Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-03-02

In answer to your enquiri respecting
he probable quantities OF Cotton, tha. W n
'e received into England the present year,
enclose TO you the following estimate.
made from tn st information that have
been able TO obtain, and though it is no.
pretended to be perfectly corr, ct, YET be =
ieve it will be found nearly 50.
Stock on hand in Liverpool lst Jan. 1916.
exclusive OF any OF our new crop, $4,000
bales. Stock il London, Glasgow, and O.
Eher places. 10. eco bales-was probably at
least 70 COG
Imports from the United States in 1916,
125, 900 bales--may be $50 GOO bales.
Imports from Br ziI and Portugal, [the
crop il IS said Is this year 40 900 bales
10000 baies--may be l45 eco bales.
Imports from inc +. Indesx Is, 900: was
in 1910, rs, 1852, and may be this year So
000 bales.
The annual averaged impor.s from all
other places, we find upon eferen c to Of
fiCial documents, rs O00-total amount,
SOS 900, and may be 40 900.
The consumption this year in England,
willLnat exceed lin the opinion Of the best
iifrmed) 100000. suppCse $50. 600; sur
plusige IS ,000--1C0,0 OO.
The averaged annual Imports into G..
Britain, during the last l l years, supposing
j the unusual quaint ty 100000 went in 1915.
j did not exceed SIS, coo bales Of which a
bout 10000 bales were re-exported to the
Continent manufactured. The demand
4 upon England this year for goods, will be-,
i at least as regards this country, and pro-
baby othersl one third less than it was
i last year.
For some time past, and particularly du.
i ring the last year, the demand for manu-
4 Too. Il
great preceded the supply of the raw ma
I tcrial the case is now otherwise, the sup
ply of the raw article being ahead Of the
demand for goods.
The above calculations will leave an a
] bundant supply to so to the contren.t
1t has been remarked, that in former
and ordinary times, nearly all those who
went largely into cotton shipm nts. at pri-
ces above 20 Cents, were made baakrupts
by such shipments
Notwithstanding all that has lately
been said at the southward about the short-
ness of crops, it is firmly believed that the
quantity will not be less than a fair aver
age crop. Its early shipment cannot but
have an unfavorable effect during the whole
of the year, upon The foreign markets to
which it has gone. Ev. Post.
Whist the hrfces 7Ucre high last sum
Drer, The East India Comhony ordered a
Urg large quantity.
UIo" the chening Of the Continental
market in 1914. and 0ur markets in 1915,
the demand far goods 7yas unprecedented
iy great, bit may aUe nor snV that these
DiartetS are n07p oUer8tocked 2
Letter from Thomas Jefferson, on the SUBJ
jeCs Of American manufactures, in an
swer to one he received from Benz. Aus
tin, of Boston
MONTICELLo Jan. 9, 1916.
DEAR SIR.
acknowledge with pleasure your
Letter ofthe 9th Der last.
Your opinions ON the events which have
taken place in France, are entirely Just,
SO tar as these events are yet developed
But we have reason to suppose, that they
have not reached their ultimate termina-
tion. There is still AN awful void between
the present, and what is To be the last
chdbteT of that history and fear 1t is to
b. FLIED wish abomineto $ as lrightful s
those which have already disgrace cd it.
That nation is roo high minded, has too
mech innate force, intelligence and elastl~
city. to remain quiet under its present com
preston. Sampson Will arise in his strength,
and probably will, ere long, burst asunder
the cords X the webs ofthe Phillstnes. But
what are to be the scenes OF havoc and hor
Tor, and how widely they may spread be-
tween the brethren of one ,miiy, our ig-
norancc of the interior feuds and antpa-
thies of the country, places beyond our ken
Whatever may be the conVulsiOns, we can
not but indu sc the pleasing hope, they
val end in the permanent establishment Of
"a representative government a govern
nent 81 which the viii of the people will
be an effective Ingredient. This important
clement has taken root in the Kurop u
miud, and will have t. growth. Their ru-
lers, sensible of this, are already off ring
this modification OF their governments. IN
der the plausible pretence, that it is "A VOL
nntary concession ON their part. Had Bo-
naparte ujcd his legitimate power honestly,
Tor the establishment a1d support of free
government, France would now have been
IN prosperity and rest, and her example
operating for Tive bercftof mankind, every
nation il EurOpe would eventually have
founded a government, over which
the val of the people would have
. bad a powerful control His impr per
ccnduct, nowcver has checked the salnt.>
~ progress Of prncipl- bus the object is
:. Tx inue eye 90 nations, AMI they will
ross to It's accomplishment AID to tho gc-
lssuc ,orat.tn Ct the condition Of man.
- have the trcemcn ct the u
Aanted, aud how faithfully
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