text:  At 2 578 862 Of which foreign trade in the export of products and manufactures to the value of _thirty-five millions_ sterling absorbed 1 258 000 Colonial trade in the transport of _sixteen millions_ only of values 1 113 000 Considering the greater mass of values transported the foreign trade should have employed to have kept its relative shipping proportion and importance with colonial trade above 2 400 000 We are however entirely satisfied and it would admit of easy proof were time and space equally at our disposal for the elaborate development of details not only that the colonial trade gives occupation to an equal but to a larger proportion of registered British shipping than the foreign trade