The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-31 00:00:00

VAN DIEMEN'S LANDIOO/I.PANY.

Germany
stria

Italy
Prance
Deleon
Papal States

11136.
164,000
17,000
63,000
63,000
31,000
13,000

389,000

116;000
15,000
41,000
LO,OOO
27,000
4,000

239,000

1646 A
. 1848,
t
418,000 300,000
24,000 10,000
72,000 21,000
64,000 40,000
106,000 63,000
20,000 4,000
-- -
784,000 ! 440,000

But we have some more figures yet.
Here is another return of the exports of woollens
according to declared value, and of linens according
to quantity to countries in 1846 and 1848, at

United States .
The Lomat ...

Prams
Germasilay
Naples,
Auatris
Mutiny
Salem
Papal Wales

PEACE.

Woollen Goods. I

1148.

1,0117000
W,OOO
03,000
36,000
03,000

111,000

1,711T.000
100,000
61,000
UAW
42.000

1,113,000

WAB.

woollen Goods._

11144.
Yds.
19,611,006
704,000
760,000
2,379,000
3,000

1646.
Yds.

1948.
Inks.
5t,145,000
1,091.000
961.000
9,599,000
99,000

10,711

ISIS.
Yds.

lia,ooo
783,000
03,000
43,000
144,000
141,000
33,000

63,000
519.000
39,000
30,000
70,000
101,000
10,000

67,000
1,6311,000
432.000
3)0,000
1174,000
41,000
32,000

-13,000
1,321,000
136,000
136,000
471,000
21,G00
27,000

The following table will recapitulate theme ream]
able az.d, in many respect, most gratifying facts:

- ogNiaAL ILEStra.
woomors. WOIPSITLO. 1.1.1110.

Maass mad imams

WAIL

Stair
Wontsd goods

asi,aoo
000,000
1,611,000

70:5;000
799,060
3,113,000

3.111,000
794,000
1.413,41100

611T,000
440,000
631,000

3,647,400

2,628,000

Td.. lrtla ITi
46/11,003 80,111.0011, SAHA

1,330,000

IN,.
L*lB,ooo

The annual meeting of this company was held yea-
terday at the °Moe. in Great Wineheeter•street, City. John
Cabby, But., the governor, hewing taken the chair,
M. HOWELL, the secrotal, readthe report, the sub-
stantive' which-was, that the settlers were doing well, that
the escorts were increasing, that immigrants were arriving
from Port Phillip, that the cultivation of potatoes was lea
extensively carried on, more valuable crops being substituted,
and that the colonist. enjoyed a state of greater comfort and
prosperity than at any time previously.
The GOVERNOR regretted that what had been said in
the report was not more satisfactory ; they did program, but
it was only by degrees. The attention of the directors had
been devoted to the reduction of eeriness in shape for
the last two or three years. The proprietors would see the
result of this by noticing the amount of the drafts on the
company in the put year, which they would find to be only
one half of what they were in the previous ear, being
7,3001. in 1847, and in 1848 only 3,8001. (Hear,
hear.) The governor concluded hie oboarvaticas by moving
the adoption of the report.
Afar some discussion as to the arrears deans,
The GOVERNOR said in about three mouths from this
time a meeting would be called for the purpose of forfeiting
those shares on which the two last lea] remained unpaid.
Mr. GARLAND asked how many shares were under the
liability of forfeiture ?
The SECRETARY replied 1010.
The SECRETARY, at the request of the Governor, read
a statement, which showed the growing importance of the
Port of Stanley : the vessels that entered in the first six
'swaths of 1848 being 39, and their tonnage 1,543; whilst
those which abaci out were 38, and their tonnage 1,848.
The value of the imports in the same period was 4701.35. Bd.,
and the exports amounted to 5,7841. (Hear, hear.) The
cane of the eompany's stores was now 14,4451. (Hear.)
The GOVERNOR said this would show that their little
port was worth something. He only wished emigrants
would go to their part of the colony a tittle more, bat there
was now a chance of their doing se. His opinion was, that
where persona had oaly a emall:mari gad were indus-
trious, no better place could be bad Asa Circular Head,
for is point et luxuriates and healthiaese it could not he
Rrpsrsd. They would be surprised to see bow the
mg! rusts at the company's land at that pleas had got
their little comforts around them ; it was no longer the wild
it woe sweaty yams ago. (Hear, hoer.) The produce of the
coley was getting very great indeed, and they had some-
times a temptation to send their tarn to the mother country.
(Hearoboar.)
A. PROPRIETOR asked how the heavy leer on produce
bad Igen occasioned.
The GOVERNOR said the wheat bed boa taken of the
tenants by the company, anhad d havkag boa sent to Port
Phillip, the market °full& besallartikal by two large
traders about ten days behre their weak arrived, the con-
Noises was that, what would haws hhhed Bs. or 95., was,
owing to its being three maths in the vessel, and the glutted
stet* of the market, sold hr only hr. Bd. per bushel. (Hear.)
The report was adopted unaalateusly. The directors and
auditors, who retired by retatio, were re-elected =sal-
mi:surly.
The GOVERNOR drew afterlife. to the prospectus issued
by the company describing the also sad its advantages to
emigrants of small capital, and which be said bad been
alaW for by Lady Palmerston and by ether persons of
dutinetion, as well as bye large number of small capitalists
who were diSL,O,I4I to emigrate to Van Diaisim's Land.
Mr. ELACHETT moved a vote of thanks to the chairman
and dire ton, which Was seconded, and passed by acela-
nation.
The meting then adjourned.

We do not know that by any device of language
we can increase the significance and the cogency of
these figures. Upon three descriptions of manufac-
tared goods only we hays here an increase of 50 per
cent, to some five or six countries at peace in the
course of two years, and a most extraordinary in-
crease in the same quarter in another species of fabric
(linens) daring the like period. On the other hand,
there is a decline of 60 per cent. in the exports of
woollens and worsteds to countries at war, and also
an enormous decline in the quantity of linens sent to
the same places.
There is the fact. There is no reason to suppose
that the trade with Austria and Italy at peace
would have been less to our advantage than the trade
with America or Portugal, or the Levant at peace, and
so far from the hypothesis of Mr. NEWDEOATE, that
the commotion. of 1848 have done us more good than
harm, being near the truth, we have here among the
first things that come to hand official evidence that
the Industry of all the woollen region has
been impoverished 50 per cent, by the very causes
which Mr. NEWDEOATE has described as a god-send.

THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS
COMPANY.
A meeting of the subscribers to this company and
other gas consuaus within the City of London took plus
last evening at the Landon Trvern, Biahougausetreat, to
take into couideration the clause, proposed to be introduced
into the bill now pending botorc a committee of the House of
Commons.

WEST INDIA MAIL.

Mr. C. PEARSON, K.P., took the chair, and stated that
- • the business of the committee
that
proceeding very mnse's-
The Royal Mail Company's eteemer Dee, Captain tartly, and he had no doubt that the company would soon
Allan, arrived at BonthemPtew yesterday afternoon : mewl in getting their bill. Au accident, however, bad
the mails were landed under the charge of Lieut. J. happened to-day, which would tend to impede the megrims
Davis, R.N., Admiralty agent. of the measure. The committee bad passed a rawhides, to
Forty-one officers and seamen of the company's ask_ effect that the company's bas•werke shoal& see
en " out of the City." Rs thought it wry odd
late steamer the Forth have come home in the Dee. i; adopt a resolution which would mewl them to emetreet
She has brought in all 109 passengers, among whom their works within the City, emeidalog that the City was
IWO M. D'Oleire, the Penman Consul at Vera Crag, already overcrowded with nuisance; sad that various act of
and his family. parliament were being pasted for the mums et promoting
The Dee left Bermuda on the 12th of March, at the sanitary condition of the thetTerthe. TM y had
contemplated building their works at a distenCori 3.11: mile
9h. 20m. a.m. , and made the Lizard Lights at sad a bell or two miles from the City; and be (Kr. Pear-
7b. bOm. p.m. on the 29th. son) toped that the committee would re-consider the resolu-
The dates brought by the Dee are : Tampico, the I Lion, and enable them to carry out their original intention.

Mr WIRE, solicitor of the eimpany, than read the
preamble aad the dame M the bill. Amorist other pro-
visions of the em it woe proposed that a clause
should be introdweed to mast the breaking up of the
strata without the esnetios of tha ocandisioain of sewer".
It was she proposed that there should be a public inspector
of mane applatted, to hill ea *Moe similar to that of en
inspector of weights aad nasseures. Another clause eng-
rafted the oppoinemeat of a publics director, to represent the
iatereele of the public, end to see that everything was con-
ducted in a Mr and straightforward manner, as between
the public and the company. Then wee also a claws pre-
pays that there should be a public auditor attached to the
company, and that the asanate should be audited at stated
period&
The CHAIRMAN ezpialead, in reference to the appoint-
ment of a public director sag auditor, that the terms of the
act were " that the corporation stoned be at liberty to ap-
point those °Mats? He tbreght it right to give this expla-
nation, lest it should be supposed that he had authority to
state that the directors would actually bind themselves to
confer the appointments mistimed. II the eoeperation
should object to such a responsibility, the matter might be
referred to the Board of Trade.

A SHAREHOLDER suggested that a clause should be
introduced for the purpose of protecting gas consumers
against the consequences that might arise from the present
company disposiag of their works.
Mr. WIRE replied that the ooet to gas consumers was to
be limited by the act to 4e. per thousand cubic feet, and if the
company disposed of their works, those who became the pur-
chasers would of course be bound by the act.
The CHAIRMAN stated, in answer to an observation
from one of the shareholders, that it wee proposed that the
payment of the inspector should consist of certain fee upon
the stamping of meters.
A deputation of gatefitters was then introduced, whose üb.
Pict was to induce the company to insert two clauses into
the bill, one of which would prohibit them from beeomiog
gas.fitters ; and the other, from making gas meters.
The CHAIRMAN said there would be no objection to the
int of the two clauses mentioned ; hut as to the second,—
although the company had no intention of making gas
meters, theycertainly would not allow themselves to be
teeninaelled by any suede provision.
A resolution appearing of the clauses already introduced
into the bill, was then weal to, end the meeting separated.