The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER,—The new year has opened well for business,
and most people are sanguine. and expect a good year's trade,
and in our opinion we have sure ground for believing so. On
Tuesday we had a very brisk demand, both for goods and yarns,
and at higher rates than the previous week, although we do not
60PPose the manufacturers are better for it, in consequence of
the unexpected rise in cotton at Liverpool, where a very heavy
business has been done at id. to Id. per lb. advance. We
sincerely hope that our spinners and manufacturers wilt not
_encourage the speculative business too often carried on in
Liverpool, but merely buy for their actual wants, for we learn
that some capitalists from London have speculated in cotton to
a considerable amount, but we are not surprised. for money
Was rarely more abundant, and seldom ever so ifficult to em-
Ploy, to pay fair interest, without considerable risk. Extensive
Preparations are making for the spring trade. and if cloth does
not go too high (the present prices will do) and then recede, we
May fairly anticipate a good spring trade. We have had a great
many
buyers from London. and they all appear disappointed in
boding stocks of goods particularly prints) so very light that
they are unable to buy at a "sacrifice," and when they next
Come down we hone they will come prepared to buy at " new
Prices." 27-inch 60's, ss. to as. 4id ; 65's, ss. 3d. to 55. ;
and 72's, 6s. to 6s. 4d. ; 9-8 or 36-inch 66's, ss. 71d to 6s. 3d.;
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s i 72's, 6s . 7:}d. to 7s. ; 5-4 or 40-inch 6o's, 8-. 4id. to Bs. gd. ;
66 , Bs. gd. to gs. 64.; and 72's, es. ed. to I os. 6d.
Lagns.—The transactions in the Leeds Cloth Halls on Sa-
turday, the last market•of the year, werg not very extensive;
but on Tuesday last a good deal of business was done, particu-
larly in the White Cloth Hall. The dealings in finished goods at
the warehouses have been somewhat limited, owing, no doubt,
to both merchants and drapers being busy taking accounts o
their stocks.

BRADFORD MAR/EST.—There was a pretty good attendance of,
Merchants at this market on Thursday, notwithstanding the
Unfavourable state of the weather, and a good deal of business
is done in piece goods, which might have been increased if
the manufacturers would have accepted present rates; but as
the late advances in Wools and Yarns had left them no chance
of profit if they sold at recent rates, they determined to make
S statist on the opening of the new year, and as the stocks in
hand generally are low, they succeeded in several instances in
realising better terms. The Yarn market also exhibited a fur-
ther improvement as to price, and as the spinners are appre-
hensive of a further advance in the price of the raw material
they refused to make contracts for Yarn deliverable at dantist
dates. A good deal of business was done in the Wool Market !
but although it was abundantly supplied, the staplers stood out
ised fly for higher rates, which in several instances were real-

HUDDERSFIELD MArmar.—There was a more numerous at-
tendance of buyers at this market on Tuesday last than in the
previous week, and though they seemed disposed to purchase
freely at previous rates, the manufacturers, generally, stood
out for improved terms, and there was consequently not quite
so much business done as would under other circumstances have
been the case. The stocks on band are light, and anything new
in the fancy line was bought up with avidity.

HALIFAX MARKET.—As might have been expected, bcth the
attendance of merchants and the amount of the transactions
at this market on Saturday last, the closing market of the year,
were very small. But as the cause of the slackness was known
to be only temporary, there was no abatement of prices, which
are now considerably higher than there were some mouths
ago,

RECKMTEDwIKE BLANKET MARKET.—On Monday, there was
a tolerable number of bnyers, and a few orders put out for the
foreign trade : the demand for the home trade was very scanty.
On Thursday, the attendance of buyers was meagre in the
extreme.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There has been a dull mar-
ket to-day, few buyers having attended, and the business trans-
acted has been very limited.

HOSIERY AND LACE Taw D ER.—lt is somewhat pleasing to
state, that there is a considerable revival in the silk glove
branch, and many of the hands, after being stinted for the last
two years, have got full employment. There is also somewhat
of a revival in the silk knotted branch, The plain silk hose
trade still seem retrograding, and nothing can be more forlorn
than the al.pe ranee of these once busy shops, in many instances
four-fifths of the frames being standing. The cutup cotton
!lose branch still keeps bilsk. There is no material alteration
in the main and principal branch of the hosiery trade—namely
the wrought cotton hose trade—the hands being, in general,
pretty well employed, nor do we hear of those general specula-
tions which are practised in some other branches.—Nottingharn
Journal.

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT, JAN. 6.

DISCHARGED
In-patients cured lB I
Relieved and at own request 6
Made Out-patients I
Irregular
I
Dead