Flour and meal 370,000 cwts.
Gloves .. 3,000,000 pairs.
Madder .. 54,000 cwts.
Prunes .. 34,000 cwts.
Clover seed .. 29,000 cwts.
Silk .. 1,350,000 lbs.
Silk goods .. 720,000 lbs.
Skins and furs 640,000 Brandy .. 2,360,000 gallons.
Wine .. 660,000 gallons. In the same year Great Britain sold to France : Brass and copper goods .. 150,0001. Coals .. 570,000 tons.
Hardware and cutlery .. 51,0001.
Machinery 135,0001.
Silk goods .. 57,0001.
Wool and woollens .. 194,0001.
and other goods to the aggregate value of 1,021,5211. The amount was more than double this in 1846 and 1847 ; for 1818rbeing a year of revolution, presented unfavourable commercial results.
Of the important Expositions of Industry which have been held in France in past years, a brief account has been given in the Immo DUCTION. Everything affords ground for be lieving that France will hold a distinguished position at the approaching display in Hyde Park. All the goods from all the departments have been collected at one spot in Paris, where they have been inspected by a jury, who would not suffer any specimens to be ex hibited but such as will reflect credit on the manufacturers. From Paris they have been
forwarded by railway to Dunkirk, and thence by sea to London. The following has been announced to be the number and distribution of the exhibitors. Of the eighty-six depart ments of France nine only are without in tended exhibitors. In the department of the Seine there are 1,730 exhibitors; Rhone, 06 ; Nord, 56; Seine Inferieure, 53 ; Marne, 47; Loire Inferieure, 33; Gard, 25 ; Bas Rhin, 23; Haut Rhin, 22 ; Ardennes, 20 Gironde, 18 ; Oise, 18; Seine et Oise, 18 ; Haute Vienne, 17 ; Pas de Calais, 16; Loire, 14 ; Seine et Marne, 11 ; Anleclae, 12; Aube, 12 ; Haute Garonne, 12; Herault, 12; Jura, 12; Maine et Loire, 10; Sarthe, 10. The following is the analysis, according to the classification decided on by the English committee, of the 2,481 persons declaring an intention to ex hibit above mentioned :—Section 1. Raw ma teriali, 485 ; 2. Machinery and tools, 554 ; 3. Manufactured productions, 1,088; 4. Plastic arts and models 351. Even Algeria will take part in this industrial display.