STATE OF TRADE.
THE woollen `trade of Leeds and the district around is very healthy, most manufacturers being very much pressed by orders to deliver direct to the warehouses. The cloth jails are very clear of goods, and the colonial sales now on are well attended by buyers at last November's prices ; generally speaking there is no hesitation in private offers, the markets being well attended on all sides.
From Manchester the markets are reported quiet, the orders being sufficient for the opening of the month. The demand continues for East India yarns : the markets in other descriptions remain firm.
Some of the wholesale houses in the city, who deal in textile fabrics have been very busy this week, and a good many goods of certain de- scriptions have been sold : no doubt Messrs. Salomons' stock, which was shown in the beginning of the week, and the unusually bright weather, have attracted numbers of country buyers up to London. The proba- bility of a continental war, however, tends to check the freedom of buyers.
The reports from Alsace, Rouen, Mulhouse, Reims, Amiens, and Rou- baix, all disclose the active employment noticeable usually at this time of the year. The linen trade alone is stagnant. At Lyons large foreign orders engage some of the first manufacturers incessantly.
The Paris market of wine accumulates stock, but prices range high. The sugar trade has a tendency to decline, and feels the present uncer- tainty ; coffees and cocoas are stationary in price ; spirits have fallen exactly the amount of the last rise. Corn everywhere is declared to keep an even figure.
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