1855.

1860.

1859.

1858.

1857.

1856.

1854.

1853.

V. Comparative statement of the total importation in Lubeck in the years 1859 and 1860.

Value of imports 4.75 per cent. greater in 1860 than in 1859, or currency marks 3,046,148.

Included in the foregoing table there was in coin and precious metals

At last, my report is finished. In my despatch No. 36 I explained the reason of my delay in sending it on. It is much more comprehensive than annual consular reports usually are. I hope it will be considered very complete and intelligible. One thing you may rely upon: its correctness, having been prepared with great pains and drawn from high official sources. The statistics contained herein are embodied for the most part in the form of tabular statements. The tables are twenty-three in number, and relate to the commerce, navigation, and emigration of Hamburg. In collecting the facts and figures on the subject of the commerce of Hamburg, I have been compelled to confine myself to the imports of the state, as will be seen by the accompanying correspondence between the minister of foreign affairs and myself.

The table containing "the whole importation of Hamburg" for the years 1859-'60 will, I think, be found interesting and useful.

The imports are divided into "articles of consumption, raw materials and half manufactured goods," "manufactured goods," "articles of art and industry," and "specie and other fine metals," (and the next table of imports from the United States shows the different articles that are included under each of these heads;) and the table shows the places from which the imports have been sent and their aggregate value, and the value of each description of imports according to these divisions which each country has produced, and what proportion the importation from each country bears to the whole, &c., &c. I do not think I could have made this table clearer. It is certainly clearer than this explanation, and shows the imports of Hamburg for the year 1859 to amount to the astonishingly large sum of 571,180,850 mares banco, (a marc banco is worth 37 cents,) and for the year 1860 to amount to 609,905,710 marcs banco.

The table containing "all the imports from the United States" for the years 1859-'60 is of interest and value, as it gives the name, quantity, and value of

every article shipped hither during that time, enabling every American to determine for himself what articles are in demand here, and what ones he could profitably export.

It is, however, very certain that this table does not represent fully the extent of the trade between the United States and Hamburg, as heavy importations reach this city by circuitous routes, the credit of which is given to other coun

tries.

The tabular statements for the years 1859-'60 concerning the following staples of the United States, to wit, tobacco, rice, rhubarb, turpentine, spirits of turpentine, copper, cotton, rosin, pepper and pimento, leather, whalebone, hops, dry hides, salted hides, potash, &c., are prepared for the purposes of showing what other nations are in competition with us in this market in the sale of the same articles, the quantity of each of these articles they export to this place respectively, the sum they respectively realize for each of the same, and the aggregate value and quantity from all sources of each of these staples.

The table on "home and foreign navigation" is very full, and exhibits the arrivals and departures of all sea-going vessels for the years 1859-'60. It not only exhibits the whole number of vessels arriving and departing, and the seamen and the tonnage thereof, but the number of the vessels, the seamen, and the tonnage of the different nations respectively, as well as the force employed by each nationality aboard the ships according to tonnage. Thus our vessels average one seaman for every sixteen lasts, (or 48 tons;) England one for every eight and a fraction; France for every seven, &c., &c. Our mariners need give no better proof of their industry, economy, and seamanship than this. During 1859 there arrived at this port 4,554 sea-going vessels, representing the colors of twenty-five nations, and in 1860 no less than 5,029, belonging to twenty-six nationalities, and during these periods no country's vessels approached ours in the smallness of their crews, according to their tonnage.

It will be seen, among other facts, by glancing at the table of the total number of ships that arrived at Hamburg during the years 1859-'60, including all the arrivals from the rivers and seas, 58,819 vessels arrived in the former year, and 59,962 in the latter. The table of the "arrivals of vessels from the United States direct, and the departure of vessels for the United States direct," is interesting, in that it shows the amount of business carried on between the two countries by direct communication, and by what nation it is done, and the number of ships and seamen employed.

The table containing the "vessels of the United States, where they arrived from, and where they sailed to," is not very extensive, and yet it gives the reader an idea of the enterprise of our mariners and the scope of our trade. During 1859 and 1860 only forty-two of our vessels arrived at this port for both years, as will be seen, and from widely different points, being less than the number of arrivals up to this date for the current year. The table respecting "emigration" for the years 1853-'54–’55–’56-'57-'58-'59-'60 and '61 sets forth the aggregate number of emigrant ships and passengers that left this port annually during these years, the direct, as well as the indirect, emigration to other lands, and specifies the countries into which the direct annual emigration poured, and other items connected therewith. I have nothing further to add, as my despatches already received by you touch upon those points that it would be proper for me to discuss in this report.