New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-23
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Frsm the Morning Herald.
The value Of tue produce and manuiectore VI
Great Britain and Ireland for the year le4e WAS
little above t247 600 600, and OF that htnouo'
nearly lqj 600 900 worth was consumed Nv none'
.nd GA O00 coo worth in our colonies, m 4klng
together f2Os 600 600 or thereaoocts WINE the
whole amount ex ported TO all the foreign countries
of the world was not much m IRE than tJ9, OOO,oOO
that is 10 say, in round numbers, eighty per cent
OF our hole manufactures were bought 10 tne nome
market five per cent in the colonial, and fifteen In
the foreign-the whole OF the foreign nations OF
the word thus purchasing less than one sixth OF
the productions Of Great Britain. calculation OF
the average consumption per head at home, In the
colonies, and in foreign countries, affords some
curious results. Taking the population OF the
United Kingdom at 81 100000, and the whole con.
sumption at 4l94,2l3,l5l, we get an average con-
sumption Of &c IS I'D per head. Calculating the
population OF all foreign countries 10 which We ex'
port our commodities at COZ 6sl 0OO and their con
sumption at 500 430, 46l, we get an annual con.
sumption per head of IL ID, or less than the goth
par. of the British consumption per head.
II we take the population OF the British colonial
possessions at II 79O 200, and their consumption
at sl2, sl9, 345, and add them to the home poPula
ton and consumption, we arrive at an aggregate
OF $40 600 coo souls, and British consumption OF
f207, 623 u.s. or an average Of Il Is lid per head
If in the calcu alton Of the foreign average, we de-
duct the pop alaton OF China, which amounts N
Inc IOrmlQhDe sum Oh ~-<OO,VVOgOOVt Wo iosC
the average of foreign consumption from ls z TO
2s I'D. r. on the other hand, we exclude FROM our
colonial table the East Indies, with their ll4OoO
600, and exports amounting 70 t5,O77 PAT, as set
off against China, we leave for the United King
dom and the colonies a population OF "a 2OO,
consuming on sn average t5 los per head oil all
tie pro- uc,ions Of Great Britain In other words
more than SO times the average OF the foreigners
at the higher calculation. Assuming the popus-
tion OF the United States TO be 100000, aud the
amount Of their consumption OF British productions
80 564 902 Ian amount considerably exceeding the
aversge Of ~ years., we got an average con'ump
ton per head Of % 3D. or more than four times the
highest general average OF foreign CONSUMPTION,
and con sid erably greater than the average OF any
o,her foreign county. If we take the American
consumption st little more than Il, 600 900 year.
which vas the average of the 12 years concluding
with le1s, we shall still have an average consGnP
tion per read higher than thai Of any other foreign
country.
The Americans are, therefore, our best foreign
customers individually if we may so speak; bat
they arc also by far our beat customers regarding
them ss y patton. While they took nine millions
and half worth of our productions in leis all
Northern aud Western Europe, from Russia to
France took but twe lve millions the South o, Eu
rope, with the wi hole OF the Mediterranean, from
Portugal to Morocco, but eight millions aud a half
AID South America, with Mexico, considerably 10
der ak millions. The average amount OF exports
from tie u tied Kingdom to France during the Eve
yeas ding with 1919. wa, f234s. 453i to Ger
mary for tie same period, &c co. 1893 and to Italy
$685. 52 1t ia clear, therefore, that no aation
takes 30 much Of our commodities as the United
States, even calculating their consumption on the
average of 10 years. Taking the amount OF their
consumption of ls4l, viz: nine millions and half
We still find the States oonsuming less than quar-
ter of our exports, while we consumed more than
TWO thirds Of the whole of theirs in the same year.
amounting in value to more than i27 00O 900 ster-
ling.