Manufactures (Quantities in Thousands only, Values Not Abbreviated).

From this list it will easily be seen that if the principle items of Leather, Kid Gloves, Silk Goods, Sawn Timber, Corks, Oilseed Cake, Lace, Musical Instruments, Works of Art, Prints, Dyes, Confectionary, and Fancy Wools be eliminated, for all of which we must, in the nature of things, be much dependent on the foreigner, along with Sprits, Tobacco, and Wine (upon which heavy duties are already placed), the only items remaining are the under £33,000,000 in value, a sum total insignificant altogether, when compared with the enormous dimensons of our own Manufacturing Industries and of our exports abroad. For revenue purposes duties would be absured; for protective purposes childish; for retaliatory purposes mad and suicidal, seeing that our own manufactures are sent in overwhelming proporations at almost every foreign country. What then do the "Fair Trade" schemers want but an election cry to prevail with the ignorant? It is not evident that to tax imported food is the ukimate object with—as its necessary result—the raising of prices on the people's clothing and bread, and the increase of Agricultural Rents?

Moreover the Annual Statement of Trade of United Kingdom for 1885 shows a considerable set off against manufactured Foreign imports in the very considerable quantity of Colonial and Foreign-made articles re-exported, for instance:—Arms and Ammunition, £253,443; Beads of all sorts, £50,436; Candles, £149,387; Chemical Manufactures, £243,640; Confectionary, £208,823; Cordage and Twine, £125,294; Cotton Manufactures, £540,560; Cotton Yarns, £25,166; Glass, £131,339; Leather, £1,143,723; Leather Manufactures and Boots and Shoes, £132,184. Metals—Iron Bars and Manufactures, £696,788; Iron and Steel, wrought or manufactured, £692,531. Musical Instruments, £108,959; Paper (except hangings), £79,012; Silk, thrown, £44,687; Silk Manufactures, £655,942; Spirits, £447,113; Tobacco, manufactured, £200,909; Wine, £541,007; Wood, sawn or split, &c., £108,558; Wood Furniture, &c., £124,539; Woollen Manufactures, £576,444.—Total, £7,280,484. Besides "other articles" which certainly include a considerable number of manufactures, £5,899,748.