The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANC
a copy of this useful sheet of cotton statistics, giv

—We have received

last five years,-1841, (Weed, the annual ex-ports
of yarn are given in each year, from 1837 inclusive to the
present time. Those of 1845 are 131,937,9351 b. ; in 1844
they were 130.101.9131 b. The exports of plain calice

-1845

have increased from
613,138,646 yards in 1845. In printed and dyed calicos
on the other hand, the amount of exports decreased from
313,111,455 yards in 1844, to 310,850,697 yards in 1845.
The chief sources of the increased exports of yarn are in
the Hanse Towns. Holland. Naples, and Sicily ; and

calicoes, are Chili and Peru (to whirh the
exports have increased from 9,000,000 yards in 1844, to
20,000,000 yards in 1845) ; the foreign West Indies;
China, Turkey and Levant, and the United States. The
sources of diminished exports in printed and dyed calicoes,
are Egypt, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Madeira, and

Turkey and the Levant

PROSPECTS OF SOUTII AMERICA.—By new arrange-
ments of the South Pacific Steam Navigation Company,
their vessels, in the course of a few months will touch at
the following mining ports :—Coquimbo, fluesco, Copa-
ipo, Cobrija, Arica, Taleiz, Piso, Callao, Eluacho, Hu-
ancbaco, Lambvague, Pay! a, Guayaquil, Bueno Ventura,
and Panama. These vessels are well and commodiously

doubt but the enterprising spirit of English speculators
will be the cause of creating a complete change through-
out the whole of South America, by the introduction of
steam navigation and railways, as coal and iron is plenti-
ful, but all that is muting is the proper means of work-
ing them. Senor Don Hilaria Pulini has made surveys
from the port of Valparaiso to Santiago, the capital for
a railway, which, no doubt, will at last be accomplished,
as not only the government but every one interested in
the prosperity of the republic are desirous to see this
means of conveyance established in this country, which
will ultimately lead- to great mining operations, as Chili
abounds in ore of every description, native silver, copper,
iron, lead, coal, &c.—Mining Journal.

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN RAILWAYS.—The three
longest lines in the United States—the South Carolina,
carried almost entirely on piles—of one hundred and
thirty-five miles in length ; the Central, one hundred and
ninety-three miles; and the Alabama, Florida, and
Georgia, one hundred and fifty-six miles, have been con-
structed—the first at an average cost of 2,600/. per mile;
the 'second of 2,4001., and the last 3,200/. Although,
from the high price of land in England, apart from any
other consideration, we could never hope to rival the
cheapness of the transatlantic estimates, still it is startling
to compare with the one or two thousand pounds per
mile of the American lines the expense of some of our
own. We will put aside the 170,0001. per mile of the
Greenwich railway, as spent under peculiar circum-
stances, and such as are not likely to occur again. But
the worksl of the Croydon railway, carried through a dis-
trict tolerably level, cost above sevnty thousand pounds
per mile. The expense of the bridges alone, for a dis-
tance of ten miles, was nearly 45,0001. The original es-
timate for the Brighton railway, made by most compe-
tent judges, and examined by Mr. Locke, was somewhat
above 28,000/. per mile. The railway ended by costing
400,0001.—Church of England Quarterly.
FAILINGS OF SIR W. FOLLETT.—TO the young, eager,
and ambitious lawyer, the contemplation of Sir William
Follett's career is fraught with instruction. It will teach
him the nocessity of moderation in the pursuit of the dis-
tinction and emoluments of his profession. By grasping at
too much, often every thing is lost. Was not Sir William
Follett's life one uninterrupted scene of splendid slavery,
the pressure of which at length broke him down in the
meridian of his. days? Had he been able to resist the
very strong temptations by which he was assailed—temp-
tations, too, appealing powerfully to his love of family
and offspring—a long life's evening of tranquility, of un-
speakable enjoyment, might have rewarded a day of great,
yet not excessive labour. He might also have devoted his
powerful talents to the public benefit, in such a way as to
secure the lasting gratitude and admiration of posterity,
by remedying some great existing defect in his country's
jurisprudence, by making some solid contribution to the
safeguards of the constitution. But did be ever do so?
All his great experience, talents, and learning, might
never have existed, for any trace of them remaining in the
records of his country's constitution. What page in the
statute-book attests his handiwork ? And what did he
ever do to advance the interests of the profession to which
he belonged ? These are questions asked with sorrowful
sincerity and reluctance, and with every disposition to
make the amplest allowances for those failings of Sir
William Follett, which undoubtedly detracted somewhat
from his excellence and eminence. He was a man of
modest, mild, inoffensive character, whn spoke ill of, and
did harm to no one ; but, at the same time, was not dis-
tinguished by that active and energetic benevolence, libe-
rality, and generosity, which secure, for the memory of
their exhibitaut, ardent, enduring gratitude and reve-
rence. His excellence was 'of a negative, rather than a
positive kind. He did harm to no one, when he might
have done so with impunity, and was possibly sometimes
tempted to do so; but then he did not do good, at all
events to the extent which might have been expected
from him. He was, however, by no means of a mean 'or
selfish nature; but in his excessive, arid to a certain ex-
tent pardonable, eagerness, to make.what he deemed a
suitable provision for himself and his family, gave himself
the appearance of being perfectly indifferent to the inte-
rests or welfare of others. It is, however, only fair to his
memory to acknowledge, that legal eminence is too often
liable to the same imputations—that professional pursuits
have certainly a strong tendency to warp amiable and
generous natures—to keep the eye of ambition, amidst the
intense fires of rivalry and opposition, fixed exclusively
upon one object—the interest and advancement of the in-
dividual. Nothing can effectually control or counteract
this tendency, but a lively and constant sense of religious
principle; which enlarges the heart till it can love our
neighbour as ourself, which brightens the present with
the hopes of the future, which purifies our corrupt nature,
and elevates its grovelling earthward tendencies by the con-
templation of an eternal state of being dependent upon our
conduct in this transient state ofttial. Who can tell the
extent to which these and similar considerations are pre-
sent to the minds of the dying great ones of the earth,
who, suddenly plucked from amidst the dazzling scenes
of successful ambition, are laid prostrate upon the bed "of
death,—their pale faces turned to the wall, with HERE-
AFTER alone in view, and under an aspect equally new
and awful? Let us, therefore, be wise, and be wise in
time, nor haughtily disregard the earnest voice of warn-
ing, however humble and obscure may be the quarter
whence it comes.—Blackwood.

COACIIES.—The first notice of coaches for public ac-
commodation adduced by Mr. Markland is from Sir -W.
Dugdale's Diary, under the date of 1659, where the Co-
tnntry coach is mentioned ; but that gentleman thinks
they were employed some years earlier. Dugdale's Diary
mentions the St. Alban's, Chester, Bedford, and other
stagecoaches between 1662 and JOO (ut supra)
_ _

letter from Edward Parker of Browscholme, in Lanca-
shire, to his father (dated 1663), the writer co plains of
severe indisposition, caused by his being compelled to
travel in the Loot of the stage-coach. In the Harleian
Miscellany (vol viii.), a writer urges the propriety of sup.
pressing the multitude of stage-coaches and caravans
which were travelling in 1673.