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been, in this one short year, unequalled prosperity to all departments 

 of our People. The annexed table of Imports* for seven months 

 only, will confirnai and illustrate the cause of this new impulse on 

 our country. It has reached every pursuit, and every condition of 

 society. Time forbids me to specify. The Canal Tolls of the State 

 of New York, however, will serve as one thermometer of this sud- 

 den prosperity ; and indicates the tone of public feeling. The an- 

 nouncement of an open Trade in the fall months gave an excess of 

 Tolls for 1846 of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. The ex- 

 cess of Canal Tolls for 1847, over former years, is already nearly 

 and will close the season with about one million of dollars advance 

 beyond former years. It arises from our Breadstuffs rushing to this 

 new market, hitherto closed against our agricultural productions. 

 With a market, and prices on all our productions suddenly and great- 

 ly augmented, Agriculture, Commerce and Domestic Industry, have 

 had a Holiday of Prosperity.! The event has established beyond 



* ''Effects of the Famine in Great Britain. — The following statement of 

 the import of breadstuffs into the United Kingdom; from the 5lh of January to the 

 5th of August, during each of the three last years, was prepared by the Board of 

 Trade, and is probably as near correct as can be ascertained. This statement 

 exhibits at a glance the enormous deficiency in food caused by the failure in the po- 

 tatoe crop : 



1847. 1846. 1845. 



Wheat, qrs.» 1,133,364 999,875 £02,559 



Barley, qrs 597,091 99,693 264,182 



Oats, qrs 837,916 340,341 274,535 



Rye,qrs 27,302 192 303 



Indian Corn, qrs 2,542,866 348,479 41,757 



Buckwheat, qrs 22,715 932 1,769 



Wheat Flour, cwt 3,165,087 1,900,239 190,902 



Oatmeal, cwt 22,614 1,388 1,677 



Indian Meal, cwt 970,314 95,064 



Rye Meal, cwt 200,448 



Barley Meal, qrs 8,378 



Beans, qrs 281,183 146,825 95,597 



Peas, qrs 86,548 59,419 31,736 



(•The English quarter is eight bushels.) 



t ^^ Mark! — How the domestic supply from our improving manufactures, and 

 the recently open trade between England and the United States, for our agricultural 

 productions, have turned the tables in our favor ! 



The London Quarterly Review (September, 1847) states, from official tables, that 

 the exports of the United States, contrasted with the imports for three several peri- 

 ods of five years each, showed — 



