438 



REPOET — 1880. 



the other may be ascertained for such portion of the exports, and it is not 

 likely that the proportions of the remainder -will vary greatly. Classifying 

 the articles so abstracted, and calculating how far the difference in value 

 is due to greater quantities or altered values, the foUo-wing results appear. 

 As before, in million pounds to two decimals : — 



Since the full value of all the British manufactures exported for the 

 year is 214 millions, and that of these specified articles is nearly 142, the 

 evidence thus afforded relates to two-thirds of the whole. In like manner 

 with the increase, twenty-seven millions for the whole and nineteen for 

 the enumerated. 



Examining these particulars more closely, it will be seen that the 

 increase of 19-14Z. is between 15 and 16 per cent, on the exports of the 

 previous twelve months, and that of this amount 18-29Z., or 95-|- per cent., 

 is owing to the quantities having been greatei-, and only -SSZ.", or 4|- per 

 cent., has arisen from better prices having been obtained. But whilst 

 these are the proportions of the whole, the rates on the different classes of 

 goods differ very much. Thus in coals and metals the increase has been 35 

 per cent., on textile manufactures 14 per cent., and in the miscellaneous less 

 than 1 per cent. So in respect to the gain in quantities, the minerals are 

 greater by 92 per cent., and the prices are better by 8 per cent. In textile 

 fabrics the increased quantities should have given 9 per cent, more money 

 than was actually credited, but failed to do so because the prices were less to 

 this extent. On the contrary, in the few miscellaneous articles shown 

 above there was a real diminution of quantity, bat an increase in price, 

 whereby what would have been a loss of 2i per cent, became converted into 

 a gain of something less than 1 per cent. Descending more into detail, 



