POPULATION AND COMMERCE.
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Export? from the Hanse Towns
Imports of British Home Produce
to the United Kingdom
into the Hanse Towns
£
£
1865
8.837,585
15,091.373
1866
10,576,620
13.555,988
1867
9,415,188
17,229,251
1868
9,245,372
19,318,702
1869
10,273,898
19,252,150
The exports from the Hanse Towns to the United Kingdom con- sist mainly of the agricultural produce of Germany, such as wheat, barley, oats, flour, butter, wool, and live and dead meat. The exports of wheat, wheat meal, barley, oats, and other kinds of corn, in the year 1869 amounted to 1,348,917/. in value ; of butter, to 896,693/. ; of wool, to 447,842/. ; and of live and dead meat — the former chiefly oxen and sheep, and the latter bacon — to 1,698,720/. The staple imports from the United Kingdom into the Hanse Towns are cotton and -woollen manufactures, the value of the former 4,741,186/., and of the latter 8,704,306/. in the year 1869.
The total number and tonnage of the merchant vessels which belonged to the port of Hamburg, at the commencement and end of each of the years 1865 and 1866, is shoAvn in the subjoined table : —
Mercantile Navy of Hamburg
1865 1866
Vessels L v?l°} Vessels 6 tons
Lasts of 3 tons
Effective on January 1st
Increase.
Home built .....
Foreign built
Bought ......
Decrease.
Wrecked ..... Broken up .... Sold
Effective on 31st December
530 79,380 539
83,710
12 20 42
2,296 3,552 6,781
7 24 14
1,142
4,700 1,881
14
1 50
1,660
159
6,480
26 51
3,882 6,714
539 83,710
509 | 80,837
The mercantile navy of Hamburg is more than eight times as large as that of the kingdom of Belgium, and nearly double, in tonnage, to that of Denmark and Belgium together.
