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in 1859, and 158,000,000 in 1869, an advance in ten years of 105,000,000, 
about 200 per cent. The receipts from South Africa, which were 14,000,000 
in 1859, had become 34,000,000 in 1869. The receipts from Australia were 
175,081,427 pounds in 1870, and the total importation for the saine year 
was 259,361,963 pounds. 
The following statement shows the sources of this supply and the 
quantity obtained from each country in the past three years: 
1868. | 1869. 1870. 
| Pounds. | Pounds. 3. 
Mites Marois ee ee OF De a. 5.5 sce ancien dee | 22,267,697 | 25, 199, 401 | 23, 686, 090 
Meet hil AMM ee. Ie 35,993,572 | 34,307,882 | 32, 785, 271 
From India. . Sp Ristee eee eelphoelnee sale no er “in =e a at S22 25-25 17, 602, 442 18, 796,578 | 11, 143, 148 
Meet ee a a 155, 745, 199 | 158, 477, 960 | 175,081, 427 
Phakic Spas SDR a lO Oe Se ee a a ci Ale 19, 320,004 | 18,379,522 | 16, 666,078 
8 Ss Se a ae 250, 928, 854 255, 161, 343 | 259, 361, 963 
The number of sheep in the British Colonial Possessions in 1868, as 
officially reported, was 57,734,589, distribated as follows: New South 
Wales, 13,909,574; Victoria, 9,532,511; South Australia, 4,477,445; 
West Australia, 599,756; Queensland, 8,921,784; Tasmania, 1,742,914; 
New Zealand, 8,409,919; Mauritius, 18,057; Natal, 286,264; Cape of 
Good Hope, 9,836,065. 
COTTON CONSUMPTION. 
The manufacture of cotton in this country is slowly increasing, In 
October, 1870, according to the estimate of the National Association of 
Cotton Manufacturers, which was based upon actual returns from a 
large proportion of the mills, there were in operation $47 mills, running 
7,114,000 spindles and consuming 881,564 bales of cotton of 466 pounds 
each, in the year closing at that date—an increase of 3 mills, 350,443 
spindles, and 7,310 bales. Of these mills 738 were in the North, with 
6,851,7 79 spindles, consuming 748,153 bales, and in the South 109 mills, 
running 262,221 spindles, and using 69,067 bales, the remainder being 
used in woolen mills for upholstering, &c. Thus 28 per cent. of the crop 
of 1869 was consumed in this country. In 1860 the consumption of the 
United States was about one-fifth ef the crop. 
In 1820 the proportion of cotton imports of Great Britain furnished 
by the United States was fifty-two per cent.; in 1830, seventy-two; in 
1840; seventy-seven; in 1850, sixty-seven; in 1860, eighty; and in 1870, 
after reduction to a trifling percentage during the late war, it has reached 
fifty-four per cent., with a certainty that the importation of 1871, 
from the great crop of 1870, will nearly restore the old proportion. 
A parliamentary report makes the following statement of the number 
of spindles in the United Kingdom in September, 1870, in comparison 
with the numbers reported at former dates: 
1856. 1861. 1870. 
Engiand and Wales ....-...----.--.--.---- 25, 819, 000 28, 352, 000 36, 023, 120 
CAA ete sec este hehe ase e se ceeube 2, 041, C00 1, 915, 000 1, 210, 847 
es hel 227 es ee ae er 151, 000 120, 000 125, 326 
Total in United Kingdom.-............ 28,011,000 30,387,000 37,359,293 
At 35 pounds of cotton to the spindle, the amount annually consumed 
cannot, for several years, exceed 1,300,000,000 pounds, or less than three 
millions of American bales, and has actually been much less than that, 
With the present supply of India and other foreign cotton, the United » 
States cannot expect to furnish much more than two millions of bales to 
