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 TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

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•the old territorial divisions of Italy, both as regards their exports to the United Kingdom, and British imports into them, in each of the five years 1865-9 : —

Exports from Italy to Great Britain.

Venetia, Adriatic

Years

Two Sicilies

Sardinia

Tuscany

and Mediterranean Ports

£

£

£

£

I860

1,688,198

222,515

550,140

533,380

1866

2,272.108

316,212

643,873

588,551

1867

1,607,295

309,267

473,222

716,915

1868

2,122,578

406,872

596,414

892,270

1869

2,180,791

394,9-11

592,507

828,926

Imports of British Home Produce into Italy.

Venetia, Adriatic

Years

Two Sicilies

Sardinia

Tuscany

and Mediterranean Ports

£

£

£

£

1865

2.343,828

1,527,138

1,128,762

475,533

1866

2,105,732

1,944,850

1,257,511

528,280

1867

1,855,645

1,554,759

952,799

518,041

1868

1,853,873

1,727,767

856,654

564,231

1869

2,480,149

2,060,068

972,591

650,642

The chief articles of export from the Two Sicilies are olive oil and brimstone, the first averaging 500,000/., and the second 300,000/. per annum. From Sardinia and the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian ports, the exports are miscellaneous, not one of them, except lead, averaging 40,000/. ; while the only article of note from Tuscany is olive oil, averaging 90,000/. per annum in value. Cotton goods form the staple import of the United Kingdom into Italy. The Two Sicilies take nearly 600,000/. per annum ; Sardinia 500,000/. ; Tuscany 500,000 ; and the Adriatic ports of Ancona and the Romagna 200,000/. With the former Papal States, the intercourse is very slight; the total British imports not amounting to more than 48,148/., and the exports to the United Kingdom to 41,453/. in the year 1869.

The number and tonnage of merchant vessels belonging to the ikingdom, inclusive of Venice, on January 1, 1868, was as ■follows : —