The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-07 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MA NCH ESTER.—AII immediate prospect of a speedy accom-
modation, as regards prices, between the buyer and seller, has
this week been dissipated by a further advance in the Liverpool
Cotton Market, consequent on the later accounts from Ame-
rica. Throughout the week the higher prices which spinners
and manufacturers required, have interfered with the demand,
both for home and export use; and the market generally, but
Cloth more especially, has been dull; nevertheless. the ad-
vanced prices, both for Cloth and Yarn have been exceedingly
firmly maintained, producers being impelled to seek higher
rates by the insignificant margin between the cost of the raw
material and the manufactured article, in most things, and the
positive loss on others ; and in their demand they are also sup-
ported by the total absence of stocks. At the same time, the
d►fticulty which is experienced in getting an advance equal to
that in the raw material, even for those goods and Yarns, the
production of which entailed a loss before, is inducing a further
disposition to resort to the only remedy, viz., a decreased pro-
duction, by the working of short time.

ROCHDALE.—We have had something like an average market,
both in prices and number of pieces sold. The Wool market
is still heavy, and very little business doing.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Rather a dull market this week, buyers
being very shy, except at reduced prices.
LEEDS.—Tne foreign houses continue to do a full average
business, in Woollen Cloths, for the season; but the demand
for the home trade is less brisk. Prices are without alteraCo
MtAnaotin.—WOOL.---There are rather more inquiries for
good things in combing Wools, which are not plentiful; and
as there is but little coming to market, there is no disposition
to press sales; but from the long absence of large purchases
being made by
,the spinners, the stocks in the bands of the
consumers are very small, and ere long a more active business
may be expected. YARNS.—A better feeling is observable in
the Yarn market; and the demand for export is more active.
Spinners generally are still working to order, and many are
sanguine as to future firmness and higher prices. PIECES.—
'I here is a good business doing for the States and Germany, and
taoobtitivyit,y.
our market may be
HALIFAX.—There is no noticeable change in the condition
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expected as tlie home
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wonted be
of the Worsted trade. The principal inquiry is for lastings,
which are very difficult to be obtained. In Yarn, there is a
steady business, without any alteration in price. There is not
much doing in Wool, and the quotations remain as they were.
MACCLESFIELD.—Since our last report, there have been
many buyers of manufactured goods in town, but the sales ale
reported only to a limited extnt. We might have expected
larger operations at this season of the year, particularly as it
is generally understood that stocks of silk goods in the whole-
sale houses are comparatively light : the buyers are evidently
purchasing for immediate wants, and we hope, ere long, to he
enabled to report a more active demand. The throwing trade
continues in the same quiet state it has done for the last few
weeks, but the mills are still working full time. In the raw
silk market, prices remain as before.