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CEYLON.

The male sex preponderated over the female in the proportion oi ten to five among the British, and ten to nine among the European- descended and the coloured inhabitants of Ceylon.

Trade and Industry.

The declared value of the total imports and exports of the colony, including bullion and specie, in each of the five years 1864 to 1868. was as follows : —

Years

Imports

Exports

£

£

1864

5.526,964

3,192.268

1865

5,022,179

3,565.157

1866

4.961.061

3,586,454

1867

4,504,339

3,530,225

1868

4,403,177

3,786,722

The commercial intercourse of Ceylon with the United Kingdom is shown in the subjoined tabular statement, which gives the total value of the exports from Ceylon to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures into Ceylon, in each of the five years 1865 to 1869 : —

Years

Exports from Ceylon to the United Kingdom

Imports of British Home Produce into Ceylon

1865 1866 1867 1868 1869

£ 3.707,717 3.256,250 3,224,512 3,671,494 3,749,723

£ 687,189 1,082,973 771,879 828,483 796,372

The staple article of exports from Ceylon to the United King- dom is coffee, of the declared value of 3,112,765/. in 1865; of 2,702,352/. in 1866 ; of 2,814 060/. in 1867 ; of 2,986,479/. in 1868; and of 2,867,724/. in 1869. Besides coffee, the only other exports of note are cocoa-nut oil and raw cotton, the former amounting to the value of 242,174/., and the latter to 70,747/. in the year 1869. Manufactured cotton goods, of the value of 446,142/. in 1869, form the principal British import into

Ceylon.