reduction. From all
quarters we hear of proposed reductions of wages. In some
places, as in Blackburn, a very strong resistance is offered to
the proposition. Meetings have taken place, and violent ha-
rangues have been delivered, ending in resolutions to turn out
rather than submit to a reduction. At Stockport several-meet-
ings of the operatives have taken place, but as yet without any
very definite result. At Ashton several hundreds of operatives
are out of employment, owing to some of the mills being at a
stand. _

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PRESTON.--The anticipations which were generally indulged
in of an improvement in trade at the commencement of the new
year have been far from realized. Arrangements had been
made for several mills starting work, but the discouraging re-
ports of the Manchester market prevented this. This gloomy
state of things is not confined to the cotton business; all trades

are suffering-from the general want of confidence, and at pre-
sent, we regret to say, the hopes of early amendment are slight.

R6cu DAIE FLANNEL MA R K ET.—(in Monday the weather
was very unfavourable-, and the attendance was not so numer-
ous as on the market day previous. There was a fair demand
for fine and middle quantities of finished flannels. Strong

Yorkshire goods have riot been so brisk ' • dyed
flannels much the same as last week. Prices remain stationa-
ry. The Wool market remains steady, both in demand and

LEEris.—We have no material 'change to notice in' the state
of the woollen trade in this town and neighbourhood since our
last report. Extreme caution continues to be manifested by
both manufacturers and merchants, each party displaying al-
most an entire lack of speculation. Hence there is no great
accumulation of goods, and prices continue steady. The houses
in the foreign trade are more active than they were some time
ago, yet neither they nor those of the home market are doing
an average business of the season. It may be mentioned as a
proof of the power with which some of the continental manu-
facturers can compete with the English in the American mar-
kets, as well as of the desire of the British not to be outdone,
that a firm in this town, the head of which is a principal of
mercantile houses in Manchester, Huddersfield, &c., has sent
a confidential servant to the United States for the sole purpose
of getting patterns of European (not English) textile fabrics
which are the most "taking" in the American market
BRA DFO RD.—Wool : This trade exhibits not the
improvement ; all are acting on the defensive, and purchasing
only what is absolutely requisite for the present reduced con-
sumption. The prices continue to rule firm for all kinds of
full-bred wools, and the supply is nut abundant, occasioned by
the high price demanded by the Bowers. Ynrna a There is no
Change in this department of business. Pieces: There is no-
thing of interest apparent in our market to-day. The closed
Elbe, the money panic in America, and the fact that our home
merchants are not buying in large quantity, causes the busi-
ness to be on a very limited scale. The course now pursued by
the manufacturers augurs well for an early 'resumption of ae-
tivity,•as the stocks are very low, No change in price

;lightest

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HA-1.1 FAX.--Pieces : We fiaye had a very fiat marls.et to-day,
only a few buyers attending, and a very small amount of (mild-
ness cloth'. Yarns still continue in file same dull state, and
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Very little .business (Ming. WOOL: Only a very little demand,
spinners buying sparingly, in consequence of yarn being in so
little request.
HuDDRRSFIELD.—There has been a little more business done
in this market, and considerable inquiries after some descrip-
tions of goods. Prices are without any alteration, and stocks
generally light.
LEICESTIIR.—No improvement can be reported at present in
the general state of trade. Every thing continues as flat as for
some time previous, with no immediate prospect of a better
state of things. The number of hands out of employ still con-
tinues large, and the protracted depression is now very severely
felt by all classes of small tradesmen. A feeling, however, ex-
ists that the worst has been passed, and that after a short time
a gradual amendment will become perceptible.
NorriNciiam.—Lace: Some widths and qualities of plain
net have been rather more asked for during the past week.
Lever lace, of good patterns, and coarse, cheap, fancy wide
goods, have also been selling to some extent. Black silk laces,
for the American
.market, are yet sending out. On the whole,
however, business is in anything but a satisfactory state. The
retail trade of the country, on which ours greatly depends, has
been paralysed. Until there is confidence felt that the usual
spring purchases will be made—in other words, until the coun-
try shopkeepers begin to replenish their exhausted stocks, and
so oblige the London and country wholesale dealers to come to
market, and buy with something like their usual spirit=the
prospenty of this department of manufacture is scarcely to be
looked for. It is satisfactory to state, that atOCke Wert Pew:
lower in any branch ,• and priees of wrought goods, of Most
kinds, being at or belew cost, cannot be reduced. The foreign
demand is expected to increase as the year advances. Hosiery :
Since our last, there is little change to mention in our market,
Notwithstanding the improved state of the money market, and
commercial affairs generally, our spring trade progresses but
slowly ; however, should the present severe weather continue
for a few weeks, it would materially tend to improve the general
trade; for, until the retail purchasers have removed some con-
siderable portion of their winter stocks, we cannot expect them
to enter into any very extensive arrangements for spring goods.
In the yarn market, we have experienced another reduction—
an act as unwise as it was unexpected and unnecessary, and
which must have arisen from some local causes, such as com-
petition and rivalry among certain spinners. As the present
position of the wool market could not warrant so unlooked for
a change, the injurious effects of it will be felt throughout the
whole trade.—Noffiughoni Mercury.
K I nnlißmiNsTEß.—There are about no looms at work at
Messrs. Pardoe and Hooman's, at what is called tapestry work,
the same as that made by Messrs. Crossley, of Halifax ; the
men employed at it receive 18s. per week, and work from six in
' the morning till six at night. It may serve to show the bad
state of the trade when we state that there are seldom less than
' fifty there in the morning waiting for the chance of one or more
of the men being turned off. A rumour having been circulated
that there were several new looms to be set on on Monday,
Jan. 10, there were upwards of a hundred workmen waiting for
the chance of getting work, and so urgent and clamorous were
they, that the superintendent had to threaten to send for the
police before he could make them keep order. We are happy
to state that there are strong symptoms of a return to some-
thing like activity in the carpet trade. Four of the second class
of manufacturers have ordered their weavers to work, and state
that, during their late journey for orders, they have been very
Successful. A first-rate master, however, has stated that he has
1100 pieces of carpet (mostly thirty-six yards in length,) in
stock, and cannot think of puttingany looms on for sonic time.
Several weavers have left the town for America since Christ-
mas, and several more are about to start for Mexico, where au
attempt to get up carpets is about to be made.