Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-15

hot IOI Nudk he caliel uetSNAe
platitudes." The weather they nave
always with them" in Great Britain no
less than in this country, as ceaseless
and suggestive topic of conversation.
Latterlv it has been behaving 80 capri
clousiy in those islands that residents
in the country, either permanently or
for season, have often been tempted
to envy their brethren and sisters who
are in popu!ous city-pent." Sugges-
tons for saving crops, advertisements oil
waterproof clothing, specifics Tor ca
tarrh and rheumatism met the eye on
every side during the summer IN Eng
land, and simultaneously on this
side OF the Atlantic hardly drop oil
water had fallen for many weeks upon
that great central belt which runs across
the United States, and is planted with
the crops which supply many nations
with no slight portion Of the corn, maize,
and tobacco they consume. Above all
the other States, Kentucky, Virginia,
Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
had been suffering from a drought oil
almost Australian intensity. Inc
tobacco crop was said TO be al
most ruined, and it was not
little significant that for a time leaf to-
bacco was being sent back from Liver
pool 10 Richmond and Louisville be-
cause the price OF the staple was lower
relatively in the English market than in
those parts OF the United States where
it is GROVE. A decrease IN the con-
sumption OF the tobacco in England et
four ounces per head OF their existing
population represents loss to the reye'
me of not less than one million sterling
in the year, and they are now threaten
ed with such rise OF the price OF tobac-
co. which is taxed in addition, at almost
ninety cents per pound-that many
laboring man and operative may have
this winter to diminish his consumption
Of almost the only luxury within reach
of the poor. 1t will be admitted, then,
that the weather was at the time fit
ting topic Of uneasy conversation and
doubtful presage all over the world. In
addition TO enhanced rates for tobacco,
which will compel many OF the smaller
manufacturers to discontinue work, it is
not improbable that the English labor
iny classes NAV be also threatened with
dearer loaf, and with rise in the
price OF bacon and ham, in
consequence OF the partial failure in the
maize crop, upon which all the food-pro-
dueing qusdrupeds OF the United States
depend iOr their maintenance. II such
be the experience with which the dark
and dismal months OF the coming winter
are to make the English poor familiar,
great impetus will perhaps be given to
the irozen-meat.importations from Aus
tralia, which afforded them some relief
upon the Goth OF last January, when the
metropolis associated from the country
bv a sudden and unprecedented fail OF
snow, upon "White-Tuesday," the 18th,
followed by a hurricane OF wind. Upon
that occasion a cargo OF frozen sheep
came OPPORTUNITY to hand, brought
hither in excellent condition, from Mel
bourne, Australia, which commanded
ready and remunerative market. II, as
seems not improbable, short crop OF
maize in the United States should lead
to an advance in the value OF American
meat, and especially OF the hog produc
ton OF Chicago and Cincinnati, many
ewes in England will be turned to Aus
,ralia, in the hope that she may be able,
in some degree, to supplement the de-
ticienCy. The Australasian colonies con-
tain lees than three millions of
human beings, and more than
seventy million heal OF sheep,
while in the British Islands
there are more than thirty.tive million
human mouths to be led, and less than
thirty million sheep. During the month
OF July one hundred and fifty tons Of
meat, partly beef and partly mutton,
were shipped from Sydney, Australia, to
England. The meat was frozen and
then wrapped in calico, previous to being
slowed in the steamers refrigerating
chambers. Attempts of this kind will
be watched with interest in this countay
because relatively TO her population,
Australia is the best customer for Eng
lish manufactures. Hitherto she has
been guiltless OF those mercenary opera
tons by which syniicates OF SPECTATORS
sometimes in America and some
times in England, have sought
artiticially to raise the price Of
meat and of cotton, by buying no
these staples in prodigious quantities
and holding them until they touch fig
ures which, If realized, will afford much
profits to the speculative 'cornercrS. !"
Trading upon the anticipated failure OF
the wheat harvests in England and
France, some gigantic operators in this
country are in the habit OF holding and
keeping back from market an enormous
amount of American cereals. In like
manner a Liverpool ring" has got pos
session OF all the available raw cotton in
the market, which the lancashire mill
owners refuse to purchase at theprices
demanded. 1t will ba seen that the de-
Panience OF England upon the supplies
OF raw material furnished to it by the
United States is already adoriing OPP
pnrtunities to spectators, whose oPer-
atoms, despite the denunciations OF pub.
liz opinion. cannot be frustrated by the
English otherwise than by the infowing
contributions OF wheat, flour and cot
ton from other countries.