STATE OF TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 66, 29 January 1864, Page 2

STATE OF TRADE.

Maxhester, Nov. 10.—For cop yarns the market has been rather easier to-day. Selle'rs are asking the same prices as they did on Friday, but practically buyers find they have a little advantage. This is accounted for partly by the flat accounts to band from the Liverpool cot tun market and partly by tlio uneasiness which exists respecting the money-market. In bundle yarn prices are tolerably firm, and there has been a fair amount of business done for India, at- the extreme prices of last week. All kinds of hank yam are firm, the spinners of them being to a great extent under contract. On the whole, a rather quiet market is reported, and the aggregate business for all quarters has not been large. In cloths there has not been much doing since last Tuesday; and there has not been much change to-day. Buyers have shown but very little disposition to operate, and the sales have been extremely limited. "Where sales have been elleeted they have mostly been made at lower prices. There is no very great pressure to sell either on the part- of manufacturers or holders, but manufacturers in nearly all cases are willing to make ■very fair concessions on the prices they recently quoted for the pn-poso of efiecting business. This applies to the generality or India fabrics, and, indeed, to cloths of all descriptions, with the exception of •1-5-inch shirtings, which appear to keep their value better than most other goods. Leeds, 10th.—There has been a moderate attendance of buyers in the cloth halls this morning, but the amount of business done was not large, ] nlr " chases being xery much confined to miscellaneous lots of heavy fabrics, tweeds, and ordinary black cloths. Neither the export nor the home trade was so brisk as we lately had to report; but the general tone of the trade is cheerful, and manufacturers aro all well employed. Wools and other raw materials are iirm in price, and the same may be said as to the prices of all kinds of woolen and union fabrics. Thetlax trade is very brisk, and the prices of thread, yarn, and linen keep advancing. The raw material al=o is very high, with an upward tendency. The-s-wity of cotton. sc:l itr- consequent hijh price- i.z*e ctJiiiUisTcd '.he dil Uudr TM? BlUcb, did the itS

mills of the town were, perhaps, never busier than they lire at present. The (lax trade here is in the hands of a few large and wealthy firms. VoTTixGHAM. 10th.—There was a fair altendance of "merchants and manufacturers at this Exohaujje-h-iH to-day, but the demand was quiet, the advanced riite of discount at the Bank of England causing buvers to hold oil , . Consequently, only a limited business was clone either in lace or hosiery yarns, anil prices were nominally unaltered. Very little change in silk?. There was rather more doing in brown nets, tind prices had a tendency to harden. KocitP.u.K. 9th.— There luis been a moderate attenilanre of buyers in the U'auiiel-market to-day, ami thev bought freely, ehietly of heavy goods. The liner qualities are not selling so briskly as we lately hnd to report, but some patterns are in active request. The manufacturers are all well employed, and stocks are within a verv reasonable compass in their hands. There is no falling oil' in the demand for Yorkshire coon's, which sell well at high prices. Other goods, Too. as also wool, keep firm in price.— Times, 11th >'ov.