The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

family. The wealthier and middle classes expend much
more than heretofore in articles of taste and luxury, in
household and personal adornment, whereby the artisan,
mechanic, and labourer are benefited, and their condition
improved. The barbarous and debased nations and tribes
of the world, are fast tending towards the habits, and
acquiring the tastes of civilisation ; the first symptom of
which is the exchange of their former rude and scanty
clothing for dresses of our manufactured goods.
Bence it requires neither reflection nor argument to
show, that a very small general increase in the consump-
tion of cotton goods, would demand a supply of raw mate-
rial beyond the present ability of the world to afford. A
reference to table " General Import of Cotton into Great
Britain," will show that the small product of the West
Indies is almost stationary. That the same is the case
with Brazil, on an average of years ; the export thence
last year was only 135,000 bales, weighing less than 2001 b
each. In Egypt, the product of the past four years has
averaged about twice as much as the preceding period ;
and last year only 115,000 bales came from that source,
weighing 2501 b each ' • while the average shipments from
the East Indies for the past six years, is but 340,000 bales
per annum, weighing about 3801 b each.
The main dependence of the world is on this country,
which last year furnished 3,500,000 bales oat of a total
product of 4,200,000 As the new lands of the west come
into cultivation, and the progress of our railroads brings
the crop within reach of the seaboard, there will be a
gradual increase of our production ; but to this, even,
there must be a limit, considering the nature of the
climate and soil necessary; and the time may not be very
far distant when we shall fail to meet the demand. Under
this state of things, it is not to be wondered at that the
governments of 'England and France are putting forth
every effort to foster the cultivation of cotton in their
colonies. We have, certainly, no cause for fear or
jealousy in view of these efforts. Not only are we as
producers interested, but the foreign manufacturer, the
political economist, and the philanthropist, alike have taken
the matter into serious consideration. We canlscarcely
contemplate, without emotion, the disastrous results,
commercially, politically, and socially, that might follow
a general failure of only one crop in this country. There
would be no reserve to fall back upon. The stock in
Great Britain on the Ist Jarman, last was but little larger,
with a consumption of 2,100,000 bales, than it was in
1841, with a consumption of a little over 1,000,000 bales,
and not half so large as, the stock on January 1, 1846.
(See table " General Import of Cotton into Great Britain.")

The table below gives, opposite to each year, the crop
of the United States, the number of bales of new crop
received in New Orleans up to the Ist of September, with
the date of killing frost. The remarks appended are a
brief synopsis of the character of the season. Reasoning
from cause to effect, the reader will be enabled to form
some idea of the causes operating for or against a largo
crop, always bearing in mind the gradual increase in the
breadth of fresh land planted in the west and south
west :

1848.
1849.
1850
1851.
1852.

.2.182:000.

I,f ;34, 900,

1,683.600,
.2 378,900,
,2,039,400,

1.778,60(1

346,000

2,728,600
.2,096,700.
2,355,000,

Bales in
L ugust.

2,847,300

Nov. 19.
Nov. 29,
Nov. 18.

Oct. 27,
5,720 Nov. 14
6,846 Nov. 10
140 Nor. 20,

3,527,800,

089 Nov. 20
2,864
447

Nov. 2G,
Nov. 17.
Nov. 6,
Nov. 27,

Nov. 14.

Oct. 24

REBIARKS.-1839 : First largo crop. Season remarkably
fine throughout.-1840: Unfavourable season. Overflow
of the Mississippi river.-1841 : Western crop good,
Severe drought in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Missis-
sippi.-1842 : Generally good season, and early picking.-
1843 : Late spring, rainy summer, and early frost.-1844 :
Very good season, and early picking. Partial overflow of
the Mississippi river.-1845: Mississippi river and western
crop good, and early. Drought reduced the eastern crop
300,000 bales.-1846: Late spring, early and general visi-
tation of array worms; the latter destroying 400,000 to
500,000 bales.-1847: Late season, but favourable fall.
The occurrence of the French revolution put down prices,
and 200,000 bales were held back in the country.-1848:
Summer rainy, but fine fall ; 200,000 bales brought forward
of previous crop.-1849: Frost in spring, heavy rains in
July, partial overflow of Mississippi river, and Red River
bottoms overflowed in summer.-1850: Backward spring,
picking began unusually late. Partial overflow of Missis-
sippi river.-1851: Favourable summer and early picking.
—1852: Remarkably fine season, early picking and late
frost.-1853: Late and rainy season.-1854: Backward
season. About 250,000 bales kept back, by lowness of the
waters in Alabama. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas.-
1855 : Fine season. Early picking, sufficiently good to
counterbalance an early frost. About 250,000 bales of
last crop received. Say 50.000 bales yet behind.
The following table, to which reference has been made
above, will also be found useful :