Coal and Coke 897541 Lime 5327 Limestone, Bricks, &c. 14315 Glass 7689 Iron and Steel 115874 Tin Plates and Zinc 10382 Spelter or Zinc 22564 Hardware and Miscellaneous 134204 Stone 15621 Timber 63591 Paper Making Materials 5550 Drugs and Drysaltery 14867 Grain 126783 Grocery and Provisions 61888 Leather 3599 OUTWARDS. Bedsteads 34976 Brass & Copper, Ingot and Wire 4697 Galvanised Wire and Ware 11705 Glass 6151 Hardware and Lamps 110597 Iron and Metal Tubes 13570 Iron Wire and Sheet 2999 Iron Castings 9166 Nails 18936 Rolled Metal 7619 Paper and Stationery 9490 Machinery } Hides and Leather } 33754 Miscellaneous } From one wharf alone in Birmingham there were delivered into the town by canal last year about 40,000 tons of various goods, of which the following will serve as examples--Timber, 3810 tons; salt, 443 tons; metals, 3948 tons; road stone, 10,821 tons; potatoes, matches, mill stones, glue and groceries, 1221 tons, whilst traffic over one of the canals in the course of the year was 7,327,269 tons, including merchandise, 972,749 tons; pig iron, 586,434 tons; coal, 3,333,865 tons; iron stone, 495,912 tons; sand, 115,791 tons; lime and limestone, 140,828 tons; road materials and manure, 525,249 tons; and bricks, 460,359 tons. =Nature of the Manufacturing Industries of Birmingham and the District.=--It is difficult, if not impossible to classify satisfactorily the varied industries of Birmingham and the district. The one adopted has as its basis, the raw materials of different kinds as used up in the trades of the town. In order to obtain information as to progress of the trades, or change in their character, I have extracted from Kelly’s Directory of 1864 the number of each trade as then given, and compared it with the number in the last Directory published, viz., 1884:-- TRADES OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE COUNTIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE, WARWICKSHIRE, AND WORCESTERSHIRE. =I=.--=Production of Materials from Ores, including Chemicals.= A.--NON-METAL. No. in Directory. 1864 1884