general approbation of the nation, offered to Almighty God for its blessings. Prices have since been not excessive, wheat being at an average about 51s. a quarter--yet still, in May 1848, we are in universal distress; and the want of employment is felt much more strongly by the manufacturing classes, who have been affected by no disaster whatever, than the agricultural, who have suffered one which has now passed away. [3] Exports, Official Value. | |Imports, | |Declared Value. ----------------------------------+-----------+------------+--------------- British and Irish Prod. and Manuf.| Colonial. | Total. | ----------------------------------+-----------+------------+--------------- 1844 £131,564,503 |£14,397,246|£145,961,789| £58,584,292 ----------------------------------+-----------+------------+--------------- 1845 134,599,116 | 16,280,870| 150,879,986| 60,111,081 --PORTER'S _Progress of the Nation_, 358, 2d Edition. [4] Viz:-- Agricultural Produce. |Manufactures and Mines. | 1846. ----------------------------------------+------------+-----------+------------ 19,135,000 arable acres at £7 each, |£133,945,000| | ----------------------------------------+------------+-----------+------------ 27,000,000 grass and meadow, at £6 each,|162,000,000 | Exports, | 51,000,000 ----------------------------------------+------------+-----------+------------ 15,000,000 waste, | 5,000,000 |Home | 133,000,000 | |market, ----------------------------------------+------------+-----------+------------ Total, |£300,945,000| |£184,000,000 --PORTER'S _Progress of the Nation_, i. 177. While these are the social evils which the working classes every where experience, and which have alone rendered the Chartist movement general or serious in the country, the great complaint, in a political point, which they every where make is, that the legislature and the government are alike indifferent to their representations; that they turn a deaf ear to their complaints, show themselves insensible, to their tales of woe, and refuse even to give that moderate relief to them which is easily within their power, which a paternal government is bound to extend to its distressed subjects, and which, in former days, under Tory administrations, was never withheld from the people, when suffering under dispensations not approaching to the present in duration or intensity. To give an idea of the feeling _now universal_ in the commercial and manufacturing districts, we subjoin an extract from a journal conducted with much ability, the _Daily Mail_ of Glasgow.