Census of the United States. 385 
Cane sugar ....... (hhds. of 1000 Ibs.) 318,644 hhds. 
Value of home-made manufactures .... 27,525,544 dollars 
The following is a general Report of the facts relating 
to the most important Manufactures of the United States ; 
v1z.— 
MANUFACTURES.* 
The entire capital invested in the various manu- _ dollars. 
factures in the United States amounted, in 
TRB Oto a TN ce At erelstirt..aviteee 05 01000!000 
Value of raw Material... seceeeeeees 550,000,000 
Amount paid for labour .....eseeeseeseeeeeee 240,000,000 
Value of manufactured articles 0.0.1... sss 1 020,800,000 
Number of persons employed oe... eeseeeeees 1,050,000 
The following minute particulars respecting some of the 
principal American Manufactures will be also found in- 
teresting :— 
Corron Goops.+ 
Capital INVESCO titinsivisestssescesrsueses  T4,000,081 dollars 
Bales of cotton ..........00 eee ea 641,240 bales 
%* Little need be said on the subject of Australian manufactures. The 
few were in an infant state when the gold discoveries abstracted labourers 
and artizans from their legitimate pursuits, and put a stop to almost 
every enterprise of the sort.—But the elements of manufacturing great- 
ness exist in Australia generally; and Tasmania, from her possession of 
coal and iron, those important elements of material prosperity, and her 
geographical position, is evidently destined to take pre-eminent rank ag a 
manufacturing and commercial nation. 
+The various trials made in the cultivation of the cotton plant in the 
northern parts of the colony of New South Wales would indicate that, at 
no distant period, America may find a formidable competitor in her trade 
with England in the supply of this article, 
Some statistics also of the English cotton trade may here prove inter- 
esting.—In 1850 there were imported into the United Kingdom 563,576,816lbs. 
cotton, of which quantity 493,153,112Ibs, came from the United States; 
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