POTTERY STATISTICS. 



Jt appears from the official reports that, in 1841 the latest 

 year in which official returns have been made public the declared 

 value of the earthenware exported was 600759Z. ; in 1837 the 

 declared value was 563238?. In the four years ending 1841, an 

 increase, therefore, took place in this export trade of 37521Z. 

 upon 563238J. If this same rate of increase only has been main- 

 tained since 1841, the present annual export trade must have a 

 declared value of a million sterling. 



But, since the declared is known to be on an average one-fourth 

 less than the true value, we may assume that the present total annual 

 amount of the export trade in earthenware is about 1,300000?. 



The proportion in which this enormous export is distributed among 

 the different countries of the world is exhibited in the following 

 table. In the second column is given the proportion of every 100J. 

 value exported received by each of the countries named in the first 

 column, and in the third column is given the number of pieces of 

 ware out of 10000 received by each country respectively : 



It appears from this table that the United States is our great 

 foreign customer for this manufacture, taking in value 37 per 

 cent., and in quantity 35 per cent., of our entire export. Of the 

 remainder, our North American colonies, Brazil, and India, take 

 18 per cent. 



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