The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-08-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COMPARATIVE EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURED GOODS IN 1842 AND 1842.—(From Sir Robert Peel's speech on Friday night.)—l hold in my hand a return of the exports of British produce from the united kingdom for the six months ending the 6th of July, 1842, and on comparing the declared value of the exports of the present with the declared value of the exports of the preceding year, though there has not been that improvement which I could wish, still there has been a manifest advance. In short, there has been a manifest improvement in the export of some of the great branches of our manufactures. In the year 1842 the declared value of the exports of our manufactured cotton goods was £7,087,000. The declared value of our exported manufactures of the same description up to the sth of June, 1843, was 7,983,000. In the linen manufacture there has been a slight increase also. In 1842 the declared value was £1,294,000, while for the present year up to the sth of June last it amounted to £1,361,000. In the woollen manufactures, which in the course of the last year had been materially depressed! the declared value of exports in the first year was £2,226,000, and in the last £3,035,000. Not speaking with respect to the woollen manufactures, and their export to the United States and the Brazils, but to all countries, there has been a considerable increase in the amount of exports. (Hear, hear.) The improvement is still more marked, if I compare the exports in the last month with those of the month terminating on the sth of July, 1842. The declared amount of the value of cotton exported in July last year was £1,084,000; for the month of July in the present year it was .Z 1,445,000. The export of linen last year was £201,000 ; in the present year it was £271,000. As to the woollen manufactures, there had been a remarkable increase, for in June last year the declared value of woollen manufactures exported was £408,000„ while in the present year it amounted to £790,000. Therefore, comparing the six months of last year with the six months of the present year, there has been an indication of a considerable improvement in the amount of the exports of the manufactures of this country. But now with respect to the cotton manufactures. It was stated last year that the cotton trade was so bad that we might make up our minds to a still greater depression. Has that prediction been verified? (Hear.) The extent of consumption of cotton has been exceedingly great. I have in my hands a return showing the number of bags of cotton imported into England and Scotland, and taken for consumption for the first six months from the year 1835 to 1843, both included. From this return I find that in 1835 there were 451,984 bags of cotton taken for consumption; in 1836, 474,902 ; in 1847., 497,302; and in the present year, 1843, the number was 688,584 bags. (Hear, hear.) Look, then, at the declared value of our exports; in the first six months of the year 1842 our exports of cotton yarn amounted to 58,000,0001 b, and in the same period of the present year to 62,000,0001 b ; our exports of cotton thread in the first six months of last year amounted to 935,0001 b. and in this year to 1,324,0001 b. The exports of printed calicoes in the year 1842 was 123,781,000 yards, and in 1843, 145,295,000 yards. As to the exportations of plain calicoes, the increase had been enourinous, for in the first six months in the last year there had been exported from this country 152,827,000 yards, and in the same time of the present year there had been exported 253,318,000 yards. (Hear, hear.) Can it then with justice be said, that the measures taken last session, either with respect to the corn laws or the tariff, have been as fatal to the interests of the great and important branches of the manufactures of the country as was confidently predicted ?  Intelligence has been received of the blowing up of the Diana, South Sea Whaler, while on her homeward voyaye and the death of Captain May, who commanded her. The Diana has since been brought into St. Helena, where a coroner's jury found a verdict of " Murder, against some persons unknown." THE TEA TRADE, July 31,—There has been a firm market for teas since the last auctions, and the quotations are rather tending upwards, as the consumption is large. Last week the deliveries increased to 54-1,3601 b. the letters by the overland mail are not yet delivered, consequently the position of the tea market at Canton remains to be ascertained.