COLTIVAZIONE DEL COTONE
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   Baio*
   Erigi a ini during the sanie periods
   was l'or 1860......... 2 305 510
   And in 1861 ................2027 923
   In the first seven nionths of the pre-
   year it has only beeu..... 471182
   And, whereas the United States were wout to i rlftflRA (lf
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   luruisii to tne European manufactures more then l'nces 80 per cent on the immense mass of the raw cottoti for European consumption, iu the present year they have furnished little more than 2 per cent.; consequcntly, the prices of the raw cotton, from whatcver quarter supplied, are more than triplcd.
   The following are the prices sueli as they were iit Liverpool on the 30th of October, 1862, and on the sanie day of the previous year:
   CLASSI FICAZION
   Q U A L 1 T Y Fair Middling Ordinarg
   1862 1861 1862 1861 1862 1861
   Se a Island .... 46 20 42 187, ... 177,
   Uplund..... 25 12»/, 217* 117, 19 11
   Mobile...... 26 12'/, 22 H74 19 11
   Now OrloacB . . . 27 123/, 22'/, 12 20 117,
   Pernainboco. . . . 22 ¦/, 12-/, 217* il8/, 19 1174
   Bahia...... 21 127. 20 il3/. 18 il
   Maranham .... 22 -/, 12'/, 217 2 12 19 117,
   Egyptian..... 21 13'/, 19 13 18 12
   / Broaoh . . 169/4 8 153/4 VI, 15 7
   Surat Dhollerah 15'/, ru 1474 7 13 674
   Oomrawattao 153/. TU 15 7 1 1374 674
   i ne iL/iigiisii nave macie aiiu effort to increase the importatoli of cotton from the East Imlies, and they have already increased it, In 1861 they imported into England from that country 369 000000 lbs., or above 922 000 bales, G. Devincenzi  Upwe Complete, Voi. 1.
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