The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-16 00:00:00

fore, be grappling with
ruggle for " independence,"

ithout

should, the

the clouds in a

that release

ce which appears to have aroused.the wrath
of our Manchester brethren. In such a contest
we would stand no chance of escaping the pillary,
or the infliction of cap and bells. We will then

from the iron rule of

COMM

content ourselves in our slavery, and endeavour to
induce others to toil on with us to the end of the

era of the world's mercantile serfdom

But here we must confine ourselves to cotton,
and we commence by saying that we shall never be
able to- shake off the yoke of this monster. We
want more cotton, and all we can get. That
product has not been known in this country
for quite three-quarters of a century. And
what does the home and export demand
amount to ? In round numbers it has
reached 2,000,000 bales. Let us begin with
a consumption of 10,000 bales, as the average of
the first ten years, and note the ratio of increase
at the end of each succeeding ten years, and then
ask ourselves in cool commercial language when
we shall be able to declare our " Independence" of
cotton ! Why, the Manchester scribes seem to

ea of what is going on in cotton. The
demand has increased to within a fraction of
thirty-fold every ton years since its first introduc-
tion into England; and hero we should like to

have no

is to become of our cotemporaries'
Independence," if the demand should

schemes of

go on increasing in the same ratio for another ten
We all know that the cotton
plant is indigenous to the soil of most parts of
Africa. It can be obtained from the mouth of the
Niger up to the confines of the great Desert of
Sahara, and along the whole course of the
Gambia. European labour is admirably adapted

or twenty years ?

to its cultivation through out that valuable colony—

e the United States in the production of
the demand keep pace

at staPlt

liut will not

ith the supply

If w©

dd Africa to the list of our present
and hope to obtain a large stock. of

ictured goods,
this will certainly not make us, " independent" of
America. We shall probably receive, this year,
from the Statcs the largest quantity ever known,
but what will it leave after it, if we should expo-

raw cotton in bart

for our manu

rience a very trifling expansion of trade, as com-
pared with 1855 ? Spinners are not large holders
,f stock, and when the long promised revival of

does come, those who disref

going on in the sub-currents o

wakened with amazement,

cotton

us that the v

old four in-band pace,

is riot

t of the ques

eve can

ion, where to obtain

sufficient supply of the staple articles of consump-

tion ?

Let us fancy, for a moment, the price of

NORTHERN TIMES.--

of 1813, when Orleans waA
quoted 131 to 23a, and Upland lld to 21d per lb.
What a revolution this would bring about in our
A cotton famine would be the
we are too tightly laced,
,00 nicely trimmed, to stand
such convulsive hcavings in our social scheme.

by the natural increase i

demand, to tim

economic syst€

result. Commercial

and, economically

Cheapness and abundance are the leading objects

; and as their prolonged attainment

successful widening of the

it is to be I

oped the commercial

ommunity will not indulge in dreams of wars of
with those who can keep
millions of our spindles going ; and that our
political economists will look in time for succour,
rge increased production, for on it, the
1 of their governing principles wholly

Independenc(

n a lar

trium

depend

FINAL EVACUATION OE THE CRIMEA BY THE ALLIES.
—Yesterday, the following telegraphic despatch was
received at the Admiralty, from Admiral Grey, at Con-

stantinople, 14th July, 1856:—" Banshee has arrived,
with Admiral Freemantle. lvery person belonging to
the army had embarked, and all the ships had sailed from
the Crimea on Saturday evening, except Leander and
Gladiator. Gale has been blowing strong from the
south-west for the last three days."