The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

exportation
Gives a total fur the service of the

year of

-- 1,753,100

Now, allowing a weekly delivery of 25,500 bales, which
is surely ample, the stock, on these data, this time next
year, will be 432,100 bales ; a quantity large enough
to allay all fears of anything bordering on a deficiency,
and to ensure moderate prices. The precise limits of
the latter will be determined by public opinion, acted
upon as it will be, not always according to sound reason,
by the passing events of the day, by the prospects of
peace or war, by the price of food, by the scarcity or
al)undance of money, real or artificial, and by many
other considerations, often swelled on the impulse of
the moment into undue importance.
Taking an enlarged, or as it may be termed, a na-
tional view of the subject, the greatest calamity that
could befal the cotton trade would be a return to high
prices. If it is to Maintain its supremacy, if it is to
continue not only to extend the occupation of territory
exclusively its own, but to encroach upon that of the
kindred staples of silk, tiax and wool, it must rest on
the broad and secure base of large stocks and IoW prices
of the raw material ; else the skill, the enterprise, and
the industry of our manufacturers will be defrauded of
their just reward, and their labour will be in vain.
The total import of Cotton Wool into Liverpool in
the year 1840, as compared with the years 1838 and
1839,'vras in 1838, 1,328,604 ; 1839, 1,016,510 ; 1340,
1,414,726.
Total Imports, Export, and Stock of Cotton for the King.
dom, 31st December, 1833, 1839, and 1840.
IMPORT.

Liverpool. London. Glasgow. Total.
Total, 1840... 1,416,266 94,706 89,436 1,600,403
Total, 1839... 1,019,387 54,079 42.910 1,116,376
Total, 1838... 1,328,647 43,570 56,560 1,428,777

EXPORT.

Total, 18.10... 62,200 53,800 200 116,200
Total, 1839... 78,950 34,100 250 113,300
Total, 1838... 60,500 40,900 970 102,370

iTboc.

Total, 1840... 366.140 50,660 47,250 464,050
Total, 1839... 206,050 31,640 27,800 265,490
Total, 1838... 248 340 46,450 26,300 321,090
Stock of Cotton in Great Britain at the Close of the

Years 1837 to 1840 inclusive.
1837 1832 1839 1840
Total Stock... 259,340 321,090 265,490 464,050
Average Deliveries per Week from the Ports of Great
Britain, for Home Consumption.
837. 1838. 1839. 1840.
20,785 24,201 20,360 24,724
Growth and Consumption of Cotton in the United Statee,
from the Year 1836 to 1840.
Years. Growth. Consumptr.on.
1836-7
1837-8
1838-9
1839 -40 2,177,835 291,279

RETROSPECT OF COLONIAL

PROGRESS.

(From the Colonial Gazette.)
1. The new Constitution of Canada is dated 1840.
The Act for the Union of the two Canadas seems to
have already produced the main result which its framers
lied in view- —the separate nationality of French Canada
is no more ; the war of races is over. When Canada
shall enjoy popular government, it will be impossible to
withhold from many other colonies that only means of
preventing discontent and constant animosity between
the colonists and the officials. The tendency of recent
events in Canada is favouraYe to the whole colonial
empire of Britain. It seems hardly too sanguine to in-
dulge a hope that England may ere long return to her
ancient system of colonial government, under which the
ewviellrybeßdreiteimshedseltthftlement were left to the
lroecaal
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management of the settlers.
in our colonial history.
2. The departing year has witnessed a sudden and
most natisfactory change of opinion in the West Indies.
The colonists have made two great discoveries; first,
that immigration is the one thing needful to avert
their ruin and establish their prosperity on .a solid basis ;
secondly, that in order to obtain immigration on a suffi-
cient scale, it is indispensable to render the colonies
attractive to the people of the African race. Hence a
zealous rivalry among these colonies, both in the pursuit
of immigration projects and in asserting the principle
of complete social equality for all colours of the skin.
The entire press of the West Indies has been recently
occupied with these two subjects. Every arrival brings
new evidence of the spread both of sound notions with
respect to the economy of the West Indies, and of a
sentiment of justice and kindness towards the negro.
The whole of this change—may we not rather call it a
revolution ?—has taken place within a twelvemonth.
It his had effects here, the importance of which will
soon be manifest. We are assured that a considerable
number of those who have been the erring leaders of
the West India body is this country now declare their
readiness to assist in " forming out of the ruins of sla-
very in the West Indies a free nation of the African blood."
The West Indian cry of " Freedom in all things"
finds an echo on this side the Atlantic, even from those
whose second nature was attachment to slavery and
monopoly.. We are told that some overt act expressive
of these new opinions may be shortly expected. Mean-
while the home Government has performed one which
should encourage the West. Indians in their present
course. Lord John Russell has authorised the colony
of Trinidad to set on foot a measure of immigration from
Sierra Leone. In order to set the fashion of African
emigration to the West Indies, no expense should be
spared at first ; no excess of males should obtain a
free passage ; and every emigrant of either sex should
be secured in the right to obtain at pleasure a free
passage back to Africa,. Without such precautions,
there is much risk that abuses may be practised, and