The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—Our markets during the week have presented no
material variation from those of the last week. The princi-
pal demand is for fancy goods, which do not require the same
amount of labour in the dressing as the broadcloths of for-
mer days used to do ; hence the frequent slackness of our
cloth-dressing fellow-townsmen. The demand for home
consumption is moderately brisk.—Leeds Intelligencer.
BRADFORD. THURSDAY.—WOO.L.—AItbough the supply
of wool is not considerable, it is fully equal to the require
ments of the spinners, who are buying only for immediate
consumption, seeing no prospect of any alteration, except a
shade in favour of the buyer.—Yarn : The demand for yarns
is very similar to what it has been for many weeks past—very
steady, but not extensive ; the shippers have not taken as
much as usual at this period. The spinners continue to act
on the defensive, and the continued short time run by seve-
ral of the most extensive houses has had the effect of pm-
venting an accumulation in stocks, or material alteration in
prices.—Pieces : We are sorry we cannot report any better
doings in this branch of our trade. Orleans and merinos are
the least plentiful in the market, and perhaps realizing the
best price of anything Offering. The fancy trade is rather
dull, and the sales made are still at ruinously low prices.
MANCHESTER.—The only change to be noted since our
last report is, that more inquiry for power-loon printers was
made on Tuesday last, and large offers were made by printers
to contract for cloth for spring styles at the low.'st rates
taken prior to the turn-out. Two or three things have
operated very unfavourably for our .earket—% iz., the stop-
page of the Bank of Manchester and the variableness of
prices, and fancy prints were neser worse to sell in conse-
quence of the great demand for plaids, which has completely
stopped the sale of most prints, and caused the failure this
week of three Stockport houses. The country houses, mer-
chants, and printers, as also the wholesale houses in Lon-
don, are all bare of stock, and the least stimulation in the
market will create an extensive demand, for the printers will
be forced soon to commence buying to prepare for the spring.
Two failures have taken place in London ; one an old house
shipping to the East, and the other in the country trade (but
chiefly in prints,) owing to the print houses in this town a ,
serious amount. We learn that the country house is stopped
in consequence of the failure of the other. Power-loom
printers may be quoted as follow :-27-inch 86's, 4s. 3d. to
4s. 9d. ; 72's, 4s. 9d. to ss. 41d. ; and extra cloth, ss. bd.—
Manchester Advertiser, of Saturday.
BOLTON.—The aspect of trade is still far from encouraging.
Counterpanes, as might be expected from the season of the
year, have received considerable improvement in demand
during the last fortnight; prices, however, seem to be sta-
tionary. For muslins there is rather a failing off. Quiltings
and power-loom cloths are rather slack, though not more so
than they have been for a month past. In the demand for
cotton yarns there has been a great falling off during the last
fortnight. The hands in the greater part of the mills are
still working full time, but the stocks are again rapidly in-.
creasing. The fine harvest has done much to prevent desti-
tution from increasing, but it still prevails to a fearful ex-
tent.—Manchester Advertiser.
BLACKBERN.—yrade has again returned to the same dull
and languid state it was in some time ago. The briskness
we had a few weeks since is again at an end. At present
factory operatives have full employment, but it is reported
that manufacturers are for reducing wages, The hand-loom
weavers have had to submit to another reduction in their
wages this week ; 20's, 32's, and 36's jaconets have been re-
duced 2d., and in some cases 3d. per piece. There does not
appear to be any change in the yarn market. Calico block
printing in this neighbourhood is almost at a stand, and ma-
chine printers are not so well employed as they were last
year at this time. In Accrington, Church parish, and the
surrounding towns, the block and machine printing trade is
dull, and hands are not half employed.—lbid.
Both the yarn and cloth markets continue without the
slightest symptom of improvement, and prices may now be
considered fully as low as previous to the turn-out; indeed,
as regards some numbers of yarn and descriptions of cloth,
prices are lower than were ever before known to have been
submitted to. Under these circumstances, the prospect of
approaching winter is but disheartening, notwithstanding the
abundance and cheapness of provisions, for we fear the few
hours' labour may, in many quarters, be curtailed, and that
many will die of absolute starvation, since it is thought this
next will be an early and a severe winter; indeed, his icy
breath has already blown upon us. We have some failures
of importance to announce this week. There has been one,
at least, in Stockport, that of a large spinner and power-loom
manufacturer, said to be indebted to the Bank of Manchester
some £5,000. There has also been a large failure in Glasgow,
by which some parties here will be affected. To-day we hear
of two houses in London having suspended, they also owing
considerable sums here.—Manchester Chronicle.
LEICESTER.—There is certainly more business doing; but
it is the season for the Leicester trade, and no inference can
be drawn as to the general improvement throughout the
country. The great complaint everywhere is a want of pro-
fit. There is now full employment for workmen. The ope-
ration of the tariff, we hope, will soon begin to be felt ; and
the great mass of the people be in a condition to purchase
articles of clothing, which perhaps will be the first conse-
quence of the new measures. Wool is not much in demand;
the price is about 245. per tod, but the growers are unwilling
to sell at that price. Cotton yarn has advanced in value. A
contemporary. last week sneered at a recommendation of
ours, and rejoicingly quoted us as an authority that the
growers of wool would be in a Norse condition next year;
but we said no
i such thing. We have spoken, indeed, re-
peatedly, of the increased growth of wool in this county, and
remarked upon the accumulation of stocks in the hands of
the growers; but, above all, of the mixture and substitution
of cotton for wool in the Yorkshire district, leaving the gra-
ziers to draw their own conclusions from the facts we stated.
The worsted mills are working full time, and readily sell
their yarns. Many new branches of manufactures are spring-
We hope the experiment will suc •
ing up amongst us ; and attempts are making to introduce
warm worsted clothing, both coarse and also of fine kinds,
ceed,he
here aannddatweNottingham.thinkit
et n unlikely, when we see the speci-
mens of new articles which are sent from the clothing dis-
tricts. The trade of Leicester, of late years, has introduced
a great variety of fancy goods; and we believe those trades
are the most flourishing of any amongst us. If the labour-
ing classes should gradually get into a better condition, the
staple trade of the place may be expected to resume its for-
mer activity. Although cattle and wheat have fallen in
price, the consumer has scarcely derived any advantage at
present.—Leicester Journal.

The deficiency detected in the accounts of Mr. Hannay,
the managing director of the late Marylebone Bank, amount-
ing to £17,000, will fall upon the directors exclusively. By
means of mutual concessions, the claims of the creditors, it
is said, will be discharged in full.

A CARGO !—The ship America, Captain Fisher, arrived at
this port on Saturday, from the Pacific Ocean after an ab-
sence of twenty-six months, with a cargo of 4;700 barrels of
oil (400 sperm), and 45,000 lbs. of whalebone. This is the
largest cargo ever recorded in the annals of the whale fishery
in any part of the world. Captain Fisher is a son of Edgar-
Bedford Mercury. town, a thorough-bred whaler.—New

It may be considered almost certain that Duncan M`Neill,
Esq., the present solicitor-general, will be immediately ap.
pointed lord advocate, and it is highly probable that he wil
also become candidate for the representation of Buteshire
Mr. Adam Anderson, late sheriff of Perthshire, it is ex.
pected, will succeed Mr. M'Neill as solicitor-general.--
Edinburgh Mercury.

SEVERITY OF THE WEATHER.--Winter is visiting us at
a much earlier period this year than usual. On Wednesday
there was a heavy tall of snow at Ashton, and the hills on the
east of that town were clad in their wintry garb. The tern.
perature, as indicated by a self-registering thermometer;
placed with a north aspect three feet from the ground, in the
neighbourhood of Chorlton-cum- Hardy, has been remarkabli
low for the season. On the 3d October it stood at 22i deg. ;
on the 4th at 21A ; on the 19th at 134 ; and on the 20th at 20.
--Manchester chronicle.