Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-02-13
TFrom the London Tires, Jan. l0.l
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

AND AMENllA.
column OF figures in small type is not usually a
very al!uring spectacle, and yet we paohshea " STATE
nent in this form Oh Tuesday last, which contained
intelligence as Interesting rs even the least laborlous
| of readers need desire TO find. The facts thus put Oh
| record explained the whole commercial dealings OF
the United States, and showed the relations III WhicL
In Americans stood to the several traclhg countries
uf the world rs regards that Interchange OF advun
rages from which national Ties ought NECESSARILY I"
surinr. The account Tas :iadG up TOR he tscai year
last past, enc is results VIII he i1unG sitikihS III Tile
extreme.
rbs whole of the domestic exports Of the United
States-thnt is TO say, the entire amount OF the goods
actually produced in America aud sold 10 foreign
couutries-is represented, for the period referred 10,
by n money va.ue of $50. 3S6. $50. These exports
ar. divided among 50 different States, or, To put t!e
case in more familiar language, the trade III lnc
| Union i. maintained by six and thirty cusi"rncrs.-
Europe, Asia, Africa, aud America have all OF Them
| accounts with this great Transatlantic firm, but
when We coule 10 thu comparison OF Une account Win
another, that the result appears most worthy OF note.
OF the 39 communities thus dealing wi'h the United
States, IS take, in the aggregate, goods TO The amount
Of Sll4,79d i4I; so That there remains an account OF
1895, ~, $50 10 be KEEP, by one customer only, and
that customer is Great Britain. 4 proportion, IN Tact.
of American produce litiie less than two thirds OF the
whole was exported les; year from the States TO va
rious dominions OF the British Crown; for, If We
speak in round numbers and put The entire export
trade of the States II! something above $500, OOU, OoU,
our own dealings with theln are found 10 be only Ii
little short OF 500. OdO, 900. They might lose NIL the
custom they have got except ours. and still keep 10
yether pretty we'll two lIlrCs OF their business.
1t matters not to what items We turn, thore is sti!l
Great Britain 1T the head of the list. The principal
exports Of America are cotton, corn. tobacco ana
gold. Of gold we took upwards ot 33,UOu,CtO dol
lars; of tobacco, though the dlsproportioh Is not quits
so wide as ia the other cases, We took an amount
greater 10 valae than any other State; OF cotton we
took just about twiGe as much as the rest OF the
world together. In the articles of grain and Hour, the
distribution is still more striking. Out OF eooo ooo
bushels of wheat exported tusing round numbers) we
took more than G,OU0, 600; out of lO,O00,OCO bushels
of Indian corn we took more than 9~,0O0,00O; and Of
3, SUI, 600 barrels Of -four we took more than 2~,0O0.OUo.
The next customer TO ourselves 10 France III all inc
items except that of tobacco, where the national pre-
elections Of Germany give it a preponderauGe. In
fact, it is noticeable that both Germany and Holland
surpass even Great Britain in the amount OF this pro-
ducs which they absorb, though they iaii short OF us
when it is reduced to MONEY value. Russia does next
to nothing. her whole dealings being worth only some
oO, QUO dollars, Of which moro than Gve-sixths ale
in cotton. The trade Of Spain makes 8 respectable
figure, hut this is due in great part TO Cuba.
The reader will irqnise, however, WHISTLER there IS
not another side OF tic account, ard whether The L.
States are not customers OF ours! Undoubtedly they
are, and very excellent customers too. We stand,
indeed, ut the head Of the list in this respect, rs well
IA ths Other. Daring the fiscal year 1876, the United
| States imported goods from other countries 10 the
value altogether of sJld, 1922. and of this amount
almost ~oiic.laif, or upw ards OF l5G,OUO ,Ou0, they spe!It
with us. After ourselves comes France, rs before,
while, for the rest, the Americans get their sugar
mostly FROM Cuha, their ten from China, and their
coffee from Brazil. Bat here 0cri;rs another nuiHbie
feature. II will have been seen that upon the Whole
the total exports OF the SiGtes, Notwithstanding their
MAGNITUDE, were somewhat less in value than The To-
tai IMPORTS. To the Turner, however, which have
been limited in orr statements Ia domestic produce
SOLELY, must now be added the value of foreign goods
re expOrted-n SUN represented by Slo 3S,5iS-so
that ON thu 6na, seiileinen, there is u balance of
c,>.a than 10 DuU ONO in favor Df the erDDrts, But
this is due 10 the goodness of our own account
Though we sell so largely to the States, we buy mere
largely still, and in this respect are far ahead OF their
other customers. Brazil aud Spain, Including Cubs,
take 40 little from The Productions of the Union that
the two together have a trade balance OF more than
$40 OGU, 900 in their favor. Tho accounts from France
and China are or the samc side. and these four, with
two South American States, make up altogether a la
lance against the tuiou of S50,9l5,Sl2. The whole
vi this, however, 10 all but iiqu:datcd through tile
account Of Great Britain: Tor, If to our purchases OF
native American produce are added hose "f foreign
goods made through America, we find onr"siVts
debtors on the general GaiauCs 10 tho amount ul
$j0, OC9, 2SI.
Now. event if We SCI aside foc the moment tho tiss
of consanguin,ty anh common descent. together with
the iucessant mter,aiXiuIe Of pcrsonRl interests
which emigration produces, the merely commercial
bonds established! between two communities ;hus
situated, present sn aspect almost marvellous. What
increases, too, The wnndeiS of the view, ia The fact
hat scarcely any Limit eau b." put ~ The expansion
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at the map of the United States will show that
scarcely onn half OF the territory Of the Union is ms
yet brought under cultivation. Ii The reader Should
wish to gel souI. tangible idea Of tho scope thus left
available for progress, let hin take n district Of
which Il good deal ha, been lately said and wri;tcn-
that Of Kansas. Kansas ia only one oil tile prrvincrs
into which the American Union has the privilege of
expanding itself we.twcrd; indeed, il is net nearly so
| exfrusiv. IA the conter,n'pous territory OF Nebraska.
Yet this Kansas this dehaI i'll. strip If land witch
sinv. hoid--s and fr-us,il-rs a,e fch;in. !"r-iS IN
is, { rs iarsr rs Gr&' Brain ana | -!sui pur :"
r..b.t. Wiat .im's ca l.: vi L" ii- productive
n-,s OF a country like iA,s? .As 20 corn n: rrtad
s,rF,, il is sal ;hnt wo ave uA'y ttr,'n'ng 10 CHS
c,v.r rha capa.i iIies Of me Moth Western pra
y;uc.s, and eve with regard 10 cotton. IN Article OF
/. much more excepiiona! sind. prospects are 10"
held out OF al acceptable Increase IN the tsid Q! sup
rly. No wonder. :Esc, Ina: TIE relations o: iwosEcn
nations a. G.sa; Britain and America should lind
expression in ks for bridging ihe mighty OCEAN
between ~them-Horks which in themselves pLriaSe
Of the character of prodigies. The steamers Of the
two countries have brought New York nearer
London than Edinburgh wss but u few generations
ago, sDd the project for rendering this communication
absolutely instantaneous, is now assuming the ap.
pearanee OF reality and success. 1t 10 scarcely pos
sib!e to reprsss nStonishment at the amount Of in.
tercourse between this country and the States, even
Is it actually stands; what proportions il may acquire