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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.