The New York herald., 1844-12-10


cess The prices of his goods in those distant
| markets were the market prices of the place, and
ne could expect to receive no more than the mar
| ket value for what he sent there. There he met
his rivals upon equal terms, he having himself
paid 0 l6!hs OF penny per Id duty, and l16th OF
penny duty more upon the waste in making these
goods (hear); and thus We found that the British
manufacturer was not only burlhened a manu-.
facturer, by that constant claim from the govern
ment OF this country, which he had 10 bear in ad.
dition to his costs and charges, bur that that sum
went In the shape OF bounty 10 his fOreI ign rivals.
lie fOuad from parliamentary paper inc remarks
| and observations, collected by Mr.. Ihom, who
SAID, IN speaking OF China; !" Ofthe sum put down
! tor grey long cloths, one haf may BIZ assumed as
British, and the other halt American. Domestics
| are entirely American, and We fad it impossible
| TO c0m,,ete with them IN that article.'
Ihe Chairman said, that Mr.. WyLm, gentle
| man engaged IN the American trade, was present
| ana. as some specimens OF American maDuiac
lures were now b tore the chamber, he would,
/ perhaps, oiter some observations
| Mr.. a. IL. WYLlE. ol the firm Of Gorion WyIie
" Co London, said he confessed lie wa only
surprised that they had so long remained IN abey-
ance Qiear) They had allowed this duty 10
increase in the space OF years from ESQ 900 10
E7f3,000, and that was sum which no govern.
| ment would be willing TO give up He had in hls
possession an accouht-saes OF cotton sid within
New Orleans; an actual account sales-the amount
| OF which was $3.50 Is. 8 and the duty upon
which was E3S IS, Id, or a charge Of fuIly I3 per
cent. CLEAR, hsar) l. had been said, that If The
duty We're taken oft, it would be to give bonus to
| the American planter. Now, we all know very
| well that the laws ot demand and supsy regulate
the supply Of cotton but II was not OF this that
complained. Now, the consumption OF cotton in
the United States in 1872 which was year there
| OF depressed prices and bad trace, was 267. $50
oales. la me present year II was 3S7 900 bales;
but this was lar from being all the cotton consumed
IN America. The returns from New York only
| included what WAS consumed in the northern
ana eastern states, north OF the Potomac
me whole southern and western manufac.
/ Ia cd fnr
he hoped he should be understood, for this was
| IN important fact,) that the cotton consumed
by these manufactures did not generally enter into
receipts at the ports, as they were taken perhaps
from the internal markets, without going to the
seaboard; and the consumption there is stated
(and he believed 1t to be within the fact, from his
which brings up the consumption of America inthe
last year to 4S7 900 bales, which, il he mistook not,
was more American cotton than was consumed in
thus country IN 1925, and mere than the cotton Of
all kinds consumed here in 1920 which was bring
Ing the progress of American manufactures within
the recollection OF many present So much orthe
consumption the United States in 1928, The ex-
ports OF cotton goods to China from America, in
l84I, amounted to 1888 600 dollars. In the first nine
months Of 1913 the amount was l,063, 900 dollars
Now, this amount seemed, in comparison with our
EXPORTS to be rather irfng but it ceased to be 80,
| when compared with what the American exports
| were two or three years ago, In only two years
they had leaped from 1873 900 10 l,C6OOOO dollars.
IT, for the next two or three years they went al
| most drive Us out Of the markets. In one recent
price current from Brazil, he found in 1910 Great
Britain exported $40 bales of cotton goods to that
| country, and in 1913 only A,OOO, (hear, hear,)
I while the Americans in 1910 exported to Brazil
800 bales, and in lSi3, 1900; and so, in proper
lion as our trade there had been decreasing, theirs
| had been increasing. If ever country was form
ed tor commercial purposes it was America, and
appeared as 1t the legislation OF this country and
America upon commercial questions,w as hostile
as possibly could be, and conse queny suicidal
II HQ n n ~ nsnlyt
chance ofany commercial treaty being enteved into
with America. The time had been allowed 10
| pass; but there was a struggle going on there
Tor the election of their President, and the tariff
was made the starting point. # the tariff party
l succeed, our hopes are at an end.
Mr. GUEST said our coarse manufacturers were, gene
| our rivals (Iear) He had himself very extensive
trade in them as soon az he had commenced business
coming manufacturers aad supplying their own wants
rsi, they began to interfere with his customers in the
south American trade. (iear hear) That branch was
now to him entirely extinct Hear.
Mr. JOHN BR0Hr, M. P, said there were two observa
lions that he wished to make one of which had arisen
from observations made by preceding speakers good
eal had been said with regard to the rivalry Of foreign
countries and especially OF The increasen the manuac
ing power OF the Americana Perhnps parties distance
reading the report OF the meeting might led to suppose
that had some hostile feelings towards the manfac
turers Of America other ries hut although we
admitted their rivalry and deemed matter OF deep i'm.
portance to us, and that might in certain branches
trade injurious certain here ct
believed there intelligent manufacturer in tba,
room, or in this district who felt like hostile
m a would 20 nduGs s him to wish Tor that
rising prosperity OF any country ear hear) All they
wishei Tor was simply that government
Of the word be protective governnent-that should
not be that wonld lay burdens upon branch CT
dustry and subject to pressure which made unable
to bear that competition, and to in that from
which there was no escape for (Iear) This cotton
tax appeared to him. therefore, tariff exactly Of this de-
scripon, made upon by our own government (iIear
hear for had precisely the same effect upon trade
sresn nations to which we al
were passed unanimously. and the meeting separated
| Hilmer 4 Smifh's Times, Nor 10.
| Thcatricals, &c.
| A new piece entitled "a Trip to Kssengen,"
has been produced at the Lyceum Theatre, Lon
don. Il was highly successful.
/ Mr. Bale Is expected shortly from Paris, with
| his new opera "The Queen of Cyprus" II is for
Drary Lane, and will be the first musical novelty.
Balfe's !" Bohemian Grip is still drawing good
house. 1t is within afew nights Of the hundredth
representation, when he is to have piece Of plate
| presented to him. Mrs. Balte is shortly to appear
at this theatre as Anna BoLena, with Burdlni,
| good baritone, and an EnglishmaD, notwithstand-
ing his Italian sounding name. He has been edu-
| Gated in Italy.
| Mark Lemon and Gilbert d Beckett are again at
work In the production OF witty burlesque for the
little Strand Theatre and the OlympicAopens in
/ few weeks, under the management OF Rayner,
once great in " domestic tragedy"
| Julian opens Covent Garden Theatre the begin
| ming OF Dec. with concerts and, about month
| thereafter, The regular drama is to be presented,
under the auspices of M. Laurent.
/ Miss Kelly recently opened her byou theatre in
Dean street, for an amateur performance by her
pupils and others, in aid Of the distressed needle.
women Of the metropolis. The pieces were "The
Hunchback" and "The Irish Brgade," both Of
which were well amounted" and well performed
Astley's Ampitheatre narrowly escaped being
having broken out in tine shop of draper, only
| three doors from it.
| We learn from Dresden that while the family
| o. Weber were expecting his remains for inter-
ment, their number was reduced by The death Of
| his younger son, youth of twenty, who was stu
dying painting with the most brilliant hopes of suc-
| cess. Only one son now remains.
Mr. Lumley, the director OF her Maiesty's The
atre, Lsndon, passed through Paris few days ago
| for Italy.
Nina Sontag, sister Of the Countess Rossi, has