1'2 COI-LT.L. 



Millions of Ibs. 

 France . . .33 



: man Customs Union . .95 



Other German Countries not included in the Union, \ . ~ 



and Austria } 



Switzerland . . . . . .13 



Mediterranean Countries . . . .20 



Russia 12 



Sweden and Denmark . . . . .20 



Spain and Portugal . . . . .15 



Cape of Good Hope and Australia . . .6 



United States and British America . . .170 



587 



A calculation made in the Economist, a year or two ago, gave 

 the following as the probable consumption : 



Millions of Ibs. 

 Holland and Netherlands 108 



Germany and North Europe 

 France and South of Europe 

 Great Britain 

 United States and British America 



175 



105 



37 



175 



Total.. 600 



But this estimate is too high in some of the figures. Great Britain 

 we know, from the official tables only, consumes 34,000,000 Ibs. 

 annually ; the United States and British America not so much as 

 set down by several millions ; for the official returns of the im- 

 ports of coffee into the United States show an average for the 

 three years ending June, 1850, of less than 154,000,000 Ibs. ; al- 

 though a writer in a recent number of "Hunt's Merchant's 

 Magazine," New York, (usually a well-iuformed periodical,) as- 

 sumes a consumption of 200,000,000 Ibs., for the North American 

 States and Provinces. 



The quantity of coffee produced being greater than the con- 

 sumption thereof, the growth of it becomes less remunerative, 

 and consequently we may look for a decrease in the supply. 

 Ceylon, as well as the West Indies generally, British and foreign, 

 are likely to direct their attention to some more profitable staple. 

 A diminished production may further be expected in Brazil, con- 

 sequent on the extermination of the slave-trade and the more 

 sparing exertion of the labour of the slaves. In Cuba the want 

 of labour is so much felt that large engagements have been entered 

 into for the importation of Chinese ; and there are many reasons 

 for expecting a diminished production in Java, the next largest 

 coffee-producing country. The necessary consequence of this ex- 

 pected decrease in the quantity of coffee produced will be, to 

 bring the produce as much below the wants of the consumers as it 

 is now above, and this must again result in an enhancement of 

 prices in process of time. 



If it were thought desirable to extend the production of coffee, 

 there are many new quarters, besides the existing countries in 

 which it is largely cultivated, xvhnv it could be extensively grown. 



