text:  It will be observed that there had been a great falling off in the trade with the Sardinian States in 1840 as compared with 1838 and 1839; and here for greater convenience we make free to extract the following remarks and returns from our esteemed contemporary of the _Morning Herald_ with some slight corrections of our own when appropriately correcting certain misrepresentations of Mr Henderson similar to those of Senor Marliani respecting the assumed clandestine ingress of British cotton goods into Spain from the Italian states:-- "Now the official customhouse returns of most of the Italian states are lying before us--the returns of the Governments themselves--but unfortunately none of them come down later than 1839 so that it is impossible however desirable to carry out fully the comparison for 1840