The Washington union., 1857-06-11

The above table, though in itself conclusive, is not
the only data from which some ulterior purpose on
the part of the British panicmakers is made patent
to every one. We have other proof at hand. The
motive power of British cotton factories has in
creased within few years, follows
Horse power -27, 2lS, or 20 per cent.
Spndles- -------- 4 S64 S64, or 80 per cent.
Looms s--------G -G7 760, or 22 per cent.
During the same period the cotton crop of the Uni
ted States has increased at the rate Of Al per cent
The pretext is therefore, too shallow to deceive any
one at all conversant with the subject But may
there not be other points upon which the lecturers
of the Supply Association of Manchester have not
yet touched? One of the speakers at the meeting of
May 13 remarked that the cotton question 'involved
the prosperity the reverse of all the capitalists
and operatives employed in the cotton manufac-
lures !" and Mr. Smith declared that any serious
interruption to a manufacture in which millions of
consumers Operatives p are interested would be lit
tie less than worlds calamity" May not the in
creased consumption of the material in countries
of Europe whose looms have hitherto been fed from
the factories of Great Britain-in Prussia, Saxony,
Bavaria, Hanover and the other States of Germany,
in patriotic and industrious Switzerland, in Austria,
the States of Italy, Russia, and even in Turkeyex-
ert some influence in spreading alarm among the cot
ton spinners of the British empire? Since the ter
minaton of the Russia bids fair to dispense alto
gether with English cotton yarns, and her Kiachta
barter trade, by which but few years since she
procured her teas and silks in exchange, chiefly for
British cotton fabrics is supplied almost exclu-
sively from her own looms, and the Chinese prefer
the Russian manufacture. AS mills multiply and
cotton spinning increases in these countries and States
in an equal ratio, the expectation of yarns from Eng
land diminishes We, too are successfully disputing
the exclusive monopoly of Great Britain in the cotton
markets of Mexico Peru Chill, Brazil, Uruguay---of
all South America nay, we have literally carried
the war into Africa" for manufactures compete
with those of Great Britain in Morocco, Tripoli,
Tunis, and far off in Zanzibar in the dominons Of
the Imaum of Muscat In the bazaars of the Turk
and the tent of the Arab the genuine Ameyoanos is
preferred to the imitation for which, in these distant
markets, the British manufactures has long and so
successfully prated the name. May not the patriotic
and commendable spirit of cotton-m on-manuhcuring in
dustry which has Of late taken hold of the southern
mind, right in the midst Of the cotton-growing re-
gion, and which even now in the State Of Georgia
yields its dividends Of 20 per cent the capital in
vested have influence in directing these cotton
movements in Englandf Or may not the much-dreaded
worlds calamity !" after ALL prove to be nothing more
than ajust retrbuton visited upon pseudo o-philan-
thropsts and avaricious monopolists by the newly
awakened spirit Of manufacturing industry in the
southern States of the American Unionf