Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-08-10
COTTON In INDIA


The London Standard contends lha, until re-
moyal oil The difficulties oil bringing cotton grown
in India 10 the sea-board, owing 10 the want Of
roa Us and the absence OF watcr.communicatiop.
''the production Ct cotton in India 10 meet sue
cessully The United STATES OF America 10 The Eu-
ropean markets. is utterly hopeless" II adds ll,al
thirty millions oi pounds sterling have been sent
10 The United States 10 aid "in making canals aid
railways 10 afford 10 these States (our great rivals)
The most expeditions mode Of Internal conveyance
lor all their many agricultural productions des-
tined ior expectation, and oi which, as is well
known, Cotton is the creates, and most important"
and thai, hal that amount been expended in India
and heavy duty laid on Ameiic cotton, Eng
land would receive sufficient, Cotton from India
10 make her independent oi America. To show
The addition that such a measure would have made
10 The wealth OF India and ol the mother coun-
ny, the writer publishes an interesting table ol
The colon imported into England ION the United
States iiom 1920 10 1916 Inclusive selected lio!n
Mir Macgaeens evidence before The Committee
On Navi2aliun Laws. We have nu room oI
lie whole table, but The aggregate Of cotton re-
ceiyed Tor the stated period Of twenty years,
is 1916 d., 80 lbs, or ,337 500 tons, which al
SD per ID. is f26S 3D. $751;
~. p. From 1927 10 1914 inclusive. eighteen
wears the total exports from Great Britain 10 The
United SAFES were l25. ito 500 The yearly ave-
rage $685. 91i. From lS20 10 1914 inclusive,
rs years The exports Of cotton goods iiom CT
Britain 10 the United States were 4l.S4. 9-9i,
and for The same period the exports Of woollen
goods 10 The United States were AZ, 795 gig"
The Lundcn correspondent d the New York
Journal II Commerce draws the following de-
duc,ion from The facts and arguments Of he pre-
teciionisi writer:
cater a calm review Of The subjecr, however
taking into consideration The failure hitherto in
The growth OF cotton in India, and The present &C
cupation OF British capital, with the future Ger
tain calls upon il; looking also Al the existing
feeling relative 10 The demand Ter Tree Intercourse
between nation and nation in commercial uans-
actions, and knowing The contempt with which
al! enlightened men now treat The phrase "tepen-
dence upon foreign countTies"-l come - te
conclusion, that the cotton planters in The United
States have no cause 10 tremble al The dread OF
losing their best market, az be al all annoyed al
the TREAS OF the Stanley Benlinck politicians.
most decidedly railway parliament they will
have no more chance OF doing more than pro-
mnIgaIipq. ,lesy plan, Tor Sir Robert Peel would
and thus place the J pafolscotu2s if pGa sbf
nory.''
We venture 10 PREDICT that Locoiocoism has
gained its las; victory in the Second DISTRICT
Such a change as has taken place there in six
months. is almost unparalleled; and il is still pro-
crossing. Had The election been deferred Two
months we have every confidence that MIR
Meade would have been beaten.
The Wings will remember the services .: Mr..
Bo!ling.-[ Saturdays Ua3g.
This is The siFanse:t argument we have met
with recently. In April Gen. Dtomgoole was
elected BY seventeen in Angus, not quite four
months after, MIR. Meade is chosen By the
large majority OF nearly four hundred: and
This is cited as an evidence OF ~ change" IN
taror of tie U;iigs "amost unparalleled ard
still progressing" .Saci changes We shall al
ways like to see But he Wing refers 10 The re-
duc,ion OF the majority given 10 MIR. Polk. That
paper has Gu, itself oil from such an argument.
When, from peculiar causes, Gen. Dromsoole
came near deIeat, and the Democrats commended
that the dis;lic, was still Democratic, the Wings
hootcd al the idea, and pointed 10 lie result as
proof OF the popularity Of Wing principles
And now, " hen we show majority of near 400,
they still urge that The Wing cause is rapidly
extending in the district. These arguments con.
hict and amount to nothing. The bold fact
stands forth undeniable, that in 4 special cleo
generally thin-lhc district has shown
lis mistaken Democratic strength 10y The large
majority Of tour hundred given 10 our worthy
candidate. The Wing press had led lis readers
a. home and abroad to expect Wing victory
How chilling is The effect when majority Of
400 is rolled mp on The Democratic side The
election is an imporlan, one, and The Wing dis
appointment, very great q appear, tom The ol-
loving in The WING
"We regret il exceedingly not lof the sake OF
the Whig parry Only, bur ot The country, and
more particularly Of The State OF Virginia, 70
which, if all we have heard be true. MIR b. would
have done credit had he been elected"
as some consolation 10 the Wing. We can as
sure il that MIR. Meade will 10 "credt" 10 Virgil
mia; though he will give very liie "aii and COM
Ion" 10 The Wing party.
NORTH CAROLINA.
b. Saturdays Southern mail we received The
following ,epo,fs OF The Congressional elections
Nash-Auirs,cn's u. majority AZ
Eleecomtc = " majority 100
Nsrlhamp,on-Bgss ID maj. 50 far 70, and
, precincts 10 hear from.
Halifax county IS reported 10 have given Da-
MEL (D) 10 majority over Arlington I'D
The Norfolk Herald is indebted 10 The "Old
North State" Tor The following returns
f. CRY, Aug. 9Th, i347.
1915 le4T.
Whi, Dem. Outlaw, W. Bisss u.
Pasquotank, AZ .bo % 'aa IA
Camden, BIZ I3l 49J y
pernnimape, 3G5 322 2lG maj
Chowan. 247 PA 50 MAJ.
Enough is known 10 place Col. Outlaws ma