110 PEODTJCTIOlf AOT) EXPOETS OF COTTOI«. 
West Indies, 173 lbs. ; Brazil, 181 lbs. ; Egypt, 306 lbs. ; 
East Indies, 385 ; and the United States, 440 lbs. ; then 
reducing all to bales of 400 lbs. each, arrives at this result : 
The product of the West Indies would be, for the year 
1856, 4,090 bales; Brazil, 5,500; Egypt, 86,445; East 
Indies, 445,637 ; and for the United States, 3,880,580, or 
nearly seven-eighths of the product of the world. 
The crop of 1860 was about 4,500,000 bales. Of this 
amount the home market took one-fifth, or 900,000 bales 
leaving 3,600,000 bales for- exportation. Of the amount 
exported, Great Britain took sixty per cent., or 2,160,000 
bales; France, about 500,000; and the balance was'dis 
tributed to the different states of Europe. 
The "London Economist," after tracing the progress 
of the trade from 1838 to 1850, arrives at the following 
conclusions: That the supply of cotton from other sources 
than the United States has been irregularly decreasing ; 
that, including the United States, the supply from aU quar- 
ters available for home consumption has of late years been 
falling off at the rate of 1,000 bales a week, while the con- 
sumption has been increasing during the same period at 
the rate of 3,600 bales a week; that in the United States 
alone the growth is increasing, but limited there to about 
the same ratio as the increase of slaves, viz., three per cent, 
per annum ; that this is barely sufficient to supply the in- 
creasing demand for its own consumption, and for the Con- 
tinent of Europe ; and that consequently, if this branch 
of industry is to increase at all on its present footing in 
Great Britain, it must be by applying a great stimulus to 
the growth of cotton in other countries adapted to the cul- 
ture. The incapacity of other regions to supply the de- 
mand being shown, the writer looks to the British West 
India islands, and the African and AustraUan colonies, as 
