In the German Zollverein the protective duties they imposed have given ample encouragement to the home manufacture of cotton goods. The English and American exports of raw cotton to these and other Continental States have averaged (see Table IX) 417,000 bales in 1847 and 1848; 522,000 in 1849 and 1850; and 582,000 in 1851 and 1852. For the incoming year they will almost certainly reach 600,000 bales, which is a trifle less than the amount for the present season.

The consumption of the United States has made a most sudden and rapid advance during the past year. For the three preceding years we had gone backwards. The high price of the raw material, and the imports of cotton goods at low duties from abroad, had given a check to our increasing demand, such as we never before had experienced. Hitherto our progress had been uniformly onward. The rapid increase in our own population and wealth forbids any retrogade movement in the regular operations of business. Just as our railroads, our shipping, our crop of cotton, or of wheat, or of corn, make steady and invariable progress from year to year, so must our cotton manufactures. There will be at times a backward step in this movement, but it is temporary and brief. It is like the oscillation of a pendulum on a moving surface, the weight swings backwards and forwards, but the onward motion of the point of support makes it certain that the forward oscillations will more than compensate for the backward movements. The present prosperity of the country authorizes us to expect an advance even on the large consumption of the past season. The amount for 1552 has reached (see Table X) 603,000 bales, and 625,000 may be anticipated for the coming year.

The whole demand for 1853 will then be estimated at 3,625,000 bales, (Table XI,) which is 75,000 more than the anticipated supply, (Table V.) Now, as the stocks on hand (Table VI) are at present very low, lower than they have been for years past, especially if the time for which they would supply the demand be considered, it would seem that prices must keep above their usual average. This has been 8 cents (Table I) at the seaports for the last thirteen years; and if the influence of a high rate of exchange and the abundance of gold are to be regarded as real causes for elevating the money value of cotton in our markets, it would seem probable that the present prices (9 cents at Charleston, October 29th, for good middling) will be fully maintained, and that an advance, rather than a decline, may be expected.

TABLE I.-American Exports-value and price.

[From Hunt's Merchants' Magazine.]

TABLE IV.-English Imports from Egypt, Brazil, etc.

TABLE V.-Supply of 1851, and estimate for 1852 and 1853.

TABLE VI.-Stocks at recent dates corresponding to the close of our year.

TABLE VII.-Deliveries to the Trade at Liverpool.

Whole year

1,467,000 1,576,000 30,315

Do. G. Brit'n 1,590,000 1,663,000 32,000 2,000,000* 39,000*

* Estimated.

TABLE VIII.-Deliveries to the Trade at Havre.

All kinds. U. States. All kinds. U. States. All kinds. U. States.

September 1
October 1

Whole year

232,000 220,000 224,000 211,000 300,000 290,000 250,000 238,000 246,000 234,000 327,000 316,000 306,000 294,000 312,000 302,000

TABLE IX.-Consumption out of England, France, and United States.

Acknowledgment of seeds received from the gentlemen named below:

J. L. Hendrick, esq., of Litchfield, Connecticut, potato seed, lettuce, and sweet corn. The potato seed is from the Mercer variety, which Mr. H. says is less subject to rot than formerly, when, for a few years, the plant failed to form seeds, apparently from constitutional debility. The sweet corn is thought to be an improved kind, and the lettuce is also said to be superior.

J. B. Gray, esq., of Fredericksburg, Virginia, seed of a variety of asclepias.

Captain R. B. Marcy, U. S. A., seed of Gama grass, from the headwaters of Red river. [The seed of this grass is in great request, and we should be happy to obtain more of it for distribution.]

Mr. A. Z. V. Purdy, esq., of Trinity Springs, Martin county, Indiana, sample of wheat.

Warren & Co., Sacramento, Cal., Italian wheat, flower seeds, &c. James S. Wilson, esq., Washington, D. C.

A. H. Ernst, esq., of Cincinnati, Japan peas.