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TRADE has been fiat: again in the City, this week, with the wholesale houses in the Manchester and other trades.
The stock of the old established firm of B. Salomons and Sons, of Old Change, was sold on Thursday last by tender. The stock was divided into twenty-three lots, which were bought by ten different wholesale houses.
Apropos of stocks thus sold by tender, it is pretty generally thought,— but without any reference to the case just mentioned---that when so sold, they fetch a shade higher price than their value, from the competition caused by the desire of firms to make a "lead" or feature at the turn of the month with them.
The cotton trade has been advancing, as we have previously noted, for seine months past, owing to the demands for India, and the newly in- creased supplies for China : our remark refers especially to light fabrics, such as shirtings, &c., to as great an extent as from 25 to 30 per cent in many descriptions of goods.
The traffic of the Interior of France, gauged by the railway receipts, appears to be but little affected by the uneasy tone of the money-market : and at Lyons especially trade is reported as thoroughly active. Sugar continues to be largely imported yet without much alteration of price : a small amount of business has been transacted in cocoa and coffee either at Bordeaux, Marseilles, or Nantes, owing to the amount of store taken when prices were lower. The tendency of the spirit market is down- wards ; at the wine market at Berg there is little variation in price : ready money as usual commands its special conditions and affords no rule of sale. The mild weather heightens the general speculation, though cereals are at a somewhat lower figure ; hardly noticeable, however, is this difference of prices. There is a brisk demand for wools and worsteds.
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