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
                                                —–­
                                                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
                                                —–­
  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 so much felt that large engagements have been entered into for the importation of Chinese; and there are many reasons for expecting a diminished production in Java, the next largest coffee-producing country.  The necessary consequence of this expected decrease in the quantity of coffee produced will be, to bring the produce as much below the wants of the consumers as it is now above, and this must again result in an enhancement of prices in process of time.