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BUSINESS, with the various wholesale houses in the general and Man- chester trades in the City, has been very variable and fluctuating for the last week or two ; busy days having been succeeded by flat ones; an alternation which has been attributed to the changeable weather, and the present state of European politics. Usually at this season of the year, it is found difficult to get through the day's business comfortably between morning and night.
Some shippers on this aide who have large continental orders, hesitate about executing them, disliking the aspect of the political horizon.
In the trade in trimmings for ladies' dresses, Ite., which has sprung. up into a very considerable branch lately, much uncertainty prevails , no macia! demand for any one particular thing exuding, save q riblxms and pompinet trimmings. Fringes are much less in demat d than they have been for the last f ew years, during which they formed a la-ge item in this department.
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