The Sun. — 1863-09-09 (London, England)

OUR IMPORTS.—The imports of foreign and colonial goods into the United Kingdom are of four classes. The first comprises articles of food. The corn puted real value of these in the returns for 1862 was no less than £93,027,988, a sum equal to three-fourths of the value of the entire export of. British and Irish produce and manufactures. By far the largest item is for corn and flour, the e imports of which in that year reached the enormous amount of £37,755,060. The import of grain, meal, and flour never reach d 12,000,000 qrs., until the bad harvest of 1860, in whh year it was 14,494,976 qrs., but in 1861 it was 16,094,914 qrs., and in 1862, 18,441,791 qrs. The average price on which the value of the wheat imported was computed in 1862 has not yet been stated ; in 1861 it was astonishing 53s 9d for Russian, 60s 2d for Prussian, 39s 9d for EgyprAnaeraimcaonn.nt.Thxeroet t owsepr speak kother strongpt ioarni ~9 na fnfdo 05d5osf2d for drink, nor of tea, coffee, and sugar, we imported in 1862 cattle, sheep, and swine, and salted meat and lard, to the amount of more than £5,000,000 (the oxen and bulls were put is 1861 at an average of £l7 lls, and the sheep at 455); butter, nearly £5,000,000; cheese, £1,500,000 ; rice, £•',400,000 ; eggs, £600,000; poultry, £85,000. A. second class of our imports consists of raw materials of manufacture;of these arrivals in 186.4 was and the valueth amount was £91,984,804. The £96,513,530. In 1860,6, aes the largest ever received. The import of wool in 18 .., w import of cotton is by no means expressedfalling off in the fthe value of the imports ;the rise by a statement o mind. The quantity fell from in pi ice must be borne. in 4 678 333 cwt. in 1862; the 12,419,096 cwt. in 1860 to , ~., 16 889 to £31,091.045. computed value from 135,1') cotton at 60s. 4d. In 1866 the computation wason American per cwt. ,third class •in 1861 at 725. sd. A .. of imports cont being agriculture, no sists of articles used in manufacture or reached raw materials of manufacture; and these articlesin this class £16,643,572 in the year 1862. The chief items aro wood, sawn or split, planed or dressed , oils, guano, remaining copper partly wrought, and iron in bars. The of class comprises manufactured articles, and the import these in 1862 amounted to £17,196,463; a few unenume_ rated articles bringing the whole amount of theimparts of 1862 up to £225,716,974. The chief manufactured articles imported were silks of the value of more than £6,000,000; W"11508, £1,574,218 ; cottons, £899,738 ; leather goods (chiefly gloves), £851,256 ; clocks and watches, £464,000 ; manufactures of hair and goat'4 wool, £397,#54; And Oa"' £108,385,  The Polish reply to the Russian appeal is worthy of notice. It is certainly replete with interest, and animated with a spirit of independence. The Poles commeanticoebihsttaeting that for seven months " a murderous contest has raged in our country between nations—the ns two and with one eager to oppress and enslave, and the other fighting in self-defence." This is a very true pride the remotes definition of the state of aff i s a r recently ; tlrirusihtsin f a just do the patriots go on to say that their oupo,e is have drawn many forces from succeeded in e a them empire, but they have not their courage u, devotion, Ora they have not quenched that liB r endurance. Then they proceed, with indignation quite co ruprehenquest" on the part of the Russians. sible, to reject what they truly call a " cruel requite the self-conceit of the subjects of the CZAR img , haugi,ht y tblush to hear the sharp re" • joinders they hive called forth from a trampled-on but ulasubdued nation. They arc shown that the " highest object of a noble nation is not comprised in the oppression of a kindred race, or in destructive dreams of domination over two quarters of the globe." This emphatic passage forcibly explains the lack of progress that is made by the mighty Russian empire. It is