The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

CHINA

The news from China extends to the 13th of October. It
was said, that a clipper had brought news to a later date of
that month, that all was in statu quo while waiting for the
ratification of the treaty by the Queen, and that opium had
risen in price.

There is an observation made by our correspondent, in his
postscript, to which it may be proper to animadvert. It is
that the pillage and destruction committed in the vallies of
the mountains during the retreat from Cabul, and in the
dwellings of the most notorious robbers of Asia, and amidst
the scenes of the bloody treachery of last January, are not to
be exclusively attributed to the British troops. The Sikhs
were there also, and they had received too many lessons from
the Affgbans not to feel satisfaction in the retaliation. * *
The horrible accusation of burning some wounded men by
setting fire to their clothes is said to be a gross exaggeration.

TRADE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THI

UNITED STATES

It is distinctly proved, by Mr. Tyler's confession, that the
American revenue from import duties has, from the opera-
tion of the higher tariff, declined during the last four months
of the late year no less than 15 and 4-10ths per cent., com-
pared with its productiveness during the first eight months.
This is a remarkable fact ; and we hope that the statesmen

will be too apt to treat in an analogical sense, in spite of the
very transparent anomaly which it may suggest to superficial
observers. The fact to which we allude is this—we copy it
from a New York journal, upon which, as regards commer-
cial matters, much reliance is placed :
" In order to show the state of trade between the United
States and the kingdom of Great Britain, in relation to the
purchases of American produce by her, and the proportion
of her manufactures taken by the United States in payment,
we have compiled the following table, shoWing the quantities
and value of cotton exported from Great Britain in 10 years,
the proportion sent to the United States, and the quantity
of raw cotton imported from the United States for the ma-
nufacture of these goods.

Exports Cotton Goods Cotton im-
from Exports to United 'ported from
Great Britain. States. U. States.

Yards. ! Value. I Yards. Value. I Pounds.
1831 421,385,30312,163,513 68.587,893 2,518,824 219,333,628
1832 461,045,5034 1,500,630 31,508,744 1,049,375'219,756,758
1833 496,352,096 12,451,060 45,141,989 1,385,957;237,506,751
1834 555,705,809 14,127,352 45,630,862 1,394,057265,203,075
1835 557,515.701 15,181,431 74,962,925 2,302,991;284,455,812
1836 637,666,627 17,183,167 62,042,139.2,115,061;289,615,692
1837 531,373,663;12,727,98917,481,855 594,822320,651,716
1838 690,077,622 15,554,733 38,493,113 1,206,364;431,437,888
1839 731,450,123116,378,445 37,236,052 1.144,749'311,597,798
1840 790,631,997,16,302,22032,073,004 898,469487,856,504

The above table conveys an irretragable proof that Ame-
rican manufactures want no protection. Their own inherent
viNur seems to have been sufficient to counteract the reduc-
tion of the duties upon imports ; and this view of their theory
is positively confirmed by the fact that the domestic manu-
factures of the states only amounted to some 5,000,000 dol-
lars, when their protection was at the highest point, and
that, in the subsequent decade, they rose through a mercan-
tile storm such as no country, either old or new, ever expe-
rienced before, to 46,000,000 dollars !

FOREIGN NEGOCIATIONS.—We have reason to believe
that the Earl of Aberdeen has distinctly caused it to be made
known in the proper quarter, that no concession can be given
by the British to the French Government with regard to the
obligations imposed by the right-of-search treaties of 1831
and 1833. The noble earl has, we are told, peremptorily
declined even to negociate on the subject. We have also
reason to suppose, that Russia, Austria, and Prussia have
approved of the course taken by the British Government on
this occasion. Further, we understand that the French
Minister, who substantially holds by the international en-
gagements imposed by those treaties, proposes to calm the
opposition likely to be offered in both chambers to the right
of search by gradually diminishing the number of cruiser
licenses hitherto granted by his government. We have
likewise reason to believe, that the Spanish Regent calculates
to a certainty on passing in the existing Cortes, or in a new
chamber, should the present be dissolved, a modified tariff
bill, which, when carried into a law, will give to the importer
of British manufactures into Spain nearly the same advan-
tages that could be derived from a commercial treaty. Lastly,
we have reason to believe that negociations are now going on
at Constantinople between the representatives of the four
great powers for the settlement of the Servian question.—
Herald.