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THE

CHINESE REPOSITORY.

VOL. XIX.-October, 1850.—No. 10.

ART. 1.

Consular Returns of the British and Foreign trade with China for the year 1849.

ONLY a portion of the tables published in these Returns by the Hong- kong government are here reprinted—those which give the movements of shipping, and the amount of duties paid, not being of much interest for future reference. It has been our wish to publish all the Tables of the foreign trade which we could obtain, in order to preserve the statistics of the commerce with China, and these are inserted as part of the series; but owing to the manner in which the foreign trade is conducted, they are less complete and accurate than similar tables in other ports. We number the whole consecutively.

No. I. A RETURN of the number and tonnage of nierchant vessels which ar- rived at and departed from the PORT of CANTON, during the year ending December 31st, 1849:-

ARR IVED

DEPARTED

Under what Colors

Number | Tonnag e Under whit Culars

of Ship t

-umber [of Skapa

Tonnage

British..

214 93,095 British,.................

214

92,124

American,... Dutch,..

75

36,904 American,

69

33,895

21

6,811 Dutch,

16

5,348

French, Bremen,

•

4 1,291| French,

3

941

2

1,127 | Bremen,.............

2

970

Chilian,.

2

390 Chilian,

2

390

Danish,.

2

7:26 Danish,

296

Hamburgh

2

•

616 Hamburgh,

266

Peruvian.

300 Peruyian,

300

Prussian..

Spanish,.

1

690 Prussian,

600

2

320 Spanish,

2

320

South American.......

1

177 South American

1

177

331

142,357

313 135,627

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