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 562 THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL Prices of Bread in Italy and Austria. No. 6 (1891) (C. 6252). Return. Commercial Tins is a return to a circular from the Foreign Office dated 29th November 1890, addressed to Her Majesty's Consular Officers at Rome, Genoa, Florence, Naples and Leghorn, and to the Acting Consul at Trieste requesting them to furnish a their respective Consular districts. given in extenso. return of the price of bread in The replies to the circular are Reports from Her Majesty's Representatives abroad relative to the recommendations of the Berlin Labour Conference (C--6371). THiS is a return to an address of the House of Commons for copies of reports from Her Majesty's Representatives abroad on the measures which have been taken by foreign governments to give effect to the recommendations of the Berlin Labour Conference. It contains the replies to a circular from the Foreign Office, enquiring whether any legislation has taken place to carry out the recommendations of the Berlin Conference on the ls;bour question, or on similar lines, and if so, the precise nature of the legislative action thus taken, and if any system analogous to what is known in this country as the ' half time' system exists. The return contains replies frown France, Switzerland Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Gernany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Denmark. Trade of the United Kingdom and Foreign Countries and Britisk Possessions for the year 1890 (C. 6342). THIS is the annual detailed statement showing the import, export, and transit trade of the United Kingdom for the past year. In addition to the quantities and values of each of the different articles of import and export, this publication contains statements showing the imports and exports from, and to each foreign country and British possessions from 1886 to 1890; the transit trade for 1890, customs revenue in each year from 1886 to 1890 and the bonded warehouse accounts for last year giving the quantities of principal imported articles received into, delivered from, and remaining in warehouse, and quantities of various imported articles delivered for the use of the army and navy and for stores of merchant vessels. The total value of the imports into the United Kingdom in 1890 amounted to 420,691,997, of which 324,530,783 represented the value of the imports from foreign countries and 96,161,214 the imports from British possessions. The corresponding figures for 1889 were 427,637,595, 330,371,524 and 97,266,071 respectively. The value of the exports of British and Irish produce and manufacture in 1890 was 263,530,585 of which 176,160,202 represented the exports to foreign countries and 87,370,383 the exports to British possessions.