The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

THE CHINA TRADE OF 1846.

A return has just been presented to Parliament which
affords us full information of the commerce, British and
Foreign, carried on in the Chinese waters during the past
year—the first in which foreign nations have been permit-
ted to trade under our treaty with that country.
In our trade with China we are met only by the compe-
tition of the Americans in cottons, and the Germans,
Belgians, and Dutch, in woollens. The trade of other
nations appears to be stationary.
The most prominent features of the American trade in
China, in 1845, was the increase of their shipping. In
1844 there were 57 arrivals and 49 departures ; in 1845,
there were 83 arrivals and 85 departures. The increase
in respect of tonnage was nearly in the same ratio as the
increase in the number of ships. The importations on
American account were also considerably augmented.
Even of the cotton fabrics, however, among these impor-
tations, a considerable part was of British manufacture
exported from Liverpool in American vessels. It was
found, or believed, more profitable to have recourse to
purchases of manufactures in the British markets, than
to avail themselves of credits in London in part payment
of the teas exported to the United States. And the
Americans will, for some time to come, remain dependant
either upon our credit or our manufactures, to enable them
to continue as they have begun. They have succeeded in
getting into their hands the management of great part of
the continental business. They have obtained a fair share
in the carriage of goods coastwise. They now send their
own vessels to Calcutta and Bombay for the opium they
require in the China trade. And they have secured by far
the greater part of the intermediate trade between China
and Manilla, Batavia, the Straits of Malacca, and the
South Sea islands.

The Dutch, Belgians, and Germans possess too few er-
tides of bulk fit for Chinese consumption, to allow of a
direct trade to any great extent, without a combination of
other markets in their schemes. The Dutch trade at
Canton and Macao in 1815 did not exceed imports to the
value of 978,715 dollars, and exports to the value of
801,113 dollars, in 20 ships of 6050 tons. There were no
Belgian ships, but several parcels of broad cloth of Belgian
manufacture were imported from London in British ves-
sels, and appear to have been disposed of at prices cor-
responding to the superior workmanship of the article.
The most important article from Germany (including
under this designation all states of the German Confede-
ration) is broad cloth. The exact quantity sold has not
been ascertained, but the average importation into Can-
ton cannot be less than 40,000 yards (worth 60,000 dollars)
in addition.to 60,000 yards which, owing to the ignorance
of German manufacturers as to the mode of packing goods
for. China, have hitherto received their last finish in
England, and arrive under the character of British goods
in British vessels. As the advantage of German cloths is
in the quality, and the disadvantage in the form, there
can be little doubt that the direct importation from Ger-
many will speedily increase. The German trade during
1845, as compared with the preceding year, shows a much
greater increase than that of any other nation. The in- .
crease, however, as in the case of the Americans, is much
more marked in the shipping than in the goods. In that
year German vessels served as carriers for British manu-
factures to the extent of nearly one-half of their aggre-
gate cargoes, and carriers of ."
Straits produce" to the
extent of one quarter more, leaving only one-fourth for
the products and inanufactures of Germany, The Ger-
mans are wresting from the English the carrying trade
from China to the South American Ports in the Pacific,

THE ROYAL STAG-HOUNDS.—The largest field this
season, upwards of 300 horsemen being present, assembled
at the meet on Friday, which took place at the Twyford,
station of the Great Western Railway. Lord Granville; the
master of the Royal pack, was accompanied from town by
the Marquis of Clamicard c, Lord Cantalupe, Lord Duncan
non, Count D'Orsay, and several other friends, arriving at
Twyford by the day mail train from Paddington. Thewell
known deer Young Richmond, his fourth appearance this
season, upon being uncarted at Ruscomb Lake, took away
in the clirectionof Lawrence Waltham, where it doubled to
the left to the railway, running along the line for upwards
of three miles on nearly to Maidenhead, and thence to •
Woolley Hall, crossing Maidenhead Thicket to Pinknev.'s
green, down to the Thames at Cookham-green, swimming
across the river, and landing at Bone-end, in Bucks. Tile
hounds, being taken over Cookham-bridge, were az:till
laid on at Wobvrn-green, " Young Richmond " making
away in the direction of Flackwell-heath to Loudwater,
crossiwg the High Wycombe-road on to Penn-wood, where
it was headed back towards Beaconsfield, and was taken
at Mr. Rolf's farm at Kotty-green, within a mile of the
town, after a very good run of two hours and a half 9v
light and dry country, in excellent huntin deri..... tur ?' N
Earl of Granville and his friends returned, , tha-filer ,
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