The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 23
Ix ow shape or other, be the "when cora, sugar,
ar ships, we have ever the same etemelese protestioakt
story of the atter incapacity of Englielneen, sod the
rause prophecies of otter rein from Melts
ties. Foreigners are to grow all the seen, to=
all the sego; to build all the ships, to any all the
gook They have the best Isem and the reset
aptitude he all trade end all mansihetnres. hey
breath el wheefie• is native to Mess— sot mete us.
Our eat bee been invented, ear walla assn-
melded, our bras twastrusted, ear ships ball
oar trade exhaled to may =Wad of the world,
play by the het 4.1 Memo d
In every kind of reeSev tissigNsicat
creenserce, we me bee sad
ibreigners the twines mites; sod so
of time, no foram d mass, tau me ow 'gin

skill to tale our place *ride them is field or work.
*spier ea the sees. Wo mast have • fraced-in world
weerwires to work for. In the open world
there. nothing for ile bat rain. Just such poi
rahad we as to ofw ships in 1833. la that year
gre;ert of the filipeerserd Society declared that
diTie Isogosaslnned sad elBt Weise dieresis. el 6.1
ming Immo ; the ererhistlea eel pal mows
skilelasness, esuseily esstlerl sheers be ear ea*.
Om sperm A. wow. Frefre#ll2
eager gee wee iblvarb.
reise4
itcdonastress:w:L. flpepr=er
sierfasei wide mem& M that I 1190
geethy mei estimitisi et Utile tewriev; the
meat, &sib sad nice el the BMW Mpirusr,
be viewed as lemnssevertibie gesesillses.
Noes itertil this we have gone ma aveldner donee
epaisas—lnve anal to lima enotor of oar
estiperity tools% and given ezteoisd liberty
by
sow is Goad p RD much se diet Mr. RICIDIOND
was net aware (until be heard Mr. Laravirts evidence
Wore Mr. RICARDO'S committee) that there was so
lid ls left "af the navigation laws." And yet there
Ims come no rain oa oar shipping—we have neither
erased to build ships *or to carry goods; bat, on the
drary, woke.. it ia Mr. YOOllOll evidence, that,* in
*0 'lngle year 1846, there were 1,823 ships, of 228,764
ranee batie Eogland and her colonies, at a Cost of
15,888,,314L; and that the annual coat of re-
Oaks and oattita • of ships is not less than
7,634,2141." So that, twelve years atter tho
dehborately-printed prophecy •of tio odds
destrestlen of our &lipping, we were eprolielp Owl
lion lea millions and aUK it, as& it was talk,
beliM of a period of sported prosperity.
Yet sow we are awoke' le trust to the same pro-
phesies by the ems men. *The peculiar and excla-
im, budone fa wren per* betinter are to be
somered. ape ref est be bent in Er gleaner
ktbe poly *Mimi perms " of having ship
in resikees to be dated off into oar royally=
The shipowners seed not take waved=
""for~the purely catboat purpose of trainimr up ass
factbe memo of the royal navy. If they have their
dip beat here, it will be boohoo they can be built
UP at lost cost. If they take apprentices, it will be
bedews they want some boys on board, and can save
something by having these. They do now take DOM
10,000 more than the law requires; bat still they beep
to the old ory, " We can't compete with foreignme
Now, n our trade with Europe, the navies
laws makei a
distinction so to imports. A of
articles is set down which, if imsted, mast be
brought in our ships or in ships be isg either to
the country of production or of pment. All
European predations not contained in the list may
be imported in any ship.
A return has been made to the House of Commons
this session (Pail. Paper, 191), in which these two
classes of imports, and the tonnage of British and
Foreign ships employed upon them, are distinguished
for the three years 1846-6-7.
As to articles enumerated in the navigation law
list, the account stands thus:
re arum Ai . Is Tenlis atm. teld.
1663 ... sem rat,esi Thi,Sfe 1,493,71111
1646 ... tor 147,174 MOO 1,511,715
1147 ... tree 1,132,572 1,170,512 2,430,394
Showing an increase—
Irene.
411Vg Total
9.31
626,931 913,
Si that free trade has incretuied the employment
both of our own and other European ships by 946,941
tons in that portion of the trade in whisk ear navipt.
tion laws protect both our own ships sad don el
Europe from any other than their mutual direst
petition ; and our Increase exceeds theirs by 95,936 tom
If the timber trade, on which our shipowners aro
not likely to eater, seeing that the vessels are laden
when toe-bound, and are idle during the whole winter,
be excluded from the account, the result is :
Al
Fordo ps.
1146 Taut
... 68r11e6a&,319 tomides. ... 309,344 kern ...
INS ... 616,311 „ 404.311 „ I
.. 1,043,031 „ 636,970 „ e
Showing the increase in all the enumerated articles
except timber to have been 812,437 tone, or 93 per
coat., of which British ships have had 484,833 tees.
had fereign hat 327,624 tons, so that our shipowners
have hid nearly 56 per cent., whilst their foreign
oespitters have had only 37 per cent.
IA ea see how the use stands as to the articles sot
I. doe savigation.law list. and which may therefore
be Weight to a in any ships:
Dept! daps. 1411401 ships Total
173,141 Imo 159.164 toes ... 131,205
1546 ... 183.351 „ 145.131 „ 206,512
1647 ... 1720 M „ ... 144,381 ~ 318,443 „
Here we have a decree., of 14,882 tons of white
14,783 is a &mass in foreign ships,and bat 79 in
British ships. It is therefore not matter of opinion
but matter of fact, that in the trade with Europe we
do compete successfully not only with European but
with other foreign ships in the European trade.
The protectionists, however, deal very summarily
with figures, if the results tell against them : nothing
daunted, they meet the returns to be inaccurate.
They have a theory to support, and they stand by it
at any amt. They are determined not to learn.
The tables of the Bwrd of Trade prove just
as certainly as that two and two are four, that
wherever we meet foreigners, whether of one nation
Or several nations, in seas open on equal terms to all,
we are successful in the competition, but some ship-
owner having perhaps tried to do too much, having
got a bad ship, or made a bad venture, or lost a
freight taken up by some foreigner, forthwith declares
that he knows better than the tables ; figures are not
facts ; he'll have no statistics; we can't compete with
foreigners.
The answer is simply. the Board of Trade tables
prove that we do compete, and shipowners may
prefer assertions and theories, but, except these re-
turns of trade and navigation, there are no other of
the number, tonnage, clearances, and entries of oar
own and foreign ships—no other proofs of our failure
or success either under protection or competition.

IT is sometimes hard to choose whether to be
amused or angry at the deviom to which the
squirearchy are having recourse, with a view to tarn
public opinion back into the channel of protediss.
There was a rich farce of this kind enacted last meek
in the resides.* of a wealthy and fashionable desimend
the "Wet-end," who lives not quite a hundred Wile
from Grosvenot‘equare.
In the beginning of the week his tradesmen were
warned by circular to attend at his hones on Wawa.
day, with their respective bill* up to Christmai lest.
Tee obiset ' it was intimated, was the payment of
said bins: the wait/ of nowattendancie, that the
payment *mast dead over till next year." This bad
the look d being rather sharp practice, but money in
meatiy, sad the s meeting of creditors "
tbas einnimed was tolerably annierons.
The were misdeed with great solemnity
by three geadmisa fa limey. The name of ea* as
ha arrived. was entered, ley one of these recosang
al* ape. a sheeted 'Ramp. This oeremony over,
dm parties is attsedeass were politely invited to
talcs ap sodi
most
*deg place* in the hall am
11114iths most agessaide to them. They were then
sari apt ono by owe, in rotation, to receive pigment
dad dorm( the pesimiged and breathlees interval
that this was is Sege their earnest attention
l'jiiscrita7 ral to a document of which we
s literal copy. It is addressed, by their die-
tingshised debtor, to his agent:
, awn Id, ISM
Dear 81r,—I beg yea will express to all the tradessisa Is
whoa I am imagined, and who mg seas kw pummel et
their bills, that °win to the alterations a the laws
serkaltare sad the latrodestlea at free trade, togethera
tie illigt of of the reale Ina =chit estates, it it net
'L without udt Mashy that Ima their aosouats.
It ik• tifieultural isterestasali stades, its ppreeeseesst Mi-
tring state, sad my Dia peessety be as an active se
now is. my gran to tlio halm mast be greatly diminished
and ay imamate iressular. I have always sadesesarsd Ss
avoid eke %Mr, end by &Welshed coasamplisa. m-
amma to de ea. Oa Letlag to the dosasads apse me. sad
my asgaaof motet, I moat to Wmyself sespelled to
request ay shapes may settee erns until atter the Id&
of Nay, whoa the beakers will be premed to met them.
I sm. Am sir, yoon, dc.,'
There is a delicious issire
of d about this epistle of
whisk Dose bat a proprietor Irish estates is capable.
The writer is evidently impressed with a bell that
a Mil, payment" mesas discharging a debt eleven
mei after it is due by a cheque on his banker,
eibbk be will not be papered to meet till a month
din date. This byways made of evading ths doing
=iisya a praaissoey nets at ale moat's
of tia individual who imagism Lemils=lim.
leew igaereat of the fad that if the bamboos saw to
in the interim, the loss et the east sposillai
oloqie meetbo horse by the, patty wbo Mot to,
prossat it an the day on which it is Ilia
Tin sedum too, with the creditor ammo
that be is isplly aad seraily entitled to