This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...of exports. The North American colonies, with a similar British population, give us 8,000,000 of imports, and takes nearly 5,000,000 of exports. The little island of Mauritius, with the advantage of British government and capital, sends us nearly 2,000,000 a year, and takes 500,000. These instances apparently show the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...of exports. The North American colonies, with a similar British population, give us 8,000,000 of imports, and takes nearly 5,000,000 of exports. The little island of Mauritius, with the advantage of British government and capital, sends us nearly 2,000,000 a year, and takes 500,000. These instances apparently show the advantages of colonies to commerce, and refute the shallow theory which asks us to abandon our distant possessions as useless appendages. It is true that we no longer impose a monopoly, and leave them free as air to sell in the dearest and buy in the cheapest market; but it is no less true that the tendency of trade is always towards the mother country, and that a given population, whether it be of British origin, as in Australia or Canada, or of foreign race, as in India or Ceylon, will always furnish a larger trade per head with Great Britain, if they form part of the British empire, than if, as in the United States or in China, they are subjects of a foreign government.' The trade for 1863, imports and exports, with Trance was 42,000,000; with Eussia, 18,000,000; with Turkey, 10,000,000; Prussia and North Germany, 32,000,000; Holland, 18,000,000; Belgium, 9,000,000; Spain, 6,500,000; Cuba, 6,000,000; Brazil, 8,000,000; United States The trade, imports and exports, for 1863, amounted, with France, to about 1 Is. per head of her population; with Germany, to 15s.; with Eussia, 5s.; Turkey and Spain, 6s.; Belgium, 1 8s.; Brazil, 1; United States, 1 4s. ( 2 in 1860); Australia (exclusive of gold), li; North American Colonies, 4. The trade with Holland was chiefly in transitu. (before the war, 60,000,000), 40,000,000;...
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