The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-15
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ana success, and are talking of purchasing th
ships of the other Australian Company The Penir
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Compan
have just appointed Mr.. Wilcox, NJ. p. as thei
Chairman, in the place of Sir JAMES MATHEsoN. re-
signed.
send you some tables which | have compile
and arranged from several late reports of the Boar
OF Trade and other sources. showing the eros
amount of exports from the United Kingdom t
each OF the principal foreign nations and Britisl
colonies, for the last l6 years-from 1912 to 1857 in
elusive. These figures, however, do not give tn
exports OF colonial or foreign products or manufac
lures, only OF the manufactures and productions O
! Great Britain and Ireland. Your commercial read
| ers ana the statesmen of America NAV draw SOM
instructive lessons from these statistics have no
time to go into the exact figures and dates Showing
! the past and present condition of Brtan's Steam
Commerce, but shall give you enough to show tn,
vast bearing that Ocean Steam Lines have had or
the trade of this country The great dcsideratum the
SINE qua non, in British commercial and manulactu
ring life is to find foreign nations and distant colo
nies to buy our manufactures and products First
and foremost a customer for these productions
stands the United States. During the past xtean
years the exports to America of British goods in
sterling, from less than $40 900 900 to over S1OO
0OO,OO0,) being six fold
The greatest rate of increase was in the trade
with Australia; being from less than one to over
ten millions. and in 1853 to over fourteen millions
sterling That however, was not all, "a healthy sound
trade" as the city article in the Times to-day ey
presses it, either respects British North America
or Australia; large amount of exports BEING
based on the operations of ''swindling firms The
annual British export trade to British India rose
from f5,0O0,000 to I'll, 100000; to British North
America from a little over f2, 900 900 to over
GA, 100000; to the German States Prussia includ-
ed,) from f65O0000 to $1,000. 600: to HoI-
land from f3, ,500,0 600 to 10000, 900: to France
from G3, 900 900 to f6000 600; to Turkey from less
than 81 $1,000 to nearly G5 900 OO0 and to Russia
it was general stand still at about G2 900 OOO ey
cept spasmodic trade Just after the war. to make
up for lost time. With all these nations and colo
MES just named Great Britain has direct intercourse
by steam. There is also a steamship commerce with
Norway and Sweden, Denmark Spain, PORTUGAL
West Africa, Sardinia, Egypt, Syria and China
The annual trade (exports) to these countries has
increased as follows to Norway and Sweden from
$500 900 to Ct 0000 900: to Denmark from less than
t2OOO 900 to 81 100000; to Spain from $500 600 to
900; to Portugal from less than 81 900 900
to about fl,500,000 to West Africa from less than
t5OO,OOO to Fl, 25O,OOO to Egypt from G2OO 900 to
almost f2,OOOO0O to Syria from less than f10O 600
to ESQ., 900; to China from 81 900 900 to e. 900 600:
to Sardinia from an average of f400 600 to Ct OOO-
QUO. There has been no steam intercourse of anv
note with the Two Sicies, and the trade with that
Kingdom has vibrated between $1,000 and fI OOO.-
900. The trade with the dead-alive Papal States
has stood still, and that with Algeria has retro
graded. The trade with the Azores Canary and
Madeira Islands, with the aid of steam, has doubled
and that with Morocco, with an indirect steam in
tercourse, via Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar has
risen from 10000, and some years only G., 900 or
$4,000, to fl48,000.
Now look at the trade between Great Rritain
and South America. The export trade to Brazil
has increased from fl, 700 600 to over f5 900 900
and since 1850, when steamships first commenced
to Brazil, the exports have doubled. In
1851, there were twentyseven million dollars worth
OF British products sent to Brazil in place of twelve
and a balf million dollars worth in 1850 i'm IS5C
the latest account have the United States exported
to Brazil, altogether, of home and foreign goods
and products, So, 5,O9l, ,9O4-less than one-ifth the
exports of Great Britain to Brazil in lsj7-reckonng |
y
and Uruguay, with all the political distractions in .
those countries, has doubled since 1912. The an
lual exports to Chill, have risen from $500 900 to
100000, and to Peru from less than e7OO 900 to
c 100000. To New Grenada. with steam direct,
he exports have been more than quadrupled; going
rom less than quarter of million, to about a .
million pounds sterling per annum. To British
Guiana and the West Indies the exports have fallen
f.,,,,.
our years of the period under considerations from
S42 to 1850 to an average of 81 100000 in the
asst four years. With Guiana there has been no
team commerce of any account, and all trade in
he British West Indies, has been nearly prostrate
The trade with Hayti, without steam, has stood
till
In the gross exports there was little perceptible
Increase from 1912 to IS4s. During that time no
ew steam lines were started. Between lS4s and
S52, the West Indian and South American, the
'eninsular and Oriental, the British American and
early all the other principal steam lines were star
ed. The actual increase in the annual value of
british Exports from 1912 to 1857, was 1913 900 900
nd during the nine years from lS4S to 1857, it was
35O,00O,0O0, while the entire amount of Brit
ii exports in lS48 was only $500 600, 600. We
an not tell the exact proportion, but We see
learly that very large share of this increase
uring the past nine years, owing to the
establishment of great mercantile and mail lines of
eamships. South America, with its teeming pro-
ucts, lies at the very doors of the United States
nd yet by the short-sighted policy of your Govern
tent, the valuable commerce ofthat great family of
ations is suffered to go to nation several thousand
iles farther away,-a nation that in itself occupies
ut ga patch on the earth's surface" and vet that
as the enterprise, the sagacity, the farsghedness
nd the true economy to its real interests in es-
'blshing lines mail and commercial Steamers
these figures lie the facts; let American states
zen and merchants make the most of them.