GIUSEPPE DE VINCENZI
   frica: Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, Liberia, Senegal, the Cape Verde lslands, St. Thomas, the Canary lslands, St. Helena, Reunion, Natal, Al-giers, and Egypt; in America: Venezuela, Equador, Perù, Uruguay, Brazil, British Guiana, French Guiana, the Bahamas, Barbadoes, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Hayti, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Bermuda; in Europe: Russia, Turckey, Greece, the lonian lslands, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Italy.
   Now, as regards Asia, no great hopes can be entertained of Ceylon; we encounter there the same class of difficulties met with in India; and the provinces subject to Turkey, though posses-sing a soil admirably adapted for the cultivation of cottou, are unable to enter on that cultivation to auy considerale cxtent, in cousequence of the civil and politicai conditious in which they are now placed. As regards Oceania, it is ueedless to speak of Tahiti and Timor, any more than of the Philippine lslands, which are suffering from ali the evil consequences of the Spanish gover-nmental and colonial maladministration. New Zeland is not placed in couditions so favourable as the Australiau colonies; and these last are unable to grow cottou because labour fetches a very high price, and can be more profitably employed in other wayis. The Commissioner from Queensland, Mr. II. Marsh, stated at the conference held on the 13tli of August, that the wages of a common rural labourer in Australia range from Lst. GÌ to Lst. 80 sterling the year, and that with labour at such a price it is impossible to grow cotton. In Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, Liberia, Senegal, the Cape Verde Lslands, St. Thomas, the Canaries, St. Helena, and Bermuda, in some cases from their politicai conditions; in others, from their low state of civi-