The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

BURN'S MONTHLY COLONIAL CIRCULAR

The state of our colonial exports to the British colo-
nies, and markets for commerce with which they afford

facilitie:

ppears to be thus far of a very satisfactory cha-

increase in the principal cotton staple
plain calicoes, from the commencement of the year to the
present time, to the following markets, over the average
of the 3 years preceding :
Calcutta, increa5e,15,391,541 yards; Bombay, 28,625,205
yards ; Sincapore, 2,137,240 yards ; other ports of India,
(except Madras,) 1,047,269 ; Shanghae, 9,680,951 ; other
Chinese ports, (except Hong Kongand Canton,) 1,536,936;
New Holland. 2,236,166 ; Mauritius, 749,192 ; Coast of
Africa, 2,330,018 • Jamaica, 977,032; Honduras. 797,799 ;
other British *est Indian ports, 1,238,221 •, Cuba,
195,602 ; St. Thomas, 1,393,996 ; Columbia, 4,649,125 ;
River Plata, 14,125,336.

There is a decrease to the following places :—Madras,
185,408 yards ; Batavia, 1,064,232 ; Hong Kong and Can-
ton, 6,248,594 ; Cape of Good Hope, 1,266,553 •, British
West Indian ports, 466,179 ; Brazils, 1,001,731 ; Chili
and Peru, 2,868,111 ; Mexico, 77,343 ; British N. Arne-
_
on of rice, 1,373. E I States, 4,435,528 yards. Gene-

907 ; Unite(
(i-

rally speaking, me exports of printed and dyed goods
have followed the rule of plain calicoes. There are im-
portant exceptions, however, in the case of the Brazils,
where the decrease in printed and dyed goods is more than
five times that of plain ; in Chili and Peru, where with a
decrease of nearly 3.000,000 yards of plain goods, we have
an increase of 10,967,083 yards of printed and dyed ; in
Mexico, where, against a decrease of 77,343 yards plain,
we have an increase of 7,687,768 printed and dyed ; and
the United States, where, against a decrease of 4,435,528

yards plain, we have an increase of 10,590,249 yard

NOVEL BOOT JACK.—Major Rogers had just bad capital
fun with a herd of elephants ; his four guns had all been
discharged, when an elephant made a charge at him at
the skirts of the jungle ; there was no help for it except
to run ; and for 400 yards the major kept just a--

feeling at every step t
itself round his loins.

lead,
inuate

A turn round a free -gave him a
momentary advantage. which he made most of, by spring-
.

g as a lion), one foot higher, and he would have
t of the elephant's reach, but before he had time
up his legs the elephant had got firmly clenched
Is of his proboscis ; still Rogers pulled against

to dr
in the co
him, thin

thing it better to have his leg wrenched from the
socket than to fall back bodily into the animals power.
The struggle, however, did not last long; for to the de-
light of the pursued, and the chagrin of the pursuer, -the
Wellington boot which the former wore slipped off, ex-
tricated the leg, and saved the life of poor Rogers. The
dilemma, however, did not end here, for the elephant,
finding himself baulked of his prey, after destroying the
hoot np his quarters beneath the branches, and kept
cd victim in the tree for 24 hours, when the
)untry postman, happening to pass by, Rogers

, took I,
flticipat

gavehim notice Of.his position, and on this being inti-
mated to the nearest village, the elephant was frightened
away by tom-toms and yelling. lied this occurred in a
deserted part of the jungle, poor Rogers would, undoubt-
edly, have been starved to death in the tree.—Sport-
ing Magazine.
ENGLISH RESIDENTS ABEOAD.—It is a strange thing

ice cant

mong of

which we Bele- t for our own convenience, and where it is
comfort to promote cordiality and good
1 Englishman carries with him, where-
_ ,ustinate antipathies : first, a disrelish
or contempt for everything that is not English ; second,
a freezing suspicion and distrust of everything that is.

so essential to
fellowship. B

f urn of

in a repellant atmosphere

shuts 1

a crust of prejudices, and has a Way of disdaining the
people, whose resources he has come to eat up, and at the
same time of shunning his own countrymen, which is ir•
reconcilable with common sense. He dislikes the Frenchbecause they am French, andavolds the English because

s like- Avranclies, which'

;elected on the common ground of cheapness, tbe latter
hows itself in_its most unworthy aspect. An

Englishman will have it believed that everybody na,
there for economy, except himself; and his conduct im-
plies a sort of superiority over them which must be un-
intelligible to people like the French, who never suffer
such considerations to interfere with their sympathies, or
interrupt the flow of social intercourse. The prevailing
occupation of a community which thus sits in judgment
on itself is scandal of the very meanest kind. Each in-
dividual seems to think this depreciation of other people's
characters indispensable to the elevation of his own. He
shines by the force of contrast. He makes out his case,
not upon his own merits, but by damaging the case of

S Come

the gentleman over the way. Next-door neighbours
supply the whole business of life. They cannot dress,
dine, walk, without being exposed to an incessant inqui-
sition. Habitual defamation gradually splits up the
little colony into factions that have their distinct cir-
cles, holding no intercourse with the rest, and waging
against each other that bitterest of all species of warfare,
which, not content with open manifestations of derision
and hostility, penetrates to the secrets of households, and
strikes its shafts into the core of domestic life.—Bell's
Wayside Pictures.