The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

of this country, and with the prospc
_.,
will }.-- -emitted are not th,

e read
incumbent upon us to tai:
to the quarter to which w(

rious thought with respect

y turn for

increased markets for our paralyse
supplies of food for of
our other invoke=

1 increased
s. Besides
scarcity of

we are afflict

one.of our most important raw m
for these objects, to what quarter of the globe can we look
with a greater probability of a profitable result, th
our vast Eastern empire. We have another and a h
ground for looking to the state of that empire. It is our
duty, as it is our interest, to inquire whether we are acquit-
ting ourselves, in our treatment of that empire, of the
manifest responsibility which Providence has thrown upon
us by consigning its destinies and the moral and social
welfare of its vast population to our care. Such is, and
we think justly, the position taken up by the author of
the pamphlet before us, wh -
in the administration of tl
bled to throw imp,

as been ena-

the intercourse between ti

[t ought

to have done, and as wa
from Burns.' Cornmerci

shed, our ei
[7,522,8411

ports of cotton yarn t
in 1844 to 14,116,237

e export of the
Is, we have to

same article rose in 1846 to 20,41
bear in mind that cotton yarn is only an imperfect
h the frrpati.cf am,

facture, and not o:
labour is employed

1845 ; and barely rega1.,,,... _
shipments. In our shipments to Chi/
the latter year, the shipments bein
106,490,275 yards in 1845, again
a portion of this deficiency of ext.
by Chinese imports from the Indian po,
sumption of Hindoston has been most

ves in 18.

n our direct

.etrograded is

to China direct

23,872 in 1846. As
)rt may have been made

he actual con
ably less las

year than either of the precedin

In printed and dyed
it exports to India

in 1846. We have no
that country will show
profits during the year
not encouraging.
The following statist

d the amount o

Rid are

iott, with

respect to the growth of cOttonliTinga,i

important
e us, and

are especially- worthy of co:
of our supply of that raw n

n the present state

to 30th June, from 184
To China and Singav

Total Bales
. 299.058

1843.
1844.
1845.

146,894

Nor do the deliver

from the ware-

510 Bales

29,123 ,

183,719

Our author trac

rating con

the Induc

and in their ability
these causes is the

ding one of

ament of

India is carried on and its taxation
view to the amount of irnmetv
by the holders of stock. -

with a

to be derived

•ather than

or the resources of the' cc

? development
ted by

the chainy

I House on the 28th 1
—could there be any greater
country, in the
people dying of hump--

to the mother

what must be
0 sterling, and

leir miserable cabins or dropping- exhausted to perish on

the roads or the ditches ? Can Skibbereen be expected 7,1 A=orwE
to outdo itself. Can any population be in a much more
dire emergency than when the emaciated living have not And this, Mr. M
strength left to carry their dead to the grave, or to heap
the earth over their coffinless remains ? Political eco

system r

went in the state

I of the people (if it does r

blooded

[icy may not be

done in thy name !

of capital in the cultivation of vast tra

But the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his fellow-offi- favoured by nature ..,.various articles of life." Th.
cials were afraid that opening their depots of food would is the ryot system, by which the government, stand
cheek the enterprise of private individuals. Yet this wise
the position of the owner of the soil, through tl
official,. in the very next sentence of the speech, from brows machinery of a host of native and othe-
which we have quoted above, virtually acknowledges that
assessors, surveyors, &c., b,--
the mere existence of a food depot in any locality de-
vators from one-third '
presses private enterprise.
" Of one
place where there was a depot it had been 1 taking away ^"
the soil t
stated that' The destitution in the neighbourhood of
~.

and highly
:aples and

producti

}-stem, we TIE

9.t say,

L e cum-

agents,
nually from the culti-
crops produced ; thus

Lent of

Castletown (Bearhaven) has been greatly !:,,,, .,.,
production of the F.
the arrival of a commissariat officer, rumours having gone
conductors, is thus st“
abroad that the Government was about to open a food
article in the Indian News..
dep6t, which has prevented commercial peoplefrom send-
'The ryots ' (the cult
wato!.
ing in supplies of food as heretofore. The consequence verished and overburdened wit.
has been that the supplies in the town are exhausted, and P(tle village money-lenders) ' have made large advances
the whole district is now without food.' It was found to the ryots, and cannot get them repaid : the dealer,
that up to about Christmas there would be food to be ob- who buys from the bunions, has been selling his cotton in
tained, but that after Christmas the Government must Bombay at a loss ; while the exporter knows to his cost
open their depots. Orders had been issued to open them that the chances are against --,kin!). -
then, so soon as it should be found necessary."
It was
found—(query)—blabbed by some Government shipments to England, and ly
underling ?—that after Christmas Government would open to China and Singapore.' It
its stores ; and orders had been given to open them when merit land tax amounts to a'
-r. Hence the supply from private enterprise was a. total value of the artie
-so totally from hand to mouth--thst "t the rupees, or r‘-,--

g•grav at e d b

article of

I upon its

in an extract

)m a recent

of the cotton) ' are im-

the bunians

ut few in his f

profit upon
our to those

necessar

eighty-two

_
bare rumour of the presence of a commissallat officer,
with a key in his pocket, " the whole district is now with-
out food."
Another incident which took place during the same de- our nue.
bate, or rather conversation, upon the subject of the We have gone to to
-
suspension of the navigation laws, leaves it a matter detail the remedies
of question whether the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood or tion, or to notice the inc.
Mr. John Bright are the bet contained in his pamphlet. informed personages. The
striking intimation of the dangerworthy quaker asked whether it was intended to suspend
the navigation laws in the case of foreign vessels bringing by our treatment of a noble people, c
other merchandize along with grain. The Chancellor of amount of civilisation, we must
p,am_ plget itself. Our object has
the Exchequer replied that such vessels will be allowed to

The condition of the er

Mr. Marriott descri

=Mr t

which the %

duty free; but the rest of the cargo will not be admitted
duty free. Mr. Bright said the question was not one of
duty ; he had asked merely whether they would be per-
mitted to land their cargoes. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer stated that the portion of flip ,nrcr. „n 1 nnncie~3n

1e linty and I

of grain would be subject to the existing (navigation) laws.
Mr. Roebuck thought the Chancellor did not understand
the question, and asked, " Suppose a Dutch bottom were
to go to the United States, take in there a cargo partly of
corn and partly of cotton, would she be permitted to
come into the Mersey with her cargo and discharge
it ?" The ,bemused Chancellor said, "He had already
answered the question. He could only repeat that
the vessel would be allowed to land the corn duty free,
but not the cotton. (` Hear,' and laughter.)" Honest
John thought the ehnnpolin,

THE SNOW STO

a long spell of extremely cold weather
winds,) snow began to fall in this t
hood, and lasted, without- intermissii

of Fri

morni..,, _
limited to time, but cannot z

nave given such an answer ; and his opponent replied by
reading the clause of the Suspension Act of 1817, by
',nitted 'duty free, and stated that it
1- government had acted. During
- • ,
—,;nister of ordinary

ground, without drift, had
foot, was hut slowly dissol'

which corn v

Nlonday nig

was upon this bill tl

and roads were exce
vehicles. and

most feasible cros

have waded through in
triment. On Wednesd

Rai'was

chester-could not acoomy

The fall of snow i
here. The land

n Sum.]