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BUT little trade has been doing during the week in the wholesale City houses dealing in drapery goods. They have now got in, or are fast receiving, their stocks for the approaching autumn and winter; the continued warm weather tending to retard operations in dark goods.
A good season's trade is pretty generally looked for, there being nothing at present to check the development of the fair prospects that present themselves, of a healthy winter's business.
The dealers in the various textile fabrics, have of late years remarked a greater desire on the part of the public for certain distinct descriptions of goods ; and have found a much greater difficulty in disposing of those which are not of the precise kind most in demand. A reduction in price does not move such goods so quickly as it did ; and "job " goods of any kind are far less in favour than they formerly used to be ; which cer- tainly indicates a greater nicety, and consequently an increased exercise of judgment, in the selection of goods by the public generally. The rage for cheap things (i.e. low priced) in the articles of dress, appears gradually to abate.
Mo:,t of the Manchester and general warehouses will "date on" to their customers on Monday neat, the 29th instant.
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