The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

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VESSELS EMPLOYED IN THE FOREIC
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

q TRADE

The following are the entries inwards and outwards of
the shipping employed in the trade of the United King-
dom, for the first five months of 1846, 1847, and 1848
respectively :

Inwards.-1846: 7,673 ships, 1,475,u,
1,527 ships and 973,245 tons were British.--isi

99 tons, of which
10,156

Catholic Emancipation Bill was yielded t
clamour and to fear, against the earnest protests
d petitions of a loyal Protestant majority of the
great constitutional party was shattered
y the betrayal of their leaders; and the
apostates, who struck the blow, fell beneath the
first onslaught of their old enemies, the whits,
aided by the popular ferment excited by the three -
days of July, without a hand being held out to SERIOUS FALLING OFF IN THE EXPORTS OF
save them. The discussion and final passing of BRITISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES.
the Reform Bill followed. Whig-radicalism pro- The Board of Irade returns exhibit a total falling off
seeded energetically to strengthen its power in the of the declared value of exports of British produce and
country, by municipal reform acts and other po- manufactures for the five months, ended sth June, 1848,
pular measures; and just then seemed destined, as compared with the same period in 1846, of £2,673,418
sterling, and of £2,868,946 as compared with 1847; the
for a generation at least, to hold in its hands the
reins of power. gross amount being to the sth June, 1846, £20,619,844;
1847, £20,815,372 ; and 1848, only £17,946,426. This,
In the mean time, however, a new party had however, is by no means the worst feature of the case.
been forming, under the name of the Conservative The loss from depreciation of price in the foreign markets,
party, headed by Sir Robert Peel, who had sue- failures of consignees, &e., will probably amount to double
the difference in the declared values. The falling off in
ceded; by his effective opposition, to the minis-
-Ithe month ended sth June, 1848, was from £4,745,986
ying round him new adherents, in 1846, and £4,657,403 in 1847, to. £3,535,394 in the
1 for past apostasy, although current year.
not trusted by a portion of his former sup- The items which have most materially decreased are cot-
*
'ved an accession of talent, in the ton manufactures, from £7,525,023 in 1846, to £6,895,963
111,284;67 cionttl74ByarnTiferofmalli.tn2g,9oo4,2ino4thiins
particularlBto
Stanley and Sir James Graham;
re, succeeded at length in over- item might be attributed almost wholly to the disturbance
and in forming one of the in our commerce with Germany, were it not that there
-:tuted administrations of was a falling off of upwards of £BOO,OOO in our exports of
yarn in the five months of 1847. Our exports of silk
manufactures declined from £349,433 in 1846, and £404,502
in 1847, to £217,475 in 1848. Woollen manufactures
declined from £2,445,443 in 1846, and '£2,767,719 in 1847,
to £2,021,836 in 1841 ; woollen yarn from' £277,000 in
1846, and £342,849 in 1847, to £250,816 in 1848; hard-
I catlery from £898,232 in 1846, and £921,595 in
—3,647 in 1848; copper and brass from £597,638
32 in 1847, to £443,562 in 1848 ; tin
C 446. to £217.475 in 1848: earthen_

~334
tons were British.-1848: 8,146 ships, 1,659,082,444 tons, of
which 5,272 ships and 1,177,556 tons were British.
Outwards.-1846: 9,714 ships, 1,785,018 tons, of which
6,320 ships and 1,267,398 tons were British.-1847: 9,956
ships, 1,889,454 tons, of which 6,583 ships and 1,356,592
tons were British.-1848: 9,398 ships, 1,938.252 tons, of
which 6,390 ships and 1,449,499 tons were British.

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, more sweeping and compre-
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ministry had been ousted, was

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machinery fron
There is

1,730 in 1846, to £193,775 in 1848 ; and
-450,764 in 1846, to £305,396 in 1848.
under the heads of coals and culm,
iron and steel, unwrought
efined sugar. The return, as a whole,
unsatisfactory, the total falling off
oared with the month to

low v

herring;

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tin, salt; soap, an

to rei

we'need not

in the last month of 1848

Is corn

the sth of June, IMO, Veit% , onist the
falling off of £2,673,418 for the five months of the same

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