Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-29 00:00:00

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D': tonnage entered inwards within the last month
foreign, of which one-fourth is American, and
aich relatively to the whole tonnage entered
pars the proportion of one-ninth. The United
.:tates have marvellously increased in amount of
tonnage and ships since the repeal of the Navi-
gation. Laws, and are fast absorbing our carrYing
trade, as also enlisting our sailors into their mer-
chant service. It will be impossible, therefore,
for our own mercantile marine to endure much
longer the 'very unfair and unequal eompetitiwl
• us
in which they are at present engaged,—runi°
to that Interest, and materially weakening the
resources from which our navy is supplied with
sailors. - „ ,
_ .
If it were not for this drawback, the returns
froni the Board of Trade would afford every maw°
for congratulation on the very' satisfactory Pi'
gress of our commerce. The increase in the
month ending 30th of September, on the declared
value of exports is .£911,666 ; and on the nine
months the increase over the same period Of last
year is £11,726,982 ; while contrasted with that
of JBs7„it is
_£2,301,719. The total for tlkg-h°
month was L 11,631426 against L 10,713,765
in 1858, and xiieflaW* 1857. For Oe
months of the ,presantr, aggregl4a
was £9BA7;3lll,,.,toppWea-
~4fith £86,310,326
in 1858, and £95,7_34,49,2: in .1857. This stes4l
revival of bus iness-liai increased our shipments
abroad to a conSiderable extent ; but it yet iv"
mains to be seen) whether sales have been cow
ducted with advantage to the . commercial our
munity: The returns of the 'exports are.not lets
satisfactory. The imports _with respect to bullion
are also on- the right side. They amount t°
1:30,144,537;41e exports to £28,649,653 ; leap'"
lag a balance lsi our- -fasiiur of £1,474,653'
The principal variations exhibited by these re"
turns are, as regards exports, an increase in CO'al'
cram, cotton manufactures, hardware and cutlerY'
linen and wOollen.mairtifactures. With respect t 0
importations, there-has been an- increase in coffee'
-silk manufactures,-spirits, tallow, and wine.- The
Most important decline has been in cocoa, tea'
tobacco, wool, unrefined sugar, and new cotton..
One point of painful interest in theSe returns
the great commercial prosperity of England,
the present moment is, that the principal part
of the amount of tonnage engaged in its distribu-
tion, is It is,-;-12,335,840 'in 1859, as
against 1-1,822,297 in 1-858. Foreign tonnage has
increased nine times as fast as British since 1844'
For those who really have the welfare of Eng-
land at heart, and who believe that commerce
and
ships are, in every country, sO ClOsely united 83
to be all' brit inseparable, and that commerce
will leave those merchant nations that cease
to have a proprietary hold over shipping,
especially when they change to be insular, f°'"
such, we say, the present state of thing's i 5
anything but cheering ; and it will draw °f
slight regret and remorse from the hearts °
these whO have been instrumental in bringing
it -about, when they see England,
many centuries, and so long the mistress of the
seas, thus impaired and injured in- one of her
most vital interests. the glory' of

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FRANCE. ,

PARIS, rbl'ay
The Prince and Prineess Metternich, Lord and La t 3
Cowley; and Count Walewski, are ;among the ggetsbe
invited to remain at Compeigne from the 7th to
13th. No.yember. • . • . .
flint
Aletter receive .in _Paris, from London,- state' do,
Colonel Ribourg, Chief Secretary of Marshal 1131:,,,,ei
Minister of War, hid had a conference with Mc. °l-0,,,1
Herbert, in which all the arrangements of the comb's:oj
Anglo-French expedition to China were concludedy rot
that the departure of the expedition is fixed for the
fortnight in ,February. direct
The French Government proposes to establish ar,h•
steam communication between France, India, and v;-1;11
The French trade is said to be valued at four 04" of(
to five million pounds sterling per annum, and l'"/„:1of
carried on almost exclusively through the rnent—as s
English steamboats. The company propose to nc,"reial
banking house, with a view of facilitating corno'pig-
relations with those countries, where it is alleged „or
lish houses now reign, supreme. The French 'lf: the
ment have . appcinted a committee to inquire into
scheme.
tiag of
The Paris Pays says that the object of the meet fag
the Emperor Alexander and the Prince of Praia au-
to settle; with a view to a Congress, the basis of as
derstanding, between Englind, Russia, and Prn.-43!: that
Another semi-official journal repudiates the lee' bat,
the three Powers are united in any, large design' ding
in other quarters, it is - alleged that the uUdersdittoaal
between them is of a most comprehensive and 01—
nature. ' • Sernit°
A great fire has taken place at the Palais of the co-
de Luxembourg. - The Salle de Seances has bee fioll
pletely destroyed. Four persons were danger
injured. The galleries; the museum, the librarl',
throne-room, the archives, the historical departo
&c., are all saved. *4'th
: •
PARIS, Friday, 12-10 p.m.: The Bourse °Peus. The
a rather good tendency; .Renter, 69.45. 3 15,
business transacted to-day has been of a limited
ter; Rentes close without alteration at 69 46. Aost
i;0;a"
The Herald's Paris correspondent states thatgol
ment has given orders to an iron company for 00
boats, 25
5 hfr
of which are to be completed with t
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ITALY.
DisheP
A letter from Rome says, " The protest of the it boo
of Orleans has produced a great sensation here,' 00404
been translated into Italian, and the Givita
has had 40,000 copies of it printed."