The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

le, and o

from the Sta.

which have left our o,

descriptions, which must have reduced the stocks of
manufactures in the different ports very considerably,
and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the Americans
will have to resort to this country to replenish.
We must further bear in mind that present

prices for
fair Boweds

descriptions

are ver

being quoted at 4
crop are bpi
all nrob.'
generally, particularly from N
in previous years, arising from t

tb—that th
that 2_400.

stimates "! the

baleS tv

ill, in

Isaify, t

that the bales
'ew Orleans, are lighter than

he peculiarity of the
izzy, short of staple, and
:yen taking the crop at

of very middling
2,500,000 bales, and

to come forward
vance, for the crop
346,244, of which
),000 in the previous
er on the Ist of this month ?

le Of an

, particularly
e year, our stock of all
?,s in excess of the pre-
,ooo,-439,000 in 1847,
There will, in all
supply from other
though the import of Surat cotton will also be

lescrip

393,000
n the lE

ry 1846

be no gre

You will not find it to your advantage in the end to
'otton so low as to be unremunerative to the pro-
-was the case last year, for, at the present time,
Issed in the States, whether they
ruction to two million bales, to
heir own prices. Good prices
listant colonies, Bombay and
and without mut 1 higher rates are obtainable
have been current, 'e may rely upon it that our
=lends will turn t attention and capital to a

ducer, as

,bould not limit the pr,
enable them to demand th
ire essential for our own c

le inve

I that so much indifference

ernments of th
ufacturers them

d also on t'r

elves, as well as the Public generally, respecting the
;rowth of cotton in India. It is a national question, and
lught to be so treated. It is not alone the hundreds of

dependent on a supply of t

ring towns, who are
ery exist.
May

,nce as a commercial count

depends uT,on it

'e awakened to the

Your obedi,

HINDOO

precisely with who

India colonies,

ht by the r

Ist arrived at

Southampton, will be
reet, or b

our authorities
;pester school of

in Downing-
political (

obability, however,

11 be treated with

that levity with which every piece of evidence is re-
ceived that impeaches the wisdom of their favorite
I)igotted disciple of Free Trade can

policy

see no

of half a-dozen colonie

nothing in the bankr
planters, or the aba

of their merchants an

barbarism of their Negro population, for whose
freedom the country, with a praiseworthy willing-
ness, paid down twenty millions sterling, and whom
our philanthropy has sought to civilise and elevated
in the scale of humanity, to compare at all with the
saving of a penny in a pound of sugar, or a farthing
in the concocting of a pudding. The loud profes-
sions of humanity which rang from every con-
venticle and platform throughout the land, and
eekly some thousand yards of cambric
porated amidst the delights of
and the pictorial

moist

with tears, have
cheapened preserves

jam;

appeal of the manacled African, which graced so
many a parlour wall with its "Am I not a man
and a brother ?" is consigned to the lumber-room.
Philanthropy is at a discount. It does'nt pay.
It is impossible, however, for the real friend of
his species to peruse such a statement as the fol-
lowing, and to contemplate its results, without
serious concern :

" KINGSTON, JAMAICA, DEC. 22.
" In our last we stated that the balance of trade against
this island, or, in other words, the excess of nur imports
over our exports, amounted to £200,000. We have since
found by the official return that we have, unfortunately,
very much understated the fact. It appears, by the do-
cument alluded to, that whereas we exported from the
10th of October, 1847, to the 10th of October, 1848,
produce amounting to £894,621, the imports into the
island reached the now enormous sum of £1,289,914,
thus leaving a balance of trade against us of no less than
£395,293, or nearly £400,000. To this cause, coupled
with the fact that for some years past the same unfortu-
nate disadvantage has steadily increased upon us, are to
be attributed the scarcity of bills of exchange, and the
continued drain of specie which takes place by every
packet. These facts offer subjects for most melancholy
consideration ; but when the prospect of the future is
taken into reflection, contemplation becomes
most pain-
ful. The small amount of specie remaining in the island
is being steadily diminished ; and we cannot make
or
produce anything that will recal it; when, therefore, it is
all expended, how shall we go on ?
" We have said that a disproportion between our
exports and imports has existed for
some time ; but it is
worthy of note, that the falling off in 1848, as compared
with that in 1847, has been immense.