The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-23 00:00:00

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" CONSTANTINOPLE, 27TH MAY, 1835.—Really, Mr. Editor,
there is so little of importance passing i❑ this quarter of the
globe that it is with difficulty sufficient matter can be collected
to form even an apology for news. In political affairs it may
truly be said that even what does occur is hardly of sufficient
interest to arrest the attention of, the veriest newsmonger ; but
even of this so little can be known to the, public or private in-
quirer, or, if not so, under the implicit condition that any
confidential communication one may receive shall be kept en-
tirely secret, that to write it down would be an utter waste of ink
and paper. Commerce, however, presents a view far more in
teresting, and we subjoin you some general information on this
subject. First, however, let me inform you that, in conse-
quence of the inefficiency of our old decayed tariff to secure
British merchants from arbitrary imposts, direct and indirect,
laid by the government on imports as well as exports, a meet-
ing of the British merchants of this capital was resolved on, and

effected last, week, to take into consideration the best measures
to be adopted for securing our trade from such arbitrary imposi-
tions, and of addressing the Foreign Office, praying for their
early attention to the necessity of establishing a new tariff, at
once- placing us on a footing with the most favoured nations.
anci,guaranteeing to us a fixed rate of taxation. By the bye, it

would be better to say un a footing with the most favoured
tariffs, as this would be a far more correct mode of expression,
though strange and unusual, otherwise it might be supposed the
Russians possess the greatest favour of the Turks because they
possess the most favoured tariff, though it is notorious they
are more cordially hated than loved. The meeting dissolved
with the determination of writing out an address, which will be
discussed ou a future occasion, and finally despatched with all
speed. It is time our government looked into this business,
-which is of vital importance to the prosperity of our commerce.
Neglect may reduce it to its forme! insignificancy, but encour-
agement and timely attention to its interests will soon increase
it tenfold.

" Notwithstanding the very large quantities of British manu-
factures lately arrived in this market, the prices and demand
are equally sustained, and many descriptions of goods have
even experienced an advance, though it can be said of only a
few exceptions that this advance keeps pace with the value in
Manchester. There are several articles of great and extensive
consumption, such as gray long cloths, twist, long maddapol-
laws, tarrjils, &c., which are very scarce, the large quantities
of the former lately imported being found quite inadequate to
the demand. Such as are unsold are held for higher prices.
Of such goods the Persians are now most extensive buyers.
Three years ago foreign gray goods were unknown in their
country. Glory be to our national enterprise and industry!
The first importers of these manufactures into these seas were
Ge Americans, and within a year or two they still competed
with us in cheapness and quantity ; but they have now entirely
dese:ted, these markets where they find British goods made of
an article of their own staple production, subject to a charge of
duty, freight, insurance, and commission, can be sold at nearly
20 per cent. lower than theirs. There are also several other de-
scriptions of goods which would leave large profits, such as fine
prints with small flowers, coloured cambrics, &c.

"In other articles of import few can be named which will
have a fair margin. Sugars are in good request : an entire
cargo of Brazil white was sold the other day at a price which
would nett at least 30s. per cwt. It was imported direct from
the Brazils. The quality is much liked. Indigo is on the de-
cline, accounts being published hero amongst the buyers of a
sudden fall of 25 per cent. in your markets, and they regulate
their offers accordingly; but, as sellers are not au fail of
this sudden reduction, they refuse to consent to ally consi-
derable, decline on their late prices.
"The grain market is very dull, and literally nothing doing.
Reports are more favourable to a large. crop in the southern
provinces of Russia.

" Most articles oT, export are too dear to buy for the British
markets. Wool has declined; that is, such of the holders as
insisted lately on higher rates have been obliged to lower their
pretensions to their former low price, which, considering the
high prices paid two years ago, are very low. Several parcels
have been purchased; and, as our stocks are large, there is no
probability of an advance.

"Olive oil is rising. Though it would still cost within the
•alue in your market, yet would be so near upon it as to make
it wdangerous article to touch for the present.
" Large quantities of galls have just been imported from
Trebizond, and a reduction in value is the consequence. The
quality is certainly inferior, and there are very few blacks.
"-Our stock of Brussa silk is nearly exhausted, the only sup-
plies worth mentioning being of that of Persia. This is ail
artiste which may be expected to advance considerably, as,
from the extreme backwardness of the season, the period for the
production of the web is not only much retarded, but the worm
itself much weakened. Nor does the present aspect of the wea-
ther seem to favour an improvement in this respect, it being
much colder and more changeable than is ever experienced at
this season, consequently the cultivators of Brussa and the sur-
rounding villages, who derive almost exclusively their subsist-
ence from the production of this most valuable commodity,
apprehend, and with much reason, a year of unusual privation
and-misery."

When Lord PALMERSTON was in Hampshire address-
ing his former electors, who had resolved to dissolve the
connexion between there and reject him for ever, he ven-
tured to remind them of the great services he liad ren-
dered to his country by preserving the peace of Europe
for three years. The noble secretary boasted that the
whig administration of which he had been a distinguished
member had acted upon the principle of non-intetfer-
ence—that they were moral umpires, whose pacific po-
licy not only gave. them power but abaoltite control in all