And if to this we add the difference on £13,000,000..................................... 2,166,667 ----------- We obtain the amount, applicable to the purchase of other commodities than food................. £40,766,667 In the second, 1851, the sales of domestic produce were ........................................... £15,000,000 To which add differences on £53,492,000, say.... 9,000,000 ---------- We have, as applicable to other purposes than the purchase of food............................... £24,000,000 Divided among the population, of those years, it gives £2 per head in the first, and 16s. in the other; but even this, great as it is, does not represent in its full extent the decline that has taken place. The smaller the change of form made in the commodity imported before exporting it, the more nearly does the business resemble that of the mere trader, and the larger must be the quantity of merchandise passing, to leave behind the same result. In 1815, the export of yarn of any kind was trivial, because other countries were then unprovided with looms. In 1851 the export of mere yarn, upon which the expenditure of British labour had been only that of twisting it, was as follows:-- Cotton.................................. 144,000,000 lbs. Linen................................... 19,000,000 " Silk.................................... 390,000 " Woollen................................. 14,800,000 "