The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

Jan. 19, 1847.

BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE

At a late hour last night we received this document,
which, at the present crisis of the cotton trade, is of unu•
sual importance. We therefore hasten to give a few of
the most important statistics which it contains, and which
we regret to find are not calculated to impress us with I
very favourable opinion of the operation of our commerce
during the past year, or of our prospects for the year to
come.

The article which ranks No. 1 in Mr. Burn's tables
that of cotton yarn, one in the manufactute of which the,
least amount of industry is employed. Ygt this is one of
the only articles of importance in which we finis an in-
crease of exports during the past year. In 1845 we ex-
ported of cotton yarn 131,937,9351b5. ; and in the past
year, 157,130,0251b5—an increase of 25 millions of pounds,
or nearly 20 per cent. over the exports of 1845. The in-
crease of that year over the preceding was short of two
million pounds. The increase this year is principally to'
Belgium, the Hanse Towns, Holland, India, and Chinari
(from 16,518,987 lbs in 1845, to 24,502,908 lbs.) Napleg
and Sicily, Sweden and Norway, Sardinia, Tuscany, &c.ri
Trieste and Austrian ports, Turkey and the Levant. To
Russia there is a considerable and continuous falling off.
Our next article of importance is that of plain calicoeg
—a staple of our manufactures—which exhibits a veil
slight advance, the exports being, in 1846, 618,839,181
yards, against 613,138,645 yards. The slight amount of
this increase may be judged of by the fact that the exportg
of this fabric in 1842 were only 366,040,519 yards ; that it
rose 150 million yards in 1843, and nearly 50 millions more
yards in 1844.

In printed cottons—a more advanced manufacture—we
have a falling off, the exports being, in 1846, 267,084,79/
yards, against 310,850,697 yards in 1845, being a falling
off of 15 per cent. The year 1845 exhibited a very slight
falling off as compared with 1844.
There is a falling off in the exports of cotton thread,
damasks and diapers, cambrics and muslins, counterpanes,
quilts, cotton and linen mixed, ginghams (nearly 50 per
cent), hosiery, shawls and handkerchiefs, tapes and une-
numerated goods ' • and a slight increase only in the unim-
portant articles of dimities, lawns and lenos, cords and
fustians, nankeens, lace, and ticks.

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The total weight of yarn in manufactured goods, yarn
and thread, exported in 1846, was 354,291,749 lbs.,
against 336,866,327 lbs. in 1845, the increase being
more than accounted for by the additional exports of
yarn. The value of the cotton goods exported in 1846
was £23,475,941, against £22,063,898 in 1845. The con-
sumption per week in 1846, Mr. Burn estimates at 31,795
bales, against 30,933 in 1845. The quantity of yarn spurt
in 1846 he makes 495,033,109 lbs., against 494,766,4871b5.
in 1845. Deducting from these respective amounts the
yarn exported, we have manufactured into goods in 1846,
337,903,084 lbs. of yarn, against 362,828,552 lbs. in 1845,
being a falling off of 25,000,000 lbs. of yarn, the ma-
nufacture of which into goods has been lost to our
working population. Deducting the total weight ex-
ported in yarn and goods from the total yarn spun, we
have 140,741,360 lbs. manufactured and consumed in
1846 by the home trade, against 157,900,160 consumed
by us last year—a falling off in our home consumption of
17,000,000 lbs of yarn.