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•the old territorial divisions of Italy, both as regards their exports to the United Kingdom, and British imports into them, in each of the five years 1865-9 : —
Exports from Italy to Great Britain.
Venetia, Adriatic
Years
Two Sicilies
Sardinia
Tuscany
and Mediterranean Ports
£
£
£
£
I860
1,688,198
222,515
550,140
533,380
1866
2,272.108
316,212
643,873
588,551
1867
1,607,295
309,267
473,222
716,915
1868
2,122,578
406,872
596,414
892,270
1869
2,180,791
394,9-11
592,507
828,926
Imports of British Home Produce into Italy.
Venetia, Adriatic
Years
Two Sicilies
Sardinia
Tuscany
and Mediterranean Ports
£
£
£
£
1865
2.343,828
1,527,138
1,128,762
475,533
1866
2,105,732
1,944,850
1,257,511
528,280
1867
1,855,645
1,554,759
952,799
518,041
1868
1,853,873
1,727,767
856,654
564,231
1869
2,480,149
2,060,068
972,591
650,642
The chief articles of export from the Two Sicilies are olive oil and brimstone, the first averaging 500,000/., and the second 300,000/. per annum. From Sardinia and the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian ports, the exports are miscellaneous, not one of them, except lead, averaging 40,000/. ; while the only article of note from Tuscany is olive oil, averaging 90,000/. per annum in value. Cotton goods form the staple import of the United Kingdom into Italy. The Two Sicilies take nearly 600,000/. per annum ; Sardinia 500,000/. ; Tuscany 500,000 ; and the Adriatic ports of Ancona and the Romagna 200,000/. With the former Papal States, the intercourse is very slight; the total British imports not amounting to more than 48,148/., and the exports to the United Kingdom to 41,453/. in the year 1869.
The number and tonnage of merchant vessels belonging to the ikingdom, inclusive of Venice, on January 1, 1868, was as ■follows : —
