The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-28 00:00:00

FOREION COMMERCE OF AUSTRIA.

About five years ago, the department of finance in
Austria commenced the arrangement and publication of
tables indicative of the results of Austrian commerce. The
seventh volume, with the returns for 1845, has recently made
its appearance. For the first year the work was divided into
two parts, one of which gave the returns for 1840, and the
other represented the commercial movement from 1831 to
1840. The importance of the progress mado•by Austria will
thus be more readily appreciated during the space of fifteen
years.
Dividing them into periods of five years each, the miss
value of the importations, exportations, and customs re-
ceipts may be thus stated for each period :
Isoorts. Costal:is
1931.5 ... 1111,T47,1.28 .., 87,603,1707 ... 11,910=.
1036-40 ... 101634,934 ... 102,13‘183 ... 13,213,839 ...
1341-45 ... 114,433,040 ... 111,364,367 ... 16,292,943 ...
The rate a( pproroggreaamr is distributed over each year of mai
series with rsaarkabla regularity. In three years only mil
there any
fa .
first to last, as shown an as
ineonsiderrerlef in the exports of 1837 and 11142,
, and the imports of 1 1, u compared with the year lame-
irately premeding in each case. As between the first add
the last year attach mile of five years, the ratio of prop,*
may be thus inhibited :
1631
11,041,967 AstiM.
86,9113,241
INS —.— 111,794241 S
1169
1541 311111,796
1663
tribab .....,
The i
fa smer* sad exports by Lad and sea were thin Mi.
sd INC--

isollromilS I:LAP IM;t4 ... 1ir,428,424 Wok
= 14.7,0,111111 ... 11:,2:1,011 - •
4.111,187 ... kiii,l9o
Cloorn. 470,11211 ... 2,484017 ...
Polited _
low* b= 1,1118.144 ... 1,810.11111
By oelter - •
Turin .. . ............
DM= limilt
Bwitssimmll 2.11111.139 ... 18,891,323 ... ,I
TOW by Ird. ...... - 111,11311,148 ... 81,137,44$ 7.
17 elk OM" t
Hine —.- 6s,sts . I". i
r Tel.le .......--..«.. F.,111!,1•11 ... 1!,0111,10 ...

Vivo
Me Law aim. sod •

70.71;;N:

5,U0,1116 2,11P,050 t:

49,443,7 M .. 14,744,17 .
' The aggregates of the imports and export. ass here give,
fall short by nearly twelve million, of florins of the tabs 's'.
appreciation previously set forth, the gross total of i .
in the first cuss being stated at 235,805,063 florins for 1666,
and in the latter for 223,828,122 florins only. The Maio
mice, not explained in the Germ= papers from which WM

statements are substantially taken, is not explained, hut in-
&wally may be gathered to arise from some distinctions
drawn ab the trade of various parts of the Austrian states
with contiguous constrict.

COLONIAL

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—The only two adminia-
wire acts of the new govt rnor much spoken of, were a
rernment notice relating to municipal markets, and his
Abe In council on the Small Debts Bill,
In the notice liis evnllency states that his attention has
rea drawn to regulations within municipalities and else-
where in the colony, by which sellers are prohibited from
Waging produce for sale into the towns or villages, " with.
pat nein,: it through the market, and paving market dues
thereon, whether sod I there or not." gush compulsory
aken, he observes, are opposed to that free in-
wool trade in the products of the country which
the right of all, and the interest both of
leaded proprietors and consumers. Re therefore inti-
man that six months after Jute (10th Feb.) he will in-
tredve • bill in the legislative council to repeal and annul
;dirndl regulations unlesa where it, can be shown that par-
ticular local circumstances render them expedient. On this
document the Gralurn's Town Journal observes .—" This
notice is sitisfactory as indicating the quickness of apprehen-
sion which is here brought to bear upon a matter °tappet:antiy
pivia importance, and which would escape altogether the
Munition of an ordinary mind. Without dwelling on what
is new so extensively admitted as Gee-trade principles, it will
be sufficient to remark that it is matter of congratulation that
T
of the first act* of Sir Henry Pottinger, en assuming
Th. government of this colony, distinctly marks
the breadth of his views in matters of social economy,
mg a an encouraging augury of a better order
of thicgs—of an enlightened, comprehensive, and liberal
polity io the administration of the affairs of this important
The vote in council on the Small Debts Bill is viewed
with more diversity of opinion. The bill was thiown cwt by
ths governor's casting vote. It contained a provides by
which a defaulter in payment might be imprisoned by his
mditor. Sir henry, as it appears to us here, with some
nom, objected that a penalty of so heavy a character in
pilling cars was unreasonable. The colonists, however—
nil they best know the state and wants of their owa so-
ciety, appear to have leaned to the clause. In Sans Sly's
Africa' Jour sal, it is observed that " had his excellency
jived long enough in the colony, and had be had time
to comider the subject with the attention which its
importance demanded, he would have seen the neces-
sity of supporting the motion." Even the Grultane's
Town Journal, while admitting that there was " great rea-
son" in the objection, only says that " perhaps it is better to
CRT on the fide of ow fey," adding, so far as many frau-
dulent individaals are concerned, it is to be regretted that
the bill has not passed late law."
Too prment colonial minister appears to be much in
favour, as well ea the new governor. The following
pumas in one of Earl Grey's dispatches had given
way general satisfaction " The amendment of the
heal..s and institutions, excepting those of the legislative
sad chief executive authorities, should habitually, if net ex•
obisivaly, originate with the local legislature. To her Ma-
jony's confidential advisers, and more especially to the
lead of this department, it belongs to review all such local
manments, and to advise the llueen as to the acceptance,
'ejectment, or amendment of them."
Cape Toss and its vicinity had been subjected to a long
Inatinuance of great heat. On the 7th of February
the thermometer was observed to iodinate 156 deg. in
the ma ; in the shade it ranged from 90 deg. to 96 des ; the
whole of that night it stood considerably above 96 deg.
The air, however, was perfectly pure, and nothing was com-
plained of but the heat. The high temp. retort and south-
east winds ointinued at the time of the last dispatches, when
"the country was dreadfully parched; and the roads being
eompowd of materials which require a great quantity of
water to make them bind, stood sa much in need of rain as
the gardens and fields." Heavy rains had fallen in the north-
west and midland districts.

FIRE, AND LOSS OF LITE AT SEA.—Tbe brig Can-
Ring, of Bristol, commanded by Albert Hancock, sailed from
Way, in Peru, on the 16th November, 1846, laden with
nitrate of soda. On the MO December she anchored at Port
Famine, and the next morning, at two a.m., t►e captain
awoke almost suffocated pith smoke in the cabin, the fire
almost immediately afterwards bursting through the floor.
He hurried his wife on deck, and with part of the crew got
into the yawl, which was fortunately alongside, and pushing
off from the brig, witnessed her awful destruction with three
of the crew on boord. The layers of bags which contained
the nitrate of soda, on being reached by the fire, exploded in
succession with reports resembling the discharge of artillery.
Everything was irrecoverably lost. Ten minutes later, and no
one would have survived to relate the disaster. The survivors
procured a passage in the French brig Le Nouveau Parse-
, which arrived in Havre on the 23d of April, when
Mr. Hancock reported himself to her Majesty's consul.
JURISDICTION OF BRITISH CONSULS IN TURKEY,—
The Caudle of last night contains an order in council regu-
lating the jurisdiction of British consuisin Turkey. It orders
that an all cases of British subjects accused before these func-
tionaries of arson, cutting, stabbing, fitc., the proceedings
shall be conducted in the presence of assessors, and it will be
lawful for consuls to send any person coovieted of such of-
fences out of the dominions of the Porte. In cases of fine or
imprisonment 'trinity shall be given for the good conduct of
the party so punished after the payment of the fine or the
expiration of the term of imprisonment. Any person re-
fusing to give such security, it • hall be lawful to send out of
the Ottoman dominions.