Statement showing the commerce at Venice for the year ending December 31, 1876. 254, 856 00 1,095, 388 60 2,572, 818 00 496, 254 80 92, 986 00 .do.. 112, 890.90 6, 266, 251 40 Colonials and drugs........do.. do.. 2,942. 60 7,739.95 23, 205. 10 10, 525.60 230.70 229, 413 80 2,689, 869 00 2,494, 482 00 1,251, 380 00 78, 192 00 300, 759 00 33, 808 00 296, 400 00 Colors and dye-woods......do.. 1,850. 70 126, 476 60 290, 240 00 4,791, 580 00 tons. Hemp Cotton Wool... Raw silk, cocoons, and waste, .tons. ...do.. ..do.. 1.81 334.50 Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Ionian Italy, Turkey, Ionian Islands, France, Aus Italy, Austria, Russia, Turkey, Ionian Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Great Britain, Ans- East Indies, Great Britain, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Italy, United States, Egypt, Turkey, Great Great Britain, Austria. East Indies, Egypt, Austria. Great Britain, Belgium, France, Austria, Japan, Turkey, Austria. Japan, East Indies, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Austria, Great Britain. Italy, East Indies, Egypt, Turkey, Great Italy, Moldavia, Russia, Turkey, Ionian 204, 730 00 Italy, Great Britain, Austria, Malta, Tur- Italy, Egypt. Italy, Austria. Italy, East Indies, Turkey, Great Britain, Italy, Egypt, Turkey, East Indies, Great Great Britain, Italy, Austria, France, Tur- 6,330 80 138,788 00 788, 250 00 16, 327.40 1, 586, 185 40 141, 622. 10 41, 357.70 5,318.30 do.. 10, 110. 50 .do.. 50, 274. 70 1,512, 774 20 101, 105 00 Italy. 357, 643 80 691, 270 40 261,154 80 19,260 00 Italy, Austria, Turkey, Ionian Islands, Belgium. Italy, Turkey. Italy, Austria, Great Britain. Italy, Austria, France, Great Britain. Italy, Turkey, Greece, Ionian Islands, Austria. Italy, Austria. United States, Austria. Turkey. East Indies, Great Britain, Ionian Islands, Moldavia, Japan, France, Austria, Egypt, Italy, Greece. Statement showing the commerce at Venice, &c.-Continued. Fish, dried and prepared..do.. II.-EXPORTS. Value, includ Quantity. ing costs and 318.290 00 858, 800 00 467, 548 00 1,016, 735 40 2,607, 950 00 511, 568 80 118,826 00 Articles. charges. 741. 20 1,276.00 472.40 6, 718.00 11, 955.00 5, 945. 90 625.40 87,523.80 3,815.50 5,927. 30 Medicines and medicinal preparations, tons. 4, 441, 975 60 Whither. Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Austria. Egypt, Austria, Turkey, Greece. Italy, Egypt, Moldavia, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Austria. Italy, Austria, Russia, Turkey, Great Britain, Ionian Islands, France. Italy, Russia, Great Britain, France, Austria. Austria, Ionian Islands, Italy, Russia, Turkey. Italy, Great Britain, Austria, France, Turkey, Greece. Italy, Turkey, Austria, Ionian Islands. Italy, East Indies, Egypt, Turkey, France, Austria. Italy, Great Britain, Greece, Austria, Ionian Isl'ds, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, E.Indies. Italy, Germany, East Indies, Egypt, Moldavia, Ionian Islands, Arabia. Italy, Austria, Turkey, Great Britain, Ionian Islands, Greece. Italy, Austria, Australia, E. Indies, Egypt, Great Britain, Greece, Ionian Islands. Austria, Turkey, Ionian Islands, East Indies, Egypt, Great Britain. Italy, Russia, Greece, Austria. Austria, Turkey, Greece, Great Britain, Denmark, Egypt, East Indies, Ionian Islands, Russia, Italy. Greece, Austria. Italy, Austria. Italy, Russia, Turkey, Austria, Moldavia, Ionian Islands, Malta, East Indies, Japan. Italy. Italy, Turkey, Austria, Egypt. Italy, Austria, Turkey, Great Britain, Ionian Islands, Malta. Italy, Turkey, Austria. Italy, Austria. Italy, Turkey, Australia, E. Indies. Austria, Ionian Islands, Greece, Egypt, Russia. Austria, Italy, East Indies, Turkey, Greece, Russia, Egypt. Italy, Turkey, Greece, Austria, Arabia, E. Indies, Ionian Islands.Egypt Russia, Moldavia, Japan, Australia, United States. Italy. Italy, Austria, Holland, Great Britain, Malta, East Indies, Ionian Islands, Egypt, Japan, Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, United States. Italy, Austria, Egypt, Turkey, Ionian Islands, Greece, Russia. Austria, Italy, Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, East Indies, United States. III.-Statememt showing the navigation at the port of Venice for the year ending December 31, 1876. Turkish Russian 4.-Statement showing the imports from the United States into Venice for the year 1876. 5.-Statement showing the value of declared exports from the consular district of Venice to the United States during the year ending December 31, 1876. JAPAN. KANAGAWA, November 19, 1877. (Received January 10, 1878.) A report upon the trade and commerce of Japan for the year ending June 30, 1877. The reports herewith transmitted are all for the year ending June 30, 1877, and cover the entire foreign trade and commerce of the empire for that period. Japan having adopted the same fiscal year as the United States, and as the inspector-general of customs now issues monthly, semiannual, and annual returns, the labor of preparing consular reports is somewhat lessened, while greater accuracy is assured. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Tables Nos. 1 and 2 show the value of the imports and exports into and from the open ports and to and from various foreign countries. These tables disclose the fact that the value of imports has fallen below that of the previous year by $264,000, while the value of exports has exceeded that of 1875-76 by $9,420,000. This remarkable increase in the value of the exports has had the effect of turning, I think for the first time, the balance of trade in favor of Japan. This balance amounts to over $2,000,000; whereas in the year previous it was $7,665,000 against Japan, a difference between the two years of over $9,000,000. This state of affairs is, unfortunately for Japan, exceptional, and will not probably occur again for some time. It may be traced directly to the extraordinary exportation of unmanufactured silk during the year and the exorbitant prices realized therefor by the native dealers. For the year 1875-'76 there was exported from Japan of this staple 2,286,937 pounds; value, $5,388,983; and for 1876-77, 4,024,675 pounds; value, $15,425,001, or $10,000,000 more than the year previous. The failure of the silk crops of France and Italy last year, and the panic that followed in the leading silk markets of Europe, were the causes of the excessive exportation. TREASURE. The change of the balance of trade in favor of Japan has had the effect, as shown in tables Nos. 3 and 4, of securing to her an excess of treasure imported over that exported in the sum of $582,000, against an excess of exports over imports in the previous year of $10,889,000. So far as the United States are concerned, table No. 4 is in pleasing contrast with similar reports of previous years, showing, as it does, that we are now paying for our purchases from Japan through our own banks, instead, as before, settling for them by London exchange. Treasure imported from the United States last year amounted to $3,082,953, against $35,862 for the previous year, and the exports amounted respectively to $32,514 and $31,476. PER CENTAGE OF TRADE. England ranks first, with 48 per cent. of the imports, and with HongKong and Singapore 59 per cent. Of the exports, England took 28 per |