TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
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Tears
Exports from the Netherlands
Imports of British Home Produce
to Great Britain
into the Netherlands
&
£
1860
8,256.690
6,114,862
1861
7,692,895
6,434,919
1862
7,863,031
6,046.242
1863
8,661,119
6,324.696
1864
11,660.539
6,885,463
1865
12,451,466
8,111,022
1866
11,768,913
8,999,713
1867
10,822,238
9,422,742
1868
11,390,924
10,395.098
1869
12,739,744
10,758,194
The principal article of export from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom is butter, the average value of which, in the ten years 1860-69, was about 1,500,000/. Live animals, of the average value of 750,000/., corn, of the value of 300,000/., and spirits, of 30,000/., form the other chief exports. The staple articles of British imports into the Netherlands are cotton and woollen manufactures, averaging two millions sterling per annum.
The following table shows the number and tonnage of the vessels belonging to the Netherlands mercantile marine on December 31, 1868 :—
Description of Vessels
Ships
Tons
Clippers (Clippershepen)
16
6,000
,, with steam power .
2
1.878
Ships (Fregatten) .
120
55,843
Barques (Barkeu en Pinken).
278
85,ln3
Brigs (Brikken) .
225
26,600
Schooners (Sehoeners) .
387
32,759
Galliots (Gralgooten)
288
17,415
Koff boats (Koffen)
575
29,224
Smacks (Smakken)
25
883
Luggers (Gaffel-en Kaagsehepen)
10
276
Hookers (Hockerschepen)
148
3,429
Steamboats ......
43
8,136
Total .
2,117
267,596
The mercantile navy has been decreasing of late years. On the 31st of December, 1864, it numbered 2,2*1) vessels, of 55 1,244 tons, and on the 31st of December, 1865, it had fallen to 2,203 vessels, of 269,338 tons burthen. It will be seen from the above statement that, at the end of 1868, there was a continued decline.
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