15 NOVEMBER 1851, Page 1

The returns of Board of .Trade, for the first ten

months of

1851, are chiefly interesting as illustrative of the commercial im- portance of our Colonies and Dependencies. The value of the pro- duce and manufactures of this country exported during the _ten months to India and the Colonies is upwards of eighteen millions, or more than one-fourth of the aggregate value of all the goods exported during that period. Deduct the eight millions exported to India, and add to the remainder the nearly fifteen millions ex- ported to the United States, and we have upwards of twenty-five millions, or more than one third of our whole exports. This amount is taken off our hands by communities which have been called into existence in less than two centuries and -a half by British colonization. The necessary tendency of colonizing by creating new markets, to enable the mother-country itself to support a greater number of people at home, could hardly be placed in a stronger light. Judicious emigration-is like the pruning of a tree, that makes it grow with greater -luxurienee. From the same returns it appears, that while the general total of exports to all countries has increased 12 per cent in the -first ten -months of 1851, as -compared with the corresponding period of -1849, the exports to the Colonies have increas 19 per cent, and to America 26 per cent. The Colonial trade augments more rapidly than that of Europe, and the trade of those old colonies which -have emancipated themselves from Colonial Office rule More rapidly still.