Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-11-28

perhaps, 400 tU 500 mill owners in Lancashire
but the cost of working short time is compare
lively so great that it is questioned if there ar
more than ashundred that could afford to resor
to it beyond six months. In corroboration o
this, the fact is cited that numerous masters art
giving notice to the work-peop!e that their mills
will be entirely closed as soon as their presen
stock of cotton is eXhaused.
! In Preston the masters having given notice
of reduction of u per cent. in the wages pait
to their spinners, the latter having determined
on strike. although support in this suicida
course can hardly be expected from fellow-work
men who are on the verge of severe want.
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ON COTTON AND TIKI
1 Mr.. Edmund Potter, in the course of an adj
dress at Carlisle, where about 5000 working
i people are usually employed in the cotton bust
ness, remarked as follows:
/ l need hardly, perhaps, tell you of the posi-.
ton in which we are now with regard to cotton
We get, or have got, eighty-fve per cent 81 oul
cotton from America; but yon know that I'm.
! fortunately & he Americans are at war among
themselves, and we are lot getting bale of cot
ton from them on tne reverse, they are actual
| " buying cotton in Liverpool to send back tc
.he States What is to become of us unless We
can get that eighty-fve per cent. very greatly
made up somewhere else There is every pro-
liability, am afraid, that within the next yeal
4 we can get very little more than five or ten pei
cent, and we cannot get that very quickly. II
we cannot get American cotton on account OF
1 the civil war they are carrying on among them
selves we shall not have bale of American
cotton in England. Unless something occurs t.
settle this silly, foolish, ulischevious and think
A J,nl 81
the working classes in the cotton trade being
| fearful thing to contemplate.
| am an advocate of non-intervention, and
hold that we have no right to interfere with the
tcustoms of other countries. don't wish to say
ianything harsh against America, but you know
as well as do that with high rate of wages
lthey have had cheap provisions, and have been
| a prosperous people but am sorry to say they
[have made very little use Of all the blessings
which Providence has showered upon them-
They have quarreled, and "a very pretty quar-
! rel" it is 1t might have been settled very well
by arbitration among themselves. AS 1 said
when I first addressed the electors, war is the
most serious argument a man can make use
tof-it leads to bleeding head at last, and they
have then to come to reason. You see the tenn
per in which the American war is carried on,
and the state of feeling and you can judge as
we'll as of the probabilities of the cessation
of this miserable quarreing amongst themselves.
| You can judge of our prospects respecting the
cotton supply. We have prospects from India,
| will admit. If you look to India for cotton
and if they will take our goods back for i, as
they will, there is a prospect of trade, but it
must be slow, it cannot come rapidly. The
quantity of bales from India last year was 6OO,-
600; while from America the average is 1,7OO,-
600 or 100000 b.ies. We may get more from
INDIA this yer, but nothing to compensate for
the loss 81 the American trade. Indian cotton
would not keep US at work day and half a
tweek and there is no probability that we can
have cotton from any other source to keep us at
work, unless we get the American war at an
Lend. 1t is question of life and death to us
tit is vital question for all, and we shall have
~ meet it in some way OF other : In conclusion
he appeaed TO the eeect0fs and non -eiecCol 70
! support him as man who could represent their
interests in question, in comparison with which
the extension of the suffrage and the ballot sink
into insigni6cance They could afford to wait
for them, but they could not afford to wait for
cotton.
| ALDERMAN sALoMoNs, N. p, ON THE AMERICAN
WAR.
| Alderman Salomons addressed his constituents
at Deptford, on the 7th, in relation to the pre-
yailing political topics. He thus refers to
American matters:
| The disruption of the American Union could
not but have most prejudicial effect upon
British trade, having regard to the stoppage OF
the cotton supply and the almost total cessation,
at least while the civil war continued, of our
4 own imports from and exports to America, the
former Of which last year amounted to e41 ,O0O,-
900 and the latter to G23,000,000. The state
Of feeling groaoing up in america toac0rd this
country soas as regret0ble as 1t acos unreasonable
our only offence being that zoe WOULD not interfere
IN their quarrel We had no part in the differ
ence, and could not support the South and slave
ry, nor could we join the North against their
southern brethren. The whole difficulty had
arisen from America having endeavored for SC
many years to make slavery and freedom sit
side by side. One would have thought that the
true policy of the North, which protested an
tagonism to slavery, was to let the slave States
60, and form themselves into Union of free
States.
WHY ENGLAND AVOIDS AN AMERICAN 1MBRoGLIo
The London Herald thus remarks:
A war between England and America, at the
present moment, would be a calamity to the
world. In it's immediate and material effects
indeed. it might be gain to this country; fol
4 we should reopen our vast trade with the South
and with the North, since the Morrill, tariff, we
have no trade to lose But such war would
leave behind it feelings fatal to good relations
! between the two countries 1t would throw the
Federal Government into the hands of the des-
potic powers, whose alliance they have always
shown strong disposition to court--a DISPOSE
ton natural to all democracies, and sure to be
fostered by bitter quarrel with England And
such war would force us into closer alliance
with the Confederate States than we ever ought
to entertain with power resting upon the basis
of slavery. Unless manifestly forced upon us
it would be regarded in Europe, and by a sec
ton of our own people, as a war for the sake 81
cotton on behalf of slavery. There is only one
thing worse than such a war; namely, tame sub
] mission to insult, menace and outrage. We are
not little afraid that we may incur both. II
| is possible that, after Lord Russell has alterna-
ted for while between impertinent lectures on
the Federal Constitution and quiet endurance Of
robbery and outrage on British vessels and citi-