Tobacco, viz.-Unmanufactured,...lbs. 37,610,576 33,930,205 24,514,728 26,077,855

Total of Cotton wool,.......

5,768,851 6,442,176 4,982,280

Free.*

Wool, Sheep and Lamb's,..........lbs. 65,713,761 76,828,152 Free.*

II.-EXPORTS OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MERCHANDISE FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.

An Account of the Exports of the Principal Articles of Foreign and Colonial Merchandise, in the twelve months ended 5th January, 1846, compared with the Exports in the two preceding years.

Articles.

1844.

Quantities Exported.
1845.

Cocoa,..

.....lbs.

568,470

1,267,194

1846. 158,716

III.-EXPORTS OF BRITISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.

An Account of the Exports of the Principal Articles of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures, in the twelve months ended 5th January, 1846, compared with the Ex

ports in the two preceding years.

IV. VESSELS EMPLOYED IN THE FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

An Account of the Number and Tonnage of Vessels which Entered Inwards and Cleared Outwards, in the twelve months ended 5th January, 1846, compared with the Entries and Clearances in the two preceding years; stated exclusively of Vessels in Eallast, and of those employed in the Coasting Trade between Great Britain and Ireland.

United Kingdom and its dependencies,.......

Other countries,...

Total,......

United Kingdom and its dependencies,........ Other countries,..

Total,..........

13,964 2,919,528 14,681 3,087,437 15,964 3,669,853 5,600 1,005,894 7,247 1,143,897 7,895 1,353,735

19,564 3,925,422 21,928 4,231,334 23,859 5,023,588

1844.

CLEARED OUTWARDS.

1845.

1846.

Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.

15,206 2,727,306 13,842 2,604,243 14,515 2,947,257 6,774 1,026,063 7,200 1,075,823 9,256 1,361,940

21,980 3,753,369 21,042 3,680,066 23,771 4,309,197

BRITISH EXPORTS OF WOOLLEN GOODS TO CHINA.

The following tabular statement of the exports of Woollen and Worsted manufactures to China and Hong Kong, is derived from a Parliamentary paper, recently made public. It embraces exports previously to the cessation of the East India Company's charter, and subsequently to the cessation of that charter, as will be seen below:

EXPORTED PREVIOUSLY TO THE CESSATION OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER.

EXPORTED SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE CESSATION OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER.

ELIHU BURRITT, the Learned Blacksmith, furnishes some important statements in relation to the expenses of war, that, to say nothing of its morality or humanity, should be sufficient to deter governments and men of common sense from ever engaging in it.

In 1835, a year of great commercial prosperity, the value of all the British and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the United Kingdom was $208,237,980. The appropriations for the payment of the interest of the British war debt, and for the support of the Army, Ordnance, and Navy, during the current year, amount to $225,403,500!! Think of that! The war-expenses, in the time of peace, exceeding by nearly $20,000,000 per annum, all that the human and iron machinery of that great kingdom can produce beyond its home consumption!! And now there is to be a famine there, and the guilty policy that taxes the very air breathed by the poor, to pay these war expenses, has locked up British ports against the Egyptian granaries of the world, leaving those hungry millions to covet swine's food in the sight of interdicted abundance.

The mercantile shipping of the civilized world amounts to about 8,000,000 tons, which is worth, new and old, $30 per ton, and netts, clear of interest, insurance, etc., 10 per cent, or $24,000,000 per annum. The appropriation to the British Navy for the current year is $33,620,200!! Is not this a sober fact? that the annual expense of the nation's navy exceeds the nett profit of all the mercantile shipping owned by the civilized world? The war-debts of the European nations amount to $10,000,000,000. It would require the labor of four millions of men, at $150 per annum for each man, to pay the interest of this sum at six per cent. To pay the principal, it would be necessary to levy a tax of at least TEN DOLLARS on every inhabitant of the globe! Another fact, rendering this more impressive, may be found in the "scrap of curious information," that no heathen nations are in arrears for the butcheries they have perpetrated on the human race. They pay cash down for all that is done for the devil under their hands. Christian nations alone "go on tick" for that kind of service.

From March 4th, 1789, to June 30th, 1814, our government expended on the War Department $663,438,851. The interest on this sum, at 6 per cent, would build Whitney's great railroad from the lakes to the Pacific, 2,500 miles in length, at $15,000 per mile; and thus erect a highway for the commerce and communion of the family of nations, which should be reckoned in all coming time one of the greatest enterprises that ever blessed the race.