remedy practicable--and even that is so only for a short season--is the _extension to the colonies of a direct share in the Imperial Parliament_; but that is far too just and wise a measure to permit the hope that it will ever be embraced by the class interest who now rule the state. [19] "At present the native consumption of cotton in India is estimated at from 1,000,000,000 lb. to 3,000,000,000 lb. annually; while the export to Great Britain is only 60,000,000 lb., and to all the world only 150,000,000 lb. In this state of things, the rough production that suits the home market will, of course, only be carried on; while, if sufficient means of conveyance existed to render the cotton that is now grown in the interior, at 1¼d. per lb., remunerative for export, increased care in its preparation would be manifested, as was the case in the United States, just in proportion to the increased reward that would result. In developing these views, Mr Chapman undertakes to demonstrate, by well-arranged facts and tables, that the export of cotton from India to England has risen exactly as the difficulties or expense of its transmission have been diminished; and also that costs and impediments still remain which are sufficient to account for the smallness of the quantity we continue to receive."--_Times_, Jan. 1851. Notwithstanding all the obvious advantages of the course of policy which we have recommended--though it would at once furnish the means, as we have shown in a former paper, of obviating our external dangers and maintaining our national independence, and at the same time relieve our internal distresses and extend and consolidate our colonial dependencies--we have scarcely any hope that it will be adopted. The Free-traders have got such a hold of the burghs--to which the Reform Bill gave a decided majority in the House of Commons--and their leaders so perseveringly pursue their own _immediate_ interest, without the slightest regard to the ruin they are bringing upon all other interests of the state, that the hope of any change of policy--at least till some terrible external disaster has opened the eyes of the nation to a sense of the impending calamities brought on them by their rulers--may be regarded as hopeless, without a general national effort. The imposition of a moderate import duty upon the produce, whether rude or manufactured, of all other nations, but with an entire exemption to our own colonies, is obviously the first step in the right direction, and would go far to alleviate our distresses, and at the same time replenish the public Treasury and avert our external dangers. In taking it, we should only be following the example of America, Prussia, and nearly all other nations, who levy a duty of 30 per cent on our manufactures, and thereby make us pay half of their taxes. But it is to be feared the mania of Free Trade will prevail over a wise and expedient policy, calculated equally to advance the interests of all