┌—————————──────────┬————──────——┬———──────———┬———————──────────————─┐ │ │ │ │ Tonnage of Vessels. │ │ Countries. │ Imports. │ Exports. ├───────────┬——————————┤ │ │ │ │ Entered. │ Cleared. │ ├—————————──────────┼————──────——┼—————──────—┼—————──────┼—————─────┤ │ │ £ │ £ │ £ │ £ │ │ British India │ 37,395,372 │ 18,254,570 │ 664,391 │ 671,856 │ │ Singapore │ 2,169,056 │ 1,442,450 │ 77,835 │ 50,292 │ │ Ceylon │ 3,707,615 │ 685,308 │ 52,197 │ 50,400 │ │ Mauritius │ 1,246,299 │ 596,848 │ 41,029 │ 30,805 │ │ China │ 10,673,690 │ 3,609,301 │ 91,606 │ 80,375 │ │ Hong Kong │ 773,068 │ 1,561,851 │ 14,608 │ 42,848 │ │ Egypt │ 21,772,250 │ 5,985,087 │ 361,419 │ 488,268 │ │ Dutch Possessions │ 226 │ 928,642 │ Nil. │ 29,349 │ │ Philippine Island │ 1,253,904 │ 945,642 │ 23,207 │ 18,055 │ │ Japan │ 614,743 │ 1,520,895 │ 9,361 │ 19,602 │ │ Australia │ 10,283,113 │ 13,352,357 │ 156,649 │ 387,239 │ ├———————————————————┼————————————┼————————————┼———————————┼——————————┤ │ Total..£│ 68,117,356 │ 42,897,846 │ 1,492,102 │1,869,090 │ └———————————————————┴————————————┴————————————┴———————————┴——————————┘ The value of all the imports into the United Kingdom for the year 1865, was £271,131,967; so that the value of the imports of the countries above enumerated is very nearly one-fourth of the total value of English imports. British exports, consisting of materials and of articles manufactured in Great Britain in 1865, were £165,862,402, of which nearly one-fourth was exported to the above-enumerated countries. The total tonnage of the vessels cleared inwards in British ports during 1865, was 14,317,866 tons. The total outward tonnage was 14,576,206 tons. The inward tonnage, to the countries enumerated above, was therefore a tenth of the total inward tonnage of the kingdom; and the outward tonnage was an eighth of the total outward tonnage. In proof of the immense and rapid extension of England’s trade with the East, it may be stated that the figures given above show amounts three times as great as they were five years, and nearly twenty times as great as they were fifty years ago. The Eastern mails, sent _viâ_ Marseilles, are packed in wrought-iron boxes. They weigh about thirteen pounds, and their contents usually weigh about thirty-seven pounds. A box, fully packed, contains about 220 newspapers; the average weight of each of which is 3¼ English ounces. If a box be filled with letters, the number of them is about 1,800. The average weight of each letters is a little more than a quarter of an English ounce, or about 7½ French grammes.