IK 1832 AND 1835. 



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an important difference of stock on hand, which, na 

 doubt, has tended, and will tend, to keep up the price 

 of the article. The country from which we import the 

 greatest quantity of wool is Germany. In 1835, 

 the amount was nearly' 24,000,000 pounds weight. 

 From Russia, to which our exports of manufactured 

 woollens is comparatively small, we imported upwards 

 of 4,000,000 pounds ; from New South Wales and Van 

 Dieman's Land, taken together, about 209,000 pounds 

 weight more than from Russia. The next largest im- 

 portations are from Spain, Turkey, and Italy, which, 

 taken together, supply us with nearly 4,000,000 pounds. 

 Portugal furnishes 683,000 pounds; Holland, 201,000 

 pounds ; and Belgium, 231,000 pounds. Of the foreign 

 wool which we have imported, we re-exported in its 

 unmanufactured state 4, 101,700 pounds during 1835. 

 And of the total quantity imported in 1835, we retained 

 for manufacture 41,718,514 pounds. This is nearly 

 1,000,000 pounds more than was taken up by the ma- 

 nufacturers in the preceding year, 



*• The whole amount of British wool exported in 

 1835, was 4,642,604 pounds, and of this 3,000,000 

 pounds were sent to Belgium, and 1,500,000 pounds to 

 France. 



"In 1835, the 'declared value' (which, be it ob- 

 served, is a real thing, and very different from the 

 * official value,' which is of no use except as an indication 

 of quantity) — the total declared value was ^£6,840,511; 

 and of this amount upwards of ^2,600,000 worth of 

 woollen goods went to the United States alone. Next 

 after the United States in the scale of our customers 

 for woollens comes the East Indies and China. To 

 ttiese we send ttie value of upwards of £300,000 ; \o 



