of Swedish iron is also imported; it is brought in bars, wide and nar

row.

There is no great consumption of linen manufactured goods in this country, cotton and woolen goods being in general use. The little that is imported is furnished by the United Kingdom.

A considerable quantity of raw silk is introduced into Morocco for the manufacture of scarfs, sashes, &c. It is brought from Syria via Marseilles. Almost the whole of the silk manufactures imported into Morocco are French; the Moors purchase largely brocades, or silk and gold thread stuffs, which are much worn by the women and children of the better classes.

Spices are in fair demand-pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmegs. These are brought both from England and from France.

The bulk of the sugar used in Morocco is French, both loaf and crushed; that in chief demand is the small loaf of 6 pounds weight. Brown sugar is imported principally from Great Britain in bags of 2 ewt. Formerly both Great Britain and Holland exported loaf-sugar to Morocco, but owing to the greater cheapness of French sugar, now very little other is used. Tea is imported almost exclusively from England. The Moors are great consumers of green tea; the quality used by them is chiefly Hyson, costing from 37 cents to 87 cents the pound. Black teas are in no demand.

The custom house receipts during the year 1876 at the ports of Morocco were as follows:

The grain harvest of 1876 was exceedingly abundant, surpassing even that of 1875. The grain harvest of the present year is not likely to be more than middling.

The crop of beans is estimated at probably not more than one-half of that of 1876; some injury was done to the crops by the locusts, which committed great havoc in the southern parts of the country, but the abundant rains that followed partly repaired the damage.

The olive crop of 1876 was very deficient, and it is not likely that there will be any yield of oil to speak of this year.

FELIX A. MATHEWS.

A.-Statement showing the value of the principal imports into Morocco during the year 1876.

B.—Statement showing the value of the principal exports from Morocco during the year 1876.

Statement showing the trade and navigation of Morocco by ports.

Statemene showing the trade and navigation of Morocoo by ports-Continued.

CLEARED.

Crews.

Vessels.

Tons.

Tons.

Statement showing the tonnage and value of cargoes, by flags, at all the ports of Morocco during the year 1876.

Crews.

NETHERLANDS.

AMSTERDAM.

NOVEMBER 28, 1877. (Received December 21.)

A report upon the finances and commerce of Holland, for the year ending September 30, 1877.

Considering the almost universal business depression of the recent past, and when compared with the business depression of neighboring countries, Holland has no reason to complain of the year ending September 30, 1877. Her commerce, compared with that of the twelve months preceding, must be termed satisfactory. Her industry flourished, the harvests promise fair, and internal developments marched at a steady pace. No strikes, no general closing of factories, no alarming failures, and no social disturbances.

Improvements in the various branches of the body politic have been terminated and projected, and her chef-d'œuvre, the great canal to the North Sea, has been sufficiently completed to be formally thrown open to the world's trade.

THE ATCHEEN WAR AND A NEW LOAN.

However, the Dutch, like the rest of mankind, also have had and have their griefs. The yet unfinished Atcheen war again has cost its millions; the East Indian colonies, although having kept alive commerce and having furnished an outlet for industrial products and surplus labor, have failed to pour out their treasures upon the mother country as in days of yore, and the minister of finance, in presenting the budget for 1878 at the recent opening of the states-general, created a profound impression upon the nation by the announcement that, to meet prospec tive deficits of about 31,000,000 guilders, a loan in 1878, or shortly thereafter, and an immediate issue of 7,400,000 florins treasury notes for pressing government wants would become imperative. Although the announcement of deficits did not at all come unexpectedly, the im pression by it produced was profound for the reason that for decades the public ear had not been accustomed to the sound of "loan." On the contrary, in the course of the past twenty-three years, the national debt interest of formerly 35,000,000 florins had been reduced to 25,000,000 florins, notwithstanding the expenditure of hundreds of millions upon public works and upon the abolition of slavery in the West Indies.