Abstract consumption of foreign grain for four years, from 1847 to 1850.

Abstract of grain imported for five years, from 1846 to 1850.

Wheat...

Quantity in quarters.

..16,452,555 at 52s. d. stlg....$210,769,750

Other grains.

27,485,078 at 33s.

Value.

225,251,S85

436,021,635

87,204,375

Table exhibiting the flour and wheat exported from Canada in 1850 and 1851-year ending January 1.

Exported to and through- Flour, barrels. Wheat, bushels. Flour, barrels. Wheat, bush.

Total quantity imported into the United States from Canada,* for the ending June 30, 1852.

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Of the above, there was exported to England, viz:

.value, $609,681 1,008,928

203,570

1,802,179

.value, $455,204

924,079

1,379,283

Total domestic flour, &c., exported from the United States to the British North

TO OTHER BRITISH N. A. COLONIES OTHER THAN CANADA.

It will be easily seen by these tables that the whole of the Canadian wheat, &c., imported in bond, is re-exported to England and the colonies; and also, in addition, that the export to Canada and the colonies, for their consumption, is nearly two millions of breadstuffs the produce of the United States.

The upper province, generally known as Canada West, has a greater interest in a free intercourse with the United States than Lower Canada

*All from Canada except $68,708.