Produce exported from the colony of British Guiana from the year 1860 to 1881.

Report by Consul-General Andrews, of Rio de Janeiro, on the commerce and industries of Brazil for the years 1882 and 1883.

FOREIGN COMMERCE OF RIO DE JANEIRO.

The following statement will show the kinds and values of exports from Rio de Janeiro during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, as compiled from the statistics published by the custom-house at this port. The total exports amounted to $37,988,913, being $12,000,000 less than in preceding fiscal year. This great difference is explained by the decline which took place in the price of coffee. The export duties amounted to $3,315,982, or about 10 per cent. A year ago the custom-house of this city commenced the issue of a semi-monthly statistical publication, entitled "Boletim da Alfandega do Rio de Janeiro," which will be of great benefit in furnishing fresh statistical information in regard to commerce. From the publication I have been able to compile a table, accompanying this report, which shows the value of exports and imports at this port the first half of the present fiscal year. The value of the exports for such period was $19,798,112.

Statement showing the exports from Rio de Janeiro for the year ending June 30, 1882.

The value of the imports into Rio de Janeiro during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, was $40,026,804, as shown by the table below, being a million and a half dollars less than in the preceding year. The duties collected on these imports amounted to $13,795,939, being at an average rate of 34 per cent. As compared with the preceding fiscal year there was a little increase in the imports from Germany and Great Britain, and a little falling off in those from France and the United States:

Statement showing the imports at Rio de Janeiro for the year ending June 30, 1882.

The rate of exchange on London during the past calendar year has varied from 21 to 224 pence to the milreis at ninety days. The medium rate was 21 pence, equivalent to 423 cents. In reducing Brazilian to

American money, in the valuations in this report, I have taken the milreis as equivalent to 43 cents. The value of the milreis in gold is $0.546, but there is no gold in circulation and exceedingly little silver.

The value of the exports from Rio de Janeiro to the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, as shown by the records of this office, was $25,738,322. It includes the custom-house and shipping charges, and consequently is greater than the valuation as given by the custom-house statistics. The number of bags of coffee exported to the United States was 2,315,982, of 132 pounds each, being an increase of 302,631 bags over the previous fiscal year. The average annual increase during the last three fiscal years has been 235,994 bags, or 31,151,208 pounds.

Statement of the exports from Rio de Janeiro to the United States for the year ending June 30, 1883, as taken from the records of the consulate-general.

Statement No. 1, herewith,* shows the kinds and official values of imports at Rio de Janeiro during each of the fiscal years 1881-'82 and 1882-83. The value of the imports the last mentioned year was $42,220,711, being $2,000,000 more than in the preceding year.

Statement No. 2, herewith, gives a comparative table of the exports and imports at Rio de Janeiro during the two fiscal years 1880-'82, with the countries to and from which they took place.

Statement No. 3 shows the value of the imports and exports at Rio de Janeiro, with specification of countries, during the first half of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884.

Statement No. 4 shows the values of imports and exports at Rio de Janeiro during each of the last ten fiscal years.

FOREIGN NAVIGATION OF RIO DE JANEIRO.

Statements Nos. 5 and 6, herewith, show the ocean or foreign navigation of the port of Rio de Janeiro for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, as taken from the latest published official report of the customhouse at said port. From statement No. 5 it will be seen that the number of vessels of whatever nationality which arrived from the United States at Rio de Janeiro was 169, of 96,578 tons, being a decrease from

*These statements will be found at the conclusion of report.

the previous fiscal year of 2 vessels and 12,186 tons. The number of vessels of whatever nationality clearing from Rio de Janeiro to the United States was 305, of 219,117 tons, being an increase over the preceding year of 51 vessels and 40,717 tons. Statement No. 6 shows the nationality of the vessels arriving at and departing from Rio de Janeiro during the year ending June 30, 1882. The number of American vessels arriving was 97, of 66,938 tons, being a decrease of 36 vessels and 43,264 tons as compared with the preceding fiscal year. The same statement shows that the total number of sailing vessels arriving at this port was 789, of 363,512 tons, or 1,289 tons less than in the previous fiscal year. The number of steamers arriving was 537, of 819,639 tons, being an increase over the previous fiscal year of 56 steamers and 51,683 tons. Of these steamers 227 (of 360,078 tons) were British, 111 (of 205,905 tons) were French, 69 (of 113,165 tons) were German, 31 (of 42,209 tons) were Belgian, 31 (of 37,240 tons) were Italian, and 4 (of 9,008 tons) were American.

FOREIGN STEAMSHIP NAVIGATION OF RIO DE JANEIRO.

There are, besides the new American line, of which Messrs. Wilson Sons & Co. are agents here, ten other different lines of foreign steamers regularly trading to this port.

The private company, limited, managed by Messrs. Lamport & Holt, Liverpool, has a line of steamers leaving Rio de Janeiro every Satur day for New York, and which continue thence to Liverpool, none returning from New York to Rio. Nearly all carry passengers, but one each month is specially fitted for passengers. Fares to New York, $125 to $150, and $62. Average passage, twenty-one days. A steamer of this line leaves Liverpool every Saturday for the River Plate direct; and every Wednesday one from Liverpool to Rio de Janeiro, calling at Lis bon and Bahia, alternate boats going to Santos; fare, $125 and $62. This line also has a steamer leaving London the 3d, 10th, 17th, and 26th of each month for the River Plate via Antwerp; fare as last mentioned. It also has a weekly coast steamer leaving Rio for Rio Grande, Pelotas, and Porto Alegre, for cargo only. This line has no subsidy, and carries mails free. Its agents here are Messrs. Norton, Megaw & Co.

The Royal Steam Packet Company, of England, sends a steamer from Southampton on the 1st, 9th, and 24th of each month for Brazil and the River Plate. The most regular ones are those leaving Southampton the 9th and 24th. Of these two the one leaving Southampton the 9th calls at Lisbon, St. Vincent, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, and thence to the River Plate countries. The one leaving the 24th also calls at Vigo, Spain, and Inaceio, Brazil, but omits St. Vincent and Santos. Returning, they leave Buenos Ayres the 15th and 29th, and Rio de Janeiro the 9th and 24th, of each month. The usual time occupied from Southampton to Rio is from nineteen to twenty-one days, and from Rio to Southampton about twenty days. Arriving at Southampton, they connect with the same company's steamers to the West Indies on the 20 and 17th of each month. This line from England to South America formerly received a subsidy from both the British and Brazilian Governments, that from the British Government amounting to $150,000 a year; but it has received none from either Government for the past four years. It, however, receives now about £12,000 a year for mail service. The fare from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro is, first class, £30 to £35; second class, £20; third class, £13. The company's agent here is Mr. E. W. May.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company employ nine steamships, under the British flag, in trade between Liverpool and Valparaiso, passing through the Straits of Magellan, whence the line takes the name of the "Straits line." A steamer sails fortnightly on Wednesday from Liverpool, calling at Bordeaux, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and thence to Valparaiso. Every other steamer also calls at Santavideo, Corunna, Pernambuco, and Bahia. Time from Liverpool to Rio is 23 days, and from Lisbon direct to Rio 21 days. Fare, first class, from Liverpool to Rio, is £30. Returning, the steamers leave Valparaiso fortnightly on Wednesdays, and call at Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, and other schedule ports. The most of these steamers are well suited for passengers. They enjoy no subsidy, and probably not over $5,000 for mail service between Europe and Brazil, their rate being $2.25 per kilo of letters and 20 cents per kilo of newspapers. The agents of the company in this city are Messrs. Wilson, Sons & Co.

In May last this port was favored by the first arrival from New Zea land of one of the steamships of the recently established line between London and New Zealand. The New Zealand Shipping Company, limited, with headquarters in New Zealand, now have a steamer leaving London each month for Lyttleton, New Zealand, via the Cape of Good Hope, and calling at Cape Town, and taking large numbers of emigrants. Time from London to Lyttleton, forty-five days. Returning via Cape Horn and calling at Rio, where they arrive in twenty-three days. These steamers take back to London cargoes of frozen mutton, fish, and game; butter, cheese, wheat, grass-seed, hides, and wool. The meat is frozen in the refrigerator of the vessel by steam-condensed air. Each steamer brings from 11,000 to 14,000 carcasses of mutton, and the trade appears to be successful. Indeed the steamers arrive here so full of cargo that they have to refuse offers of any at this port. They get good coal at Lyttleton (from the mines of New Zealand), and take a fresh supply here. The steamers were built at Belfast, Ireland, and are chartered. The company, which expects a subsidy from New Zealand, is now building some of its own, and has one under way of 4,000 register tons. The trade is so prosperous that there is likelihood of a new competing line being started. Nor is it altogether improbable that by means of this new commercial route New Zealand provisions and flour or wheat will be brought here to compete with American products of the same class. (There is one flour mill now in successful operation here.) The steamer British Queen arrived at Rio November 22, in twenty-five days from New Zealand, having a cargo of 11,000 carcasses of mutton, 4,000 rabbits, poultry, and fish; also, over 1,000 tons of wheat, 1,200 sacks of flour, 50 tons of butter, 10 tons of cheese, 200 sacks of oatmeal, besides some hides, and took here 800 tons of coal.

The Hamburg South American Steam Navigation Company send a steamer each week from Hamburg to Rio de Janeiro, calling at Lisbon and Bahia; one also calling occasionally at the Azore Islands for immigrants. About two steamers a month extend the voyage to the River Plate. A steamer leaves Rio de Janeiro the 5th, 13th, 20th, and 27th of each month for Hamburg, calling at Bahia and Lisbon. First-class fare to Lisbon, $125; Hamburg, $150; Montevideo, $45; Buenos Ayres, $53. These steamers average from 2,800 to 3,000 tons, and can carry 38,000 bags of coffee. This line has no subsidy, but has enjoyed a successful trade, and is adding new steamers on the route. Agents here, Messrs. Edward Johnston & Co.

The North German Lloyd have a line of good steamers leaving Bremen for Rio de Janeiro every month, calling at Antwerp, Lisbon, and