The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-10 00:00:00

OUR EXPORTS FOR 1841

The official returns of the exports for the year 184] of our
chief staples will, it is said, by no means bear out the exag-
gerated tales of distress which have so long filled the columns
of our free trade contemporaries. That much suffering has
been and is felt in Lancashire and the other seats of the cot-
ton manufacture is undoubted ; but it will be satisfactory for
the public to know that the total amount of our leading ma-
nufactures, as yet exported in ]B4l, has, in comparison with
last year, somewhat increased. The following is stated to be

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an approximation to what the public accounts for 1841 will,
when published, exhibit for the three quarters ending sth
October last, when compared with a similar period of 1810.
In cotton twist exported there has been, it is stated, a de-
crease during the first nine months of 1841 of nearly £60,000,
and in cotton goods the large falling off of about £1,000,000
sterling; making a total decrease up to Oct. 1841, of
£1,060,000. But on the other hand there has been an in-
creased export of woollen and worsted goods, up to that
time, of £600,000, and an increase in all other manufactures
of £1,100,000; constituting a total decreaso of £1,700,000.
Balancing then this decrease against the increase, there is an
amount of £640,000 sterling to be carried to the latter ac-
count; this, though a small sum in a national point of view,
is satisfactory evidence that except in the cotton trade, dis-
tress in the manufacturihg districts, though severe and pro-
tracted, has been exaggerated.
The falling off in the cotton goods exported is accounted
for chiefly by the markets of India, Australia, and South and
West America, having been greatly overstocked in 1840, and
by the restrictive state of the money market. The latter
cause has, too, prevented our shopkeepers at home from
keeping large stocks during the last year; and their present
low stocks, as well as the freedom from glut of the United
States market, and the ordinary demand from the north of
Europe, will, it is anticipated by practical men, re-infuse
greater activity into the cotton manufacture on the close of
the winter.-4forning Herald.
[We perfectly agree in the above views of our able con-
temporary, as well with respect to the causes of the decrease
of the demand for our manufactures in some foreign mar-
kets during the past year, as in the prospect—those causes
ceasing to operate—which is now before us. We may add,
however, with respect to the decline of one branch of our
manufactures—the manufacture of cotton cloths—that that
article has been very extensively superseded in many markets,
and more especially in the home markets, by the excellence
which we have now attained in the production of mixed fa-
brics of worsted or woollen and cotton. At the late Frank-
fort Fair these articles, of British manufacture, completely
threw every other material, and especially cotton goods, into
the shade ; and in the home market any observer may as-
certain the extensive demand for them which exists, whilst
printed calicoes and other purely cotton fabrics are entirely
neglected. The caprice of fashion has far more to do with
the depression of our cotton manufacture than our cotton-
spinning and weaving philosophers, and the public who echo
their complaints, are generally aware of.—E. L. S.]

REV. DR. WARDLAW.—We learn that the Rev. Dr.
Wardlaw, minister of the Independent Church, West George-
street, has sent in the demisslon of his charge, have found
the duties of his congregation, along with certain works which
he has undertaken to write on religious subjects, to be too
heavy for him in his declining years. Some difference existed
in the congregation as to the appointment of an assistant to
the rev. doctor previously to the giving in of the dominion.—
Glasgow Courier.