New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-15
The FnI,ncies and Fra1ds 81 Briiish
Free Trade.

We now proceed to fulfill the promise
made IN closing our article of yesterday
The number Of yards of Cotton Cloth I'M
ported IN Isis was -.-..-.-....---S $4,000
In 1856 -Sp'0VV'uNV
The number exported from Great Britain
10 this country in the first SIX months OF
1850. as given IN Du Fay COS Circular,
Is follows
Printed or dyed do.-.--------5 SO. 1864
S,iudries ......- 1928
Total -.--.-..--- G; 80 bUi
1--we now double THIS lor the import Of the
year We shall obtain a total OF ------- 1861 NNo0
This is an increase over 1856 Of one
Hundred millions of yards, which, at an ay
erage Of FIVE yards to the pound, would give
twenty millions Of pounds, or forty thousand
bales. from which is to be deducted large
increase IN the export Of domestic cotton,
the total amount of which is stated by the
core spondent Of Tie Union at ninety-iour
millions of yards, chiefly Of cloth OF which
there 90 20 the pound little more than three
Yards.
The first six months of the present year
are thus given by Du Fay q Co.:
PLAN Cahcocs o'sS,'oii
Printed and dyed do. lO'Fsp
Cambrc, and husilns OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ilt9''sl
euinflts o l,-1V
Total. 80 e36,6ii
Doubling this, we obtain an importation OF
,ixty-two millions of yards, TO put against
an expectation of almost a hundred millions,
exceeding the export OF lol6-1, in weight,
By probably the total amount OF import.
In 1915, the first year In which the
tariff of 1876 commenced 20 become operative "e
worked up at home -oV'''e o".eH
And our import amounted 10 SIS il2oW,
beng an increase Of about S5,0VVOW
on The average import OF $3.50 and
lsid-7. Dcducung he export from me
import, the quantity consumed mlgM
be taken a about. ....-.-..--.--.----. 49,
Total consumption -............--.-o5looo oales
Ia sne present Year, ls50-Jl. the domcs-
TIC consumption Is -...-----.--.--.----i5cet' 'aies
And the export is admitted By Tie Unioa''
correspondent TO be equal in weight 20 the
whole amount OF the import. The deh-
cheney OF consumption Is therefore $4,000
bales while the population has increased at
least ten per cent. Nevertheless, The
Uploa'S correspondent assures his readers
that the consumption Of cotton has increased
under the tariff of l-i6 no less than seventy
per cent. IL may perhaps object "a The
comparison OF ls47-S. because within the
date. though previous 20 the influence OF the
tariff of lol6 and We VIII therefore furnish
4 comparison Of me last wear of the conf
promise and the last OF the tariff of 1912
Ia lsil-a The domestic consumption was 20 So bales
And ne import Of cotton goods
In l>4t-7. The domestic consumption.
Ncrth and South. had already Ieachc1
~ least 10000 bales ant T. his been
estimated. n ne c0--e rs Of TIE iaiot
fiSs.f, AZ ns less ilan- 7 =
We are unable TO put our hands upon the
imports of that year, but the amour. OF
thar and the preceding one was nearly
S30,00O00o, the hall OF which would be
nearly $1,000 600, and thus. while the TO-
nestle consumption of cotton had increased
about e'shty per cent. the import had grown
about thirty per cent, while the population
had increased only fifteen per cent.
We now manufacture less than half a
million OF bales and the quantity exported
being admitted 10 be equal to the import, it
follows that, with similar increase Of popu-
lation, We have an actual and material dini-
nution OF consumption.
Il Is. says TIE Unioas correspondent.
wheu the people Of ! country eOasane more