The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

od old cause

England paling before
sword, at the head of his trusty

d convicts I Verily, DUFFY

bands of banist
graphic. But tell us, dear DUFFY, what
good old cause" for which the millions of banished
subjects of poor flabbergasted Ul l England, with
Captain MEAGHER at their head, are longing to
strike at the terrified old lady ?

Much more in the same strain—as sensible, as
truthful, as loyal--we might easily extract; but it
does not need much to prove the calibre of the
writer. Sedition, however hearty, is not only
harmless in such a shape,' but tends to confirm the
loyalty of all men of sense. DUFFY may do his
best to earn a MEAGHER'S fate by such effusions.
Contempt, silent or derisive, will be the only
punishment vouchsafed to him. But, when it is

remembered that the writer of such audacious
trash is held in much esteem by the forty other
conspirators who have bound themselves to obstruct
every Government which does not yield to their
demands, every honest and intelligent Member of
Parliament, whatever be his party or individual
interests, must feel the necessity for crushing, at
the very outset of the new Parliament, a body with
such pretensions and such projects.

INCREASE OF FOREIGN COTTON
MANUFACTURES.

ALTHOUGH the annual statement of the growth
and disposal of the American Cotton crop of this
year, which has reached us by the Asia, is said not

to have been quite complete, returns being wanted
from a few southern ports, it affords us data suffi-
ciently near the truth to show that the Cotton
manufacturers of the United States and other

countries are progressing at a more rapid rate, as
consumers of the raw material, than Great Britain.
The following is a copy of the statement :

New York, Sept. 10, 1852.
Total Exp. Stock 8z

Receipts

Exp. G. B

Shpd.
1852.... 3,029,734 1,667.858 2,440,509 71.772
1851....2,335,600 1,415,660 1,986,363 100,891

increase.. 694,134

V 2.193

454,146

Decrease

From the above it will be seen that, whilst the
receipts of Cotton in the ports of the United States
have been this year nearly 700,000 bales in excess
of those of last year, the increase of exports to Great
Britain has only been 252,199 bales, out of a total
154,156 bales ; or, in other

increase to (
words, whilst the increase to this country was
250,000 bales, in round numbers, that to other

countries of

countries was 200,000 bales,

This mode of regarding the statement, however,
does not elicit the real and most startling facts of
the case. At the close of the season of 1851 we
had to commence with a stock of 100,691 bales.
During the past season there have been received at
the ports of the United States 3,029,734 bales, of
which 2,440,509 bales have been exported to all
countries, leaving a stock at present on hand of
71,772 bales. The result will be best arrived at
by placing the figures in the following arithmetical
form :

Stock in United States Sept., 1851
Receipt in ports to Sept., 1852 ...

Bales.
100,891
3,029,731

3,130,625

Total export, 1852
Stock, Sept., 1852.

2,440,509
71,772-2,512,281

Balance

618,344

Now, what does this balance of above 600,000
bales, which arrived in the ports of America, have
not been exported, and are not in stock, represent ?
Obviously, the quantity of the crop of this year
which has been consumed in the country of its
growth. Upon this fact a few remarks may not
appear out of place. Our readers may remember
an attempt which was made by Mr. CARDWELL,
in one of his election speeches in this town, in
which he attempted to show that, whereas, prior to
the repeal of the corn laws, the cotton manufac-
tures of America were steadily increasing, they had
since as steadily declined ; and he hazarded a pro-
phecy that they would continue to do so. In order
to make ourselves perfectly understood, we shall
here again give the figures from the circular, which
he used on the occasion, that of Messrs. Hollins-
head, Tetley, and Co., of Liverpool :

American consumption in 1846.... 422,597 bales.
Ditto ditto in 1847....427,967 ~
Ditto ditto in 1848....531,772 „
Ditto ditto in 1849....518,039 ~
Ditto ditto in 1850....487,769 ~
Ditto ditto in 1851.... 404,108 „
Mr. CARDWELL will perhaps admit that his pro-
phecy was hazardous, when he finds the consump-
tion of America this year to be 618,344 bales,
showing an increase of upwards of 50 per cent.

Nor is this the whole of the case. As yet, we
have no estimate of the quantity of cotton consumed
in the United States, which has this year gone
direct from the plantation to the factory, without
being received at any port. Last year the quantity
thus disposed of was estimated at 75,000 bales.
From the increase which is known to have taken
place in the number of factories in the Southern
States, it is most probable that the quantity con-
ea
statistical
slimed there is now doubled; and we do not think
e facts
ra ac forcuc the
y
we shall be far wrong in setting down the entire
consumption of the United States during the pre-
sentat 0
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MENDELSSOHN'S ELIJAH.—We perceive that a cheap
edition of this celebrated oratorio is about to be pub-
lished. Such a book has long been wanted ; and we have
no doubt that Messrs. throe and Son, who are the local
rgents, will have numerous orders for copier.