The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-28 00:00:00

Our Imports and Exports.

The ninth report of the Commissioners of Cus-
toms, just published, observes that the values of our
imports are increasing at a rate that appears almost
incredible. In 1863 there was a rise of 23 millions
over 1862, and in 1864 again there is an increase of
nearly 26 million over 1863. Since 1859, that is,
in five years, goods of the value of nearly 100 mil-
lions have been added to the annual amount of our
importations, or at the mean rate of 20 millions ad-
ditional for each successive year, and if the propor-
tion arrived at in the last two years be maintained,
it will hardly take four years from 1863 to arrive at
I the same result. The return for the last six
years is the following :-1859, £179,182,355 ; 1860,
£210,530,873 ; 1861, £217,485,024 ; 1862,
£225,716,976 ; 1863, £248,919,020 ; 1864,
3274,863,924. The increase of 26 millions is
divided between the foreign an£ colonial imports
in the ratio of 17 millions to nine, the return from
the former being £181,137,158 in 1864, against
£164,235,273 in 1863, and from the latter
£93,726,766 in 1864, against £84,683,747 in 1863.
Of foreign countries the largest increases are in
the arrivals from Egypt and Holland. In the
former case from sixteen to nineteen millions, and
in the latter from eight to eleven millions, the cause
in the case of Egypt being the rapid and successful
adaptation of a very extended area for the cultiva-
tion of cotton in that country (the produce of that
article alone absorbing fourteen out of the nineteen
millions above stated) ; and in the latter the great
impetus given by the late alteration of the sugar
duties to the importation of Dutch refined sugar.
Russia has also sent us more of her goods to the
amount of two millions, and the foreign West
Indies to the same amount ; while the Hanse
Towns,added
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Spain,
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or-
tations. There is a slight increase in the supplies
from Norway, Denmark, and Japan, and a trifling
falling off in those from Portugal, Italy, and
China. The value of the imports from America
have experienced a still further diminution (as was
to expected from the continuance of the war and the
consequent declining condition of trade) of more
than one million and a half beyond the great de-
crease that we recorded in 1863 as compared with
1862. This has extended to Northern, Southern,
and Pacific ports alike. Those from France have
again increased, and in nearly the same proportion
as in 1863. The largest increase are in butter, raw
cotton, gloves of leather, clover-seed, silk manufac-
tures, brandy, and refined sugar. The only decrease
of any note is in raw silk, and that only if compared
with 1863, the values being still far above those at-
tained in 1862 and 1861.

Of the imports from our colonial dependencies
India continues to contribute more than half, and
though the addition she has made this year to her
general supply is not quite four millions instead of
14, as appeared in 1863, when compared with 1862,
the whole of that increase represents a bona fide
addition to the quantities of cotton imported,
the prices of that article having ranged as
nearly as possible 10s. per cwt., or about id.
per lb. lower in 1864 than in 1863. Australia
has sent us more goods to the amount of three mil-
lions, chiefly in the values of wool. Hong Kong
and the Bermudas have .more than doubled their
supply. The Bahamas, whose imports and exports
rose so suddenly in 18637 owing to the establish-
ment of Nassau as the depot for the blockade-run-
ners both to and from the Southern States of Ame-
rica, have again added £900,000 to their values.
The other West India Islands, Singapore, British
Guiana, and the Honduras, all also show an increase,
while from Ceylon and British North America there
is a decided falling off. The imports, which give
the quantities :of the principal articles imported,
show a decrease upon rather more articles than
usual. Out of 14 articles usually selected as a test,
tchreeareseiso,n
in
in Bfive
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showing an increase are cotton, flax, hemp, and
in-
nice and 6 a falling
jute, spirits, sugar (unrefined), timber and wood,
tobacco, wide, and wool. Thus showing a decrease
are coffee, tea, silk, corn and flour, and provisions.

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