The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

great in timber of most sorts, being in 1843, under
the head of deals, battens, &c., British and Foreign,
526,570 loads, and in 1845, 997,011 loads. Of
large timber the quantity was in 1843, 667:930
loads, and in 1845, 990,681 loads.
The declared value of some of the principal
articles of British and Irish produce and manu-
factures, exported during the three periods, shew
the amazing developement which has taken place in
the industrial resources of the country. The total
value of the articles enumerated, exported in 1843
was £41,021,643 ; in 1844, £47,312,313 ; and in
1845, £47,764,711, being an increase of close upon
seven millions, or about one-sixth during the period.
The principal item of this list is that of cotton manu-
factures, which was in 1843, £14,725,887; in 1844,
£17,450,264; and in 1845, £17,689,937. This,
moreover, is entirely in fully manufactured fabrics,
for we find that the export of cotton yarns has
declined during the period. In woollen manu-
factures there is an increase of nearly a million
sterling, or one-sixth of the whole; the export of
iron and steel is £900,000 more in 1845 than in
1843, or two-fifths of the whole ; and similar results
are exhibited under the heads of " linen manu-
factures," " hardwares and cutlery," &c.
The amount of tonnage employed in the Foreign
trade of the kingdom, entered inwards, was in
1843, 3,668,788 tons, of which 2,707,832 tons were
British; in 1844, 4,034,620 tons, of which 2,936,911
tons were British ; and in 1845, 4,644,693 tons, of
which 3,391,199 tons were British. The amount
cleared outwards was, in 1843, 3,512,550 tons ; in
1844, 3,459,734 tons ; and in 1845, 4,050,981 tons.
Our Foreign trade, it is deducible from these
figures, employed nearly a million tons of shipping
more in 1845 than in 1843, and had increased in the
proportion of one-fourth. .

In the coasting trade of the country, we had, in
1843, entered inwards, 9,914,322 tons; in 1844,
10,156,175 tons ; and in 1845, 11,557,882 tons.
In 1843, the quantity cleared outwards was
10,394,245 tons ; in 1844, 10,782 189 tons ; and in
1845, 12,197,949 tons. As an indication of the
activity of our inland trade and of the industry of
the country these figures are most valuable.
From an article in the Paris Sikle of Saturday,
it appears that whilst this country has had such an
immense impetus given to her commerce as these
figures denote, the merchant service of France has
materially decreased. The tonnage of that country
has gradually declined during the last five years
from 907,000 to 871,000, to 811,000, to 693,000,
and in 1845 to 770,000.

Now, we ask of every impartial man, was ever a
country more rapidly advancing in prosperity and
commerchl greatness than the above statement
shows Great Britain to have been advancing during
the past three years ? We say no; and, moreover,
with respect to one, and that the most important
interest whose position it elucidates, the statement
does not upon the face of it indicate the total extent
of increase. We refer to the item of Cotton Manufac-
tures. The exports under this head have increased
in declared value since 1843 from £14,725,887,
to £17,450,264 in 1845. But it must be observed
that between the two periods, the value of the raw
material has declined considerably. In the last six
months of 1843—we have not at hand circulars for
the whole of the year—the average price of fair to
good fair Bowed cotton was 4i-d. to 5 5-16 d. In
the last six months of 1845 ( and the whole year
would show about the same result) the average
price of the same cotton was only 4-id. to 4-d., or
in a proportion of about 301. to 27. Let this be
considered, and the only conclusion to be drawn is
that the cotton manufacturers have, during the last
two years, been in a state of prosperity, and reaped
profits unexampled in the history of the trade.
Yet this is the time, and by men under such cir-
cumstances, in which we are told that the salvation
of our commerce imperatively demands the imme-
diate and total repeal of the Corn-laws, and the sub-
jection of the vast amount of capital and industry
embarked in the cultivation of the soil of the king-
dom to a competition with the foreigner, the result
of which none can foresee. These are the men who
complain, whilst amassing wealth with a rapidity
unexampled, that the Corn-laws stand between them-
selves and a bare subsistence. Can mendacity and
impudence more flagrant be conceived ?

The " Times' Commissioner", in Ireland, has
just afforded fresh confirmation of the remark,
made by us some time ago that, in him, O'Connell
had met with more than his match. The efforts of
Daniel to throw doubt upon the truth of the state-
ments made by the Commissioner, as to the condi-
tion of his Darrynane tenantry, have justly excited
contempt and brought upon their author a reputa-
tion for unparalleled mendacity. How he will get
out of the following we leave it to his ingenuity to
determine. Vulgar abuse of the Commissioner will
not do in this case. It is given on other and re-
corded authority than that of the gentleman whom
he so fluently villifies. Here it is :

" In the report of the Census Commissioners of Ire-
land, for the year 1811, will be found four shaded plates,
which at a glance indicate the comparative density of
population in different parts of Ireland, the comparative
amount of house accommodation for the population, the
comparative athount of education, and the comparative
amount of property in live stock. By the first plate,
' the darkest shade indicates the most dense population.'
The counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Dawn are by
far the darkest on the map ; Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and
Kerry by far the lightest. In the evidence of Mr. Shar-
man Crawford, M.P., before Lord Devon's Commission
(Part 1, p. 197), will be found a statistical table, showing
that the counties of Armagh and Down have the smallest
farms, and the greatest number of them, in proportion to
the amount of arable land, of any county, and far exceed,
in those respects, Galway, Cork, Mayo, Tipperary, and
Meath. If over-population, therefore, is a cause of dis-
tress, Armagh, Monaghan, and Down, ought to exhibit
the greatest misery—Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry
the most comfort. The reverse is the fact. By the
second plate, 'the darkest shade indicates the worst house
accommodation. The brightest county in the whole map
is the county Down ; after it rank Dublin, Kilkenny,
Wexford, Armagh, and Monaghan. The darkest county
in the whole map is the county of Kerry—and Darry-
nane is the darkest spot in it; after it ranks, in bad
house accommodation, Clare, part of Cork, Galway,
Mayo, and Donegal. By the third plate, the darkest
shade indicates the worst state of education." The
brightest counties on the map are Antrim, Londonderry,
Down, Tyrone, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Kildare,
Carlow—in fact, the north and east coast of Ireland.
The darkest counties in the map are Mayo and Kerry—
and the darkest spot in Kerry is Darrynane; after these,
in deficient education, come Galway, Waterford, and the
west of Donegal, Sligo, Clare, and Cork. By the fourth
map, ' the darkest shade indicates the greatest abundanc3
of live stock.' The darkest counties in the map are
Meath, Wexford, and Kildare; next comes Down in
equable darkness—which in this case is:the type of equable
wealth. The lightest counties, that is to say the poorest,
are Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry—and the lightest
spot in Kerry is Darrynane. These are public documents,
and the proof is conclusive."

Can Daniel destroy the record, here, by his usual
device—railing ? He will find it difficult to per-
suade even the gulls of Conciliation Hall that the
Censtis Commissioners of 1841—men chosen with
no political bias—have erred wilfully in putting
down his property as containing the worst and most
miserable population even in miserable Ireland.

The meeting at the Amphitheatre, on Friday, and
the i'ery liberal subscriptions which it produced.
will, no doubt, be represented by the League press
as one of the proudest triumphs which the agitation
of that body has hitherto achieved. We admit that,
in some respects, the result of the meeting was a
triumph—a "great fact." 'that such a sum as thirteen
thousand pounds could be extracted from the ultra-
Radical section of this community, to be applied
towards any object, the benefit of which to them-
selves was not both direct and immediate, is what
no one who has known them intimately, could have
previously credited. It is conclusive that the con-
siderations which influence them in carrying on this
agitation are, to a large extent, pocket interests.
For an object of pure philanthropy—to benefit their
fellow-townsmen, or their fellow-countrymen—to
add an extra potato to the poor man's meal—the
result of a meeting of this party would have been
enumerated in pence instead of pounds, and the
meeting itself might have been held in a bathing
machine.
The establishment of a free trade in corn and
other commodities, is to put money in the pockets
of the Rathbones and Heyworths, the Mathers and
others—to give a vast stimulus to the American and
other trades—and hence these gentlemen bleed freely.
But that there are other and strong feelings in the
background, the elements of which this meeting was
composed, and the tone of its proceedings, suffi-
ciently show. The leading speakers were, to a man,
Dissenters—some of them the most violent of their
class. Of the subscribers of the larger sums, four
out of five are in the same category. Is this a fact
from which no inference is to be drawn? On a
purely commercial or economical question, one would
imagine that Churchmen and Dissenters would be
found acting together in a proportion more nearly