The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-04 00:00:00

This would be sound constitutional dextrine, even
were the Lords unanimous in their opposition to the
other two b-anches of the legislatare and sure of
numerous sympathisers out of doors. But in point of
fsc: the majority in the Lords opposed t 3 the Jews
Bill is Bartow, and rapidly dimmishing; end the
acknowledged leader of the party in the Commons
which sympallises with this narrow majority votes
I for the bill. The case is one in which the Lads are
bound in honour to give way : and they wilt give
way.

We have perused with respectful attention the
statistical portion of Mr. Disaam's speech, in the hops
of discovering something witty if not something new,
or of eneounteting for mice, at least, the prepos-
terous figments of protectionism reamed from the
painful imbecility which universally besets every
appeal ventured on their behalf to the evidence of
facts, and every eff3rt to procure for them some
countenance from the science of numbers. We have
been di-appointed in our expectations. In point
of fact, we are by no means sure that even the dull
industry and innocent mishaps of Mr. NEWDEGATE
axe not mare tolerable and more to the purpose, than
anything which Mr. Disitaeti has managed to pat
together, after a riotous ransack of every statistical
appliance within the reach of a member of parlia-
ment and the leader of an impatient party.
We may state, for the information of that very ex-
tensive class of persons who unlike ourselves, being
under no positive compulsion to digest the speeches
of Mr. DIsRAELI, will be thankful to receive the re-
port of any adventurous explorer of their contents,
that the oratorical effort of Monday night was
mainly directed to establish three points. Mr. Dis-
RAELI, East of all, lags it down as a fact, as in truth
a very great fact, that in 1848 we exported as large a
quantity of goods as in 1846, and that for this same
quantity we received 64 millions sterling less.
" There is a fact for you to some purpose," is the
commentary of Mr. DISRAELI ; " and," we use the
words of our report, " I especially recommend the
advocates of free trade carefully to consider the re-
sult." We are most happy to avail ourselves of the
invitation. But there is really not much consideration
required. The answer is a simple matter of eyesight.
Let it be borne in mind that Mr. DISRAELI places the
argument epos the quantity of the goods exported.
Very well : so much the better for the defenders
of free trade. Mr. DISRAELI read from one column
of Table No. 107, at page 124 of the Finance
Accounts for 1848: we are unwilling to deprive the
honourable member of the benefit of the reference, and
all we have to do is to read from another column of
precis.4y the same table. Mr. DISRAELI stated that
ess
the official value of the exports was—
Ia 1846

1848
But why did not Mr. DISRAELI state at the aame
time that the official value of the imports was—

la 184 G
1848

lucrease 1:18,0110,000
The pubrc Rill now underatand the solidity and
breadth of the first of the grounds for this prodigious
motion on the state of the nation—a motion on the
state of the nati in, when it is receiving 18,000,000..
more if value in three years for the same quantity of
exported commodities.
But Mr. 111:41tAELI did not content himself

with one great feat in the art of confusing and
misapprehending facts. Ile declared that the
principal reason to which he attributed the
alleged distress of the country waii, " the decline
of our foreign commerce.' A reduction in
three years of seven millions of exports would,
honourable gentlemen would easily understand,
occasion great distress. A proposition so much
in the form of a truism may ba safely accepted even
from Mr. Dtsass:u. But is it a fact? Is it true that
the foreign trade of the country has declined
7,000,000/. in three years? It is not true. Mr.
DISRAELI will say, " Not true—why here are the
figures: sxp arts in 1815, 60,000,000/.; in 1846,
58,000,000/. ; and in 1848, 53.000,000 I." That is
perfectly correct. We do not dispute the returns of
the Board of Trade, but we sltopther deny the
inference derived from them by Mr. Disnent. Does
Mr. DISRAELI really know what an export means?
Iles be any more distinct idea of an article of export
—say of a bale of woollens—than he has of the Cau-
casian mystery? Has it ever occurred to him that
hats, and coats, and hurdware, hippen to
be ma-'e of ;raw matrriols as well as of
skilled lab3ur ? Let Mr. DISRAELI draw upon his
imagination so far as to suppose that by some
new achievement of the Caucasian race the art
of printing and the art of paper-making were
to become so improved that or e of his own novels
could be sold at a profit for half the sum it cows at
present, and let him forlisr suppose that he
happens to sell as many at the new low price,
as he sold at the old high price, and that for
a thons%nd copies of the book he receives in the
one case 5,000/., and in the other 2,500/. Now pre-
sumisg tht se elements of the problem to be ade-
quately understood let it be completed by the
performance of an operation in rule of three
demons•rating in figures that by Felling 1,000
copies for 2,500/. instead of 5,000!. when they have
cost only half their firmer price his foreign trade, or
whatever sort of a trade it be, has fallen off 50 per
c nt., and that he is consequently in a distressed con-
. (Wien. _ _

lies it never occurred to Mr. DISRAELI and the
other members of his party who talk so incessantly
about high and low prices, and of the ruin of trade,
that price is from first to last a relative term ? Selling
tea at 4s. a pound is almost as profitable a trade as it
mei to be when the price was four times four, and
it is just as reasonable to deecribe the country as
ruined because the volume of the exports happens to
be Las this year than last, as it would be to speak of
all the tea deeers being insolvent imam they turned
over only half as much money as their grandfathers.
The exports of 1848 were less than the exports of
1846, not became we sold less, but because we paid
less for the raw materiala. We bought indigo cheaper,
and cotton cheaper, and oil cheaper, and timber
cheap r, and therefore we sold the commodities menu-
'actuted out of these materials also cheaper. We
have seen the same fact in 50 diffe rent forms. In 1817,
for instance, we exported more goe ds in value than in
1846. But who believes that 1847 was as good a
year as 1846? The large exports in value of 1847
arcse out of the scarcity prices of the raw material,
and the apparently email exports of 1848 arose out of
the plenty prices of the raw ma'. rial.
Now, let it not be said that all this is mere arm,
tion, and that we have no detailed proof of the
difference we allege between the prices of 1846 and
1848. We b-g to say that we have such a proof,
and, what is more, a proof that Mr. DISRAELI will
feel limed,' bound to accept as definitely c inclusive.l
Mr. Disesett is no doubt perfectly familiar with a
small pamphlet with a sky-blue cover containing
the latest lamentations in an arithmetical form of his
excellent colleague, Mr. NEWDEGATE. Mr. NEWDE-
GATE is not an authority by whom we should always
like to swear, but in ties instance he will answer the
pnrp roe to perf e ion, and as we have already borne
somewhat upon Mr. DISRAELI as the scapegoat of
men to whom it is his misfortune and his fruit to be
a mouthpiece and a leader, we are dioposed to let him
off leniently, upon this hat peccadillo. At pages 14
and 44 of Mr. NEWDEGATE'S bock Mr. DISRAELI can
refresh his m mory by pausing the followirg figures,
and the next time he ventutes to iedul.e in rhspso-
die-e on the ruin of our foreign commerce, let Mr.
NEWDEGATE defend his own fixtures, and read as
under trim his own tract a statement of the price in
bond, and of the total value of the importations in
1846 and 1848, of
146.

MS.

PLR TAW". PRIM VALVIt.
Indigo, 1b.... 36. 91.
Mood's root,
cwt... .... 55a. Od.
Olir, oil, tun 410
Train oil, tun £7O
Blubber, tun 4.'.5
Sa tpetre, cwt. 252.
14.0, ruw, lb. Ili.
Silk,tbrown,lo.l9a.
Turpentine, cert.,94.
Wool,cutton,lb.,Nd.

CA,700.000

C 28,291,000

INQUEST, YESTERDAT.—ALLEOED MURDER OF A
MAN NT HIS \Vim —At the University College Hospi•sl.
bet.we Mr. Et M. WA:By, on the body of Peter Writ.
rigid 55, a shoemaker, who Liid from a wound on the throat
infested by his wife with a knife used for cutting
leather.—Mr. H. 8. Gaye and Mr. W. Filliter, house
surgeons r f the hospital, gave eiidenre to the affect, that the
deeeased died of low or generen. us istiammation of the
lungs, brought on by the wound in the throat.—The jury
re awned a verdict of Manslaug'iter" against Mary White.