Millions of lbs.
Great Britain 32
Holland and Belgium 125
France 33
German Customs Union 95
Other German Countries not included 46
in the Union, and Austria
Switzerland 13
Mediterranean Countries 20
Russia 12
Sweden and Denmark 20
Spain and Portugal 15
Cape of Good Hope and Australia 6
United States and British America 170
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587

A calculation made in the _Economist_, a year or two ago, gave the
following as the probable consumption:--

Millions of lbs.
Holland and Netherlands 108
Germany and North Europe 175
France and South of Europe 105
Great Britain 37
United States and British America 175
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Total 600

But this estimate is too high in some of the figures. Great Britain we
know, from the official tables only, consumes 34,000,000 lbs.
annually; the United States and British America not so much as set
down by several millions; for the official returns of the imports of
coffee into the United States show an average for the three years
ending June, 1850, of less than 154,000,000 lbs.; although a writer in
a recent number of "Hunt's Merchant's Magazine," New York, (usually a
well-informed periodical,) assumes a consumption of 200,000,000 lbs.,
for the North American States and Provinces.

The quantity of coffee produced being greater than the consumption
thereof, the growth of it becomes less remunerative, and consequently
we may look for a decrease in the supply. Ceylon, as well as the West
Indies generally, British and foreign, are likely to direct their
attention to some more profitable staple. A diminished production may
further be expected in Brazil, consequent on the extermination of the
slave-trade and the more sparing exertion of the labour of the slaves.
In Cuba the want of labour is s