Note 25 — FREE TRADE AT ITS ZENITH.

In the eight months up to the 5th of September 1849, the quantities of foreign food taken out for home consumption have been—

Foreign wheat, 3,387,596 qrs.

Foreign flour, 2,956,878 cwt.

Foreign barley, 1,018,858 qrs.

Foreign oats, 869,077 "

Foreign rye, 219,810 "

Maize, 1,735,778 qrs.

Foreign bacon, 349,727 cwt.

Salted beef, 119,867 "

Salted pork, 306,400 "

Eggs, (number) 73,605,759

All these amounts are largely, and the most important of them very largely, in advance of the imports of the first eight months of 1848.

Abstract of grain imported in quarters in seven months of free trade—

Wheat, 3,387,596 qrs.

Flour, (2,956,878 cwt.,) 985,293 "

Barley, 1,018,858 "

Oats, 869,077 "

Rye, 219,810 qrs.

Maize, 1,735,778 "

In eight months, seven of free trade, 8,216,412 qrs.