The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—There is no new feature in the market since
our last report. There is still some business doing in low
cloths for India ; but in goods generally there is barely suffi-
cient business.to maintain the present very low prices, and the
tendency of the market is drooping. This is still more the case
with yarns. Manufacturers are unwilling to drive their hands
out of employment.; and they therefore throw their goods on
the market, in order to continue running their mills, whereas
their own interest would induce them to stop working. This
circumstance partly accounts for the very great depression
wuich exists.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—We have had a better at-
tendance in our market this week than for the last three or four
weeks past, and some of the manufacturers have sold more
goods to-day than they did on the two previous market days ;
yet the market is not so brisk as is usually the case at this sea-
son of the year, but confidence is better than.for the last three
months past. Prices of all descriptions of gray goods are the
same as our last report. There has been rather more doing in
the 'Wool market : prices remain firm.
LEEDS.—With some improvement in the weather, there has
been a slight increase in the demand for woollen goods, but, as
has been the case for some time past, the purchases have been
'chiefly for the home trade. Stocks being small, prices remain
firm. Many of the operative woollen manufacturers are but
partially employed, and a large number are without any work
at all. The trade has not been more stagnated at this period
of the year for several years past.
HALtrAx.—Pieces We had a similar market this week to
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tinue in the same languid state they have bcc.. ro mi sometime
past. Wool cOntimies much the same,and only a small amount
soLbu iness doing.

hITDDEUSFIEL;.—There has been an improvement in the
market this week, and a considerable number of buyers have
attended it. Some descriptions of goods are rather scarce,
especially new patterns suitable for spring. Prices are without
any alteration.

LEICESTER. —We cannot notice any improvement this week.
The London and Manchester houses are doing nothing; and
the country trade, owing partly to the continuance of wet
weather, is extremely fiat. Orders for the United States are,
on the most limited scale, and our continental demand is at
present at an end. But little is doing in worsted yarns; which
have not been lower since :830. YA reduction of Is. per bundle
has been made by one house from their list price in brown
cotton hosiery yarn. But little is doing in wools ; prices con-
tinue-steady, and, at present, are but little affected by the ge-
neral gloom which pervades all branches of trade.
N'tiTrimouAN.—Lace: It is difficult to give an accurate re-
port of the state of the lace market; there is difficulty and
distrust as to the state of Germany and Italy, and consequently
less doing than even a week ago. Some fancy silk goods are
selling for the home trade, which, on the whole, appears to be
reviving : and it is our chief dependence, so it would prove, in.
the actual state of this business, a most important resource,
were the buyers tolerably assured of uninterrupted tranquility.
The number of unemployed hands is rather increased than
otherwise, many employers finding their resources inadequate
to maintaining their production. even at its present rate.—
Hosiery: The trade has experienced a slight improvement
during the past few days; and, should the present fine open
weather continue, it will materially tend to a still further
change for the better. Our market has also been visited by
several buyers ; the sales cannot, however, be reported as being
large, or, indeed, equal to former seasons; but, from the in-
quiries generally made by buyers after most descriptions of
goods, we may safely conclude that the stocks of goods in the
hands of the factors are comparatively small at this period of
the season, dompared with former years. Still, it is to be
greatly feared that, however small may he the present amount
of production, it is more than equal to the demand.
GLASGOW.—Our market continues in a state of great depres-
sion, and there is little alteration to notice in prices, or in the
extent of transactions. The commercial intelligence, however,
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country being represented as entirely bare of supplies. In'
other respects, the latest foreign accounts are not calculated to
stimulate production. The country trade continues to im.
prove slowly, and our market this week has been favoured by
a good attendance of English buyers. Spinners and power
loom cloth'manufacturers (especially the latter) complain that
they are unable to compete with the low prices still ruling in
Manchester.

Etterature.

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