The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

OUR FOREIGN TRADE.

The eget e 1 the revolutionary movements on the
imatlasat is 1848 apes the maaafsetaring {lmagoes of
Greet liriadr—es this street was leeksd fir, sad so It was
felt—le et ewe explained by the fast, that of late years the
iababiteats of the meanies thus disaubed lave liven tho
01E/Mben of rather mere than half of all the British pro.
dam 001neny Mania from ear shores. I. 1846 the told-
export wee 'Taloa at 11,200,0001 ; is 1847, at 61.000.00 a
sad la 1848, it fell to 46,400,0001.. and would have fallen,
lower hod set the exisserdiaary roma= of oar exports la
the llama States, is ntera he the brae supplies et mew
resolved themes is 1847, partly brioarAtlir .-Mll 001-;
dowry. From February toipunik Ist% ear aidaldhallsa
mad aterehamme saw plated is sessitem la whishtbei
beenessumnsund Is &peso um the mama& alms
Waken mai • MX Mean prie
wain of men* Weft de Pure of usage=
the dins:beam of all iseastrial air
"="iliallsr the amity of 1847 hal masa
the meame—the semseseme of imported matbase—be a
stateef sompessilve groverty, but. mon issminsatly by the
pereaddea seam MI the laerearity .1 property while is kmm
parable from pithiest betarbanes. amid whisk, km a thee,
ma impelled est own eaderwriten to stop a peat rat
the Xedlterreasem trade, by deellabg to bears wpm
without a premium for or risk-4 premium Mat
ia theme days of keg established peowsprellts, ham
the whole ot the am retaras epee nearly every trammelso►
it should have bin applied to. Low pekes of food, and of
raw materials at heats, fortunately bereased the stemmata
for the home taarket, sad partially filled the blank ; pat the
defidesey of the fereign demand wee severely felt while it
lasted—which was till mar the eine of 111. year.

We have obtained that the entire declared valise of the
British exports of 1848 was 46,400,0001 West the manta
will be for the meant year can hardly yet be gaosesd, es the
last morns, those issued by the Bmed of Trade on Saturday,
only bring down lila aseetutta to the 6th of Anus. Bat we
now learn that fa the mix menthe !ma the bth of Pebratry
to the bth of haw; 1840, the declared valise of the exports
of British prods.. was 22,480,0001. In the sane
_period of
1848 it was 22,480,0001, and is 1847, 27,378,0001 no raw
exported in the Month of July last was 'pastor by 'boat •
iniffion starling than it has ever before been is any ihnilar
powbf. Whence we we safely swans that the export trade
has now quite reasvered, if not somewhat more than Ma-
nia, the revelationary darnelp of last peer.
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Nor I. confirmatory evidence of this fact wanting—avi.
dam which, by the way, also assures u of the healthy aced
thriving condition of the manufacturing districts, apart from
their foreign Colliltliollll. We learn from the amounts, made
up per:odially, of the quantities of cotton received, de-
livered out for assumption' and retained in store at the
three great centres of the raw cotton trade—Liverpool,
Glasgow, and London—that the deliveries for home eon-
sumptioti, in the present year, up to the 31st of August,
amounted to 1,196,000 bales. Its 1848 (to the same elate)
they were 980,000 bales—and In 1847 only 79'3,000 bales.
The difference in the ammo quantity consumed per week
('22,700 bides in 1847, 28,100 bales in 1848, and 34,400
base is 1849) marks, with considerable certainty, a cor-
responding difference in the amount of employment
afforded to the labouring classes by the cotton menu-
facture. It la thus evident that this branch of the
national industry has, as respects the extent of employment
of fotded by l, been expanding rapidly end continuously
sincelB47. But 1847 was a year of a decidedly exceptional
character. In that year we were severely efßieted by a
amity of cotton. The deficiency of the American crop
raised the prise of the most commonly used eacription of
cotton :from 64d. • pound in B:ptember, 1846, to 74d. in
September, 1847. In September, lB4c, the price of the
same kind of cotton was only 41d., and now it is abort Bd.
a pound. In 1848, from January to August inclusive, the
average consumption rer week was 30,400 bales. Also, it
is to be remembered that in 1847 food was sr dear as to
postpone, among the great majority of the column :vs of
tenon wares, not the wearing of tuose they had, hut the
purchase of others, so that had cotton been cheaper its
con,umption would still have been much checked—precisely
as, on the other hand, its eonsumption at an unusually high
rate now goes on, food being cheap and employment mode-
rately abundant, though the price of cotton is (partly from
the increased demand of the last twelve months, and partly
from the anticipation of the coming crop in America proving
rather deficient) higher than it has been since 1842. And
the h just gathered promises a continuance of such
prices for food as will leave our manufacturers ao reason to
complain of a falling-off in the home demand for their pro-
duce during the next twelve months,
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Bat cotton, though, singly, it occupies the le rgest spice In
the field of British uultiatry, has some weighty compeers in
the Hat of raw material', the aspect of which is so Important
es an isdex. to the national deausise is the immediate na-
ture. We subj in a comparison of the quiutities of six
other articles imported is the first seven mouths of 1848 and
1849:

1848 1849.
Silk, raw, lbs.
Cotton, cwts 4,170,000
Wool, lbs. ....... .... 33,281.000
Kemp, ants 270,200
Tallow, owts.
Timber, loads
The import of cotton has, we learn from other and more
recent sources of information, since fallen off. Toe in-
crease upon silk, hemp, and tallow is, as to each, very
considerable. Tha import of wad is nearly etationsry
but it appears that larger supplies are expeated. limber
shares the fate of railways, Lr which, of lets years, it has, in
great parr, been imp HUM. The eonsumptlen for the et yea
months of 1819 was 677,000 loads. In 1848 it was 824,000
leads ; and as no revival of speculation in that direction can
be look• d for at any early period, the construction of new
factories' docks, warehouses, and dweltiags ars the only
channels open for inenass.i consumption.

In conclusion, we may observe that ell these accounts
should be t..ken in 001111, :ion with the fact, that since the
spring of 1947 nearly 800,009 persons have emigrated from
tne United Kingdom, thus undoubtedly stating, for the
time, all increase of the population, and adding so many
is the number of our costumers for manufactured produce
abroad.—Globe.