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   quantity of the value of Lst. 1 036 000 into Egypt, Lst. 1 061 000 into Java, Lst, 1 686 into the West Indies, Lst. 2 300 000 into Brazil, Lst. 3157 000 into China and Hong-Kong, Lst, 3 850 000 into the United States of America, and Lst. 10 518 000 into the East Indies.
   Since this great brandi of trade lias beconie estabi ished on te new systems generally adopted, the consumption of raw cottou in Europe has inreased at the rate of 6 per cent, the year, so that it has doubled every twelve years. There is full reason to believe that this progressive augmentation will continue to hold good for very many years. Vast as is the quantity of manu-factured cotton now produced, it yet is in no degree proportioned to the wants of the popula-tion of Europe. In the United Kiugdom, with a population nf thirty millious. there is annually consumed forty-tìve millions of pounds sterliug. It is only naturai that the inhabitants of other countries, when, by the development of wealth and of civilisation it may be in their power to supply ali their wants, will consumo in any case a proportionate amount. Civilisation advances in these days with rapid steps. Accordingly, the two huudred and fifty millionr of Europeans may, at a period not very distant, require such an amount of cotton goods as, at the ordinary prices, would correspond to more than three hundred and eighty millions of pounds sterling; and to obtain this result we ought to have, not 4 300 000, but more than 13 000 000 of bales of raw cotton. Cause* of the We ought to bear in mind that as, of ali the piion C0DRUm materials discovered for clothing and for many other wants of civilised life, none is more gene-rally useful than cotton, so none is better fitted for beiug easily manufactured. And it is these two properties which impart to cotton the pie