The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-20 00:00:00

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oar usual commodities oft xporr. 'rne export trade
therefore, has not b:en extirgrishO, tor has the im-
port trade become altogether an influx of foreign ma-
nufactured goods. But that is not all. Nobody sup-
poses that we import tallow and turpentine and
madder sad sheep.' wool, as objects of vertri or as
specimens of the fins arts. Not at all. We want
them for a very different purpose. We intend them
for re-sale in another shape. We are in the habit of
consigning these articles to Lancashire and Yorkshire
to a race of men who turn them to the vulgar but
useful purposes of spinning, weaving, dye-
ing, and driving machinery. We a the-
fore, this iderence—that free trandeve, has,er in
the first place, not destroyed the commerce of
the country ; and, in the second place, that since free
trade was introduced, wo have found it profitable to
work
goods uthp
ou mote raw u
un ntwists and maufacture more
we did der the previous regimen.
But this is not the whole matter.
We have fortunately, in these returns, the means
of tracing the extent to which most of the articles of
foreign manufacture have been introduced into this
country in 1818 and 1949. We confess we have read
the figures with some surprise. We had looked for
at least some faint justification for those preposterous
hallucina ions that ptevail in the minds of many
people who ought to know better. We have on'y to
lay the list and the figures before all who choose to
read them, in the following form :
insemet—muse mum to May 3.
MY. NM.
ckelt ............. ......... Z 23,000
nano masnauser.... ..... /Mem •• £15,000
tiremissetsrmidiess __min 7,838
Dm se
881,1* 132,600
Thin Mom t 1,879
esataminligains ...... SI:4,000
OWN 01a51,033,01.* *n1,417,060
It is difileelt to describe in adequate terms the de-
gree of danger to British industry indicated by these
facts—not, however, became it is so mighty, but be-
came it is so minute. By what contrivance of per
centogee, for example, shall we represent the jeopardy
of the leather trade, in consequence of 7,480 pairs of
French boots and shoes being positive.), imported in
the coarse of four mouths? Why, that is at the rate
of nearly 500 pairs a week—or approaching in mag-
nitude the sale of a retail shop in Whitechsprl inithe
cout e of half that peried.
Bat there is a curious feature in these figures not
to be passed over. The importation of boot fronts wo
see has rapidly increased. Now, what is the value
of that fact? These boot front. are composed of a
*peel..s of leather peculiar to France. We now admit
this leather in its partially mat uf,.cured state, and
what is the consequence? Simply that our own
artisats are taking the boot trade out of the hands of
their neighbours by importing the prepared material,
and supplying the lshour, the skill, and the elegance
themselves.
But eien here the marvel does not cad Wo are
Informed by the second section of the return that
even out of the beggarly quantities of foreign manu-
factures that do arrive, a camiderable, and in some
cases the larger portion, are re-exported. The fol-
lowing are the figures :
assexecets,tvor I.cathe to May S.
MIL 1849.
Cotton roanutotano
/%66 ;y.tirs) 13.938 .. 82,130
Linen. ........ ......... 2/274 2,910
Woollen manutatins. --34.000 47,1.00
The truth, therefore, seems really to be that the re-
laxation of our tariff has produced no more disastrous
nor portentous result than permitting our mershonts
to extend the scope of their foreign trade by rut nish-
ing direct to their correspondents a few odds and ends
of foreign cambrics and bijouterie, which formerly
could only he procured tic in the place of manufacture.
With this conclusion we beg, with the utmost cordi-
ality, to present Mr. NEM/EC/ATE end his colleagurs,
as tie correct e.tastrophe of their new version of the
road to ruin.
The followirg table enumerates the principal
articles of Brit sh ecanufa:tures on which there is
en increased exportation. Tie tal increase on
these nine articles is 1,399,4ar0/. ; iccreise en other
articles, 198,0001.; giving 1,497,000/. as the geese in-
crease in the external trade on the first four months
of 1819.

!spatted—tater metathe 0 May 5.
NA. 1819.
Cellos Ow & 13,414,000 .V;,25 4,000
oirsoasie -. —.... x 300644,00077
Hwilmais
Lion 04861 SMII 1an......... 1,140,000 1,250,000
10441/2807 ..... .... 257,000 118,000
Ires. eal mete . - 1,5410.0 1,200,981,
Other ..
MMeis 703.,000 00000
silk Gods 158,000 188,004
Woolkn °cods end Yen- 1,004000 2,139,000
32,858,000

111,437,000

THE COURT.

no (lava and Pitta Abet took a drive foster-
day in an open carrier, ea tsar. ,i. the Hen.
C. B. Phipps, E turn, in Waiting, atteadtil on ken eb tat.
Her Royal H ghness the Deck's. of Kent visited her Ma-
jesty yesterday, at Buckingham Palcce.
Tee royal family took the;r ac.uvnene.l and pony
semis* yesterday, in the garden of the palace.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Duke and
Duchess of Nortilk with their company nt dinner yesterday
Nur.olk Home, St. James's-square. Her Ma-
tgety was attended by the Countess tit %sett. Ludy In Wait-
; Lori Caosoys, Lord in Waiting ; sad Liget-Col. the
Hon. C. B. Pithp, Equ rry in Waiting. His Royal High-
sees wet attended bbLord G. Lennon, Lord in Waiting, and
Colonel Boar( nerry in Waiting. Her lisle High-
ness the Discuss Kent also honoured the Duke and
Duchess ef Norfolk witk her company at dinner last evening.
Her Lloyd Highness we. attended by Lady Augusta Bruce
and Sir Gawp Coupes. Her Royal Highness the Dachau
of Cambridge, accompanied by her Royal Highness the He-
ra& any Omni Duchean of Mecklenburg Streli,s, and
winded by her lady in waiting, hoecourtd the Duke and
Duchess of Norfolk with bet cempany in the evening.
By command of the Queen, Mr. 11-rhert Smith bad the
hen ur of submitting, for the lathe ci gi of In r Majesty,
and his Royal Highness Prince Athert, on blt.nday, a per-
trait of the late Sir Humpbri Davy.

Mr. Hineka had an interview with Earl they see- I
tesday at the Colonial office.
Mr. Parry and Mr. Itemans had an interview with
tk:CtsunitstAwrs of Rulwass Itsterday at their office in
the bard f Trade on tho subject of the Midland Great
We stern Railway of Ireland.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
11,:venue, h,d an interview with the Chancellor of the Er-
chttiut r yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of the North American Provinces.

(Prom Nat eight.tOozeite.)
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE I6.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Charles Enderby, Esq., to be Lieutenant
Governor of the Auckland Islands ; also William Hope, Esq.,
to be Auditor General of Accounts, and Charles Boyle Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Councils. fur the settlement of the Cape of
Good Hope ; and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, Esq,
to be SuppssrintenGent of the Royal Botanic...l Gardens at
Peradenia, is Ceylon.
WIIITERALL, DONE 16.—The Queen has been
pleased to apr.iot the Right Honoumble P.m Mauls to be
Lieutenant and Sbetiff Psintipal of the Shire of Forfar, in
the 14101111 of David Reel of Alfa', resigned.