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lbs. From that time it has gradually increased, and in 1838 it reached 

 5,851,340 lbs. ; in 1839, 4,603,799 lbs. ; in 1840, 4,810,387 lbs.* Under the 

 last year of the late Tariff", we received from England, of wools not costing 

 to exceed 7 cents per pound, 1,188,800 lbs., and of those exceeding 7 

 cents, 28,406 lbs.; and from Scotland, of the cheaper class, 21,132 Ibs.f 

 This, however, only shows a sm-plus in land, not in quantity. The Eng- 

 lish short wools have, as has been abundantly shown by the testimony 

 of her most eminent manufacturers, i: a harslincss and want of felting j)rof- 

 erties which render them unfit, unmixed with a better stamp of foreign 

 wools, for any but the very lowest description of cloths and stuffs, such as 

 blankets, baizes, army cloths, flushings or bearskins, &c. Nor will they 

 make frimc articles, even of these low descriptions. England, therefore, 

 after consuming such portions of these wools as she can, in the manufac- 

 ture of the above-named and similar articles, and by mixing them, in the 

 nature of an alloi/, with better foreign wools in a low class of fabrics, such 

 as flannels, livery and sergeant's cloth, etc., exports the balance to such 

 nations as a,ve foolish enough to purchase it.|l 



The following Table, compiled from official somxes, from Bischoff"'s 

 " Comprehensive History of th% Woolen and Worsted Manufactures, 

 &c.,"§ gives the imports of England every fifth year from 1810 to 1840, 



TABLE No. 8. 



Countries fm.wkich Imp' ted 



Russia 



Norway 



Denmark 



Sweden 



Prussia 



Germany 



Holland 



Belgium 



France 



Portugal 



Spain 



Gibraltar 



Italy 



Malta 



Ionian Isles 



Morea, &.c 



Turkey 



Syria 



Cape of Good Hope 



Africa, other parts 



St. Helena 



East Indies 



New South Wales 



Van Diemen's Land 



Port Philip 



Swan River 



South Australia 



British America 



British West Indies 



United States of America. 



Guatemala 



Colombia. 



Brazil 



Rio de la Plata 



Chili 



Peru 



Mexico 



Guernsey and Man 



Total Pounds weight. 



1810. 



1815. 



1820. 



1825. 



1840. 



32,149 



11.930 



351.741 



15,424 



123,057 



778,83.: 



2,873 



3,018,961 



5,952,407 



349,053 



21, .554 



40,040 



297,611 

 40,984 



424.82-.. 

 32,889 



105,073 

 3,137,438 



432,832 



756,427 



1,146,607 



6,929,579 



12,891 



97,679 



12,513 

 23.3G3 



1,217 

 2,894 



43,014 

 73,159 



41,407 



73,171 



53 

 8,533 



4,311 

 41,527 



75,614 



13,.527 



107,101 

 5,113,442 



186,051 



230,909 

 9.5,187 

 3,536,229 

 3,851 

 2,815 

 5,050 



189,584 

 13,869 



8,056 

 99,415 



139 



760 

 578 



4,277 

 68,759 

 14,792 



19,015 



1,992,101 



302 



554,213 



3,497 



131,100 



28,799,601 



1,059,243 



436,678 



953,793 



8,206,427 



19,250 



227,453 



72,131 



25,983 



513,414 



27,619 



323,995 



70 

 80.468 



37 

 331,265 



14,313 

 22.266 



202,871 



179,717 



380 



713.246 



26,073,882 



939,123 



45,093 



461.942 



1,643,515 



0,461 



33,407 



973,330 

 993,979 



1,725 

 7,313 



1,148 

 19,441 



5,741 

 7.745 



4,U24,740 



366,444 



1,431 



2.56,147 



23,79.-',186 



5 301,8.55 



I 231.222 



104.535 



683,231 



1,602,752 



476.737 



1,051,005 



39,913 



816,625 

 1,281,839 



191,624 

 .5,10; 



205,848 

 \ 4,210,301 



14 



2.029 

 237,306 



18,760 

 962,900 



1,213,740 

 246 



4,518,563 



605,521 



5,961 



24,646 



21,812,099 



46,247 



134,095 



48,830 



374,915 



1,266,905 



242,734 



1,668,.541 



2,209 



121,110 



42,893 



655.964 



34,049 



751,741 



337,908 



4,683 



2,441,370 



f 6,215,329 



\ 2,626,178 



785,398 



42,748 



51, .590 



15,793 



3,286 



11.5.095 



3,009 



842 



9,182 



616,721 



586,796 



11.8.30 



10.914,137 



13,640.375 



9.789,020 43,795,281 32,313,0.59 42,174,5321 46,224,781 



* BischofT, Table 6th, Appendix. t Report, of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1846. 



t Sec Bischotf, vol. ii.. pp. 107, 1.53, 154, 163, 173, 175, 176, Sic. The testimony here alluded to, or an 

 abstract of it will be given in a subsequent Letter. 



II If these sound like strong expressions, I have to say that I shall be prepared to prove them, and shall 

 BO do, in a subsequent Letter^ from the testimony of the first manufacturers of Kngland before a Committee- 

 of the House of Lords. Nor were the facts disputed by an interest represented before the same Committee, 

 who had every inducement to do so, if they could be su^^tained in it. 



§ See Appendix of the above work, vol. ii. Misled liy the title on the cover, T have nowhere before 

 given the proper desiLTiation to Mr. Bischolfs work. Wherever the authority of this gentleman is giveu 

 you will understand that it is derived from the work just named. Published London, 1842. 

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