Mobile register and journal., 1845-02-12

AMERICAN MANUFACTURES ---Out readers have already been informed of large and respecta- ble meeting recently held al Manchester, England, at which the Mayor presided for the purpose of nrg- ing upon lhe government the necessity of repeating the import duty on raw cotton. MT. R. H. GREG, lale member of Parliament, made an able and inter esting speech. In iorciby Illustrating the great ad- vantages the American possess over the British nufacurers. he directed special attention 10 the na and extent of the competition to which they (the Enelish) were exposed from the United States, and said they had fn immediate and extensive grounds to fear from that quarter than any other.
 His remarks In regard to the many advantages en- joyed by the American cotton mills, are worthy the consideration of those Tn our own country who have strenuousy denied this position and contended for high protective tariff necessary to enable them to compete with the English. He said:
 'The United Stal,s had every advantage in hav-
 ing the raw material on the spot, and m having 10 pay duty and the cost of freight and insurance of cotton Boston and other ports of the Atlantic was
 just haf of what 1t cost to bring it to Liverpool- The entire advantage enloyed by the American ma- nufacurer in the natter of ireighs, insurance and duty amounted tu 13I per cent cotton at I'd a h. Ia lhe minute, and he believed perfectly accurate statement of the Glasgow memorial, it put much higher on cottod al 5d. pound, showing advan- lage of B per cent and the other which 2Hd per lh. not less than 36 per cent to the American manufacturer over the English manufacturer who had 10 compete with him. This advantage amounted, in round figures to ab ut 4d. per lb on ihe average of cotioni and adding to that the great advantages which the American possessed m their moving pow CT, water power being almost unlimited, and costing 20 per cent only of what British steam power costs and litile further advantage which they had in ihe four for their sizing, il amounted, he said, 10 clear advantage of Id. per lib. on all the cotton consumed | 10 per cent the bulk of ihe coarse goods, and l5 per cent on coarse yarns ;"
 Alter these estimates, Mir. GREG proceeded to say:
 "Witb these immense advantages, canld any one wonder al ihe rapid increase of American manuac- lures, or ihat they should supply all their own con- sumption! for we must not suppose that English goods had been excluded from the American market by then high tariff, for goods had been lnug long excluded by inc yer, low price at which they were produced by lhs Americans themselves Tn 1 1923 the entire manufactures of America amounted onl' to ,763 packages (he valuation not giveni) m 1927 o 2,194 packages; in 1880 ,o h h,306; in lS23 to 3,2O7. Subsequently the value of the manniao- tured produce given in dollars. In 1854 It amounted To $2,OS5. .OO0, considerable increase over the proceeding yea; in 1885 10 s2 35e 0"0; in 1888 to 3 75S, ,000; in 1899 to 2, ,975 000; in 940 10 $3,549 ,000; in 1S41 To s3, 900; in 1912 tn s4 4,500 GOO, and for lS43 ihe estimate in Messrs. Jones, Gibson & Ord's circular was between 0U0, | GOO and s7,000, ,00o. Ii was also known that, in
 s43 one half of the expons China had consisted of American domestics-hat is to say, the export to China of American domeslics equal to hall the entire shipments from Europe and America | Clear
 In the circular he had just referred to, of the date of September, l843, under the head of .lomesics, it observed, 'Ths article is nierered and sue cessfuily competed with in all fo, eign markets by the American manufactures, and will, we have req son 10 believe, long be entirely superseded Ivy lP Sncl NNar thar in tllp Din one ol the most Intelligent houses in the town, wh had very extensive connexions in every pait of the world But to establish more comI ,elely this very important point, whether they mol ti be beaten by ther rivals in America, he would read some extracts from letters from the Indian and South American markets.
 From Buenos Ayres, Messrs. John Anderson & Go. wrote. in March, ls44, Having had establish ments on the River Plate, both at Monievideo and Buenos Ayres, for the sa c of British manufactures for the last twenty five years, have had oppor | ties of knowing that there large imports into these markers of cotton gnods manufactured in the United States; and if such compe tition shall con tnue it has done for the last few years. II will al. most compel Us to decline receiving consigunents oi goods male in this country, particularly of coarse do- | mesiics'
 "Then, on the opposite side of America, from Val paraiso and Lima. Messrs Gambling, Bros. g. Co. reported, that the competition of the American man uiactures the west of South Amerlca was in. creasing, and would become more active the sk il | of the American weayers increased; whilst in the China market, which had lately drawn all it's sup plies of yarn from Great Britain, large quantities o these goods from the United States. There WAS also very important evidence this point from | the house of Graht tm & Co of Glasgow, who had dealt in these articles in almost every part of the | known world. and who stated that they had been obliged to abridge their consignments to all these
 markets, compared with what they had sent in form CT years. The accounts from Manila, China, the gal md 1da nalt fn tha
 describing he American goods as uniformly gaining ground in the markets. Two days ago he had re- ceved letter. not addressed to him, but written by a leading American manufacturer, dated the 18th of | November, lS44, which contained some important | information as to the probable result of American competition. It appeared that large extensions of their manufacturing system were contemplated, and that they were now about to enter into the produc- ton of twist, aitice 10 which they had scarce, as yet turned their attention"