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Show ULKTIIT'TION I Si II IS I TAIN. A hud lictnrp from Over Uv H uter New York, 7. There never was a ; a better timo for an orau'z d elbrt , ,10 stimulate British immigration to California. European mn:l advices continue to bring deplorable evidence of the depressed condition uf British trade. The cotton, iron, coal and other industries are iu a vtvno state than ever before siuce the Crimean war. Newspapers suppress, as far aa possible, these indications of trouble, and the merenntilo s.ud financial failures noted give only a suggestion of the widespread popular distress. In the absence of cheap abundant l.md, thoe thrown out of work have no means of relief through the resort re-sort to farming. Starvation or charity char-ity appear the only alternatives. Wages in cotton mills nava been ie-duccd ie-duccd 20 per cent, within a few youths. A further reduction is threatened. Under tho pressure ol" American competition mills are working work-ing on an average two tnir is time euly. Many have already euhrHy Hupped. In Blackburn, out of 80,000 inhabitants, inhabi-tants, 8,000 to 10,000 cotun operatives aro out of employment. In Oldham the mills have had almost constant losses during eigfiteen 1 mouths. Tho Greenacrea Spinning! compiny, one of the modei working- 1 men's companies, which used to di- 1 vide 30 per cent, lost 10,000 last : quarter. In Preston 314,000 epindlea 1 are idle. The worst is yet to come, : and a fearful crisia ia anticipated by or near Christmas. Wages j reduction in the coal and j iron trade, wero from 15 to 20 per ! cent, during last year. The average wages of Scotch miners is 75 -cents, Welrfh, 85; Northumberland, $1.25. At Wolverhampton and other coal and iron centers hundreds are actually starving. Families are ofteu without food for days in succession. Similar stories como from Sheffield. A reliable re-liable correspondent there says the distreiiB is deplorable aud harrowing to behold. He never witnessed any thing like the present scarcity and poverty. Sheffield also is feeling the severity of American and German competition. A 'ear ago in England building trades were comparatively brisk; in some cases workmen actually actu-ally were on a strike for better wages. Now they are glad to get work even at lower rates than then. The tin trade of Cornwall is also in a state ot great feUgnation. The same is true ol the pof.erieB of Staffordshire. No uiuuauj uuiu- ii:il. 1UU UCi I lUilL can he said of any is that they are working full time and just managing to live. Even farmers complain of (lu; hard times and ot the foreign sup plies of grain, meat and other staple fuo.ia which compete with English pintiucts. Notwithstanding thes1, prices are high, even potatoes being i5U.25 to $1.50 per bushel. |