True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-09-06
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britain and the United States, and shows in
satisfactory manner how they will probably be
aliscted by the result of the grent experiment which
has been So successfully tested. in speaking of
The trade between the two countries, the writer
states on the authority of the annual returns from
iouo TO lb5o,-eHceptng only those of 1879 aud
1910, "hlch had been DESTROYED at the burning #
The Lo"don Custom Hous ,--tiat in 1885 America
consumed more than ten and half millions out of
l"tai OF forty seven millions, and IN 1886 nearly
twelve and a half millions out of lif,v-hree mil
lions worth OF British exporlatiun. From this il
would seem that in 1885 the proper ion of the
total exporratinn NJ . eat b lajn taken by America
was y ID per cent, and in Is 6, % Ia per cent.
1t Is also stated that in 1891 the while export If
cotton rom this country was 100000 pounds, ard
thht 1857 was the hrst year in which any of this
production was exported. Subsequently few
oass ot American cotton were seized al Liverpool,
because 1t was not believed that cotton could be
raised IN this country, whilst for the last ten, of
the nifty years til have succeeded the exploration
has been on an average annually two hundred and
twenty-five millions of pounds, and in 1886 the
amount was above two hundred and eighty-nine
millions OF pounds, probably producing at the then
exsllng prices more than Gl0,0OO, 0OO sterling. In
1850 The amount of British shipping that entered
the ports of the United stntes was SAT ,6O6 tons
bearing the proportion of 43 per cent. to the
Anie''can tonnage, at the saIfe lime that all other
'ote'gn tonnage amounted only to l32, COZ tons.
=, ouch being the state OF things in 1886, when
inc ih erconrse was confined to sail vessels exclu.
sVely, what limits can be utfixeo 10 the increase
mat Will be produced by the use of steam ships 2
;. one OF the most prominent effects OF the late
discovery VIII be TO equaze commerce 50 far as
ou' inherent seaPorIs are concerned, and to Cause
trade, " hch has heretofore been in great men
sure confined 10 New York, as the great point of
import ana export, to be distributed TO nil the
''les IN proportion to the extent of country de-
pendent on them for supplies. Up to the present
.ihe, such has been the superior facility of access
" view ork, that hive out of The ten millions
worth OF merchandise which came from Gren,
britain, were enterei at that port Toe effsc, af
TINS mas been to adva C the marke ct nam iyhlst
o'nefs were gradually thrown into he back rronun
thereafter no such disparity will exist. as tho
Della" are or the Chesapeake can b. ovcrc,n,. IL
nearly as lille tine as the bay OF New Yorh
announcer OF The important consequences of the
oHpei''neh' WIN be to multiply the number of
passengers between the two hemispheros n.
Penence has shown that the con oouenco> .e hA
'''uI'ih9 fali rad has been To quadruoIs H.,
number OF travellers between its two ex,,a ; .ne
ne same inte must operalc, but to an in6n;,aI
g 'eatef extent Ill the use OF cam vessaIs ns,h'
Acco'' quotations are much greater in propor,ion
10 the prnpelling power. A sinnle sten. ,,,
lau"oneu III great brit'in is to be fitted M
to accommodate five hundred passengers To-, ~,
suppose that this vessel will perform tw.p,r C,s
tfps year, allowing fifteen DAYS for eorL w.,
anu that she Will carry an averaoe ono hal, 7,
the number named, say two hundred and tiGv a,,a
the result would be that six thousand, two hunN
dred and h'ty people would be transported by no.
IN the course ci twelve month, Nv
with steam navigation America m ust he c,r,o
MS 1t were part o. the old worId and be forcnI
|" m'ngle IN whatever relates to it, N, lonrn,
VIII II De thought strange Tor European IA have
''sl,eo our cJu"iy, or Tor one of us to have gonc
/" Europe, and those who have been los, 70 s,ch
n'her VIII again be brought into a commun;nn If
'reling at leas', and friends in coming from Nm.
81" nd and France 10 America will be regarded nc
having gone t" some neighborng country gnt. |
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