Miilioas of lbs. 



France ...... 33 



Ghirnian Customs Union . . .95 



Other Gei-maa Countries not included in the Union, ) 



and Austria . . . ■ / " 



Switzerland . r . . . .13 



]\rediterranean Countries . , . .20 



Ptussia ....... 12 



S^reden and Denmark . . , -0 



Spain and Portugal . . . . .15 



C3cpe of Good Hope and Australia . . .6 



United States and British. America . . .170 



587 



A calculation made in tlie Hcoiiomisf. a year or two ago, gave 

 tlie following as tlie j^roljaMe consumption : — 



Millions of lbs. 



Uolland and iN'et^erlands .... 108 



Germany and North Europe . . . . l7o 



France and South of Europe . . . .105 



Great Eritain . . . . . .37 



United States and British America . . .175 



Total 600 



But tMs estimate is too Kigli in some of the figures. Great Br::: : 

 we know, from the official tahles only, consumes 34.000.0'.jU ^ - 

 annually; the United States and British America not s: ::.;;:: :.> 

 set down by several millions; for the official returns c: :-.: :_::- 

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

 three years ending June. lS50, of less than 154 000.000 lb?. ; :-X- 

 though a writer in a recent number of "H : - M : ::„: s 

 Magazine," ^^ew York, (usually a well-inf on:. _ . :: ..:::... as- 

 sumes a consumption of 200j000j000 lbs., for the Xorth American 

 States and Pi'ovinces. 



The quantity of coffee produced being greater than the con- 

 sumption thereof, the growth of it be-comes less remunerative, 

 and consequently we may look for a decrease in the - : '.y. 

 Ceylon, as well as the West Indies generally, British a:: . : :c-j:i. 

 are likely to direct their attention to some more pr :::: .: -:a^_: 

 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 mar; ra-.rs 

 for expecting a diminished production in Java, the Ucx: !ar_r.-t 

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

 pected decrease in the quantity of coffee produced wiU 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 extead the production of coffee, 

 there are many new quarters, besides the existing countries in 

 wiiich it is largely cultivated, wliere it could be extensively grown. 



