The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-17
FOREIGN DETAILS BIZ THE AFRICA.
Awful Calamity In Turin Destructive Fire
In Lendon-Psblic Anxiety with regard 9
the Cotton Supply In England, &C., &c.

In Lendon-PsbIic Anxiety with regard .
the Cotton Supply In England, &C., &c.
The Cunard Steamship Africa, Capt. Shan
non. which sailed from Liverpool at 3 O'Clock
on the afternoon of the 3lst uIt., and from
Queenstown on the LIST inst, arrived nt New
York at 10 O'Clock on the night Of the 18th
Inst, bringing passengers and the European
mails dated on the 3lst of August.
DREADFUL CALAMITY IN TuRrS.
A letter from Turin, of the 2sth of August
says
A very awful calamity has befallen Turin
this morning. A fire broke out in the Via di
Pc, which resis ted for 4 few honrs the efforts
of the fire brigade, aided by the regular
troops. These latter were carried away by
their zeal for the public cause, and yentured
into the burning buildings with rash cour-
age, to which about u dozen of them fell vic
tins. Colonel Trotti, a brave Piedmontese
officer Major Fiore, of the Carabineers, and
another Major of the Forty-sixth infantry,
while endeaVoring to check the ardor of the
troops, were crushed by a falling wall.
GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.
The London News, of the 3lst of August,
says:
At five o'clock last evening an extensive fire
broke out on the remises of Messrs. Uarri-
son Il Wilson, sugar bakers and refners, sit
uate In Upper Dock street, East Smithfield,
u.
Dock. The premises consisted of an immense
block of brick buildings, covering more than
quarter OF an acre of ground, about eighty
feet In height and fifty feet in width contain
ing NINE stores. The loss of property is esti-
mated at t3o,oo0. Messrs. Harrison 4 Wilson
are insured but whether to the full amount
of their loss Is not known.
STRIKE IN TEE IRON TRADE. ..
The strike in the iron trade In the north of
England still continues, and seven thousand
men are reported 10 be off work in one con-
Germ alone--the Consett and Der went Iron
Works. AtConsett the reduction proposed Is
IN the ease of puddlers I'd. per ton, and in the
case OF rollers ten per cent. In Wales the
rate OF wages is considerably below the
northern district, and in Scotland the work
men have accepted the reduction proposed.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
The London Post, of the 3Ist August,
says:
The private letters addressed to some of our
first house, connected with Mexico, describe
the situation of affairs ~ very deplora BILE
Nobody buys, nobody sells, and no body pay
Beyond the capi tai there is in fact no Govern
mcnt, and the position is said TO be far worse
than during the last three years, when, at
any rate, sixteen out of the twenty States
| were III favor of Juarez, while at present the
republic Is divided into three factions The
cessation Of diplomatic intercourse by Sir
Charles Wyke with the Juarez government
taithonEh for the moment the former could
perhaps not have acted otherwisel is consid-
cred as caiculated to retard matters in stead of
advancing them. The cooperation in that
respect OF the French Minister, NJ. de Saligny,
Is looked upon with miStruSt. since Frances
claims upon Mexico are but trifing. Spain
after England, has the largest claim, and then
follows America.
ABSOLUTE NECESSITY \ corroS suPPLY IN
ENGLAND.
From the London Times. August 30
The supply aud the consumption of the
last two years have been unexam pied All
the markets are glutted with cotton goods
We are expecting an immense increase from
India, and the extraordinary step of the de-
teHtIon Of next yeJr's cotton crop in the Uni
ted States need have no other effect than to
reduce our consumption for one year to two
thirds of the late average. With one years
notice, it is considered We may easily make
ourselves 81 f. for the future
The great fact we have To deal with is one
independent Of tariffs OF blockades, of com
blnation among merchants or mau Il c1urers.
and of every artifice for steamiug OF meeting
the tide of calamity. II is the great fact of
the war itself. That war must employ, on
both sides together. At least half a million
men. There Is not faI from that number al
ready under arms, and the cry isr continually
for more men. The apology for every reverse
Is the want Of reserves to relieve the lohg en-
gagged, to protect tie guns, to save the posi-
ton from being outtiaDied, and TO keep up the
mum berS to the programme. Battles to de-
eide the future of q whole COntenent and 10
figure, as New York papers yainly boosted
among the decisive victories OF the world are
not to be fought with division of % .0tu men.
Dominion is not SO easy glory is not so cheap
The Americans have to screw up their scale
Of ideas much higher than this. How they
are to raise the men ana the money is another
question, but the men must be raised,
and il the eloquerce of the New York Jour
nails is worth the villanous paper upon which
it is printed, the men will be raised and we
shall see every man capable OF bearing arms
responding to the call But ali that will be
50 much strength and 50 many hands taken
away from all the reproductive industries of
America, from cotton, sugar and tobacco
among the rest. Where the disarrangement
OF labor will stop it is not easy TO say. Eng
land and the neighborng coun tries Of Europe
have seen trades and manufactures rise and
fall fly Oft to more tolerant shores or better
fec ted populations flourish and disappaar
Who shall say whether the United States we
used to admire, ana even envy, may not be-
fore long be a page OF history?
1t is not our province toappeal much to the
on terprise Of man ufac turers and the cupiditv
OF capitalists. Werawe TO advise our moneyed
or mercantile readers to ''hold' cotton loud
indeed would be the complaints and dark the
| insinua lions, If cotton were to fan We can
appeal. however, as the Manchester Cotton
Company has appealed, 70 the recognized d,uies
Of the NGte, and to the public. spirit which in
| the Office OF collecting information for com
meTca Of smoothing its way, and rendering
more substantial assistance where none other
l STRAIN
| ing every nerve TO deyelope the cotton cult
| walton i'll India and other soils pronounced
| favorable. so long as this duty seemed to
| depend on the predetermined and unfriendlv
assumption that America might one day
| keep her cotton 10 herself in order to destroy
| our manufactures, Government might be ex-
| cused from interfering i'll the matter We are
| now called on to act, not on Il bare possibility
| or unWarrantable suspicion, but on q plain
matter of fact. At this moment the ex-
| port of cotton from the United States is
| actually prevented and effectually hindered
| by the presence OF cruisers. as well us
| by measures taken by the belligerents
| directly for the purpose, Both sides believe
| it to be necessary TO prevent the sale and ax-
| port of cotton i'll order to starye out the foe
Into the wisdom and practical character of
| this proceeding 1t IL useless to inquire 1t is
| least a notice to to take care of our
| selves, and, if the Governments of North
| America are taking measures to keep all their
cotton at home, the British Government
| surely has an equal obligation to procure it
| elsewhere. In concert with the Manchester
Cotton Company, 1t IS arranging for she i'm
| mediate completion of roads, the construction
of landing and shipping piers, the erection of
cotton gin factories, pressing houses offices
and stores, the scientific investiga ton of the
| cotton districts the opening up of the Coda
| very and, by the way; an increase of the cul-
tivation in Egypt. The Manchester people
| are strong in hope that India only wants a
| little attention TO supply every possible gan
| In the American supplies. In behalf of the
STATE, we tnihk We may say that all the scru-
| pies against interference in mercantile affairs
| Will be waived when the prosperity of the
! country and the subsistence of millions are
| at stake. II the merchants and manufac-
turefs only know and say what ought to be
done, there will be no lack of will to do it on
| the part of government.
sCRAr COTTON FROM ENGLAND FOR AMERICA
[from the London News Aug 3o1
| In paragraph under the above heading
Sta "a
| that nfteen thousand bales OF Surat cotton