The Arkansas banner., 1851-02-04

The cotton Trade of the Cnited states
 Anxiety of British AHanufneturcs--The
 Past asA the Present
 PrefsssoF Mckay, of tko University of Geofgia. has faraished some valuable isfoFaszlisa eoaesfa- ing the Cse;en Trade. Ia number of q Hunt's Merehanh' Magazine" The article is too lenE to give ln detail, but few af iss facts and hgaTsr,
 Eish aa occasional remAsk. will bs feund inlsrest- lug ss well as important. IRtweniy yesrsan aver sre crap has increased from 24S 00O bales tO 29i. O0O If tbs pcriod sf swsaty five years. from 1895 to iS5a be divided ihto five equal iatsrvas. the ia ereaSe Fos each viii bs feaad bs 2s 3s-Ss eni i9 per cant In the same time. the pF0daeteh ot all other countries has ealy risen from SSS 0e3 to 4tJ- 090 bales-hasing absolutely declined during The last five years. over sxteeR per csnt Thss ts most important fact tn connection with Inc high prices of cotton the increased and Increasing demand, aud the apprshsasioBs of a eottoa fansne. which are easrtaned by some Of the leading manufactures or Great BFitais. These apDFehsnsionss ve embrace
 the 0cesson 10 say founded upon various causes First. aaprositioas weasAer And Secondly, the possibility of conflict between Great Briiain aad the Uaited States. Hence Inc recent meeting at Manchester. and ise apPoiatGlea, of Ar Alexander
 Msekay, as Special Agent 10 British India
 An immense san has already been expended ID
 yarious experiments with the object oi sseeSistB- ing tle capaeKy of certain Blish C0ouies to grew Cotton bat thus faT xiih little success SuH the elost is not abandSned. end II wii not be whiie
 hope remains. ProseaSsF Meksy,taies farther, that
 in the natter Of consumption progress has been
 remarkably rapid. Within twenty years, the ee-
 lIvesiex 10 oaf nanafseoies have aftaaeed 32S per cent viz from I27,e00 bales to 55s, ,o30; whiir in
 the same time the advance of Great Bsliaia has oeea only l25 per cent, viz: irom 6S3 GOO bales to l. l72 aoo In each one 0f these periods, oar rate of pFosress has beea ihaa twice as rapid as hers; anu though the absolute amount of cas con- npioiI is yet lar below that consumed by the En-
 giish msni.fAcsufeFs vet The last i've years eur
 increase has been TIC 000 bales. waile tseirs has been only ISg, ,Doa Al present our consumption IS
 37 per cent. o iae lgisa. wAile weaty years ago 1 t vas only l3 per cent.
 France dsilng all this perioA, has remained nsar- ! ly stationary. Tweaty years ago h.r consumption was 257 091 bales-now lt IS only 363 600. h ihe
 last i've years she has gone backwards. ihs decline
 amounting 10 5S, ,0o0 b1les. From 1925 10 1880 the nf he Uaisd S,a.es' nos lhey are 33 per cent.
 i-ss .han ours. Her rank compared wi,h Great
 i,ain. and with nearly every other country in Ea l rope. has sssa declined.
 In Spain. B.iiguD, Hossj, ,tssfn,any, and Russia. i the increase has been nearly as rapid in the usi'ed States h the lssi five years iheir advance
 has been 4S pea cent. ours 49 psr eens Their rank
 Tn the cotton countries IS yei low bat their rapid progress will very soon bFag them to 4nore i'n-
 per,ant position Al prssent their consumption is 3l per cent. of ths; Of Gfsa. Bilain, and the lime
 not laT distant when, taken together will eqaai her Twenty years ago. the comparative rssk ol the Uhitee States, Crest itain France. and the rest of Inc continent, in proportion to the numbers II, s. 21 ant F; in tue last five ysars. ,he per een;sze of each has b~en l9, 5I. B. and IT. IL France b. ieft out of the cotnparis The rank oi eats txsn wears ago wa5 as l3, 7s. and IT; nov IL $ as 2i 5 ant 21.