The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

and how does the account stand in our con-
temporary's own formula ? Thus

American British Superiority of
Consumption. Consumption. Br. Consump.
... 389,006 .. 1,566,207 ..... .1,177,193
It did not suit the Times, we presume, to start from
a year less disastrous to British industry than
1847 ; or to give the average of the years following.,
as compared with the preceding years. Yet this
is precisely the question at issue between Mr.
BRAmLEy.MoorrE and Mr. CARDWELL. The
latter gentleman distinctly stated that the consump-
tion of cotton in America and in Europe had
"continuously" decreased since 1846. Mr. BRAM-
LEY-MOORE showed, from the same circular which
the Times quotes, that the average consumption in
America since 1846 had increased from 350,262 per
annum, in the five years from 1842 to 1846, to
473,931 bales per annum in the five years from
1847 to 1851; and that whereas the north of
Europe consumed in 1847 only 75,689 bales, those
countries took in 1851 129,492 bales.
The Times ignores the fact that Mr. BRAMLEY-
MOORE distinctly accounted for the falling off in
the American consumption in 1851 and a part of
1850. Such suppression may go down with the
multitude, and especially with that portion of it to
which Mr. CARDWELL now appeals ; but the
youngest clerk in a broker's office is perfectly up in
the matter. The years 1850 and 1851 (American
years—our contemporary is well aware of what we
mean) were years of dear cotton ; and the American
manufacturer confines himself to heavy fabrics.
When cotton is dear, he ceases to make goods.
The Times knew this very well. His friends know
it equally well; but the Times is talking down to
the comprehension of the ignorant portion of his
party. He says again that Mr. BRAMLEY-1100RE
has given the increased consumption in America in

six months of cheap cotton from "an anonymous
statement." Perhaps the editor will have the good-

nets to step into the Exchange News-room, and
ask for the New Orleans Circular. Any cotton
broker will assure him that the circular in question
is not an " anonymous" document.

We shall not enter further into comment upon
the attempted refutation of Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE'S
statistics by any of our contemporaries. The mere
fact is sufficient for most people, that the speech of
the gentleman in question has been thought worthy
of so much laboured argumentation. If the pros-
perity, adduced By the Free-trade advocates, is
capable of being proved by the ledgers of their
friends, we shall be willing to admit that the ship-
owners are doing well, and the importers are doing
well. People on 'Change, however, say that the
contrary is the case; and, until that fact is contra-
dicted, we must be excused for adhering to our
own opinions. There are very few people in Liver-
pool, or elsewhere, dependant solely upon mercan-
tile pursuits, who can say, with a clear conscience,
that they are more wealthy now than they were
five years ago. We should wonder if, with an
increased population, there should not be an in-
creased consumption of food. But it unfortunately
happens that the great increase dwelt upon has
taken place in articles the duties upon which have
either been unaltered, or not materially so, as stated
by Mr. BRAMLEY.MOORE. It is additionally
unfortunate that Free Trade cannot claim the credit
of this increase. We have all been paying five-
and-twenty per cent. for our food and our luxuries
less than they cost, and it is no wonder that we
enjoyed ourselves. But the questions still arise—
and in the absence of correct statistics we must
leave them to be answered by the electors of Liverpool
and other boroughs—are we, as communities, better
off than we were in other and bye-past years ? Has
the labourer had employment and wages to enable
him to avail himself of the nominal cheapness of
commodities ? Are the tills of our shopkeepers
filled daily ? Are accounts promptly paid ? Has
the tax-gatherer to call twice ? Are houses well
let, and at former rents ? These are practical
questions. and easily answered. They will be
answered too ; and the lesson taught by the answer
will be that a few men may receive more extensive
consignments of foreign produce—a few men, who
are not workers, may be enabled to enjoy more of
the good things of life for their fixed incomes ; but
that the profits of every department of enterprise
and industry are being rapidly diminished under
our present fiscal system. The answer, we can
assure Mr. CARDWELL and his friends, will be a
very decided one.

ST. NICHOLAS'S CHURCH.—Atthe commencementof his
sermon on Sunday morning, the Rev. Rector Campbell al-
luded to the recent improvements. He first thanked the
parishioners generally for the handsome manner in which
they had sanctioned, at the late vestry, the alterations
which had been made through the exertions of one of the
churchwardens (Mr. Banner). That gentleman had
restored, as far as he could restore, to the parishioners, their
original right to the seats in the body of the church ; and
he had removed, as far as he had power to do so, the
unjust monopoly which had been allowed to exist. The
rector next alluded to the placing of the choristers in the
body of the chureh, as in our cathedrals, and denied that
it savoured at all of Puseyism, with which some had hastily
charged it; for the arrangement was in full accordance
with the custom of the primitive church. Why should
those whose duty it was to take a lead in the praises of God
be stuck up in the gallery, or hid behind a curtain ? In
this latter position any attire would suit; but when they
came into the body of the church, a suitable and uniform
attire was necessary. There was at least no reasonable
objection to it, and the custom had been adopted in other
churches in town, in one of which the minister savoured
more of ultra-Protestantism than of Puseyism. The
chanting of the psalms, the creed, and other portions of
the service to be " said or sung," was also in accordance
wills the practice of the primitive church, and in his owi
nnylv days, about half a cent

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ous one, though some of the laity were strongly opposed
to it ; in his time, however, he would certainly not pre-
vent it. lie concluded by speaking in strong condemna-
tion both of Popery and Puseyism, the latter of which wa
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