The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1864-02-19
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from London has had very, little effect in
diminishing trade by other modes of CON
Iyeyance, The canal boats carry more
than before railways. were, constructed,
and, the, number of carriages and horses
employed in Great Britain, the use of
which, railways were designed TO super
lcede,, is, greater than it was before these
railways were, made. But the grandeur
lof the foreign trade Of London strikes the
Imagination still more forcibly. All the
corners of the earth seem to be brought
to focus in the river Thames: 1900
ships now enter there yearly, bringing
nearly $4,000 .cargoes of all that the earth
can produce of value and beauty, Every
forty minutes during the year ship pass
Ees Gravesend, bringing stores from some
fcolonlal cline, in many cases much more
than London's own proportion. For iu-
stance, .seven-eighths of all the cofe Q
brought to all parts Of the United King
dom !; seven-ninths of all the live stock
one-half Of the sugar, tobacco, wool, rice,
fruit, hides and skins; nearly one-half, of
the bacon, ham, barreled salt meat, butter,
cheese, eggs and lard; fve-sixths of the
spices, and no less than ffteen-sixteenths
of all the tea. London consumes just as
much of all this as she wants, and sends
the rest into the provinces and abroad.
Tits truly wonderful where all the COM
modities go to; 10000 pounds of pepper
every year-the sound of the words makes
one sneeze PA, 100000 bushels Of corn,
100000 hundred, weights Of -four and
meal, and more than ] 100000 of oil cake
entered the Thames alone in one recent
year. Two ships every, day, or there
abouts, Of the average capacity of 700
tuns, enter. the Thames from India and
China alone. The export trade is enor-
nous. \ No less than ten or eleven mil
lions sterling are in the forms of clothing
and materials for clothing; e1, 100000
in boots and shoes, 81, 1,00O,0 900 in "milli-
merry and haberdashery," 81, 100000 for
apparel and slops, all go from one port in
one, year !, Some Of the; items of imports
are curious. Think of whole ship-loads of
Dutch eels, in cargoes of 10000 pounds
each, coming to London; oxen fattened
for the Lopdon market in Schleswig Hol-
stein; Ostend butter and Ostend rabbits,
which are sure to find market in spite of
the home supply.
Two millions empty oyster shells were
once brought over to London in one ship
for the sake Of that beautiful lining which
constitutes the mother of pearl used for
many fancy and ornamental purposes
One fact most instructive is observable in
this vast trade Of the port of London, viz,
whatever is brought over, in whatever
shape, from whatever place and by what
ever persons, it is sure to find market.
The price may be beaten down, if the de-
mand is languid, but they never think Of
saying owe DOM want any," !
,s notwithstanding the vast commercial
Importance Of London, the great American
trade is mostly within the grasp of Liver
pool, because the Mersey is nearer to
America than the Thames, and cotton is
most needed in Lancashire, and because
the chief articles sold to America such
as metals, hardware, earthenware, &C.,
are fabricated nearer to Liverpool than to
London. Inthe trade with Australia, too,
Liverpool beats London, as measured by
the relative population of the two places.
r--Na0ebers Journal. .l.,.9gi3al 1as I
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