The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

EXPORTS OF TEA AND SILK FROM CANTON
TO GREAT BRITAIN, &c.

By a statement published by direction of the Chamber
f Commerce at Canton, we find the following statistics
s to 0 of tea from China to Great Britain, from

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and to the d

Season Ist July, 1847 to 20th January, 1848.. 34,805,751.. 14,812
31st January, 1847.. 35,380,235..15,774
If
31st January, 1846.. 37,239,292.. 12,935
31st January, 1845.. 27,708,374..
99
Showing a decrease of tea to the extent 0r3,134,000 lbs.
last year as compared with 1845. The shipments from
Ist July, 1847, up to 20th January, 1848, were—to Lon-
don, 22,572,727 lbs. as compared with' 24,075,867 lbs.
same period in the year preceding ; to Liverpool, 9,266,424
lbs. same period, against 7,365,908 lbs. previous year ; to
the outports, 2,786,620 lbs. against 3,938,460 lbs. previous
year. Of the total amount to 20th January, this year,
27 ,176,6 M lbs. came from Canton, and 7,629,148 lbs.
from Shaughae.
The following were the shipments to the United
States in the past two years, viz.—Season 1845-6,
18,502,092 lbs. Season 1846-7, 18,886,287 lbs. Season
1847-8, to 12,765,892 lbs., exhibiting a falling off of above
6,000,000 lbs. last season, or one-third of the previous
--'-"'-ments. To the Continent the shipments were
1,352,890 lbs. against 4,925,835 lbs. in the pre-

ous season,

LIVERPO
ATT EMOL ANPT AT D HOLYHEAD. A
MONOPOLY.NOTHER

We directed attention last year to a bill by which the
ster and Holyhead Railway Company sought to be-
oat proprietors, and thus establish in their
monopoly of the carriage of passengers from
Ireland from the south, to the exclusion
c steam-boat proprietors of Li-
The bill in question, however,
on. On Friday night the same,
)n for a second hearing in the
g conversation took place, as

verpool and

dropt through for tat
or a similar bill, came
Commons, when the follow,
reported in the London Times .
" Mr. FoRSTER presented several 1,
ter and Holyhead) bill, chiefly from pa
navigation in Liverpool. Th,

_.gainst the (Ches-
., interested in steam
hon: gentleman then opposed
ad that it gave the railway company the
team-boats, and so become steam-boat pro-
., cifect of this would be to give the company a
~cie monopoly of the traffic between Holyhead and Dub-
a result which would not only be injurious to the steam-
t companies now existing, but also to the community at
;e. He moved that the bill be read a second time that day
months.

the 15111, on thi
power to pure'

team-boa
)e entitle(

ienied that the powers sought for by the railway
tablish a monopoly betwixt Holyhead and
In why those powers were asked was,
boat proprietors would not consent to
low rates laid down in the bill. The
y the bill the railway company would
xceedingly low ; and he had no hesi-
the existing steam-boat companies
he would not object to that

It rates

tation in s

that
ke those fares,

ald a"ree Lo --
.rt of the bill being withdrawn.-
This argument, or rather apology, for the company,
)ffered by Mr. Glyn, will readily be seen through. The
boat rates have been laid so low that no other par-
..xcept the company can afford to carry for them,
the company, of course, being themselves only enabled to
do so Dui of the more remunerating rates which the?,

ceive as railway proprietors.
It is an easily managed sort of locus pocus, with which
railway directors arc tolerably familiar, and could wit
L
little difficulty be directed to enable the company to mo.

nopolise any other branch of trade. The house, however,
appeared to have caught a glimpse of the injustice of
granting such powers, and the further consideration of the
bill was put off until last night.

ENLIGHTENED REFORMERS,

A correspondent of the London Times, describing the
popular movements in Germany during the past week,
states that " crowds of the country people entered Vienna,
and inquired with the utmost naivete whether the new
constitution was ready." We are not told, of course,
whether the country people in question expected the new
constitution to present itself in the shape of a fresh-
cooked meal, to reward their exertions; an ever-working
Moses and Son, to give to each a gratuitous supply of
blouses and nether garments, shoes and hose, or in what
particular shape it was to come. It is very questionable,
indeed, if any of them had very distinct notions at all
upon the subject. Another correspondent, writing from
Berlin, says :—" The proclamation appears to have been
at first misunderstood. Freedom of the press' having
been demanded, and the terms in the proclamation being
`abolition of the censorship, and the publication of a law
in reference to the press,' it was necessary to explain to
the populace that the thing demanded and the thing con-
ceded were virtually one and the same. On receiving the
necessary explanation, they joined enthusiastically in the
cry, 'Es lobe der Kaiser,' and gradually dispersed."
This is a sad admission of ignorance, certainly; yet we
can scarcely assert that some of our own reformers were
much more enlightened as to the nature of that " freedom
of trade" for which they clamoured so loudly. It is to be
hoped that the results will not be equally disappointing to
both, and that our German friends may find in their "new
constitutions" their national assemblies and their " free-
dom of the press," acquisitions to their happiness arid
comfort more substantial than we have as yet derived from
our own " free trade."