The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-08 00:00:00

may induce the SULTAN, who, in'declaring war with
Russia, has acted against the counsel of his allies,

to abandon his decision

THE returns of the Trade and Navigation of the
United Kingdom, for the month ending the sth of
September, were issued yesterday, from the Board
of Trade ; and as we stated on Thursday, they
shew, notwithstanding the existence of several de-
pressing influences, a gratifying increase in the
Home and Foreign Trade of the country.
The exports of our domestic produce and manu-
factures have materially increased,•not so much,
perhaps, upon a comparison with those of the pre-
vious month as with those of the month of July.
They amounted, in September, to the value of
£8,297,086. In August, the value was .R 7,995,086,
being an increase of £302,000 ; but the increase
over the preceeding month of July, is no less than
£1,524,353. The following table, however, will
clearly shew the progress we have made in the pre-
sent year
January
February 6,281)841
March 602,649
Apri1.....,
May... 7,578,910
June ... ...
July ...
August' 7,995,086
September
In September, therefore, the value of our exports
was greater than in any of the preceding months of
the year.

Compared with the corresponding months of
1851 and 1852, the account stands thus— '
Increase in 1853.
1851. . . £6,645,928 . . £1,651,158
1852. . . 6,870,586 . . 1,426,500

1853. . . 8,297,086
But upon the eight months, ending September 5,
of the three years, the comparison is still more in
favour of 1853

Value of exports. Increase in 1853.
1851. . , £47,157,984 . £11,000,745
1852. . . 47,008,140 . . •11,149,583
1853. . . 58,159,729
The principle articles in which the increase has
taken place are, cotton manufactures, earthen-
ware, beer and ale, glass, linen manufactures,
machinery, metals and various descriptions of silk
manufactures. In the articles upon which there
has been a decrease, it does not appear that labour
has largely entered.
As to the import trade for the month, there
have been increased supplies of some de-
scriptions of cattle, a diminution of corn of nearly
all kinds, and also of sugar, and several other
articles. In tea there have been increased im-
ports, in the eight months over the corresponding
period of 1852, but a considerable diminution com-
pared with the same period in 1851. The quan-
tities of all articles entered for home consumption
generally, show an increase.
The exports of foreign and colonial merchandise
from the United Kingdom, shew that there has
been an active trade, both upon the month, and
upon the eight months.
The navigation returns shew that there has
been a profitable foreign trade. By the absolute
decrease which has taken place in the coasting
trade of the United Kingdom, a subject which is
just now exciting much attention, particularly in
the coal ports of the north. In the month ending
September 5, of the present and the two preceding
years, the coasting vessels entered inwards, with
their tonnage were—
Vessels. Tonnage.
1851. . . . 11,890 .. . . 1,149,311'
1852. . . . 11,242 . . . 1,043,980
1853. . . . 11,287 . . . 1,061,433

For the eight previous months in the same years,
the entries inwards were—

1851
1852
1853

Vessels Tonnage.
90,627 . . . 8,337,207
89,403 . . . 8,378,310
90,988 . . . 8,687,821

The clearances outwards in the month ending
September 5, were in—
Vessels. Tonnage.
1851
1852
1853
For the eight months the clearances were—
Vessels. Tonnage.
1851
1852
1853

These figures tell their own tale. The superior
profits of the foreign trade have led the owners of
coasters to accept freights to foreign ports.
The interest attaching at this moment to infor-
mation relating to the supply of grain and its
sources, have induced the Board of Trade to an-
nounce that in the next monthly accounts there will
be given a statement of the importations during
the nine months of the present year, in which the
countries from which the quantities are received
will be designated. The importance of this infor-
mation, under present circumstances, cannot be
exaggerated. It is only to be regretted that it is
not at once published, for the eight months already
expired. But in the mean time a statement is
given of the quantities of the several kinds of grain
and meal imported in the year 1852. We trans-
cribe the totals.

GRAIN

Wheat 3,060,268 qrs.
Barley
.625,540
Oats 989,287
Rye
Beans and peas • 477,306
Indian corn
Buck Wheat 8,084

Total..

... 6,641,729 qrs

Wheat
Barley 212 „
Oats
Rye
Pea and Bean . . .
Indian Corn
Buck Wheat

Total

3,866,7] 9 cwts

This table indicates very clearly the most impor-
tant sources of our supplies. We have not space
for all the details, but the single article of wheat
will show how important are some of those points
to which, from other circumstances, public atten
tion is now so anxiously directed. We drew, in
1852, from the Russian ports within the Black Sea,
706,622 qrs., from Prussia 451,938 qrs., from France
207,751 qrs., from Wallachia and Moldavia 86,139
qrs., from Egypt 392,746 qrs., and from the United
States 483,569 qrs. From the Russian ports con-
sequently we drew by far the greatest portion of
our supplies. It has been frequently stated that
the granaries in those ports are now overflowing,
but from the local and political causes their re-
dundancies cannot be applied to our necessities.
The criminal folly of continuing such a state of
things, whoever is responsible for it, could not re-
ceive a more practical condemnation.

THERE is nothing within the range of thought
more curious to contemplate, than the periodical

fluctuations in Money matters, and the price of
living in this commercial country. :If they shew
on the one hand. how far speculative mania and
panic may go in some epidemic crisis, so, on the
other hand, it is seen with what elasticity and re-
deeming power, a country of Saxons and Celts, en-
gaged in commerce, can recover itself and change
the whol-e aspect in the relations of capital. This
has been rrepeatetlly witnessed in Britain and
America. The term " bringing ruin on the country
by speculation," is but relative, and has respect to
credit rather than to capital. In the darkest hour
that has lowered Over Britain in Modern days, and
when many went to Bologne and the Bankrupcy
Courts, there *as plenty of capital in the country
for all legitimate purposes. What are called re-
vulsions in the course of trade, are tornadoes in the
world of fancy rather than iii the world of matter.
England, as a nation, is rich or poor just as she
fancies herself to be. Hazardous adventures
and wild speculations, even when they become a
popular passion, and are all preVarent; do but
little harm to 'capital, other than to change it from
tone person to another; while the panic is brought
on by credit being shaken, confidence lost—but not
capital. The moment the disease is cured, and
crazed men return to a sane mind, the keys of the
money-box are turned) and capital pours out in
streaming abundance for all the rational pursuits
of business.

But we have just now hit upon a time of extra-
vagant prices for food, and a high rate of interest
on money, without being caused by any extraor-
dinary speculations. The artizans and labourers
in the manufacturing towns have had full employ
for the three years last past. The foreign demand
for goods has been great. Trade and commerce,
throughout all their ramifications, have been health-
ful and prosperous. Such has been the demand
for labour, that more than 140,000 able-bodied pau-
pers have been cut loose from the unions and
poor-houses to supply the needful. Add to these,
that bullion from the gold-fields of California and
Australia has proved to be no chimera—it has
turned out a telling reality, manifesting itself by
ship-loads in the ports of England and America,
and generating a new era in the history of com-
merce. Amidst all this active bustle of ships and
mills, wheels and spindles, pistons and springs,
saws and hammers, at home, and the influx of gold
from abroad, the Bank of England has raised its
rate of interest to five per cent. whilst the stocks
are depressed. But from this we are not to infer
any want of capital. Both the high price of food
and the high rate of interest on money are super-
induced by the war-panic in the East. The
fooleries of NICHOLAS, the Autocrat, have for a long
time been inflicting serious evils on Europe. They
have compelled Turkey to raise and maintain an
armament far beyond the national means. They
have kept Westerh Europe in a ferment, led to
deep speculations in the corn-market, and are the
chief cause of the fluctuation in the money market,
and the high price of food.
But when the CZAR and the SULTAN shall come
to their senses, and patch up those little bickerings
about the Greek Christians, this artificial state of
things will be over, and the Money-Market will be
more redundant than ever. Everything is tending
in a direction to produce striking changes in the
relations of capital. With an increasing trade and
revenue, despite the reductions of duties to more
than £12,000,000 per annum—with bullion in bank
to a larger amount than was ever before known,
and with the certainty of an increasing golden
harvest from abroad, we may foresee an approach-
ing state of affairs, which must awaken the best
energies of mankind, and which, if wisely watched,
may give an impulse to the. spread of civilisation
such as has never been witnessed at any former
epoch. The mines of Australia have given a mighty
impetus to emigration in that direction; and the
reflex action of that movement on all other parts
of the world, is manifesting itself with daily and
increasing force. Over the whole civilized world,
not excepting staid and inert China, the stir is
distinctly felt ; and the awakening life, thus mani-
festing itself at the extremities of the commercial
system, is sent to and back from England, the
centre, with a more powerful pulsation. Under
all these circumstances, the moment the war-flurry
is blown over, money in London will be at a lower
rate than at any former period in the memory of
man ; and as far as we can see, nothing is to inter-
vene to disturb the tendency towards accumulation.
Step by step with this tendency, the rate of interest
in this country must decline ; and the question is,
what new avenues are there open for safe invest-
ments to be made, where a return for the use of
the money would be satisfactory? We could name
many, both to East and West of us ; but we name
one to the South, which should no longer be over-
looked. Go to the River Plate, which, with its
tributaries, Parana and Uruguay, penetrate 3,000
miles into the interior, rich in soil, mild in climate,
and abounding in products and mineral wealth.
There are canals to be opened ; rails .to be laid
down; steamers to be built ; coals and minerals to
be dug out of the earth; piers, harbours, and docks
to be constructed ; cities and towns to be founded
and built up ; and other enterprising occupations
to be essayed, such as a neglected beautiful country
needs, and such as will astonish the imbecile
natives. Companies and associations, now formed
in England, may clothe themselves with great
wealth, by operating upon South America, in like
manner as the East India Company rolled up gold
by its operations in Hindostan. In many respects
the two countries are not dissimilar; but in one
particular they essentially differ. Instead of having
to fight pagan tribes, for elbowroom, as formerly
in the East, English associations to improve the
country would be hailed as a boon by the new
republics of South America. Go forth ye capitalists !
and test our assurance.

The salt water baths at the George's Pier Head
are now made tepid.

FURTHER MORTALITY AMONGST THE PASSENGERS
EY THE ISAAC WRIGHT.—Since Thursday night, up to
which our last report reached, five more of the passengers
by. this vessel have died in the workhouse, of cholera. One
was a woman, and the remaining four were men.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.—Garrett Neale, who arrived
from Ireland at midnight on Thursday by the steamer Van-
guard, whilst walking on the dock quay near the pierhead,
fell into the Clarence Basin and was drowned, The passen-
gers were landed on the Salisbury Pier. An inquest will be
held'on his body this day.

THE " NEW WORLD"—A STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE,
AND IF TRUE, A PAINFUL ONE.—The following strange par-
ticulars have been communicated to us by a gentleman who
heard them from a friend, a passenger by this vessel, recently
arrived from New York. He assures us that the gentleman,
who communicated them to him, is, in the highest degree,
trustworthy, and that, had he not to start immediately for
Dublin, he would have called at our office himself and
narrated them to us. We cannot, therefore, pledge our-
selves for their truth; but, under any circumstances, we
think that an investigation into the matter is called for :
The gentleman states that after being out from New York
for some days, two of the crew flung themselves overboard,
preferring rather to terminate their sufferings in a watery
grave, than endure any longer the ill-treatment which they
experienced at the hands of some of the officers on board.
He further says, that one of the men was an Irishman, who
either shipped at New York as cook, or stowed himself away ;
and being compelled to work, and not able to ascend the
rigging, the officers used to set a hugh dog to worry him.
Frequently was he bitten, and his flesh torn away by this
brute, until he was finally driven to commit the fatal act of
self-destruction. The other was an American, and before
taking the final plunge, he stood on the bowsprit, and
waving his hat, bade " good-bye" to his messmates.---This
is the story, and as we have heard it, so have we told it.