34,251,068 fr. 
Or, in sterling, L.1,427,000
Of which smuggled in by the
land or Pyrennean frontier, 32,537,992 fr. 
By sea, only 1,713,076 ... 
Linen yarns, entered for 15,534,391 ... 
Silks, for 8,953,423 ... 
Woollens, for 8,919,760 ...

Among these imports from France, various other prohibited articles are enumerated besides cottons.  As here exhibited, the illicit introduction of cotton goods from France into Spain is almost double in amount that of British cottons.  The fact may be accounted for from the closer proximity of France, the superior facilities and economy of land transit, the establishment of stores of goods in Bayonne, Bordeaux, &c., from which the Spanish dealers may be supplied in any quantity and assortment to order, however small; whilst from Great Britain heavy cargoes only can be dispatched, and from Gibraltar quantities in bulk could alone repay the greater risk of the smuggler by sea.

Senor Durou adds the following brief reflections upon this expose of the French contraband trade.  “Let the manufactures of Catalonia be protected; but there is no need to make all Spain tributary to one province, when it cannot satisfy the necessities of the others, neither in the quantity, the quality, nor the cost of its fabrics.  What would result from a protecting duty?  Why, that contraband trade would be stopped, and the premiums paid by the assurance companies established in Bayonne, Oleron, and Perpignan, would enter into the Exchequer of the State.”

The active measures decreed by the Spanish Government in July and October 1841, supported by cordons of troops at the foot of the Pyrenees, have, indeed, very materially interfered with and checked the progress of this contraband trade.  In consequence of ancient compact, the Basque, that is frontier provinces of Spain, enjoyed, among other exclusive privileges, that of being exempt from Government customhouses, or customs’ regulations.  For this privilege, a certain inconsiderable subsidy was periodically voted for the service of the State.  Regent Espartero resolutely suspended first, and then abrogated, this branch of the fueros.  He carried the line of the customhouses from the Ebro, where they were comparatively useless and scarcely possible to guard, to the very foot and passes of the Pyrenees.  The advantageous effect of these vigorous proceedings was not long to wait for, and it may be found developed in the Report to the Chamber of Deputies in Paris, before referred to; in which M. Chegaray, the rapporteur on the part of the complaining petitioners of Bayonne, Bordeaux, &c., after stating that the general exports of France to Spain in