110 



SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 



lbs. From that time it has gradually increased, and in 1838 it rtiche.H 

 5,851,340 lbs. ; in 1S39, 4,603,799 lbs. ; in 1840, 4,810,387 lbs.* Under the 

 last year of the late Tarift" we received from England, of wools not costing 

 io exceed 7 cents per pound, 1,188,800 lbs., and of those exceeding 7 

 cents. 28,406 lbs.; and from Scotland, of the cheaper cla.ss, 21,132 Ibs.f 

 This, however, only shows a sui-plus in Jcind, not in quantity. The Eng- 

 lish short wools have, as has been abundantly shown by the testimony 

 of her most eminent manufacturers, | a harshness and want of felting proj)- 

 crties which render them unfit, unmixed with a better stamp of foreign 

 wools, for any but the very lowest description of cloths and stuffs, such as 

 blankets, baizes, army cloths, flushings or bearskins, &c. Nor will they 

 make prime articles, even of these low descriptions. England, therefore, 

 after consuming such portions of these wools as she can, in the manufac- 

 ture of the above-named and similar articles, and by mixing them, in the 

 nature of an alloij, with better foreign wools in a low class of fabrics, such 

 as flannels, livery and sergeant's cloth, etc., exports the balance to such 

 nations as da-e foolish enough to purchase it.|| 



The following Table, compiled from ofiicial sources, from Bischoff"'8 

 " Comprehensive History of the Woolen and Worsted Manufactures, 

 &c.,"§ gives the imports of England every fifth year from 1810 to 1840; 



TABLE No. 8. 



* Bischoff, Table 6th. Appendix. t Report of the Secretary of tiie Treasury, 1846. 



J .-^06 Bischotr, vol. ii.. pp. 107, 153, 1.54, 163, 173, 175, 176, &c. The testimony here alluded to, or so 

 »b«tract of it will be given in a subsequent Letter. 



II If these sound like strong expressions, I have to say that I shall be prepared to prove thorn, and shaU 

 «o do, it a subsequent Letter, from the testimony of the first manufitcturers of Kncland before a Committee 

 of the H'.iuse of Lords. Nor were the facts dOgputed by an interest represented before the same Committee, 

 irho had every inducement to do so, if they could be sustained in it 



i Sf e Appendix of the above work, vol. ii. Misled by the title on the rmcr. I have nowhere before 

 fiven the proper desismation lo Mr. Bischotl-s work. Wherever the authority of this genthrnan is giw 

 rott V Ui J^derstand that it is der.-.->d from the work just named. Pubhshed Lciwion, 1842. 



