The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-29

3 CaIolin July ~ lS73 S7S9 '7H 64ss ls7l2 lso7es
& IL: az II: q n I'll 81 & &c e
8s, : las. .:s.ss us a sa.7 55: SIS
Increase 64OOl = 1854 - es5,N6
The shipments 10 Northern ports this season have
been 6193s1 bales against 54e269 bales for the
period last year, and the stock hand at the latest
daes, this year. 213s36 bales against 1888 $50 at
\ the same dates last year.
The is fast drawinr to close, and the move
ments for the next four FIVE weeks will be to very
moderate extent. The total crop of this year chat
which has and will to market up to the LIST OF
September) will not vary much from twenty-five hun
dred and seventy thousand bales which will be
on that of the pr vious year Of about FIVE hun
dred thousand bales increase of nearly thirty per
cent The increase in exports to foreign ports has
been greater than the increase in receipts from the
interior The excess in exports this year has been
$685. 16 bales and the of receipts 49 436 bales
The extra quantity Of cotton shipped from the South
ern ports this year. has made up, in measure, far
as reights and shipping concerned for the i'm
mense falling OF in the shipments of breadstus but
1t has by made up for the IRENE ndous falling
| of in value.
There has never been period in the whole CONNER
sial history of the country when the cotton trade,
generally, much depressed it has been within
the past eight months. Prices during that time had
been steadily settling down, and the demand has
| rapidly declined In the face of q more limited con.
sumption than has been known for years. the supply
has been larger than any previous period, with the
exception Of year. The planters, in the early
part of the season, evinced determination to hold
for better prices and for long time tenaciously ad
hered the policy; but circumstances compelled them
| to give way, and the crop has been put upon the
market at sacrifices. Had the receipts from
| the interior been limited the producers could
have controlled the movements Of the crop eec-
tually, and there would have been less depreciation
| in prices; but the supplies in to such an
extent that they compelled to abandon
| the attempt, and large sacrifices were submitted
| to- In the attempt to hold the planters lost the
| benent of the comparative high prices ruling last
fall and finally disposed Of their crops at current
rates later in the Our planters invariably fail
in all their attempts to hold their supplies. The
facturers of Europe invariably break them down in al
their combinations to regulate prices and ust not
expect to be able to keep enough Of this staple out
foreign markets 10 have any very important influence
upon prices until consume in our
limits and make this port the grand distributing point
for the word-unti the cotton trade of Liverpool is
transposed to New York, and regulate the supply
more by demand than have as yet been able to do
The growing crop in all parts of the Southern
try is represented being remarkably free from all
those diseases which usually at the close of the
attack the plant In the event of the balance of the
season ontinuing favorable, may look for yield
equal any before realized. In Texas the crop
is exceedingly prolific, and the productions will, with
out doubt, be large.
late report of the Commissioners Of Railways in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain, shows an in
in the number of passengers on all the railways
open since 1s43, of 100 per cent and in the total
come, of nearly 100 per cent, as follows
RAILROAD 5 gnarr. s,. IN c f1s;a Britain e r
,s4s. r .osssssss ssisS sGsstsss stsssise
,s1 sss1Ss S ssa ssss s% SSs
The number of miles open in the beginning of 1s43,
was 1857; in 1916, 214s and in 1s47, sO5s. The
Der Of passengers in 1s4 of the LIST class 657214
I'd class 600 1885, Sd class 31s; Parliamentary
or cheap class 1885, 494; Mixed 1929 1857. All railways
to which the act requiring cheap trains applies,
qured to run train daily including Sundays, if
they any Sunday trains, carrying passengers at
fare not exceeding a penny mile at average rate
of speed not than IL miles hour including stop
pages The carriages required to be provided with
seats, and to be protected from the weather.
The whole amount Of money which had been received
for the construction of railways in the United Kingdom
TO the end of the year ls47 f16 s56 or this
amount, f126463 sol raised shares, and f4O,-
S5s 265 on loan The total extent Of railways author
lied to the end of the year 1s47 is II 673 miles, with
capital of f336 5SO210.
On the 1906 miles Of railway which open for
the LIST of May, 1S47 there were employed,
wants of the several compa MES AZ 21S persons There
we're at the same date employed in the construction
Of railways 2665O9 persons; making the number of
persons employed in the construction and working of
railways, 3o3,717.