A short 1859 journal article presenting statistics on cotton consumption in Europe from 1850 to 1857, with some 1858 figures for the United Kingdom. Tables give weekly consumption for the United Kingdom and the Continent, country-by-country figures for France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Trieste, Spain, Russia and others, and total annual consumption compared with U.S. exports. It closes by comparing the growth of cotton supply from British India with that from the United States.