6-7, 8; first effects of the war on, 8, 9, 10.
_See also under_ Lancashire.
France, necessity of, for cotton, i.

279, 290, 293, 294, 296, 300; ii.

17; Mercier's plan to relieve, i.

196-201 Gladstone's Newcastle speech, effect of, on price of, ii.

48; "King Cotton" theory, i.