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BRAZIL.

Tears

Arrabas

Value

1862-63

1,085,628

£

1,681,780

18.63-64

1,350,465

2,954,289

18.64-65

1,726,015

3,155,864

Cotton. . -

1865-66

2,899,004

4,691,741

1866-67

2,689,20C

3,346,025

Average

1,950,063

3,165,940

L

1867-68

3,382,025

3,392,864

'

1862-63

10,121,720

1,928,103

1863-64

8,016,127

2,003,634

1864-65

7,483,107

1,628,249

Sugar. . ■

1865-66

9,158,065

1,922,194

1866-67

8,167,685

1,826,126

Average

8,589,341

1,861,661

1867-68

8,710,930

2,273,542

r

1862-63

8,724,142

5,657,494

1863-64

8,183,311

5,413,084

1864-65

10,806,336

6,414,456

Coffee. .'A

1865-66

9,940,566

6,115,605

1866-67

13,048,464

6,978,255

Average

10,140,562

6,115,789

1867-68

14,546,770

8,363,315

The extent of the commercial intercourse of Brazil with the United Kingdom for the ten years 1860 to 1869 is shown in the subjoined table, which gives the value of the exports of the empire to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British and Irish produce : —

Exports from Brazil to

Imports of British Home

Years

Great Britain

Produce into Brazil

1860

£

2,269,180

£

4,446,776

1861

2,631,480

4,552,165

1862

4,414,187

3,735,781

1863

4,491,000

3,964.261

1864

7.021,121

6,249,260

1865

6,797,241

5,654,920

1866

7,237,793

7,224.794

1867

5,902,011

5,694,557

1868

7,455,803

5,351,989

1869

7,312,494

6,964,808

The two great staple articles of Brazilian exports to the United Kingdom are raw cotton and unrefined sugar. The value of the .cotton exports to Great Britain, was 4,379,793/. in 1864; 4,373,811/. in 1865; 4,806,065/. in 1866; 3,341,206/. in 1867; 4,483,822/. in 1868; and 4,093,727/. in 1869. Of sugar, sent in regularly increasing quantities., the export value was 1,466,223/. in 1864 ;