The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-07 00:00:00

Value of Value of
Imports Value of Exports from the United the Produce
into the Kingdom. and Manu.
United factures of
Kingdom. Official Rates. the United
Years.
Produce Foreign exported,
and Manu. and according
Official factures of Colonial Total to the real
Rates. the United Merchan. Exports. or declared
Kingdom. dize value.
1328
182 ,
18.30
1531
-- --. ---. -- —____ --.
184,969,252 1•230,833,c..93 39,864,454 170,699,7511 148,059,974
Average 48,243,213' 57,708,623 9,966,113 67,674,937 37,014,993
1432
1833
1334
1835
--- - ---
188,813,615 1287,221,322 4,,218,382 332,462,2-8 165,133,332
47---- ---,
verage 47,203,4111 71,806,060 11.109,593 83,115,552 41,280,833
. _ ----. —_—
Increase on
corXri:,,T. 961,098 i 14,897,257 1,343,482 15,440,615 4,265,840
rages.

I think Honourable Gentlemen will see

:hat if this country

can be blessed with a continuance of such results as those
which I have dwelt upon, the fondest lover of his country, a
man of the most sanguine and earnest mind, can anticipate for
the future no greater degree of prosperity than I have shown
to be the effect of the past. Now I wish to show to what great
branches of our industry this prosperity extends, and above all
how our increased exports have contributed to the great and
leading interests of this country :
BRITISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES

EXPORTED.
Declared Value.
1834
1835

.-4,319,000 Increase 13 per Cent.

Linen Manufactures.
1834
1835

L------ 647,000 Increase 26 per Cent.

Cotton.

1834
1835

1,092,000 Increase 7 per Cent.

Hardware and Cutlery.
1834 ...... 1,485,000
1535

350,000 Increase 23 per Cent.

1834
1835

637,000
972,000

335,000 Increase 6 per Cent.

Woollen.
1834
1835

-- 1,071,000 Increase 15 per Cent.

Out of seventeen articles increase on fourteen. The only
articles on which there is a decrease are tin plates, salt, and
refined sugar.
Sir, this increase in commerce is by no means to be ade-
quately judged of by our exports, because, on account of the
increased consumption and activity of trade, proportionate in-
dustry is applied to the home market—and this brings me to
state the quantity of cotton-wool imported, rather than that
which has been exported, as one of the best tests of our pros-
perity :
COTTON WOOL FOR HOME CONSUMPTION.
1833-293,682,000 Ib3.
1834-302:935,000
1835-33:3,080,000
Increase in 1834 over 1833 3.15 per cent.
1835 1834-10.36
1835 1834-13.48
AVERAGE CONSUMPTION.
Ten years from 1816 to 1825-138,120,000
1826 to 1835-255,975,000
Increase 85 per cent.

Buildings and machinery in progress, 4,000,000, and to give
employment to 90,000 persons, 40,000,000 lbs. from India.—
I shall now refer to the exports of the iron trade from this
country, which become exceedingly interesting in this point
of view—that it proves how much a foreign demand can tell
on the state of our home market. The account is as follows :

IRON AND STEEL.
Declared value exported.

1833 £1,405,035
1834 1,406,872
1835 1,660,750
Increase 19, per cent.
Average quantity annually exported.
Tons.
Five years-1820 to 1824 00,283
1825 to 1529 . 87,237
_ 1830 to 1834 142,071

This showed what a supply we are able to afford ; indeed,
I am enabled to state to the House, on authority which I can
rely upon, that an order being given, on the 6th May last,
for 1,800 tons of iron rail for America, the whole order was
executed by September, without any interruption of the gene-
ral business, and an actual shipment of iron rail which would
cover 57-} miles of road, was made at the latter period.—
( Hear, hear.) There are some returns which would show a
diminution in the amount of revenue derived from some arti-
cles. One of these is foreign brandy; but I think it will be
shown by the following return that the diminution in the quan-
tity of foreign brandy imported, is amply compensated by the
increased consumption of home-made spirits.
INCREASE OF ROME-MADE SPIRITS, ACCOUNTING FOR DECREASE