The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-13 00:00:00

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Britain, 41,898,880 in 1848, against 47,035,090 in
1847; to France, 1,359,720 in 1848, against 7,023,110
is 1847; to Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, and
Trieste, 1,111,270 in 1848, against 1,718,090 in 1847.
The above added together give a total export by sea
of 78,623,670 in 1848, against 94,441,84 u in
1847. The value of the nurchandise transported
IsAitons was 21,214,500 hence marks in 1848, against
• likallll.ollo in 1847; to Schleswig-Holstein by rail-
vivo 11,0811,160 is 1848, against 10,641,27010 1847;
to Intent, by land, 17,824,370 in 1848, agekst
18,189,880 in 1847; despatched by land and rivet
dateless to other places in the interior, 92,851,270 to
1848, against 142,000,000 in 1847. The total valise
of goods export d from Hamburg to all quarters dut-
ies the year 1848 weather 215,579.970 bathe marks,
against 296,376,650 in 1847, showing a decrease in
1848 of Dawn marks 80,798,880, or about 5,985,0001.,
equal to 28 per cent. The chief decrease
Is tbs exports of 1848, as compared with those of
1847. occurred in the folkowieg, vie. :—Tbe decrease
to Africa was 62 per cent.; to the west coast of
Amerles, 16 per that ; to the Browls and Sorinam,
29 per cent.; to Bt. Thomas and Porto Rico. 62 par
ants; to Cubs, 40 per cent.; to the United States, 17
per cwt ; to British North America, 62 per cent.; to
and Sweden. 37 per cent ; to Prairie, 41 per
oust.; to Belgium, 92 per cent.; to Great Britaic, 11
per oast.; to France, 81 per cent. Against this,
however, we hare an Owes*. in 1818 over 1847 of
NO per cent to the Gulf of Mexico and Belize; and
of 1188 per ant te the Netherland&
Thu preceding figures show on the aggregate of the
total imports and exports of Hamburg for the year
1848, es compared with the year 1847. a deficiency
of boom Berko 147,395,550, or, in round numbers,
sloven millions sterling, Wag a falling off of pearly
r4toent. is the trade of the first Hanseatic city
the last year. A Hamburg merchant, whose
isthw was lately pablishr d in a weekly journal, alter
piling out the injury which isdividealinteresta will
iseshala by the introduction of the bonded rystem into
lienbast, and elsintiog for that port some conoessions
al emmequenee it the great inconvenience and inter-
mits. te trade scominsed by the freezing up of the
Albs theirs two or three months every year, coa-
amiss his later on the 'abject of Hamburg's adhesion
to Me league, which we noticed yesterday, in the fol-
lowing terms :
Bat those, is fast, are minor questions, and may be ad-
rZatill the head question has b-en decided, namely—
atte Imperial Cooritutton give a *maniere. for a more
liberal emesandal policy for Germany ? if ibis question
b antwired la the affirmative, the minor questions mast
give way to it, and Hamburg ought, for the sake of free
trade la Osteney, without a mennew's thooglit, to adopt
seek eseelbetioa ; the coseetelens of a distasteful kind she
vela be ogled upon to mike would be like nothing to the
Msire the advance of free trade. The freeholders in
ad the north west did all to provost Bavaria and
le join the confederacies without the reserve
lOW due oreesellon was made to their emeauseredal interests.
It wee to maks such premises before the
adbereuee,meg=altiey would have succeeded, as it was
dear that Prussia wanted Hamburg and her neigh.
beers, sot they Pruseia. It is avid at that Hamburg
slight not to have mined without such arrangement ; she
has see only lost her commonest liberty, nay, she has, as
Isadir and general of the fr.s trade party, Int her poet; she
has proved a deserter, and the natural consequences were,
list the other countries (her troops) 'Mewl** surrendered.
I am not going to extilain what reasons made Heathers
easehlea her commie raid liberty and her homer, but it is
dear that she could not do it .• with • firm belief that she
wee tek•ag the best, if Lot the cnly mean', which now exist
for securing a more liberal commercial policy to Germany."
It b ales: that at all events the senators of the tome, who some
years ern by his immortal document against differential
duties, blew rip sash system cherished so Meg by Proses
sod the other German state., even including Bremen,
did not fear to be o steed by Prussia, but behaved
at that time as the warden of free trade, and it is oely to
be pitiid that he should leave such pr.ad eminence after
as short a time, and upon such poor Inducements as hope
sad trust. It is to be wished that the new confederation by
ether mesas may never become a truth, for there seems every
certainty that it will swallow up the last btawarks of free
trade. I am aware that England would Ihe Germany to
have ens tariff, and I stove with you, as I expressed al-
ready, that Hamburg for such rim ought willingly to make
northers. But to do eo for the sake of extending the tariff
of the ZoUverein to the mouth of the Blbe, sod to give up
ler ladependsece end her influence upon the otter countries
Otte north-west of Gummy for two vote. in the lower, and
two votes in the upper house of the German parliament,
which Is certela to pass a vote to the above effect, seems to
me a bagels more like that of Both than a sensible Ham-
burg merchant.