The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-20 00:00:00

are ready (same think too ready) to give credit ; the
conservatives insist on valuable considemti. o. And
the strangest part of all is that when the unthrifty
whir show themselves most lavish, they i..variably
receive least in return; while those who render them
the greatest amount of aid, are usually tr ated with
neglect or contumely.
In a word, the whigs appear to follow the rule of
buying Hipp rt in the dearest and selling tl it favours
in the cheapest market. The governorship of Guiana
falls vacant, and they rush into the midst of the West
India grievauce.m ngers to know who would like to
have it. Mr. BARKLY condescends to trice it; and
forthwi h the war-cry against the Colonial-office Is
raised louder than ever. The Governor-Generalship
of India is to be filled up ; and ate ightway they offer
it to a I'eelite peer, whose graceful mode 01 acknow-
ledgment is to annoutce at a public dinner
that, albeit he took their 30,0001. a year, he
disapproves of their policy, and does not wish
to be ithelerstcod as in any degree identifying
himself with i'. To requite this, the wlegs c n the
first opportunity make Lord DALtiousie u marquis;
and we have not a doubt that on his ret .ra from
ludia they will find him one of their moat determined,
as they have made him one of tt,eir " moat noble,*
opponents. The bishopric of Down falls vacant, and
they hope that at least two tory peers may be propi-
tiated by thrusting on the episcepil bench an adver-
sary in pi inciples and a nonentity in the ct wch : and
within a week toe two robe relative a vet against
they on a question where their exirtence es an admi-
nistration was confesseily at stake. Ye t, ite.taught
by experience, no soot or dots the tee of Lime-
rick fe 1 to their dispo al than they think it both
discreet decent to ijnote the claims of the whole
body cf the Irish protestant clergy, and t ) c nftr that
lucrative pt et upon a man RhO was fiat known in
Ireland as chaplain and tutor in the family of the
moat bigoted toty chef Etc etary of our times, and
whose only disliection had been one conf.re el en hint
by the me s: trarge of former viceroys.
But e-cle are other ways of seeking kuppore ; and,
as is fitting, other ways of evincing gratitu .e. Some
men an: more touched by confide nee evive..d towards
the in in mattsra of moment than by p's cs c r pen-
Biome. They love to be consulted ; still more to be
ably to show the world that they are so. It may be
all hallucination, but if it be. 'tis one Veich many
share, that certain c” 'sons, not unknown to party
fame, ha-c had signal proofs of ministerial confidence
in matters where those whose fidelity and consistency
might have been supposed to give them a better
right, were left in contemptuous ignorance. Indivi-
dual vanity may, in some instances, have dealt in ex-
egg ration, but in others it is tolerably certain that
woeh was not the case. Nevertheless, we daily see
these worthy confidants suddenly turning mound upon
the men who placed such edifying trust in them, and
opposing their policy, ei Coutrance.
It was only a night or two ago that we found Lord
GI.VNGALL denouncing the Encumbered Estates
Bill as robbery and confiscation, and, with Lord
littotailtaat's aid, arresting ias progress by a refer-
ence to a select committee. Yet we have always un-
ratoad that his lordship was one of the most parti-
cular friends and favourites of thereon whom the re-
sponsibility must rested any measure of the kind.

TIM ace unt 1 of the Board of Trade publishedg;
terday ate in two important respects accept dole.
Went ua, in tee first Ore up -n official authority, of
a very prosperous condition of meat breeches of our
commerce, and they exhibit, through the medium of
a more lucid arrangement, and by the aid of more
elaborate di title, the proms% of the science of statis-
tics is the department especially appropriated to its
cultivation. This is the stcand month of the employ-
meat cf the new form of return, and we are happy to
say that a repetition of the first effort has been
attended with considerable improvements. The
return of the oth of April (1,419) was a very doubtful
deporture frem the o:d ereceeents. To be sure, it
exe'uded some items which had become obsolete, sad
made us agreeably acquainted with others which the
peogres- of our commercial system has gradually foa-
-1 teed, into important NMI CeJ of employment to our
population. But, while the eye ranged with satiatea
tion ever the lengthened ca'alogue, there was abun-
dant reason for regret. In the first plate, the years
of cimpariecn were reduced hare three to two, and,
what was still more mortifying, the figures of the re-
turn put us in possession of the facts for may the
single u:4e,th of April, iosterd of ler tbo month of
April and fur all the previous months of 1819 and the
otter marginal je Ira.
We are happy totes that most of these very serious
defects have 11, en co.eac'cd. Still, however, we have
only placei before asa ret:osp:et of one year instead
of two. We creme t spare the extra year. It is fre-
quently the most import e t element in the whole
comranisoe, ar.d as its ire rtion enjoys so high an
efficial antiquity there is every reason why it should
he restered to its pope. place in these useful
bulletins.
We are thankful, thee efore, for what has bren done.
But we are still disagreeably in the rear. It is now
the end of Juno sod we are just informed of a state
of things that ttrminsed at the commencement of
May. An interval of two months his been consumed
somewhere in arriving at a piece of information
which ap! operly adjusted system ought to supply
in less than as many daye Very likely the
Customhouse does not coesider itself in any (special
manner called upon to promote the adeancement of
commercial statistics. The is the very lesecra why
the matter sh uld be looked to. 'the puh'.e and the
merchants have now become accustomed to the ap-
pearance of these returns, and there is a pardietable
degree of impatience when the period sal deed is
exceeded—as it has been in the instance of the return
now in question.
The test point to which we tut n in ei.nmining
these commercial eccounta is the corisuepeoe by
our ov n population of these ere et staple la. tics of
foreign and colon:al jetecietee, beiume by 1 !IA habit,
almost iniispereoble to the support of ate. The
facts connected with a c .11re:1:elation of such cemmo-
ditities have more time one e moque-me. 'tn t xten-
sive demand for tobacco fir examples ler home
use piety plaiu.y determines two things.
The people who consume it, on the one hazel, hr.ve by
so re meanie or other pexu-ed money they could.
spare ter the purpose, and on the attn. Land, the
shrewd Virginians who grow the Wheel, have re-
ceived in exchange some pro -keine ut 11, 41 in-
dustry and skill. In the ,o, the- acre, of
even one article, you have a re erect indi x, at fur as
it goes, of the rapidity of &reel iron pre v r erg in one
branch of the internal acd extercal teed If yea
sell more tobacco, auger, and coffie, yo I • 1111.10 i mere
shopkeeper., more Ishii" and mute tact its. nt d y.. 0
consume more cotton, and rarr • of tee lob :e. Into
which cotton has bean 114 inge •lously co, e td. Eu-
tertainicg these notions, we present th f l'ow ng
figures with peculiar setisfac i sr), tut to c.l,taia, them
we beg to say that we have had to travel colitildi rably
beyond the pale of the accounts hefote ur :
Enteml for Home Orptimpt low month., (n,O y".
--140. 1.:17, Ir la.

Ogee flu. 12,121,000 13,844,00• 13,173,00 12,356,000
. lba. 15,214,060 1,75'0.060 Ig,1! 16,P1,000
1,917 000, i,90,000 1,913,•.00 1,608,000
=co flo, 9,010,00,,, 9.123.000 9,901000. 9,245,0.00

The consumption of coff-e nut sugar is corgi'" rably
above the c msumption of 1816, and rifler below t`••at
of 1847 and 1848—years .0 which there were special
oltres in operation.
After the extent of the demand for ttr,e common
luxuries of the great bcdy of th • people, there is no
more important guts:ion tha•i that u Lich concerns
the extent of the dtmand for the m •ter iais of labour.
We have satisfied ourstivei that the purple have teen
fed, we must 11. at inquire how they uave b en em-
ployed. In this country it is kr:un it<ly th,. rule foe
subsistence to be procured by ltb,•ur, so that in a
great measure the an■ierr u eh a?pPes t • one ques-
tion very effeetuslly tettba t,:e other. bt:11 it is de-
sirable to tee the ev7dence in det,il. We are happy
that it can be given in so complete a form as in the
following statement tf the quantities of raw
materials :

Imported four months ended May 5.

1016

IB4+l . 1849

Madder Root . oils. 121,000 56,000 63,000 90,000
Paz
809, Thrown . lbt. 1 iti,o9o 94,000 125,000 264,010
Ta.low
Turpentine....... 144,000 73,000 70,000 97,900
Cotton Wool
Shrep's Wool

In the present posture of the coitaticrersy abcut fire
trade, the value of the-e figures ry gri at. They
very p:ove two thing,. It'' plain that to ob-
tain ino:e of these imported raw r. aterieh we must
i have ihrit away at lest an undiminished quantity of

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