The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

In the trade between Britain and Jodi
10,000 seamen are employed, -and at a sim

wages, provisions, &c., will
replacement cf capital and
£1,300,000. The whole,

uppties necesssry to r

are the productions of B

national point of view, shows thi
trade over a merely mann/ark/rib
A comparison of the trade of a
the western world, taking the va

ports, s'ands nearly thus
East Indies, about £16,000,000
tish North America and the West Indian Colonies
£14,000.000.

d to Bri-

It thtisappearsthat the latter or

Nmerican

trade requires nearly

seamen to carry it on than the former, or t
India and China ! thereby affording an incali
vantage to a naval power, and the support of a nava.
force, and also to the enip!osment of British labour and
capital.

From the official statement of the exports and imports
of Great Britain to the different parts of the world for
the year 1843, to which we have alluded, we find that the
whole weight of cotton yarn and cotton goods exported
from Great Britain annually is 120,000 tons, and the
value £23.500,000.

then,
Tes that I
Indian)a t one-half
exports
v alutannage employedexs2 .44111
carrying )
wolutldfobileowtshulcient to carry the whole cotton export trade.
of this country; and as regards the North American trade,
one-seventh of its tonnage would be suffi..!ient to carry all
that cotton trade about which Mr. Cobden has made stash
a noise, but whose real and great intrinsic importance to
the empire no agriculurist nor colonist has ever shown
any disposition to undervalue that we are aware of.
We cannot better finish off this statement than by N-
p'ating that, while ti:e trade of British America and the.
West Indies, stated is 1813 to be only £14,000,000, em-
ploys 2,900 ships of 970,000 tons, and 60,000 seamen, oar
trade with the United States, estitnated at £22,000,000
(three-fifths being imports of raw cotton, &c.), is carried
in 350 ships, of 233,1100 t ens; and the import from China,
amounting to £5,000,000. is brought in 84 ships of
39,712 tons.

The trade of America when our colony in lid
ployed, on an average of three years. t "-
28,910 seamen, and the value
Great Britain was £3,370,000 ; the export of the colon,
being £3,924,606.

ps and
of the goods taken from

The population of the Unitrd States is now nearly ten
times what it then was, without any great permanent
increase in our expo' is to America (causes ever which we
had no control, brought them doern in the year 1842 to
£3,528.807).
Iri our colonies, no the contrary, we have the control
of their laws affecting trade and the currency, so that
there is a progressive increase with little or no F Lucr u
Tr oe, and did no other difierencz show itself between
colonial arid foreign tra2e, this alone were a strong
nicnt in favour of the colonial system, especially w
also take into account hat the profits of the col:'-
remain in and aggrandise rl
home to be spent in the mother country.
And when we coolly reflect on the facts of :his case, we
cannot attribute it to any cause but a most ti,
citement of mind, leading him to overlook
own interests and peace of mind, but Close opt

I trade

empire, generally coming

othid ea-

only his

whom he influences, that a
Cobden should prefer forei,

i to home and col(

k Mir
trade

he knows well—

money was made out of t

moder

ly pro 7

fitableness of the protecte
markets, which no for
Let that

and British c

entlema

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of con-

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