The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-05-07

value OF the different products of India.
We here give them in pounds sterling, ex-
ported irom Calcutta, in tie wears 1858
and 1884, to Wit:
Opium, fl,177,559 fL24O,sS2
Indigo, l,30O,I5O 9Oe.I75
Cotton, l27.O5S I43250
Cotton piece goods, 82,2s9 77.I74
Sugar, 1e2,4oO go. $50
The above table shows that the growth
of sugar, as we'll as opium and indigo,
far outstriPs cotton in the value of its
production. "Of the various articles ex-
ported from Bengal says Bic. McCul-
loch, sugar is that Of which a large in
crease may perhaps most reasonably BE
expected"
The total exports from Calcutta Tor
1884. were about f5.O00.OOO. or.
about $4,000, 900, Of which the above
articles formed fully one-haIf; opium
being the greatest Of any thing else in
value, which continued 70 Increase tiIl
the commencement of the var w!lh Chi.
ia.
Mr.. McCuIloch says: The export Of
cotton from Calcutta during the three
preceding years to 1854, declined, =
owing probably 10 the diversion of labor
10 The cultivation OF other products.
Twelve million pounds Of cotton were
exported from Calcutta TO China. il
1924; and the estimate OF the whole ex-
port of cotton to China from India during
that year, was sixty million pounds
which IS evidently much TOO low an es-
innate.
The largest crop Of cotton made IN To-
dia is produced in the interior Of the
country, which depends upon Bombay as
q place ct sale and sH.p.osat.
The amount Of cotton exported to Chs
ma 1862, from Bombay, was 44.446,-
! 354 lbs. III, III bales. The amount ship
ped to Great Britain and other countries.
during the same period, was about IS mill
lion pounds.
7th-The expense Of shiPmsEt to Eng
land IS another drauJ1ct or obstacle 10 fie
great increase Of India eo.toa- freight
from India to Great Britain. with insur-
ance, is much higher than it is from 4.
merica to England. This circumstance
must tend TO curtsil the profits on lh-
] growth of the article in India. The
/ average freight from the United State
. TO Liverpool, will not exceed, on cotton
f one cent per d.; and The voyage vii 10
exceed on an average from four TO siX
= weeks. While from Calcutta, Madras
or Bombay, the freight can never, on al
\ average, be less than one penRy per Id
: or two cents per ID. and the averag.
f voyage less than about four months
: The average price Of SGrats, or Inli'
J.. cotton, in Liverpool, IS only about ID. o
) 8 cents per pound; while New O;lean
e will command from 5 70 I'd. per pound
n or 10 to Il cents And often the differ
e euce is greater than we have stated d. Z
i be. Let US allow half a penny per ID
e on the produce of India to get it 70 IN
V seaboard from the interior. And le. u
d allow half penny per To- as a land "a
= to the Hon. East India Company, whic
IS in reality is much higher And when Il
Y market lei US allow one iarthing per L
5, for incidental expenses, such as ware
housing, handling, land insurance, *
m And then let US allow one penny per u
c for freight to England, and one lartaln
r per pound for marine insurance. and Sc
of what is left to the producer Of the arsle
re in India. The account viii then star
ID thus:
RI Inland freight, al
g. Land rent, 81
is Export duty, u
IN Warehouse expenses, &c T.
G. Freigth to England, G
Ell Marine insurance, IL
IN Total to Liverpool, : ID
N. cts pr.