The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

Ti.IPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES.

1832 101,029,266 dols. 1836 189,980,035 dols
1833 108,118,311 1837 140,989,217
1834 126,521,332 1838 113,717,401
1835 149,895,742 1839 170,000,000
The amount for 1839 is estimated from the above data. I

we look back to the four years preceding 1836, which was at
a period before overtrading commenced in any great degree,
or before more goods were imported thanthe demand actually
required, we find that the increase, keeping pace with the in-
creasing population and the growing wants of the community,
averaged about 12,009,000 dols. in each year. It is therefore
evident that had there been no period of speculation and
subsequent revulsion, but had trade gone on in the same
ratio, the imports this year would have been2oo,ooo,oooclols.
instead of 170,000,000 dots. In 1836 the amount went much
above-the average and fell off for the two years in a much
greater ratio. It is therefore evident that a supply of
170,000,000 dots. is not more than is required by the increas-
ing want of the community, especially at a season when our
crops promise a greater abundance than was ever before
realized.
The question of payment for the fall imports then neces-
sarily arises. In lobking round on the means which we possess
for that purpose, we find that by taking the state of exchange
as an index of the balance of trade, that balance is slightly
in our favour at this moment. There is an amount of cotton
on hand in Liverpool equal to about 22,250,000 dollars at
present prices ; on this probably one half has been already
advanced, leaving about 11,000,000 dollars available ; en
amount which will be nearly sufficient to meet the demands
until the new crop of cotton is in the market. The sale of
that crop depends however in a great measure upon the state
of the corn crops of England. Should the fears entertained
at our latest dates fur its safety be realized, a great revolution
will no doubt take place in the channel of trade. The con-
sumption of cotton will be greatly decreased, but the granaries
of Europe are nearly exhausted by the heavy demands upon
them during the past year, while the growing crops, parti-
cularly that of France, is represented to be in as bad or
worse condition than that of England. The deficiency of
England must then necessarily be supplied from this country,
That we are amply able to meet the demand to the extent of
15,000,000 dollars, our article of to-day headed corn trade
fully proves.
This operation of buying corn from us will be doubly bene-
ficial to England, inasmuch as we do not demand the pro-
ceeds in coin but in goods, while we, at the same time,
supply the raw material to manufacture. The demand from
this country for manufactured goods is constantly increasing
with the increased population, while the demand from the
Continent is gradually decreasing, as is shown by the follow-
ing table of exports of yarn from Liverpool for the first six
months of this year and last :
Exports of Yarn from Liverpool, for six months.
53,273,467 lbs.
37,239,615 "

1838
1839

Decrease 30 per cent. or 16,033,852 '1
The decrease is principally to the North of Europe as fa
lows : Decrease to

H011and....... 5,435,093 lbs. Russia..
Naples & Sicily 2,086,813 India .
Austria....
The decrease in the exports of England arises in a great
measure from the increase of manufactories on the conti-
nent, and the fact that the wants of the population do not
keep pace with such increase. Such being the case, England
must henceforth look to this country as her best customer.
The export of corn to a large amount is a new feature in
our export trade, and one which more than all others will
tend to promote the consumption of manufactured goods, for
the reason that the producers of grain, who are the largest
consumers of merchandise, will thereby be put in possession
of more means for their purchase, and an export of 15,000,000
dollars of breadstuffs will tend to the direct increase of the
imports of the country to the same amount. This would in
turn create a demand for cotton, which will nearly counter-
balance the decrease in the exports from England to the
continent. Therefore should nothing of a political nature
intervene, even should the crop fall short in England, there
is every prospect that our exports to England will fully equal
our imports from there. The balance which has hitherto
apparently been in favour of England and against us, arose
from the fact that on London as the great commercial cen-
tre, all bills duc for our continental debts have been drawn.
The actual balance of trade has been rather in favour of this
country, but the financial balance, growing out of the Ame-
rican paper drawn on London, and floating on the continent,
has been against us. This fact is evident from the compa-
rative table of imports, which we published last week.
showing that the decrease of aggregate imports during the
year 1838, was 8,922,760 dollars, while the decrease from
'Great Britain was 23,225 only.
. _

Nearly the whole of the aggregate imports is-trade payable
in London, and a decrease to the extent of near 9,000,000
dollars is a sensible relief to the market. The decrease in
this particular will probably be still greater this year, from
the fact, that as commerce increases in the European States,
their cotnmunication with the South American States becomes
more direct, and therefore requiring less intervention on the
part of American merchants. _

From these data we conclude that our consumption of
English merchandise will be large for the ensuing year, but
at necessary low prices by reason of the derangement of our
money system.
We have, however, amply the means of paying for them.
The great difficulty will be in making those means available
at the worhent when the demand will be greatest, or during
the press of the fall importations. That point safely passed
we shall stand on firm ground and have time to reconstruct
a currency more uniform than that which we now possess.
If necessary %ve can easily spare 8 or 9,000,000 for a few
months, if the regular calls of trade require, without cre-
ating any unnecessary alarm.

THE " QUEEN OF BEAUTY."—Lady Seymour is young-
est daughter of the late Thomas Sheridan, Esq., was married
on 10th June, 1830, to Edward Adolphus Lord Seymour, a
Lord of the Treasury, M. P., eldest son of Edward Adol-
phus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, and Baron Seymour, in
the Peerage of England, and a Baronet ; Vice-Admiral of
the Coast of Somersetehire, President of the Royal Insti-
tution, &c. The Duke of Somerset was born 24th February,
1775, succeeded 15th December, 1793, married, first, 1800,
Lady Charlotte Hamilton, second daughter of Archibald,
ninth Duke of Hamilton, who died 10th June, 1827 ; his
Grace married, secondly, on 28th July, 1836, Margaret, el-
dest daughter of the late Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart.
Lady Seymour is a grand-daughter of the celebrated Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, and a sister to Mrs. Norton.—Scottish
Guardian.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF CARP IN A WOOD.—A short
time since, a lad on going from Chilworth to Baddesley, in
Hampshire, to shorten the course he was pursuing, made his
w<<y through a wood, and, whilst cutting a stick therein,
heard something resembling a splash in the water near him.
On progressing a few paces onwards, he came to a small pool,
which, on examination, was found to be literally swarming
with carp. On his mentioning the circumstance to the neigh-
bours, they spoke to the keeper of the manor, who ordered
some men to go down, and cut away the dam of the pool,
when, strange to relate, some hundreds of very large carp
and eel were taken out, weighing three and eight pounds re-
spectively. There is an old ruin at Baddesley, called the
Priory, near the spot ; and there is little doubt but that some
five h'undred years ago, before the wood and weeds encroached
on the area allotted for the propagation of the fish it con-
tained, it wag a preserve attached to the estate; of the priory.

REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.-,NO

REACTION !

(From the Manchester Courier.)

So ; the sick and absent Mr. Robert Hyde Greg has been
elected member for Manchester, and another blot has been
cast upon the political annals of the town. No doubt the
papers on the liberal interest will proclaim this a signal and
brilliant victory. We wish the party many such. To have
a majority of nearly two thousand (which was the case at the
last election) reduced to within an ace of defeat, is a circum-
stance on which our opponents have little reason to congra-
tulate themselves. They may now hug themselves with the
reflection that in a borough which has been proclaimed irre-
vocably wedded to the whig party, their candidate has nar-
rowly escaped a defeat. It behoves them to make the most
of their victory; for without any extraordinary effort at
vaticination, we have a shrewd suspicion that Mr. Greg will
never warm the seat to which he has been elected. • Cam-
bridge has been lost to the government, and their memorable
majority has been reduced to a unit !
The conservatives, on the other hand, have every reason
to be satisfied with the result of the late contest. For the
first time since the elective franchise was conferred upon
Manchester has the conservative candidate been elected by
the voice of the people, whilst the friends of his opponent
have been hissed and mouthed at wherever they presented
themselves. At the first nomination, on Wednesday, the
show of hands was decidedly in favour of Sir George Mur-
ray, and at the mock nomination on Thursday, the sense of
the meeting was ten to one in his favour. If there be no re-
action here, we despair of ever seeing a practical illustration
of the term. Apropos of " his worship, the mayor." At
his own particular nomination, on Thursday, we really could
not help pitying him. There he sat, surrounded by his
minions, almost tongue-tied. Whenever he attempted to
address the people, he was assailed with the most discordant
groans and yells, and he was positively compelled to call
upon Mr. Elijah Dixon to propitiate the multitude, whilst
he took the show of hands.

In point of time Mr. Greg's friends had every advantage
over their opponents. They were prepared for a contest
several days before the conservatives had even a suspicion of
a vacancy ; for we find by an article, which we quote from
the Wolverhampton Chronicle, that a deputation applied to
Mr. Villiers, before they danced attendance on Mr. Samuel
Jones Lloyd, in London. The interval was, of course, em-
ployded in an active canvass, in favour of the whig candi-
date, whoever he may chance to be ; all the whig machinery
was set in motion, and before the conservatives could have
any idea of a contest, their opponents were in possession of
the outposts. Indeed, so sensible were our opponents of
their advantage, that Mr. Villiers, in the letter to one of his
constituents, which we print elsewhere, says—" Reasonable
grounds were shown me, not only for. anticipating success in
the event of my becoming a. candidate, but, indeed, for ex-
picting that no opposition would be'rnade to me!" With
these facts before us, are we not then fully justified in main-
taining that the conservatives have achieved a triumph? At
the last election, the account between the parties stood thus :
Thomson . 4158
Phillips.
Gladstone

Majority for Mr. Philipsover Mr. Gladstone 1879
On the present occasion (we adopt the Boroughreeve's re
turn) the account stands thus—
Greg.....
Murray...

3096
2969

Majority for Greg..
So that Sir George Murray has polled 688 more votes than
Mr. Gladstone did at the last election ! Mr. Greg has polled
1062 votes less than Mr. Thomson !! And the whig majority
(comparing Mr. Greg's advantage with Mr. Thomson's), has
been reduced by 1752 votes ! From a return of the polling
yesterday, under the auspices of " his worship the Mayor,'
we find (adopting the statement of the whig committee, which
fixes Mr. Greg's- numbers at 3424 and Sir George Murray's
at 3174), that the conservatives polled 205 votes more than
on the previous day. So that if all Sir George's friends had
polled on Thursday, he would, have been returned. We are
aware that the same argument may be employed in Mr. Greg's
case ; but when we state that many persons, through accident
and other causes, did not poll for Sir George yesterday who
voted for him on Thursday, and that numerous individuals
who voted for Mr. Greg, had no more right to exercise that
privilege than the artizans of Geneva or any other class of Mr.
Greg's continental friends, we think we have a right tomain-
tain that Sir George Murray owes his temporary failure (for
we are convinced it is only temporary) to unforeseen casual-
ties, and not to the unfavourable opinion of the constituency.
The truth is, that the whig party in Manchester have sus-
tained what is tantamount to a defeat. They are conscious
of it, and view it as a prestige of future disaster. If there be
a man amongst them who doubts the position of the party, let
him read the account of Sir George Murray's reception at the
Royal Hotel last night. He will there learn how the vast
multitude chef r A him, aud with their cheers mingled prayers
for his safe and speedy return amongst them. Every one
cried " God bless him ;" and when he was about to depart,
if the people had not been restrained, they would have borne
him on their shoulders through the streets. Yes, men of
Manchester, the blow has been struck,and at the next gene-
ral election, come when it may, (and it is not far distant,) the
conservatives will carry not only Sir George, but another "good
man and true" also. In the meantime all the energies of the
Borough Conservative Association (an admirable institution
by the way) must be put forth. We have had a most gratify-
ing example of what the friends of good order and good go-
vernment can accomplish when they unite and " put their
shoulders to the wheel ;" let not the lesson be lost upon them.
We now know the value of the liberal taunt " No reaction,"
be it our duty to improve it at the expense of our opponents.

By the way, we are reminded that a public entertainment
to Sir George Murray would be very desirable at this junc.
ture. In our judgment such an event would have a very sa-
lutary effect upon the whole conservative party, whilst it would
be but a just acknowledgment of the heavy obligations under
which Sir George has laid the cause, in coming forward so
promptly to fight its battle in Manchester.