APPENDIX. No. I. NICARAGUA. THE following has been extracted from a report made by our vice-consul, Mr. Foster, in 1837. The import trade of this state (Nicaragua) and the country in general, has not suffered so much as might have been expected from the very severe visitation of cholera during this year. The prices of foreign manufactures have now found their level in these markets, and the consumption of those articles used by the poorer classes have increased in a wonderful degree both in quantity and quality, and this demand for foreign manufactures (of which "British cottons" of inferior quality bear a prominent part) will naturally go on at an increased ratio. The foreign imports may be classed under the following heads. British; consist of calicoes, printed cottons, domestic or grey and power-loom shirtings, linen, and cotton mixed, or unions; linens, muslins, hosiery; hard earthenware, iron, steel, lead, powder, &c. French; consist of silks, printed cottons, cambrics, wine, spirits, jewellery, and fancy articles. United States; consist of domestic cottons, soap, sperm candles, hardware, spirits of inferior quality, powder, &c. Spanish; paper, silk, ribbon, wine, oil, spirits, &c. Germany: osnaburgs, glassware, wax, furniture, hardware, steel, wine, &c. Italy; paper, oil, silk, liqueurs. Colombia'; cocoa, and straw hats. Peru; jerga, (a coarse woollen cloth,) tin, spirits, and common sweet wine. Chili; of sweet wine, pellones, &c. The value of British goods imported may be taken at two-thirds of the whole of the imports. The consumption of French goods, being principally articles of luxury, are chiefly confined to the cities of Guatemala, San Salvador, Granada, &c. German linens, shirtings, and glassware are articles of general consumption. In Spanish goods, with the exception of ribbons, the imports are trivial; they have given way to those of France and Italy. The sickness of this year has had considerable influence on the exports. Cochineal and indigo form the principal; great quantities, particularly of the former, are shipped from the ports on the northern side of Honduras. From the ports of the Pacific fifteen hundred serons have been exported during the year to Europe, and the ports of Peru and Chili. (In the interior of both these countries a great quantity of indigo is con |