The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 5.

THE Board of Trade tables fur the month ending
April 5, just published, furnish, like, all our
public documents at present, proofs of great national
prosperity. With the exception of barilla, bark,
bones, brimstone, oats, beans, cochineal, madder,
currants, lemons, oranges, polished glass, guano,
some kinds of women's shoes, cambrics, copper-
ore, bar-iron, olive-oil, seed-cake, bacon, fresh beef,
poultry, eggs, rape-seed, tares, broad velvets, plush
for making hats, cassia lignea, tallow, tar, some
species of timber, tobacco and watches, in all of
which the reductions are small,—every article of
import has increased considerably in the month of
March, 1853, as compared to the corresponding
month of 1852. Some of these, as oil, seed-
cake, and broad velvets, have been imported
in greater quantities in the three months
of the present year than in 1852. Of the more
important articles, such as live animals of all
kinds, cocoa, coffee, sugar, tea,wheat, and flour, wine,
spirits (all articles ofgreat consumption), dye stuffs
generally ; flax, hemp, hides, silk, cotton wool, all
raw materials of our manufactures,—the increased
importations are very considerable. A few examples
will suffice :

It must not, however, be forgotten that this great
increase both of our imports and exports is exclusive
of the imports and exports of the precious metal'
which now constitute a great trade, increasing every
I year. Gold and silver together, the value in the
year is many millions ; and, supposing that the
precious metals be merely diffused, through England,
over other countries, the transit adds to our trade
and our wealth. Gold and silver must not, ther,;Dtt,
be =allied from our calculations, though not included
iu the present returns.
The increase in our navigation is commensurate
with the increase in our trade. The entries inwards
in the month amount to 141,747 tons more than
in the corresponding month of 1852; and
the entries inwards in the three months
exceed those of last year. by 217,726 tons
Of the increase in the month no less than 101,118
tons is of British shipping, which are now re.
turning therefore from the long voyages, which
they have found to be profitable. In the three
months the increase of British shipping entering
inwards is only 70,161 tons, a pretty clear indication
that the relatively greater increase of foreign ship.
ping was only temporary, and is now to be dimi-
nished. Because our slopping were much employed
abroad, however, there were comparatively few
to do the additional work required to be done,
and accordingly the increase in the entries outwards
in the three months, 66,562 tons,is entirely of foreign
shipping; and entries outwards both in the month
and in the three months 'of British shipping has
fallen off. This has been Che necessary consequence
of our not having sufficient shipping of our own to
carry on our trade, and now that such a large in.
crease has been made by the arrivals in the last
month of the native shipping at our disposal, the
entries outwards of British shipping will in.
crease more rapidly than before. Departures will
be the consequence of arrivals. Of the ship.
owners it is now said that they were ruined
in pocket, according to their own statement,
' last year by the lowness of freights, and this yeas
' they are ruined in morality by the vast demand
t which makes them require exorbitant freights. We
, repeat the saying, not as complaining of the ship.
owners,—to whom, now that they have ctased to be
• monopolists, we wish every honest 'meter ;—but as a
1 proof of their present great prosperity, which is
confirmed by the fact that our trade is larger than
' they, with all their increased facilities, can carry on.