From the United Kingdom Canada receives coals, metals, cordage, East India produce, and the yariops kinds of British manufac tures; from the British West Indies, sugar, molasses, coffee, rum, and hard woods; from the United States, beef and pork, biscuit, rice, and tobacco. The exports of Canada are—to the United Kingdom, pot and pearl ashes, wheat and flour, and timber ; to the West Indies, beef and pork, beer, grain, and flour ; to the United States, forest produce, wheat, flour, butter, wool, liye stock, &c. The total exports of the colony in 1817 amounted to 2,612,852f.
The experts of British and Irish produce and manufactures to Canada, in 1819, amounted to the large sum of 1,321,9311. It may be interesting to note some of the chief items:— The commercial prosperity of Canada will be greatly increased by the Great Western Railway, now being constructed from Detroit to Niagara: a portion of 75 miles, from Ha milton to London, is under contract ; and the works have been pushed forward with great energy during 1850.
In no part of our colonies has the Great Exhibition of 1851 been welcomed with more heartiness than in Canada. As a sort of test
of their Inanufacturing ability, the colonists held an Industrial Exhibition of their own at Nontreal, in Peteher 1850, at which the Matinfactnres filled two cast rooms. Hard ware, cutlery, cottons, woollens, linens, silks, earthenware, and other goods of Canadian manufacture; corn, beef, pork, butter, cheese, maple - sugar, honey, hams, of Canadian growth; a veneer of bird's-eye maple, 100 feet long, sawn from single log; soft and beautiful leather made from porpoise-skins ; clear and bright oil obtained from the same animal—these were some of the specimens in the Montreal Exhibition. Mr. Logan, a Cana geologist, has been employed to classify specimens of all the principal minerals found in that country. Houselield• furniture, of Canadian forest-wood, is to be transmitted to London. During the last week in 1850 the ship Pearl arrived in London, bring ing the first consignment of Canadian speci mens for the great Exhibition, la 107 pack ages.