text: 2 200 000 Why should not Portugal with more than three and a half millions of inhabitants that is more than one-fourth the population of Spain consume also more than one-fourth the value of cotton goods or say only 550 000? Brazil a _ci-devant_ colony of Portugal and with a Portuguese population as may be said of 5 400 000 consumed British cotton fabrics to the value in 1840 of 1 525 000 So also why should not Italy and the Italian islands with twenty-two millions of people be able to consume as much cotton values as Spain with 13-1/2 millions; or say only the whole amount really exported there from this country of 2 005 000? It is necessary for the interests of truth for the interests also of both countries that the popular mind the mind of the public men of Spain also should be disabused in respect of two important errors