THE YORKSHIRE WOOLLEN MARKETS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3231, 23 November 1867, Page 4

THE YORKSHIRE WOOLLEN MARKETS.

Leeds, September 20.— The trade in the ware* houses during the past fortnight has been characterised by greater animation than we have been able lately to report. Fully an average number of buyers have been present, amongst whom we noticed the representatives of various London, Manchester, and Glasgow houses, and their operations have evinced more speculation than of late. The oold weather has caused the sale of heavy goods to improve, bat more attention has been paid to the milled coating department than to the heavier descriptions ol beavers and witneys, several tolerably ?ood parcels of stripes, small broken checks, and plain mixture* in various shades having taken place. Witneys, beaver?, and other makes from the Batley district have not been in such large request, stocks haying been gradually laid in from the commencement; of the season. Waterproof tweeds still hold a good position in the market, and the inquiries, although not so numerous as they have previously been, are yet animated. Orange and other coloured warps are still in favour, and have changed hands to a moderate extent. As the manufacture of these goods has not yet become very gr r - r ' the demand, although not very extraordinary, is uUAI in advance of the supply. The black union trade has been tolerably brisk. Low-satfcaras in heavy makes have been principally inquired after, and the demand for plain makes in the finer qualities has been well maintained. All-wool superfines have varied but little. A moderate amount of business has been done in medium and finer makes. There have! also been inquiries for all-wool sattaras in plain and mixture colours. Manufacturers as a rule are fully employed, either in finishing the execution of their winter orders or in making preparations for spring. There is a [decided falling-off in the cLemand .for English combing wool. Manufacturers, buy only for immediate wants. The consumption of colonial and other clothing wool is not materially lessened, but the demand {■ not animated,— 'Some 2?twi.

WINDBLER k JBOWBS'S WoOh CIRCULAR. London, September 21. The same unsatisfactory feeling whioh we hare preriounly noticed it'll pervades nearly all branches of business ; the markets for wool, both provincial and continental, are reported uniformly dull, prices in exceptional oases being firm, but, as a rule, tending in favour of buyers. This prolonged downward current may be attributed to dear food, the reaction consequent upon the inflated point reached two year* ago, or the unsettled political condition of the Continent ; bufc, as it ii difficult to trace it to any particular cause, it it at difficult to point to any certain period for improvement ; in the meantime money remains a drug, with commerce, manufactures, and other interests all more or less unduly depressed. Public sales of colonial wool opened here on 15th August, prices then ruling on a par with the average rates of the previous sales in June, or about Id per lb. below the close of that series. The attendance of buyer* has been throughout about an average, and competition for any desirable kinds fairly supported. Export buyers, especially for France and Austria, have taken, a larger quantity than anticipated—over one-third of the total ; but the large proportion of defective wools, not influenced by their support, have pressed heavily, and for these tne biddings have been uncertain and gradually weaker, co that they rule at the close now about o per cent, lower than a month ago. Sound stapled Wools of fine quality and free from dereots, as an exception, fully maintain late quotations, being so difficult to meet with ; medium qualities are influ- ' enoed by the abundance and? relative cheapness of domestic fleeces— now quoted at 16d to I6sd ; short faulty sorts are likewise too abundant, and, through *°f " r ««ly increasing import? of them from Australia, the Cape, and River Plate, we can hardly expect to see them more valuable here next season than at present. _ .J*» catalogues ahowa total of 145.279 bales143,024 colonial, and 2,255 foreign. At the corresponding aeries of 1866 the total wm 137,588, and ia 1865 139,070 bale* 32,954 Sydney offered a very limited quantity of prime clothing fleece, over 24d per lb.« the bulk of these wools now range from 17d to 20d per lb., and, especially those from the Queensland districts, appear to be degenerating in breed, and becoming more and more infested with moita and seeds, the unwashed more earthy and wasty in condition; such as these have, as usual, been difficult to sell at apparently low figures, but any desirable lots hare brought fully last June rates, fine scoured selling particularly well. 30,942 Port Phillip have sold without much variation j fine clean combing fleeces scarce, and ea<wly oom P etedforat2sdand 26d. average being worth 21d, but the increasing prevalence of burra much reduces the value of these Wools. Unwashed sold steadily at the average of June sales, but scoured relatively a little cheaper, as ale o locks and pieces; any mixed or irregular lots are very difficult to place. J 5, 755 Van Diemen's Land brought prices on a par with similar qualities, and offered little choice. 6, 892 Adelaide: These brought forward only a poor assortment of unwashed wool*; a few good average realised lid to 114 d, but the bulk was of poor earthy liods. selling at 8d to 9d per lb. . 474 Swan River were not in very general demand, and s >ld at low valuation*. 37,666 New Zealand mffared more than other descriptions from the present position of English wools ; the larger portion of them were, as U9Ual, in the grease, and in quantity rather exceeded demand ; they sold with fair competition at about the lowest point of last sales; one superior flook sold up to UH, but average ranged from lOd to lid perlb. SVaihed fleeces were rather better to sell. 22,941 Cape of Good Hope sold with much spirit, rod altogether fully aa well as previous quotations, lofcwithstanding the large quantities of competing unda j average fleeces worth 15d to 15£ d were in Sundance ; superior, over 18d per lb., scarce; 'reasy was in limited supply, bufc poor lots, at about d per lb., could not always be sold. Snow-white, t 20d and 22d per lb., are proportionately cheap. L f ew Western Province of average style sold at od, but nothing very superior offered. 80 Odessa scoured, of which AAAs sold at 21d er lb. 1,289 River Plate : These comprised 797 bales Y scoured Montevideo, all withdrawn ; 146 washed Siienos Ayres fl«ece sold at 14d for Ist, 12d for 2nd, I nd 9Jd to 10.1 for 3rd metis; 68 unwashed, Ist and nd, sold at 6Jd to 5Jd ; the remainder retired. 883 Npaniih, light in the grease, sold at 6d to 6Jd >r white, and 8d to Bsd for fine black, but much ithdrawo ; 150 Portuguese scoured also found no iiyer. 73 sundries. Taking the stock prior to these sale* at 150,000 |les-incjuding 25,000 held over previously, and Bductine quantity forwarded— it shows 7,000 bales till naiold t>WJtrd« next series j these witfc fresh lipments arrived and anticipated may reach 80,000 ftles, of which half may be Capes. The stock of River Plate Wool, at Antwerp, nounted on the sth instant to 21,244 bales, and at avre, on 21st instant, to 19,000 bales of 7001b. tch. 10, Basinghall-street, London.