The subject of this volume has, over the last few years, taken on importance in events, a great problem is connected with it, and binds public emotion. As long as cotton has arrived on our markets, In an ever-increasing proportion and at constantly reduced prices, it was only a matter of concern that questions of continuity were increasingly directed towards the places of production or supply, The matter of a superiority better tested, scarcely a few prepossessing spirits pointed out the case in which this work would be in fl uenced in its very sources by a sudden return of opinion or scruples of conscience. American coton was a surprise as he was a calamite.