The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-13 00:00:00

COTTON LN INDIA.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 10.
The annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce and manufactures took Owe this morning.
and tl'sugh some portion of the proceedingot was of a re-
trospective character, and had reference to suhjecta
which have elm eel, engaged public attention, the testimony
home by the president to the suctesafial working of free.
trade memoir's, and the statements of Mr. Ashworth, will
be read with int rest.
Mr. HAZLEY, the president of the Chamber, in taking
the chair, said 7-4.10 ntlemen,—Your dinctors have con-
cluded their labours for the mat Year, and performed those I
duties which you impowd upon item. hey are prepared
to lay bef de you a report of their proceeding., which I
trust will he acceptable to era. and a Iti wini. to you the
can and attention which ihme have Ix-stowed upon the in-
interests of this thamlar, and of the cocumunity at large.
As this chamber has from its commencement been
• consist. nt advocate of the important heal changes
which have horn elfeetcd during the last few rum
us the commercial policy of the country, I will
brittle tall your attention to some leading facia that
a little ex perh net will enable me to bring meter your no-
te, The last year has Neon tharacterio ol by -ttailiness in
NO
the nperation. nonneeto d both with trade and commerce.
and our perm!, on every h and have been well employed.
Aboinfhowe of labour and o.t food we have seen in saera
di-
Teltion, and upon the whole we have had a period of as
much national and commercial prosperity as the country
has witnessed at any form. r time. If w • look to
the imports of various atrial, that Militate the state
of the cowifort that the people at large have
enjoyed, we shall, by rootrastong the consumption
for the Ind year with the consumption of a period -
toy 10 year...go—we shall find that these increased comforts
have been to an estent almost beyond our coneeption. Take
the artier' of sugar. In 11410) we ronsumal ..hout three
ignitions and a half of hundredweight. of sugar in the
Ended Kingdom. being at about the rate of MTh.. per
bead on the population. In the last year a. 7 have can-
onised shout six million, and • quarter hoondredarielits in
the United Kingdom, amounting to about 2.111).. per
heed. (Hear, hear.) Ou Windex to the article that
mostly og companies sugar --I mean tea—we Mad that
19 year. ago the consumption of tea in this e'.untry
amounted cooly to 2,1 millions of pound. weight, b nag equal
tt 17 "ante* tow each person in the Visited k button/ ; in
the Mat year, however, we have consumed upward. 14 rd
millions of round: weight of tea; therefore the average
consumptith. oil each p nom has been about 30 ounce*.
(Montano...) This shores that in throe two article, the rim-
tufts of the pooplo• have Aeon eery greatly inert-am d. If we
look Oo the .tettof lilt. we find that in the last ysar we im-
port, d about 10 or:otters of grebe of every elan.
A. a etoiar•o r of grain is generany understood to
to 'lout the consumption of uu indiridual, we ma suppose
that we have sustained by foreign grain during the last
ar probehiy not less than ten millions of people. At all
events, we may say that a population equivalent to that of
Ireland has to-en supported by the food imported through
our foreign tram:actions. (ficar, hear.) Protection to
grain, I motor: bud, means • restriction in the supply of it ;
but 1 woultl ask those indisiduals who would inert ate the
dint. ultim of getting this foreign food in this cometty. what
is to lee one of the people who have usually consumed it
during the past year : ould they put • population :untount-
inn to to ti millions in • state of starvation by a change
an the law ? I apprehend that the common WWW of our
vountrymen will not permit any such dienstrous change. of
pinny -- (hear, h. ar) -.but that we shell te. on enjoying the
consequent pnopenty that depends on the present very
large moon of !onion foal. Looking at the general trans-
action...a' the tountrt , I believe the reports about to he
pro salted to parliament will show that the whale et-
orts form the tnittil Kingdom during the List year
bare amounted to the I normous sum of 71,000,001 N. ster-
ling. Tin years ago the foreign trade of the country
only aniouuttod to 51,0110,0007/. sterling; so that, in a
cornoarstively Sew years there has been, I }Believe we may
call it, the cuormuu. inerenie of 20.110111,00 W. of **sport+. I
refer to these facts with gnat ottisfurtims,las.ause the advo-
caat., of n.strietions uniformly told us that by melamine the
imports of foreign food we noon exhaust our nations! trea-
sury, riot that we should not pay for the increase of
imports in boil by an increase of exports in manufac-
ture.. 'the fort is doubly proved: first, by the enor-
-111,0111.1 increase of exports; and, weoudly, by the great
increase iis the amount off loullion in the cottlY, of the
Bank of England. In lelo the acentge mimed of hol-
low. in the Bank was about .1.1100,0110/. sterling, whilst
last year the average was not le o. than 16.000,00 M. sterling.
(Applause.) Therefore, the remit. to which I have referred
are execoliforly gratifeing to those Who have been the COQ-
iliatrot mina atra of the policy. I must call your attention,
now, to t too out ject which never Edisto receive the attention
of the Meador. ---the Olen italt Wllipty of raw cotton. The
re--onl' sit this clutrnher show, that for very many year. this
whose has realoal unremitting attention. Boring the
tag year pool have .le to rutin.' to send out a commissioner.
31r. Mackay, to inquire into the obstacles that exist
the notating of a large supply of cocoon
from our own important colony in the East
Judie.. Mr. Markey has sailed under most ftvourahle
auspice.. lAM glad to inform you that the Boort! oil Con-
trol hew given him letters of notroduction and of commenda-
tion, :Ind every reason:dole and proper support whit h we
had fe right to expect hunt it. I believe the premier. tool
John Ito.-f.ll, has rommentled him faviumlq to the t/o-
-venom.* o ofLord Dalhousie. v}t7 in ..Ur.
aelet., Kirin hint • letter of introduction to the Boorulely
Chamber of Commerce. nod I think lw ha. entered on his
inquiry under illiapice, as favourable as we hail any right no
expect. I may state, in emu-'.ion with Mr. Mokay. that
we have on every Mond, from gentlemen of every political
opi ll i,, to, the highest ~pinionn of lois limos. for the office we
have sppoiosto ti him to. We an- looking forward to the
r roam When hint of malty into la sting communications, that
will detail to us the obstacles we have to nano.% and the
ditilcultos that we have to cocaine When he onds u. his
reports, which we expect will be replete with interest we
shall from time to tins,' summon )otl to W Ise tleete
retorts and 1 trust that tiny will produce such an int-
ros...ohm ono the public mind that we shall be tonal+ ol through
our hay-Inure to obtain the rialto ss of the grierionee we
ioe mew to deplore in cooneetoon a Otto 'tuba. (Ileow. hear.)
rite have la fore it. oomph, of cotton which we hoot. :c-
-eased fr Africa. We horse froono various of our corm.
womb tots ill attar of our ro 010 mi., the gratifying intelli-
gent., that cotton may Is .. sit to us in abundance from
many sources But we tint 11 still more nmon India than
upon .17,y other illar.lllt, as at think it is more tle-oirahk
to get tannin trona it. if toossible, than from any
other riotous.. berries titer, al/itit it population then. moth
Mere eaten...re thin in moo other of our oltopenolcnoice. In
Intl. I the population amomott• to upward. of 100,000,000 of
, and nm-r'lurntly thin rusts a means of rionsump-
t too our ritanUfacturir. We base there a market tar
our prishutione which we cannot have in my other colons,
and thcrefono we shaU only lot doing our duty in pressing
for the eultivation of the moil in India. in miler that the
people may have the means of paying for the export. of
maned odor., which we are required to *end thither. Mr.
IlLeckey has the testimony of those who differ with him
in twiny kaolin" points of opinion a. to his ht-
mot for the task h. is about to perform. ttb
an. ris oat nog support from gentlo.lnal who diger with us as
to the polity we advocate, and we have every Mope. from
the many testimonies we have received in his behalf. that
Mr. Mall hay will be able to perform the duty which has
been entrusted toe him (Iltar, hi ar.) At the same time
we must appeal for support to our friend., tar we are only
yet imaerfectly prepared to pay the great expense which we
Shalt I;itrti 10 Mear in sending out that commission. The
total eon will be ilsoolte ; we have, perhaps, the promise of
one-third of theamount.andm. hart toappralto the trnole,and
our friend, for the other portion. to onside us torierfreletcutlf
engagements. and carry out our objects, which I think are
laudable in thanstivis
Mr. umiTlimAy, the win-tan, then read the report .
In, report rmbraergt details of the proceedings of the
chamber during the past year in reference to the bonding
aystent its Manchester. steam communication with the Cape
of Good Hope and Australia, labour in the British West
!nth,. packet station for the Wvat India and Brazil mails,
cotton rultivatiom in Jamaica, the supply of cotton from
Africa. the possibility of lite mectieful cultivation of
cotton at Natal. andl several! other topics. The report
concluded hr statements to the edict that the board, son-
curving in the &sir:Ml.7mm of treeing paper front the tate.
tints to which it is now subj.. tt. ha. recently addressed a
memorial to the Chancellor of the Eschequer, prising fur
the remi-siost of the whole duty during the torment session
of parliament. The hoard bas also petitioned the Chan.
eelkr of the Exchequer in favour of a total remission ..f the
stamp duty ma receipts, taking the. opportunity ot express-
ing their objection to the prim iple on wheel .the whole of
the stamp denim are hand. Ttlt; board has again trans-
mittal a nocume.ll to the Chaacelloor of the Exchequer
rent wine the prayer. which the last year's board pre-
ferred, for the r duo thou of tin duty on tea, to an ex-
tent that will influence retail penes, as by such a re-
duction alone ma that Coen end amsumption lee stimu-
lated which will repair tht temporary sacrifice that the
exchequer would hare to Mar.
Mr. Councillor NIVROLLS moved the adoption of the
repeal and areOlOatil.
Mr. RICHARIR.ON seconded it, and the motion wan
tarried unanimously.
Mr. OWEN moved the appointment of auditors of the
accounts.
Mr. lii:Nav AsliwoßTll, of Tortoni, near Bolton,
moved the printiim of the report.
Mr. W. I'. CLAllliti urged the importance of the in-
quiry as to tht caixdoilitirs of India. with a sieve to placing
our trade with that important tidour on a triter forting in
the approaching attempt which would Is made in IS-It for
the retleWit of the East India Cornpany*e charter.
the 1110t1011 was carried. and after the reappointment of
the others and Mentors necessary to conduct the business
of the chamber, the meeting separated.

RonnEnv Or £l,ooo.—On Monday night an
English ;remit man was robbed in Glasgow of upwards of a
thousand pow The tot property con eked of three
Bank of Eng:and notes for '.if+W each, several .501. notes, •
purse containing nine sovereigns, a diamond ring value 201.,
said • diamond pin value 12/. WI lydie,e the robbery took
place in %Ono low den by a barthenh d female, but no trues
of the Jnwperie has been disc.evered.—Noreh British Mail.
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