604

ALGERIA.

Egypt, Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Denmark, African ports, Senegal, and the Papal States — the whole to an amount of 2,652,511 francs. The total of 295,773,664 francs, which repre- sented the general commerce of Algeria in 1868, gave for the imports the sum of 192,664,360 francs, or 7,706,574/., an excess over 1867 of about 2^ per cent. France therefore furnished to the colony the greater part of the produce of every kind required for its consump- tion, representing a sum of 144,533,092 francs. The total of the imports of 1868 was distributed as follows among the different ports of Algeria: — Algiers, 40'43 per cent.; Oran, 33*33 ; Philippeville, 15 - 04 ; Bona, 7 - 01 ; and Mostaganem, 2*33. In 1867, the port of Algiers occupied, in the category of imports, only the second rank ; but in 1868 it rose to the first, with an increase of 11,128,042 francs. The total value of the exports effected by the different ports in 1868 was 103,069,304 francs, or 4,122,712/., showing, compared with 1867, an increase of 6 - 08 per cent, in favour of 1868. The imports of the latter year included cotton cloth of the value of 1,544,296/., and woollen, 340,442/. ; leather and leather goods, 527,308/. ; wine, 9,411,422 imperial gallons; brandy and spirits, 500,511 imperial gallons; fresh fruit, 11,119 cwts. ; sawn timber, 3,205,782 running yards; materials for building, 92,828/. The exports included 289,164 sheep, 103,725 cwts. of wool, 6,023 cwts. of tallow, 54,783 cwts. of hides, 572 cwts. of coral, 84,450 tons of iron, 43,566 cwts. of fibre, 81,110 cwts. of reeds, 17,646 cwts. of cork, 64,636 cwts. of olive oil, 6,846 cwts. of manufactured tobacco, 30,624 cwts. of raw tobacco, 14,009 cwts. of fresh fruit, 16,839 cwts. of green vegetables, rags of the value of 20,622/., and 7,512 cwts. of raw cotton.

The subjoined tabular statement shows the total value of the ex- ports from Algeria to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures into Algeria, in each of the five years 1865 to 1869 : —

Exports from Algeria

Imports of

Years

to

British Home Produce

Great Britain

into Algeria

£

£

1865

90,505

10,916

1866

48,405

15.636

1867

33,357

22.625

1868

37,076

23,697

1869

77,669

26,796

Small quantities of corn, chiefly barley, and ' Esparto,' for making paper, the latter of the value of 19,970/. in 1869, form the chief articles of Algerian export to the United Kingdom, while the British

imports consist almost entirely of coal and iron.