Show commercial DECLINE figures are 9 generally geoe ene rally dry reading matter but a comparison between the total value of exports from great britain antho in the years yean 1889 1689 and five years later hug bus peculiar ta terest at this time when opinions are much divided as to whether of dt other coun ado must ceorl accord england the leading place in i y fi finan dan re forine that way may be ba considered desirable di rable such buob comparison would seem eem to prove that gret great britain is ie gradually losing her bar control of the world woolda Is trade in the middle of may the association of trades protection societies Bool etlea hold held a meeting in london in the report of the president the condition woo WB pointed out and the be following ollow inu statistics showing the total value in POO pounds ul do sterling of the export trade the two tiro y beare eare mentioned were given to 1889 1894 india australia brit bril north america Rou Africa united states france germany ArgeD argentina tins holland belgium spain china brazil that is ia to say the ibe export to all the british colonies and possessions amounted to tn more in 1889 than in 1894 the export exhort to foreign countries fell oft off in the same period the export to india iode alone fell off ZI 1 and that to australia not because t be consumption of these countries had been correspondingly diminished but because they hail found other sources of supply in the be iron trade for instance germany and belgium bad encroached on edgland 19 market to RD an alarming alar mioK degree from facts like these the conclusion la Is drawn that a new era in the history of the commerce of the me world la in downing dawning and one in which great britain is in likely to play a lesa 1088 Dromi prominent nent part than duricr the pens century ce naury |