encouragement of those varied agricultural and mining
treasures, with which, through the length and breadth of her territory,
she is so abundantly stored, the advance of Austria, commercial and
manufacturing, need not assuredly fear comparison with that of
free-trading Switzerland. The following are the returns of the foreign
trade of the Austrian empire, excepting for Hungary and Transylvania,
which will be found hereafter for the years cited. Other documents are
in our possession, bringing the information down to 1840, but as not
entirely complete in respect of a portion of the traffic by the land
frontiers, whilst in results they differ little from the last year of
the table here given, it is not worth while to make the addition.

Imports. Exports. Total.
1829 By sea & land 95,321,861 florins. 107,254,048 202,575,909
1830 ... 99,545,289 ... 110,587,974 210,133 263
1831 ... 94,116,471 ... 98,937,022 193,053,493
1832 ... 107,825,991 ... 115,007,352 222,833,343
1833 ... 106,270,012 ... 116,624,202 222,894,214
1834 ... 107,781,409 ... 111,092,942 218,874,351
1835 ... 121,482,876 ... 115,217,804 236,700,680
1836 ... 130,865,339 ... 122,284,173 253,149,512
1837 ... 120,897,761 ... 119,721,758 240,619,519
1838 ... 127,445,295 ... 134,908,064 262,353,359

The florin is equal to 2s. 0d. 4-10 sterling. The increase under the
head of importations within the ten years was equal, therefore, to
nearly 33 per cent, and on exportations about 24 per cent. Amongst the
imports may be remarked raw cotton to the value of about L.1,273,000;
among the exports, raw silk, for about L.2,400,000; linens, for about
L.770,000; woollens, for L.2,268,000; glass and earthen-ware, L.584,000;
round numbers all. A mean value, imports and exports together, from 1835
to 1838 inclusive, of about twenty-five millions sterling annually, does
not certainly represent a commercial movement so large as might be
expected in an empire of the territorial extent, numerous population,
and rich natural products of Austria. But, as appears, its progression
is onwards; and seeing that, in 1836, she entered on the laudable
undertaking of revising and reforming her prohibitory and restrictive
system; that, in 1838, another not inconsiderable