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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HFI754 B23 EXPORTS AID IMPORTS. The September number of Hunt's Merchant's Magazine contains some very interesting statistics in regard to the commerce of Great Britain. It seems that England imports annually, to feed her population, grain and produce to the amount of over $120,000,000. Of this food, a large part is exported in the shape of cotton cloth, the export of which, in 1857, reached near to 2,000,000,000 yards, valued at about $140,000,000. The principal markets to which these goods were sent, are as follows : To Turkey, Syria and Palestine, Egypt, - United States, Foreign West Indies, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, - Chile, - Peru, China and Hong Kong, Yards. 123,000,000 39,000,000 55,000,000 177,000,000 72,000,000 186,000,000 32,000,000 38,000,000 34,000,000 121,000,000 Java, - Gibraltar, British North America, British West Indies, British East Indies, - Australia, Hanse Towns, Holland, Yards. 30,000,000 19,000,000 32,000,000 45,000,000 469,000,000 30,000,000 50,000,000 30,000,000 Portugal, Azores, Maderia, 47,000,000 First on the list stands the East Indies, then Brazil, then the United States, then Turkey, and then China. The United States seems to be in rather odd company, two of these nations being Pagan and half civilized, one Mahommedan and fast going to decay, and the fourth not much advanced beyond either of the others. England has persuaded them, however, as well as ourselves, of the admirable working of free trade ; and we find ourselves standing high on the list. We may hope to rival Brazil, but can hardly expect to come up to the East Indies, which are entirely under English control. If we add to this $140,000,000, the value of cotton yarns M897263 exported, which are not incl...