—Claudian, De Bello. Gildonico, 35—100.
[20] In 1845, the Bank of England notes out with the public were about £23,000,000. Since the free trade began they have seldom been above £18,000,000, and at times as low as £16,800,000, and that at the very time when all the railways were going on.
[21] Newdegate's Letter to Mr Labouchere, p. 12-13.
[22] Newdegate's Letter to Mr Labouchere, p. 17.
| Total Imports. | Total Exports. Home and Colonial. | Balance of Freight carried by British Ships. | Balance of Trade against Britain. | ||
| Exports and Imports. | Deducting Freights. | ||||
| 1845 | £84,054,272 | £70,236,726 | £12,979,089 | £13,817,446 | £838,357 |
| 1846 | 89,281,433 | 66,283,270 | 13,581,165 | 22,998,163 | 9,416,998 |
| 1847 | 117,047,229 | 70,329,671 | 18,817,742 | 46,717,558 | 27,899,816 |
| 1848 | 92,660,699 | 61,557,191 | 14,699,491 | 31,103,508 | 16,404,017 |
| £383,043,633 | £268,406,878 | £60,077,487 | £114,636,675 | £54,559,188 | |
—Newdegate, 12-13.
[POSTSCRIPT.]
The discussion on the Canadian question, in the House of Lords, has had one good effect. It has elicited from Lord Lyndhurst a most powerful and able speech, in the best style of that great judge and distinguished statesman's oratory; and it has caused Lord Campbell to make an exhibition of spleen, ill-humour, and bad taste, which his warmest friends must have beheld with regret, and which was alone wanting to show the cogent effect which Lord Lyndhurst's speech had made on the house. Of the nature of Lord Campbell's attack on that able and venerable judge, second to none who ever sat in Westminster Hall for judicial power and forensic eloquence, some idea may be formed from the observations in reply of Lord Stanley:—