The more operose contemporaries of Maga will learn with some surprise--whether pleasant or painful, it would be presumptuous to say--that the buoyancy of her contents seems to be used to float off a few hundred copies of their ponderous productions, which might otherwise be stranded without help or hope. It appears that subscribers are obtained to no less than four quarterly publications, by the inducement that, on such condition, they will receive _Blackwood_ at two-thirds of the price. _Edinburgh, January 1, 1848._ _Printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh._ FOOTNOTES [1] _Wealth of Nations_, vol. ii. b. iv. c. ii. p. 195. [2] Table showing the British and Foreign tonnage with Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Prussia since the Reciprocity treaties with these powers in 1821. | | SWEDEN. | NORWAY. | DENMARK. | PRUSSIA. | |British|Foreign|British| Foreign|British|Foreign|British|Foreign | |Tonnage|Tonnage|Tonnage| Tonnage|Tonnage|Tonnage|Tonnage|Tonnage | +-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+------+--------+------- |1821| 23,005| 8,508| 13,855| 61,342| 5,312| 3,969| 79,590| 37,720 |1822| 20,799| 13,692| 13,377| 87,974| 7,096| 3,910| 102,847| 58,270 |1823| 20,986| 22,529| 13,122| 117,015| 4,413| 4,795| 81,202| 56,013 |1824| 17,074| 40,092| 11,419| 135,272| 6,738|23,689| 94,664|151,621 |1825| 15,906| 53,141| 14,825| 157,910| 15,158|50,943| 189,214|182,752 |1826| 11,829| 16,939| 15,603| 90,726| 22,000|56,544| 119,060|120,589 | | | | | | | | | |1837| 7,608| 42,602| 1,035| 88,004| 5,357|55,961| 67,566|145,742 |1838| 10,425| 38,991| 1,364| 110,817| 3,466|57,554| 86,734|175,643 |1839| 8,359| 49,270| 2,582| 109,228| 5,535|106,960|111,470|229,208 |1840| 11,933| 53,337| 3,166| 114,241| 6,327|103,067|112,709|237,984 |1841| 13,170| 46,795| 977| 113,025| 3,368| 83,009| 88,198|210,254 |1842| 15,296| 37,218| 1,385| 98,979| 5,499| 59,837| 87,202|145,499 --PORTER'S _Parl. Tables_, vols. i. to xii., p. 50 each vol. [3] Dumas, viii. 112; Mackenzie's _St Domingo_, i. 312. [4] "Of the progressive decline in the powers of production of the West India possessions generally, some idea may be formed from what has been observed in Jamaica; for though that island labours under some peculiar disadvantages, that fact merely increases the force of the argument which is derived from its past experience:--