text: " Now admitting that the sixteen millions as stated of exports colonial do contrast unfavourably with the thirty-five millions of foreign and that by all the difference by more than the difference colonial trade is disparaged in its importance what becomes of this arithmetical illustration of the superiority of foreign trade when by the same standard we come to measure it against the home trade scarcely less a subject of depreciation and vituperation than the colonial with thinkers of the same impenetrable if not profound class as the member for Stockport? Here for his edification we consign the resulting figures from the standard set up by himself as they may be found calculated and resolved from minute detail into grand totals in the "General Statistics of the British Empire " by Mr James Macqueen an authority perhaps who will not be questioned by competent judges any where without the pale of the Draconian legislators of the Anti-corn-Law League