The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

Plain calicoes, yards 16,987,142 17,765,800 11,457,080
Printed and dyed do. 20,729,641 17,758,418 11,127,260

The
the effects of

s were gradually recovering from
y blows inflicted on them

by the British Li

planters bac

applied mcrea
cient machinery, to
by the timely aid of t

I energy and skill, with more effi-
the work of cultivation; and
government to enable

them to prc

I supply of labour, they

might at this moment have been-in a position to
consume largely of the products of the mother
country. This very prospect, however, of being
emblad ultimately to rise triumphant over their
litticulties sealedthTe fate of tile West Indian body.
,cribed man. His approach-
gall and wormwood to the
`9, who had for years been
-.lling him to his ruin.
' - Any found that

The planter was a pros

grown

half-penny a

and their

aid on

anostacy of

over t

uch ye:

)nsume sl

lave a

of their to

and the brand-

cruel things, when

; hands of the Cuban and Brazilian
—but we need trace the disgusting
The West Indies

no further
igned to utter ruin

a consi

s to British. North America
to be accounted for. We

Tian possessions co

nd provision

ze to the neighbour

we decreised by

ing states of A

nearly one h

mports of the most importan

icle, which (

nada -1-

growers of the

North of

Europe. And the result of our suicidal policy, we
fear, will not be confined to the loss of Canadian
demand for our manufactures. Already disaffection

widely anion

~st the French popula-
on- of the lower provinces, who sigh for Republi-
an Institutions ; and there are many loyal subjects
n either province, who complain justly that they
%re bound to an unkind mother, whose connexion
with them is only felt in the imposts which she

levies upon their industry.
The most disastrous quarter, to which our atten-
tion is forcibly directed by the statistics referred to,
is our Indian empire. We have in that splendid
possession an-aggregate population little short, if at
0,11, of 200 millions of souls; and capable, when

its resources and the habits of its people shall have
been developed, by the exercise towards them of a
just and wise policy, of compensating to the British
manufacturer the loss of every market of Europe,
should so improbable an occurrence ever take place.
When we see, therefore, as in the present year, our
exports to the Indian market diminished by nearly
one-half; when we hear from that country of large
amounts of British capital embarked in encouraging
the enterprise of its people, and developing the vast
resources of its fertile soils, now all but sacri-
ficed ; when we look amongst the long list of once
wealthy firms in this country, who have been com-
pelled to suspend their operations and submit to
ruinous loss, if not to be reduced to utter beggary,
and that the most extensive of them have been en-
gaged in East Indian commerce, we feel bound to
enquire what can be the inducing causes of such
grievous calamities? The apology of the free-trader
for the nonfulfillment of his large promises does not
apply here. India has had no potato rot, no famine,
to check her onward progress. She has indeed had,
like our West Indian colonies, to enter into a dis-
advantageous competition with the foreign slave
producers of sugar; and thus far her sufferings
may be laid at the feet of the free-trade party. But

the source of an evil which has prostrated the whole
fabric of our commercial system, in the eastern
world, has a deeper seat than this ; and the subject
is of far too much importance to be discussed at the
close of an article already sufficiently extended.
We shall, therefore, return to it on an early occa-
sion ; and conclude now with asking of those phi-
losophers, under the operation of whose theoretic
policy Great Britain was to assume at once an atti-
tude of preeminence amongst the nations of the
world greater than she had ever hitherto attained
—to what part of that vast empire, upon which the
sun never sets, and which owns the British sway,
can they point in which industry is not prostrate,
enterprise suspended, and suffering and disaster rife
amongst all classes of its population ?

COUNTY RATE BURTHEN

The sum required to be paid by the several townships

.'or the county rate for t

le pre-
sent quarter only, amounts to the enormous sum of
£2612 Bs. 10d. This is exclusive of the borough rate
payable by those townships, which are wholly, or in part,
within the borough of Liverpool. The above sum is di-
rected by the precept of the Clerk of the Peace to be paid
to the County Treasurer on or before the first of March ;
but it is not expected that the overseers of the poor, who
have already very heavy charges upon them in the relief
of the poor, will be able to pay one-h