MILLING AS A RUINED INDUSTRY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
should like to add one or two facts to what Mr. Booth has well said in his letter (Spectator, August 15th) replying in a nticipation to Mr. Platt's letter in the same issue. Since English millers discovered that their plant was not up to date, say fifteen years ago, this industry has developed by leaps and bounds, so that Liverpool and Lancashire generally may be said to be unrivalled in milling, and they are working to a handsome profit. The personalty of one Liverpool miller was recently declared at 2220,000, and that of two brothers who lately died at nearly 2400,000, notwithstanding admitted losses, through the "Leiter deal," of 260,000. The trade is almozt wholly independent of foreign flour, and millers fear competition among themselves much more than with the United States. They do not "cease to mill," but increase the output every year. There is no" dumping," and for many years American millers have not consigned any flour to the -United Kingdom.—I am, Sir, &c., R. J. GDasctow. Liverpool.
[We cannot publish any more letters on the milling trade, the prosperity of which under Free-trade has been fully estab- lished.—ED. Spectator.]
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