Wool.................................. 13,634,000 lbs. Cotton................................ 99,306,000 " Silk.................................. 1,807,000 " Flax.................................. 41,000,000 " Grain................................. 267,000 qrs. Flour................................. 202,000 cwts. Butter................................ 125,000 " Cheese................................ 106,000 " If to the raw cotton, wool, silk, and flax that were re-exported in a manufactured state, and to the dyeing materials and other articles required for their manufacture, we now add the whole foreign food, as above shown, we can scarcely make, of foreign commodities re-exported, an amount exceeding twelve, or at most thirteen millions, leaving thirty-eight millions as the value of the British produce exported in that year; and this divided among the people of the United Kingdom would give nearly £2 per head. In 1851 the exports, were as follows:-- Manufactures of wool.................... £10,314,000 " cotton.................. 30,078,000 " silk.................... 1,329,000 " flax.................... 5,048,000 All other commodities................... 21,723,569 ----------- Total................................... £68,492,569 We see thus that nearly the whole increase that had taken place in the long period of thirty-six years was to be found in four branches of manufacture, the materials of which were wholly drawn from abroad, as is shown in the following statement of imports for that year:-- Wool.................................... 83,000,000 lbs. Cotton.................................. 700,000,000 " Silk.................................... 5,020,000 " Flax.................................... 135,000,000 " Eggs.................................... 115,000,000 " Oxen, cows, calves, sheep, hogs, &c..... 300,000 " Corn.................................... 8,147,675 qrs. Flour................................... 5,384,552 cwts. Potatoes................................ 635,000 " Provisions.............................. 450,000 " Butter.................................. 354,000 " Cheese.................................. 338,000 " Hams and lard........................... 130,000 "