Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-23
Co,,nn nnd stnrrntion.

! 8eQum6ut OF lLuglhuQ blIiCS TIC teeAS @SAs.ss~ -
hr. Gregory's motion relative to mediation 10
American affairs Before that there seemed to
prevail a secret hope that some mode OF Tehei
would be devised in season TO arrest the lmpend-
/ ing distress of the manufacturing dlsuicbs
Perhaps the Southern rebellion would be put
down-or in default of that, perhaps the North
would not persist in the effort 10 bring the dis
affected States to their former allegiance Now
however, the feeling among the English people
may be described as approaching 10 CONDITION
of hopelessnsss, nitigated only by belief that
ultimately the needed supplies OF cotton Will be
obtained from India. or some other part OF the
British daninions Therefore, for the time be1
jng. all attention is directed 10 those means for
temporary relief so earnestly called for by the
increasing distress in the manufacturing towns.
! Ofsbout 600 hands employed IN Lancs-
shire, Yorkshire and Cheshire, more than one
half are wholly out of employment, or working
on short tine, and the consequences is an enor-
nous diminution in the earnings of the cotton
spinners now, compared with the business
done before the American war-said to approx
innate to at least Gl50,000 week directly,
though the reduction of earnings in other en-
ployments consequent Epon this prostratiOn of
manufacturers probably doubles the amount
In the single town of Manchester at last &C.
counts, there were more than 10 500 hands to-
tally destitute Of the means of obtaining hveli-
hood and this numbeT was increasing at rapid
ratio.
Wish such prospects before them, and with
such feeble hopes Of relief from any events tran
spring on this side of the Atlantic, it is impos-
sibie for the English people to remain longer in
active. While measures are everywhere on foot
designed to secure subscription for the relief of
present destitution, more urgent effort is max
! ing to encourages the growth of cotton in India.
/ Mr.. p Saunders, late cotton commissioner to
/ Upper India, publish a communication, in
" hch he contends that the establishment by the
manufacturers of agencies in the tton-groWing
! districts, would increase in one season the pres
/ ent production by million of bales and in pro-
| cess of time would produce sufficient cotton to
supply all the wants Of England. BE says, fur
| ther:
at is too late to increase, by any measure
the production of cotton this year ia lydia, but
an immediate establishment Of agencies, with
| cotton screws, etc, would enable the msnufac-
tuyeTs to obtain the cotton, that has been grown,
and forward Il in a clean state. They would
then be ready to contract for q large increase Of
cotton in 1863
Nothing is more simple or more easy than
the establishments of such agencies An agent
has but to establish msef at a cotton mart,
erect building for his cotton and his screws,
and employ a respectable Eurssisn or European
acquainted with the language, and proceed forth
with TO make his purchases The principal points
where such agencies ought to be established in
BeTar and the Northwest Provinces are MiTzs-
pore, JuhbulpOre, Cslpee Banda, CswnpoTe
Futtehghur, EtaWsh and Patrss.
90 The government of India is making roads
in every direction, the railroads are fast sp-
preaching completion, the rulers of native
States are removing the transit duties on cot
ton; they are even making roads through their
territories and the capitalist alone is wanted to
cauge the urOducti0n of cOttOn -
Ia Parliament, too, the earl Of ShaftesbIuy
and the duke Of Argyle have made elaborate
statements, in which the latter said
q Next 20 the Southern States of America,
believe British India affords the field most IA
vOTable for the growth of cotton, not only as to
climate and soil, but also in respect to the con
dition Of labor My honorable friend has men
toned Africa. the Holy Land, and other places
ia which cotton may be grown In some of
those places the condition Of labor is adverse to
it but when the communications are opened in
India the condition of labor is such that no
other country in the world can so favorably
compete with the Southern States Of America
l have great hopes that in few years, when the
resources Of India shall have been more devel-
oped we shall depend on that country to a much
larger extent than we have hitherto depend on it
for our supply of cotton. Hear, hear There
are no official accounts at the command of The
government, and no machinery to enable them
to afford accurate information on the subject of
the present cotton supply; but / have heard
from private sources that the quantity of that
article on its way to this country far exceeds
the quantity sent over at any season in any
former year There can be little doubt that one
of the results of the war in America viii be that
shall hereafter depend more than we have
hitherto done on the British dominions for the
supply of cotton necessary for the msnufact ures
of this country"
Till Of late, when the future action of England
in respect to American affairs, seemed more IN
certain, the English manufacturers resolutely
refr8ined from committing themselves to any
scheme fostering the'grewth of cotton which de-
pended for success on the continuance of the
American war Conscious that sudden open
ing Of the bleckaded ports would bring their
newborn enterprise into disastrous competition
with the former sources of supply, capital has
been withheld from any new speculation. Bat
as this state Of incertitude is in any degree re-
moved, and especially as manufacturers more in
cl.ne TO the opinion that the cotton growing In
terest of the United States has received a shock
from which it may take long years to recover,
India IS looked to with higher degree of conf
dence.