The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.

The following are extracts from various Manchester jour.
nals of Saturday, all tending to show a revival of trade :
(From the Manchester Times, Anti-Corn-law League paper.)
The almost total cessation of the supplies of yarn and goods
offered in the market has, of course, produced its natural
result----higher prices; and though the sudden and unfore-
seen rise has prevented many orders from being executed,
there has been a considerable amount of business done
during the week, especially in the lower qualities of yarns
and printers' cloths. In these goods the advance upon the
prices which could be obtained three weeks ago may be
quoted from 7to 12 per cent. Yarns, which were then sold.
at Sid. per lb., have been this week sold at 9-.1d., and prin-
ters cloths, then sold at 4s, 9d. per piece, have this week
realised ss. 6d., and a few pieces have been sold at ss. 7id.
In fustians, domestics, Scc., the advance has not been so
considerable.

(From the Manchester Advertiser, Chartist.)
This week more cotton has been sold than could be used
were all the mills in full operation, and at a very serious ad-
vance. In the natural course of things, when mills were
standing, and an abundant crop of cotton of good staple an-
ticipated, we should have thought that the price would ma-
terially have receded ; instead of this, we find the buyers
here hurry down to Liverpool, as though a scarcity were ex-
pected, and buy sufficient to last for two or three months
after they begin work. This is indeed playing into the hands
of the enemy, but we are forced to confess that here people
endeavour to sell cheaper than their neighbours ; but in Li-
verpool they are too much for us, for there they exercise
every stratagem to keep up the price of the raw material.
Stocks of goods are so exhausted, and everything so un-
settled, that no task can be more difficult than to convey to
our readers the actual state of the goods and yarn market this
week, for although a considerable amount of business has
been done, much of it is conditionally, i. e., orders
have been given to make when the mills commence working
again ; for with few exceptions, the stocks of printing cloth
and many numbers of yarn are quite cleared out, and buyers
do not find it an easy matter to meet with a large lot of
either cloth or yarn anywhere. We are forced to confess
that we see no prospect of cloth going lower for the next two
months, even should all the mills begin immediately; for
when we consider the depressed prices at which they have
been sold, and calculate the serious reduction of the produc-
tion for the last three months ; consider also that it is the
season of the year when printers buy for the winter style
(the stocks are also very light in the printers hands, having
been afraid to buy more than for their actual wants, in con-
sequence of the weekly depreciation for the last three years;)
and, above all, when we seriously reflect upon the splendid
harvest Providence is about to give us, for we believe it is
now admitted by all that the crops of wheat, oats, barley,
and almost every kind of produce is not only abundant but
rich in quality. The immense importance of a glorious har-
vest to the trade of this country, that buys a plentiful
supply of home-grown corn, and a full crop of potatoes, can
hardly be too highly estimated, for it not only prevents the
gold from leaving us, but it enables the poor man to buy
more food. The new tariff is also a boon, for it will reduce
the price of many things. The money market is also easy.
We, therefore, implore the masters and men to settle their
differences in a friendly spirit, for we think we have good
grounds for expecting a revival in commerce, and a better
trade for some time to come.

We have been requested to quote the prices of good 27 -inch
72's in August, 1838, to 1842, with which request we cheer-
fully comply :
August, 1833, 7s. 3d. to 7s. 6d. (good 72'5.)
1839, 7s. Od. to 7s. 3d.
1840, 6s. 3d. to 6s. 6d.
1841, ss. 9d. to 6s. Od.
1842 ss. 3d. to ss. Gd.

Prices this week, both for yarn and goods, it is impossible
to give correctly, but cloth may be said to be full 3d. higher
than last week, and manufacturers are taking orders to make
27-inch 66's ss. to ss. 3d., and 72's ss. Gd. to Gs. ; and
many houses will not sell for even Gd. more than the above
quotation : 40-inch cloth is very bad to buy, and orders have
been taken at ls. 3d. advance.