It is not in the power of Virginia to make any three years together more than 56,000 hhds., even with good seasons, and 30,000 hhds. annually of this will be wanted by our manufacturers.
The planters, then, should enrich their lands, and aim to make full crops.
The increased consumption in Europe is three per cent., and in the United States four per cent. per annum.
The crop of the United States from 1840 to 1850 inclusive—say 11 years—averaged about 160,000 hhds.; this embraces the large crops of 1842-43-44.
The consumption of Europe from 1829 to 1838 was 96,826 hhds.—it is now 130,000.
An account of the quantities of unmanufactured tobacco, manufactured called negro-head, and cigars, imported into the United Kingdom in 1850:—
| Countries from whence imported. | Unmanufactured | Manufactured |
| United States of America | 30,173,444 | 1,191,001 |
| Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador | 895,523 | 527 |
| Brazil | 12,138 | 56,802 |
| Peru | 8,649 | 6 |
| Cuba | 589,627 | 153,819 |
| British West Indies, including Demerara and Honduras | 26,169 | 3,242 |
| British Territories in the East Indies | 14,500 | 25,332 |
| Philippine Islands | 12,233 | 51,210 |
| Hongkong and China | 2,706 | 2,340 |
| Turkey, Syria, and Egypt | 140,361 | 2,882 |
| Malta | 13,028 | 7,818 |
| Italy, Sardinian Territories | 431,939 | 17 |
| Gibraltar | 7 | 3,063 |
| Spain | 307,641 | 1,100 |
| France | 29,950 | 1,521 |
| Channel Islands | 149 | 1,342 |
| Belgium | 29,922 | 6,579 |
| Holland | 2,418,732 | 9,078 |
| Hanseatic Towns | 50,610 | 36,680 |
| Other parts | 8,930 | 1,980 |
| Total unmanufactured | 35,166,358 | 1,556,321 |
| Ditto manfactured | 1,556,321 | |
| Snuff | 1,197 | |
| Total | 36,723,876 |
From the tobacco circulars of Messrs. Clagett, Son, and Co., leading brokers of London, dated Feb., 1st, 1850, I take the following extracts:—
The exhaustion of the stock has resulted from the concurrence of a gradually decreasing supply and increasing consumption, which may be very clearly perceived by a reference, first to the official returns from New Orleans of the yearly receipts of the western crops in each of the last seven years; and secondly, to the consumption of American tobacco in Great Britain and Ireland in the years 1847, 1848, and 1849, as compared with that of 1840, 1841, and 1842. We have no means of exhibiting with similar accuracy the relative consumption of Continental Europe in the latter as compared with the former part of these last ten years, but it is quite reasonable to assume that the increase, where there has been little or no duty, must have gone on more rapidly than it has done here, under the restraining force of a duty of 800 to 900 per cent.
The deliveries from London and Liverpool, independently of those from Scotland, Bristol, and Newcastle, for the use of Great Britain and Ireland, have been as follows:—In 1840, 15,037 hhds.; 1841, 15,019 hhds.; 1842, 15,468 hhds.; 1847, 18,091 hhds.; 1848, 18,595 hhds.; 1849, 18,738 hhds.