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MANUFACTUEE OF COTTON. 
1855 was five times that of the East Indies; and that, 
while during that period, all other countries exported to 
Great Britain 937,024,276 pounds, our own sent her 
3,424,602,024 pounds, or more than three and a half 
times as much. 
" In his first table, Mr. Sharp sets down the import 
from the United States into the United Kingdom, in 1866, 
at 780,040,016 pounds; that from the East Indies at 180,- 
496,624 pounds ; and the total from all other countries 
than the United States at 243,846,512 pounds, leaving a 
balance in our favor of 536,193,504 pounds, and also 
showing that in that year also we contributed more than 
three times as much to European supply than all other 
countries combined, while it must be remembered that 
our domestic consumption was advancing so rapidly as to 
require for its use 652,739 bales, which estimated at 460 
pounds each, were equal to 293,732,550, or more than the 
import into England that year from all other coimtries 
than our own. 
" Mr. Samuel S. Littlefield, editor of the New Orleans 
* Price Current,' than whom there is no better informed or 
more reliable authority on the subject of cotton and the 
cotton trade in the Union, estimates the value of our crop 
of 1857 at 2,931,619 bales, after making all allowances for 
differences in their weights in different sections of the 
country, at an average of $50 per bale, making the total 
sum of $146,975,960. This gentleman has also furnished 
me with much interesting information, and several valuable 
suggestions. 
" From what has been said under the various heads of 
this report, the following conclusions as to the influence 
of raw cotton among the nations who are our chief cus- 
tomers for it may be drawn — 
