in that year. The surplus of those two years may be estimated at 2,500,000 barrels. According to the census, there were produced in 1839, in round numbers, 8,000,000 barrels of flour, and the product of 1840 was estimated at 12,000,000 barrels, worth $60,000,000. The export of one-sixth part, or 2,000,000 barrels, raised the price to $6 50 in 1841, or the value of the crop to $78,000,000; making a difference, in favour of the farmer, equal to $18,000,000 or 30 per cent. (Hunt's Mag.) of flour averaged nearly 1,000,000 barrels per | the whole crop $1 50 per barrel, or 25 per cent annum, at near $10 per barrel, or an export of 1 barrel to every 5 inhabitants. During the non-intercourse, from 1807 to 1811, the price fell very low; and in 1812 the export was resumed, and was so large that the rates again rose very high, so high as to check the export. Under the high successive tariffs of 1824-28-33, the export of flour declined, and with that decline prices fell; until after 1834, when debt and state stocks were exported in return for foreign goods, instead of the legitimate export of produce, and the rage of speculation, by checking agriculture, produced actual scarcity, which again brought up prices. The revulsion drove people to work, and the large crops of 1839, assisted by a scarcity in England, caused a great export, which, with the 1,000,000 barrels sent forward in 1841, raised the value of | FLY, &c. The average price of wheat may be estimated pretty correctly from that of flour, by adopting the miller's rule of computing the price of a bushel of wheat weighing 60 lbs. at one-fifth the price of a barrel of flour. See BREAD, FLOUR, FLY IN WHEAT, GRAIN, GRAIN PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS RELATING TO WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN. Statement of the Quantities of each kind of Grain imported into England from 1828 to 1841. *The Returns for 1841 will be liable to alteration (although not to any considerable extent) when the Accounts of that year shall have been finally adjusted. Previously to 1833, the monthly returns of the importation and consumption of foreign and colonial corn were collected together, in annual periods, commencing on 1st January, and terminating on 31st December. From 1833, downwards, they have been made up, like the other accounts of this department, in periods, commencing on 6th January in each year, and terminating on 5th January, in the year succeeding. This circumstance is necessary to be noted, inasmuch as it explains why the aggregate imports and consumption of the several years, from 1828 to 1832 inclusive, as exhibited in the present statement, will be found to differ, to a small extent, from the quantities shown in other accounts, which have been compiled, not, as in this case, from special monthly returns of the corn trade, but from the ordinary records of the general commerce of the country. *Note.-The returns for 1841 will be liable to alteration (although not to any considerable extent) when the accounts of that year shall have been finally adjusted. Statement of the Septennial Prices of each kind of Grain, as prepared for the Purposes of the Tithe Commission, in each Year, from 1835 to 1841. Satement of the Total Quantities of Wheat and Wheat Flour imported into, and exported from, Great Britain, in each Year, from 1697 to 1841. Statement of the Quantities of the several kinds of Grain and Meal imported from each Country, and likewise of the Quantities re-exported from the Warehouse to each Country, in each Year, from 1828 to 1840, (omitting 1829 and 1831.) Total 27 8,192 555 3,766 73,755 1 8 91 12,233 20,531 28,236 715,242 1,475,314 391,417 248,171 133,091 42,628 168,647 455,871 1,241,460 2,634,556 1,993,383 966 10,393 1,718 896 2,100 3,308 63 1,927 5,971 4,748 24,569 64,055 99,522| 67,368 818 479 1,127 2,996 7,486 80,972 87,418 62 1,029 14,530 114 820 3,441 1,577 3,051 3,460 3,300 8,658 5,146 1,179 11,874 58,646 25,050 235,883 34,480 113,576 84,992 173,934 215,837 95,402 7,770 31,745 Statement of Quantities of Grain and Meal imported, and Quantities re-exported, in each Year, from 1828 to 1840-Continued. 1,719 1832. 18.33. 1834. 1835. 1836. 1837. 1838. 1839. 1840. 24 Norway " 2,499 23,783 233 820 11 210,134 252,037 Denmark Prussia Germany France Portugal, Proper Spain and the Ba learic Islands Canaries Italy and the Ita Qrs. 1,824 7,989 1,393 5,179 143 96,044 144,262 75,537 115,658 54,859 70,651 82,781 65,693 21,779 23,536 21,297 49,615 29,508 60,586 11,373 8,734 2,166 823 29,586 28,443 469 139,153 189,167 33,031 55,193 27,722 116,928 16,208 4,219 2,161 1,267 24,327 21,780 1,384 75,694 81,017 2 178 9,137 4,182 1,184 12,284 British N. Ameri- Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Man (Foreign Goods) 2,718 5,159 6,528 1,128 4 262 8 6,621 3,661 168,672 281,713 145,119 376,513, 95,839 85,221 88,561 67,796 83,483 87,790 2,203 579,405 625,438 Total To al quantities re-exported 4,117 10,297 1,285 4,379 Statement of Quantities of Grain and Meal imported, and Quantities re-exported, in each Year from 1828 to 1840 (omitting 1829)—Continued. 166,423 506,637 621,940 28,858 23,334 174,975 113,067 131,056 416,424 53,544 670,117 540,736 5,571 83,793 19,491 13,446 30,792 56,184 46,917 54,424 40,205 36,486 re-exported 6,694 26,140 Note. Of the Oats re-exported, by far the largest amount went to the British Colonies, especially to those in the West Indies. |