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The different countries to whose markets those productions were sent appear in the last statistical records in the following per centage:

58.41 pr. ct. of total exportation.

England,

Peru,

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The internal commerce by sea, and its wonderful increase, is shown by the following figures:

1861,

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$16,696,921

23,919,972

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In the foregoing statistics, the transit commerce from Chili to Bolivia and the Argentine Republic, which amounts to several millions, is not included.

After the general but accurate review of the commerce carried on during the year before last, we subjoin some other minute statistics, which we deem of interest to the general reader, about the commercial wealth of Chili. In 1855 the imports were $25,988,925; in 1856, $29,804,041; and in 1857, $31,800,209. The exports of 1855 were, $19,110,589; in 1856, $18,159,522; and in 1857, $20,126,461. The following table particularizes the exports of the latter year:

Bars of gold and gold coin,

Silver and silver ores,

Copper and copper ores,

Wheat,

$497,736 4,725,655 10,760,589

1,050,718

Flour,

798,112

Biscuit, bread, &c.

108,223

Barley,

257,970

Beans,

24,904

Peas and maize,

4,835

Potatoes,

35,506

Wine and chicha,

1,612

Nuts and dried and fresh fruits,

89,052

Salt beef,

10,880

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The principal imports are distilled spirits, ale and porter, alpaca goods, baizes, bedsteads, books, buttons, cabinet-ware, calicoes, candles, canvas, carpets, carriages, cassimeres, cigars, cloths, clothing, coal, cotton and woollen goods, crape shawls, drugs, earthen and glass ware, gloves, gold in bars and coin, gunpowder, horned cattle and horses, household furniture, indigo, iron and iron goods, jewelry and cutlery, leather, linen goods, machinery, matches, yerva mate, merino cloths, muslins, molasses, oils, paints, paper, perfumery, pianos, quicksilver, raisins, rice, rigging, salt, satin goods, shoes and boots, silks, silver coin and bars, soap, steel, straw goods, sugar, tea, tin, tobacco, umbrellas and parasols, velvets, watches, wax, wines, and wool shawls. The following table gives the quantities of sugar, coffee, tea, and iron imported from 1844 to 1855:

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The imports of sugar into Valparaiso from January 1 to August 15, 1858, were 336,926 arrobas of 125 pounds each, and the stock on hand at the latter period was 94,000 arrobas.

The exports to England were, in 1854, £1,380,563; in 1855, £1,925,271; and in 1856, £1,700,776. The imports of English produce were, in 1852, £1,167,494; in 1853, £1,264,942; in 1854, £1,421,855; in 1855, £1,330,385; and in 1856, £1,946,010 The imports of foreign and colonial produce from England were, in 1854, £43,589; in 1855, £56,688; and in 1856, £64,492. The English exports to Chile in the half-year ending June 30, 1858, were £602,956, showing a decrease of £120,492 compared with the same period of 1857. The exports of Chili to France were $218,000 in 1851, $250,000 in 1852, $240,000 in 1853, $650,000 in 1854, and $930,000 in 1855. The imports from France were $4,800,000 in 1851, $3,550,000 in 1852, $4,400,000 in 1853, $4,000,000 in 1854, and $5,600,000 in 1855. The commercial intercourse of Chili with the United States has been very variable. In the earlier years of Californian emigration she sent large quantities of flour, grain, and lumber to that State, and took freely of our goods in return. Since that time her exports to this country have continued in large amount, but she receives little except money in return, the balances being mostly settled in Europe, where she is a debtor. The following table shows the amount of her commerce with the United States for several years:

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The following table of a more recent date shows how little the commercial intercourse between Chili and the United States has increased, or, rather, how greatly it has diminished since the late civil war in this country:

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"If our merchants," said the able newspaper, already referred to, commenting on these extraordinary figures, "let this growing trade of Chili rest in English hands, they will show themselves less wise and less enterprising than they are reputed to be. There is no reason, with our ports on the Pacific side, why we should not do almost the whole of the carrying trade of Chili; and certainly we ought, in the next two or three years, to quadruple our commerce with that country, which is, as we have already shown, one of the most thriving in South America."

It is a very singular fact, that the blockade of Chili, in the last four months of 1865, far from lessening the exportation of the products of the country, has increased them to a wonderful extent, as shown by the following statistics which one of the leading papers of New York (the "Evening Post," of February 27) has lately published, with an appropriate commentary upon the immense quantity of provisions furnished by the fertility of Chili to the markets of the world:

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