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

wheat, or he is n

If he is not correct, then the falling of
the country to purchase manufactures w
with a reduced price.
If he is correct in his assumption, th,
action on such lands will still further,
price, render lands whose yield cannot b,

no rent, and thus throw them out of
bahly into woods, as we have shown
We desire shortly to recur to tl

trade to show its intl

.It 11:101C

be very great

crease in pro-

ultivation, and pro-

superiority over

ign trade,

take our

or a merely manufach ring commerce and
figures from the offici.o the exports ao,
ports of Great Britain in 11313, not having the later returns
at hand.
In the trade between Britain and '
western world, about 60,000 seamen
for whom the amount of
cannot :be less than 1:3,5('

st.temeut of the exports anilitn

Britain and her colonies in the
nre yearly employed,
and cost of provisions

iges
000 per annu

aa ; and the re-
LI in the ships

pairs, insuiance, and replacing of cal.
1.:4,500,00 more.
In the trade between Britain and India and China,
10,000 seamen are employed '
wages, provisions, &c., will a
replacement of capital and i
41,300,000. The vhole, or

supplies necessary to maintai
are the p:oductions of B:itis

ntl the

ncc, £BOO,OOO ; in al:

national point of view, shows the
trade over a merely manufa,turing c

the whole, of the

A comparison of the trade of the eastern with that of
the western world, taking the value of imports and ex-
ports, stands nearly thus :--From and to China and the
East Indies, about £16,000,000; and from and to.Bri.
tish Non h kmerica and the West Indian Colonies,.
X 14,000,000.
It thus appears that the latter or British American
trade requires nearly five times more ships, tonnage, and
seamen to carry it on than the former, or trade to all
India and China ! thereby affording an incalculable ad-
vantage to a naval power, and the support of a naval
force, and also to the employment of British labour and
capital.
From the official statement of the exports and impnrte
of Great Britain to the different parts of the world far
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. _

It follows, then, that one-half the tonnage employed' in
carrying the West Indian exports (value £2,882,441)
would be sufficient to carry the whole cotton export trade
of this country ; and as regards the North American trade,
one-seventh of its tonnage would be sufficient to carry all
that cotton trade about which Mr. Cobden has made such
a noise, but whose real and great intrinsic importance to
the empire no agricul,urist nor colonist has ever shown
any disposition to undervalue that we are aware of.
We cannot better finish off this statement than by re—
peating that, while the trade of British America and the
West Indies, stated in 1813 to be only £14,000,000, em-
ploys 2,900 ships of 970,000 tons, and 60,000 seamen, our
trade with the United Slates, estimated at £22,000,000
(three-fifths being imports of raw cotton, &c.), is carried
in 350 ships, of 233.000 t :ns ; and the import from China,
amounting to £5,000,000, is brought in 84 ships of
39,712 tons.

any in 1796, em

The trade of America when our col
gloved, on an average of three years. 1,078 ships and
28,910 seamen, and the value of the gocds taken from
Great Britain was £3,370,000; the export of the colony
being £3,924,606.

The population of the United States is now nearly tea
times what it then was, without any great permanent
increase in our exports to America (causes over which we
had no control, brought them down in the year IBl2'to
£3.528 807).
In our colonies, on 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 rLucru.k-
TION, and did no other difference show itself between
colonial and foreign trade, this alone were a strong argil-
ment in favour of the colonial system, especially
when we
also take into account that the protits of the colonial trade
remain in and aggrandise the empire, generally coming
home to be spent in the mother country.
And when we coolly reflect on the facts of this case, we
cannot attribute it to any cause but a most morbid ex-
citement of mind, leading him to overlook not only liis
own interests and peace of mind, hut nose operatives
whom he influences, that a generally shrewd man lik - Mr.
Cobden should prefer foreign to home and colonial trade;
for he knows well—he cannot but know—that all his
money was made out of that moderate but steady pro-
fltableness of the protected home and British cclanla
markets, which no foreiet
Let that gentlema
League, think of t

le whate

tinuing to place in a more rayoni
working men of Lancashire the ft
or colonial wheat grower, althoug
takes gold for his produce, which is
the raw materibl of cotton from 1
with the British or
cot ton from Manc

lonial a

ire to.
s of the

some cases trebled, in' value by h

labour

before the
the British

is if he took
s compared

t taking that same

bly-taxed

And, let the members of the Anti• Corn-law League be
prepared (once free trade is established and our system of
national interests and credit put down) to be able to
suggest to the British Government answers to make to
the colonists in British America when they ask, as they
naturally will do, before risking their lives in an Oregon
war:—What more interest or
have in the British empire than tn, _
what obigations can remain on them to in.
meet which has denuded itself of all permanent un
having set constitutional public opinion at defiat:ce,
allowed itself, more than the Congress of the United
States, to be made the mere tool of whatever patties in
the State brawl the loud( at'
Free trail +ion if

cn Cianadia

e, however, cannot be of very for
n to produce the public cal
dict, or if England intends to
of her national debt, wh