Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-06-16
THE COTTON TRAnI

We subjon few additional from the report on
the cotton trade OF the United Ss,e recently transmitted
to the House Of Representatives from the State Depart
nent The National Intelligenccr OF Thursday In con-
densed sketch OF the report, says
The seventh tabular comparative statement exhibits
the quantities and values OF cotton manufactures and yarns
exported Great Britain aud from the United States
respectively, to all countries for the last Ave years. show
ing theimmense results OF the cotton in.
dustry Of Great Britain the importance which that branch
ot industry Is assuming in country aud the heavy
bonds In which the two greatest nations in the
eai world arc recognised To keep the peace towards all
persons, but especially towards each other-the one
the great producer the other the great consumer OF the
staple which gives food to millions"
The following are the extracts from the report:
SwrrzKRLASD.-four.6fths of all the cotton consumed
by the factories Of Switzerland is estimated be mpor-
ted Mt avrc whence IL passes through France by railway
being burdened with heavy charges In the transit In
1883 the quantity thus received amounted to nearly g.
oOooOo pounds in lS+S it had reached nearly II 900
600 lbs The entire receipt OF cotton in SiS -
600 pounds. In 1851 il amounted to % Oa5725 lbs OF
which l3,729,320 lbs were from the United States In
1852 Switzerland received through France I5sl6,775
lbs. in 1873, l5,Sl5,II3 lbs and in 1854, li9Is PSI
lbs, according 10 the "Id6iedH General oi France for
those years
Imports from the United States into Switzerland arc
made for the most part through the frontiers
Bernie Socure, Basle and Argove bordering on France
and the southern part Germany.
severe restriction on the importation of cotton and
also at tobacco Switzcr hnd we'll the reception
10y the United States OF Swiss wares and manufactures in
return, is the vexaous and expensive tranaee especial
y through France. The oppression of this NAV
be Inferred from the fact that the annual aggregate value
Of merchandise which transit tolls paid proceeding
from Switzerland is 1888 nearly thirty millions of dol
lars and the value o that proceeding to that Republic
than half much Switzerland sent in trasitu Ia
France cotton tissues 10 the value Of nearly three millions
OF dollars in 1852 and to the value of nearly four millions
in 1853. BY the French tariff such fabrics are excluded
from France for consumption Since ls45 Switzerland is
staud officially TO have quite superseded in the markets
at Germany aud Austria, the yarns Of Great Britain In
1880 that Republic had in operation spindles in
ls4O 600; and in 1880 $50 OOO the number being
more than doubled in twenty years
According to Swiss official house reports that
Republic received cotton from the United States follows
the years specified
Pounds. Pounds.
ls3o. l5,ei2,74e 1882. ....."ls 1905 200
1851. ..........lS,7 29S2O 1853. ....-ls, AL $50
In return, cotton stuis follows, the Uni
ted States:
Pounds. Pounds
1850. .'..''.'..''$s26'S 500 1852. tor, $40
In 1855 Switzerland returned the United States in
exchange for cotton the article manufactured to
the value of S2l2,7OO
RussIA.-Becre the breaking out of the late war the
manufacture OF cotton in the Russian Empire progress
sing with extraordinary activity The number of spndes
exceeded $4,000 producing annually upwards OF To-.
100000 pounds OF cotton yarns The barter trade with
the Chinese at hiachta stimulates this branch of manufac
lures in Russia, the article of cotton vclyets
constitutes the leading staple OF exchange at that
point Tor the teas and other merchandise of China. In
by Great Btin but the Chinese prefer the Russian
uacture and hence the steady progress branch Of
industry Thus the annually increasing mporations Of
the material and consequent diminution in the
quantities OF cotton yarns imported is accounted for
Were cotton admitted, in England free OF duty
the United States would most probably supply in the d.
rect trade the whole quantity consumed in that Empire
Ash Is the commercial reforms in Russia already an
nounced officially and in progress comprehendng
they do the establishment of American houses ST. Pc
tersburg, must necessarily tend TO that result.
There at present in Russia there were previously
TO the 1875 cotton factories employing I27 opera
tves and producing annually 1856 pounds of warns
and corresponding amounts of textiles
SwEDEN.-The importation of cotton in 1851 according
TO Swedish official authorities, amounted TO 1859 42s
pounds, against ,s3243l pounds in s4l. and 1874 434
pounds in 1881. In 1919 these authorities show an
importation OF 100000 pounds, against 9sSS,-
512 pounds in 1852, which latter amount ex-
ceeded that OF the Importation of 1882 by l.
2i7 Oil pounds. and that of by than 900
OOu pounds being the largest OF any proceeding year
lSIs the amount s,O74,O2O pounds. The value Of
cotton manufactures exported from Sweden IN 1850 WAS
! 1000, against Z, 800 only in 1851.
| PoRTuGAL-Ths Kingdom imported lell 45i poun Is
ot cotton in 1885, of which quantity iIOO5 export
eel from the United States and the residue from Brazil
In ls536i according Brazilian official reports Poru.
gal received thence 263 pounds of cotton Her i'm.
ports OF yarn in 1855 l,25 l57 pounds valued at
o., and paying aggregate Of duties OF SOL
l42S4
BRAzIL.-The expectations of cotton from Brazil in
1854 and ls5S'55, stated by Brazilian official au-
| thorities follows;
| Is-~ .~t......-..........2S,4 APO, $40 pounds.
| 1876 ~. ....... I'D, O56 loo pounds.