Average for the three years ending January, 1820 18,446,000

For the last year
Making a diminution of

Amount of Duty paid by the different Fire Insurance Companies of London, from Christmas 1819 to Lady-day 1820.

AN ACCOUNT of the Number of SHIPS, with their TONNAGE, and MEN, which cleared out from GREAT BRITAIN to the BRITISH COLONIES, in North America, in the last Twenty Years; distinguishing each Year and each Colony.

Island

13

2,746 133 43

9,633 487 55 11,822 593 1002 193,705|10,2721309 285,885 14,924 1520 340,147 17,564

Note-The Official Books having been destroyed by Fire in the Year 1814, the Register General has not the means of preparing this Account for the whole period required by the Honourable House of Commons.

Denmark

Norway

Sweden

Prussia .....

COMPARISON OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

A very important article appeared in a late number of the Edinburgh Review, under the title "Comparative Skill and Industry of France and England." A table of the exports and the imports of France, for the three years before the Revolution (1787, 1788, 1789) is given. It is followed by one for England. The French Imports for these three years are to the value of seventy-six millions, six hundred and ninetytwo thousand, twenty-one pounds:

the English, amount to two hundred millions, &c.! The French Exports are fifty-six millions, &c.: the English, two hundred and nine millions, &c. Of one thousand vessels that entered the ports of Russia, in 1818, nine hundred and eighty-one were British. The following is a comparative statement of the annual profits of England and France, derived from agriculture, manufactures, and trade:

England.

France.

Agriculture, including Fisheries.............. £.218,917,624 ... £.194,946,203
Manufactures, including mines and minerals..... .123,230,000
Commerce, inlaud and foreign........

It is to be regretted that no
nearer epocha of French com-
merce can be taken than the
three years immediately before
the Revolution; but in those
years it was in a very flourishing
state: the years taken for Eng-
land are 1810, 1811, 1812. The
art of improving cattle, by judi-
cious breeding, is almost un-
known in France; not a flock of
sheep is to be seen, that could
stand comparison with our South
Down or Leicestershire; and they
have neither the form nor the size
of ours.
The French know no-
thing of putting a horse into that
extreme state of health, which,
here, is called condition. The
French-improved mail carriages
run at the rate of 4 2-7ths Eng-
lish miles per hour: the English
at the rate of 7. The num-
ber of miles travelled in France,
is, to the number travelled in
England, as 1 is to 40. Each

88,373,748

75,8$7,600 26,542,122

Englishman travels 60 miles in his own country, for 1 mile that a Frenchman travels in his. The number of letters of all sorts delivered daily by the post in Paris, is, on an average, 32,000, and of journals, 1,800: in London, the letters are 133,000, and the journals 26,000. Taking the provinces into account, it is found by calculation, that an Englishman reads fifty times as much of the public journals of his country, as a Frenchman. The exhibition of the products of French industry, for the present (last) year, shows how little the comforts of the people have been attended to, in comparison with the luxuries of the great; how little the spirit of solidity and ability has gained over the national taste for frivolity and ingenuity; and how much greater their wish still is to dazzle than to instruct.