The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-01 00:00:00

X it. 6,830,913
7,902,349
8,146,372
8,146,163
9,141,332
9,853,339
9,734,639
10,305,770
10,318,013
11,118,688
10,333,938
11,063,773
11,142,063
11,449,300

£7,919,081
8,922,118
9,237,018
8,803,931
8,890,322
9,733,433
9,200.950
10,549,267
10,711,373
10,1150,970
11,332,031
10,935,907
10,411,395
10,981,900

At. 14,830,028
16,824,197
17,383,590
16,950,096
18,031,854
19,610,792
18,935,589
20,858,037
21,024,586
21,969,558
20,820,961
21,921,682
21,553,480
22,110,300

This table, which does not include the transit trade, shows
an increase in the total value of Austrian commerce, from
14,830,0281. in the year 1831, to 22,410,300/. in the year
1844, or 55 per cent. in fourteen yews ; about 4 per cent.
per annum. In point of fact, the value of the exports
amounts to several millions more; the valuation of silks,
etc., being made at considerably more than 50 per cent.
below their real worth. In the same period, the exports
and imports of Great Britain have increased from
82,752,9581. in the year 1831, to 134,025,8471. in 1844;
about 62 per cent., or 48 per cent. annually.
With respect to the Austrian traffic, the principal aug-
mentation has been by sea, increasing from 4,763,675/. in
1841, to 6,153,7611. in 1814, thereby showing an improve-
ment of nearly 30 per cent, in four years, or 78 per cent. in
one year. The great difference between the maritime
I import and export is fully elucidated by the fact that the
Anstrians ship only heavy articles of an inferior value,
I while they receive, in return, spices, and colonial and manu-
factured goods of a more costly description.
During the year 1841, 25,146 vessels, of 847,000 tons
burthen, entered' the porta or Austria. In the year 1844,
'4,098 vessels, of 1,005,000 tons burthen, arrived ; proving
an increase of about 18 per cent, in the number of vessels,
and 15 per cent. on the amount of tonnage. The arrivals
of British vessels in the porta of Great Britain and Ireland
amounted, In the year ending sth Jan., 1844. to 19,500 ves-
sels of 3,545,346 tons, exclusive of the coasting trade. In
the year 1844 the whole traffic of foreign and sea-going ves-
sels in the Austrian ports amounted to 21,000 arrivals of
1,025,027 tons burthen, 13,336,9001. in value, the total import,
export, and transit included. During the same period the
entire traffic in the ports of Great Britain, by English and
foreign vessels, amounted to 28,041 arrivals of 4,841,296 tans
burden, 134,000,000/. in value. This statement shows an
average burthen of 488 tons of the vessels arrived in the
Austnan ports, and 173 tons of the vessels arrived in the
British ports.
The value of the merchandise exchanged by this traffic
amounted to 131. 6s. Bd. per ton in Austria and 231. 10s. in
England. This disparity arises from the necessity of import-
ing every description of merchandise to England by sea,
while in Austria the finest and moat precious articles are re-
ceived inland. The importance of the Austrian naval traffic
can only be appreciated by referring to the extent of her
seacoast, being not more than 60 geographical miles, each of
which would be interested to the extent of 17,084 tans bur-
then, and 222,8451. value, while Great Britain and Ireland,
with about 1,000 geographical miles of sea-coast, would not
obtain a larger participation in the foreign trade than 4,847
tons burthen, 134,0001. in value.
Bearing in mind the fact that the trading fleet of Austria
numbered, during 1844, 210,792 tons, when the English
merchant-navy amounted to not less than 3,753,000 toes,
any idea of a rivalry between them is of course oat of the
question ; but we cannot avoid commending the enterprising
spirit and the energetic character of the natives of the Aus-
trian sea-shore, when we reflect that, notwithstanding the
scarcity of ship-building materials, they have constructed
3,367 vessels of 96,955 tons burthen during the last 10 years.
The table given above, of Austrian imports and exports,
does not include the transit business, of the details of which
we subjoin a tabular statement—a return of the general ear
merce of Austria for the year 1844, including the value d
the transits ; explaining the nature of the merchandise ; sad
distinguishing the various nations with whom these mama-
tile transactions have been effected.

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