| ABSTRACT OF EXPORTS. | ||||
| WHERE SENT. | Colonial Produce. | Imports re-exported. | Total. | |
| 1850. | 1849. | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| United Kingdom | 951,891 | 647 | 952,538 | 673,707 |
| British Colonies | 69,456 | 18,803 | 88,259 | 78,697 |
| U. States of America | 237 | 227 | 264 | 2776 |
| Other Foreign States | 480 | 55 | 535 | |
| Total | 1,022,064 | 19,732 | 1,041,796 | 755,326 |
We have no very late official returns to form opinions upon, but the following may be considered sufficiently correct up to the close of the year 1851:—
| Acres in cultivation | 51,536 |
| Sheep | 6,647,557 |
| Horned Cattle | 483,202 |
| Horses | 2,916 |
| Pigs | 11,544 |
The above returns are sufficient to shew the truly glorious results of civilization;—what can be done by the Anglo-Saxon race;—by English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh men when, with a right good-will, they set about colonizing a country blessed with a genial climate, and rich in its natural resources. The Port Phillippians have understood, that
"The wise and active conquer difficulties
By daring to attempt them; whilst sloth and folly,
Shiver and shrink, at sight of toil, and hazard,
And make the impossibilities they fear."
They have hitherto acted, as did the early settlers in Massachusett's Bay, who represented to the Virginia Company in 1617, that they "were well weaned from the delicate milk of their mother country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange land. That they were
