The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-04 00:00:00

16443.
Yards.

1648.
Yazd&

1846.
Yards.

184.
Yards.

United

Leant -
Mexico
Portugal
Russia

11,512,000
44,187,009
1,966,000
24,144,000
955,000

18,520,000
33,313,000
6,302,000
97,236,000
820,000

17,033,000
17,213,000
5,193,000
11,775,800
208,000

45,914,000
33,436,000
11,361,000
13,8E0,000
399,000

82,766,000

.413,000

51,426,000

In t,9c0.000

Linea, cottons, fabrics
Woollens, worsteds, staffs
Navigation

Totalot 1841 .............

I runt.

Total of 1849

'acreage, D
1818 OM 1846 1843

Per cent. i P
66
37
SO
--1-
300
433 ,

I 151,700,U1A1 .115,113,1 W . aio.Ann, , tt,,uu,uv. _____ _ __
And to countries at The two last lines of figures bring the cc
WAS. to a focus, and that conclusion may be thus e
Plain Cedar. I, Printed Calico. —wherever peace has given fair scope to II
1846. 1848. 1846. ism prise of our merchants, and the reciprocity
Tula. Yards. 1 Yards. Yards. change, the number of transactions, which
Germany 17,273,000 14,798,000 34,423,000 25,663,000 amounted to only 300, has been increased to
Austria 15,818,000 9,962,000 3,162,000 3,507,000 wherever war has cu
tits baneful shadow
Italy 80,948,000 17'94100 1 7,517,000 12.3510.0 region of our commerce, the transactions
Prance 1,214,000 859,000 1 1,362,000 1,608,000
Belgium 1,121,000 698,0.0 652,00) 80,090 1846 were represented by 300, have dwicd
li
211.
66,382,000 43,818,090 ' 47,116,000 43,732,000 to
This is our reply to Mr. NnwriEnsts, si

These figures convey a striking picture of the in-
'fiance of free trade upon the great manufacturing
portions of Lancashire and Chenhire, and also of the
influence of that untoward etite of affairs in 1848
which Mr. NEWDEGATE has had the exceeding indis-
cretion to signalise as an event and an argument in
his favour. There surely never was any allegation
more at variance with the fact. We have already
seen its total inapplicability to the trade in linens,
woollens, and worsted,. We now see its equal
variance from the truth, as concerns the predo-
minating branches of the cotton trade. In plain
calicoes alone the increase on the one hand to coun-
tries at peace is 40 per cent., and on the other, the
decrease to countries at war amounts to 25 per cent.
In printed calicoes there is an increase of more than
100 per cent. to countries at peace, and a decrease—
according to the rule which prevails throughout—of
10 per cent. to places suffering from actual warfare,
or from violent political disturbances.
But remarkable as are these results in the heavier
kinds of cotton goods, th' se are exceeded by the facts
connected with tae fancy descriptions of manufacture
composed chiefly of the same material. The calico
looms of the great county palatine have received no
small share of advantage from the recent change in
our commercial legislation. But it is apparently in
the fancy adaptations of cotton peculiar to Nottiag-
ham and some of the adjacent counties 'hat the most
extensive augmentation of the foreign demand has
taken place.
We select the articles of lace and gauze, and of
cambric/1 and muslin'', and although with alined
equally striking effect we might include one or two
other species of entry, the exports of the kind of goods
in question in 1846 and 1848 were as follows to
countries at

This is our reply to Mr. NEWDEGATE,
those who, like him, construct theories upo
sand, and presume to foretell the future
strength of their total ignorance of the prey