================================================================== | Great Britain Annual Import | United States' Annual | YEARS. | and Consumption of Cotton, | Exports Cotton to Great | | from earliest times to | Britain and Europe | | 1858, in lbs. | generally. | --------|-----------------------------|--------------------------| 1815 | 96,200,000 | 83,000,000 | 1816 | 97,310,000 | 81,800,000 | 1817 | 126,240,000 | 95,660,000 | | | | | Total Consumption. | | 1818 | 109,902,000 | 92,500,000 | 1819 | 109,518,000 | 88,000,000 | 1820 | 120,265,000 | 127,800,000 | 1821 | 129,029,000 | 124,893,405 | 1822 | 145,493,000 | 144,675,095 | 1823 | 154,146,000 | 173,723,270 | 1824 | 165,174,000 | 142,369,663 | 1825 | 166,831,000 | 176,449,907 | 1826 | 150,213,000 | 204,535,415 | 1827 | 197,200,000 | 294,310,115 | 1828 | 217,860,000 | 210,590,463 | 1829 | 219,200,000 | 264,837,186 | 1830 | 247,600,000 | 298,459,102 | 1831 | 262,700,000 | 276,979,784 | 1832 | 276,900,000 | 322,215,122 | 1833 | 287,000,000 | 324,698,604 | 1834 | 303,000,000 | 384,717,907 | 1835 | 326,407,692 | 387,358,992 | 1836 | 363,684,232 | 423,631,307 | 1837 | 367,564,752 | 444,211,537 | 1838 | 477,206,108 | 595,952,297 | 1839 | 445,744,000 | 413,624,212 | 1840 | 517,254,400 | 743,941,061 | 1841 | 460,387,200 | 530,204,100 | 1842 | 477,339,200 | 584,717,017 | 1843 | 555,214,400 | 792,297,106 | 1844 | 570,731,200 | 663,633,455 | 1845 | 626,496,000 | 872,905,996 | 1846 | 624,000,000 | 547,558,055 | 1847 | 442,416,000 | 527,219,958 | 1848 | 602,160,000 | 814,274,431 | 1849 | 624,000,000 | 1,026,602,269 | 1850 | 606,000,000 | 635,381,604 | 1851 | 648,000,000 | 927,237,089 | 1852 | 817,998,048 | 1,093,230,639 | 1853 | 746,376,848 | 1,111,570,370 | 1854 | 761,646,704 | 987,833,106 | 1855 | 775,814,112 | 1,008,424,601 | 1856 | 877,225,440 | 1,351,431,827 | 1857 | 837,406,300 | 1,048,282,475 | 1858 | 884,733,696 | 1,118,624,012 | 1859 | | 1,372,755,006 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------
================================================================== Great Britain's sources of Cotton supplies other than the | United States, with total Cotton crop of United States at | intervals. | | -----------------------------------------------------------------| 1815. Peace proclaimed between the United States and Great | Britain. | 1818. Cotton crop of the U. S., 125,000,000 lbs. | 1821. _Exports_ from-- | West Indies, lbs. 9,000,000 | Brazil, 28,000,000 | India, 50,000,000 | Turkey and Egypt, 5,500,000 | Elsewhere, 6,000,000 | 1822. Cotton crop of the U. S., 210,000,000 lbs. | 1828. Cotton crop of the U. S., 325,000,000 lbs. | _Imports_ by Great Britain from West Indies,-- | 1829. lbs. 4,640,414 | 1830, 3,449,249 | 1831, 2,401,685 | 1834, 2,296,525 | 1832. _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- | Brazil, lbs. 20,109,560 | Turkey and Egypt, 9,113,890 | East Indies and Mauritius 5,178,625 | British West Indies. 1,708,764 | Elsewhere, 964,933 | 1838. _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- | Brazil, lbs. 24,464,505 | East Indies and Mauritius 40,230,064 | British West Indies, 928,425 | 1840. _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- | British West Indies, lbs. 427,529 | 1841. _Imports_ by Great Britain from India, 1835 to 1839, | annual average, 57,600,000 lbs. | _Imports_ by Great Britain, 1840 to 1844, during the Chinese | war, 92,800,000 lbs. | 1845. Do. from Egypt, 32,537,600 lbs. | 1848. _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- | West Indies and Demarara, lbs. 3,155,600 | Brazil and Portuguese Colonies 40,080,400 | East Indies, 91,004,800 | _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- | 1849. East Indies, lbs. 72,800,000 | 1850. Do. 123,200,000 | 1852. Do. 84,022,432 | 1853. Do. 180,431,496 | 1854. Do. 119,835,968 | 1855. Do. 145,218,976 | 1856. _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- | British East Indies, lbs. 180,496,624 | Brazil, 21,830,704 | Egypt, 34,399,008 | 1857. _Imports_ from-- | Brazil, lbs. 29,910,832 | Egypt, 24,532,256 | 1858. _Imports_ from Brazil, lbs. 18,617,872 | Do. Egypt, 38,232,320 | ------------------------------------------------------------------