THE VALUE OF TURKISH COMMERCE TO ENGLAND.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 18, 9 January 1878, Page 2

THE VALUE OF TURKISH COMMERCE TO ENGLAND.

3>ht> export* of Great Uritnirt* wcrto last year 41500,000' to Kussia, and I^OOO.OM 1 ' to Turkey. Groat Britain-has therefore a iar#o pecuniary stake at issuer, an* we shaft confine oftr remorks ta: tfiis.. Hussia; write* the Mossts Sa«m«l Dunnes nnd Co., Irtvcrpool» "i ■ their circular;- has- n prohibitory tariff , which sorioosly curta-rnr oufferpof l to that Stnte^in fi\ct , ft;? '• «ft ftbUrnihi versatile writer phrases it, ."she 1 Ivhs- bolted her Abo.* a^iiinst British industry by raising her import duiro* nnd fWoriivn horhomo industry' It tfiinnot, tiierfclbre, surprise our nßricuhunvl ruttdortr that m.-Wiufno turera- rn-o opposed to Kimta* having a preponderittiii)?;! iofluontfO IteroaftiT in Turkey, or oven n slice of 1 Turkish tonilory, contending that such ini^ioiicc or such nrq'ipsifion, would bo followed' by t\»o almost futuro banishment of British nwnufiiutnrorH Irom thir fjroat Eastorn market, .^nd thin would bu tlio enso wcro ltiissiu to «tqiH?c Conftantiimnlo. It is idle to suppose that slio wouK'l Iwvo a different 'liscfth policy i^i" rlrtT Si M its or Maimorit to tlifrt vvlii«h rruw prcVuil* in hor lorritorics' bord«mi^.ort^hß BfovU nud j Baltio Serif.- IMio LViimj Ministers of Kn^lnnd durinj; lln> uenoration, ILisrwl and Paliuor>fbit/6iads ono atid D^srucH, and Iv«t — but tihv* HictUo«st-»Bcel, lmA*o alike been sidictloutf l& cfcofo mif mHr> Ikuts, to IhiJ newoutletD-forßritish'inanu' focf'urcs,-and vtoM it not ur^uto n dcoadcuco of nHtuftt) ambitiory^nnd inability to npprecintu her tru« intfirfcsU, if Great Bfitnin now failed'to uphold tlio intttewt* of her citi^ona wiio oro embarked in Ttfrkidi comnicrrt«. A great und i«K mfirltat'lfko' 'J?nrk^y could' not bo roplhuod, 80'ki'cn is intornhtionul compolilion. An Kimlish 1 M-ibi^tfy,.. whntotor eo+or, tliMt \W)uld' nlloW so-valuablo nnd increasing n branch of our carport trado, involving. jBfi,OW,(XX) per anniAn (the rfa'der- should ca^italinu^ tho xn\\& — our .estinuito vrotthl' bo £12*),("K)l),000)? ovon'to be jeopardised, v^ould incur a- rtrvo responsibility\ To»day aomo persons-- ex* pressed a conlWont opinion Hint tho ro-lationa-berVrvoiv Hu.^iiv nnd' Turkey and' Kti^wiu and Gteiit Britniii, vrould. not bo inlenuptted'lry won- Wotlo-rtot, however, slmrcriii it.fortlio reason that a bettor opportunity mny not ooour to" llussia Vo o')rry?out her 1 lon^eliorislicd designs of gaining Const-rntinoplev Jn supplotnttiltmg tlifl.se reumrks in thrir'circula^'of the SSbli August, tho M'twsrs Bovvnes* shite ibnt'o^ir cotton trade with Turkey proper is greater thatr-wiih* otiy* other* foreign ,aountryv