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Foreign Trade of Great Britain and Ireland for four Years. TABLE I.-IMPORTS AND CONSUMPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MERCHANDISE. (Years end December 31.)

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Pig iron

..cwt.
.lbs.

747,579 144,903,360

709,818 166,093,760

683,616

166,965,120 44,604,000

741,771 153,357,120

Iron and steel wrought or manufactured.lbs. 24,209,100 24,762,600 63,437,200
TABLE II.-IMPORTS.-VALUES OF THE LEADING CLASSES OF ARTICLES, AND COUNTRIES
FROM WHICH IMPORTED.

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TABLE III.-EXPORTS.-QUANTITIES OF THE LEADING ARTICLES OF BRITISH AND IRISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURE, AND COUNTRIES TO WHICH SENT.

Coal (France,Germany,Denmark, Russia) tons
Cotton piece goods (whole world). .yds.
Cotton yarn..

.lbs.
Linen piece goods (U. States, Germany) yds.
Linen yarn Spain, Germany)
.lbs.
Pig and puddled iron (U.S.Holland, Ger.) lbs.
Bar iron (N. America).
..lbs.
Railroad iron (U. States, Russia, India)..lbs.
Tin and tin plates (United States).. ..lbs.
Woolen dress goods (whole world) .....yds.
Woolen yarn (Holland Germany)..
Worsted stuffs, &c. (U. States, Germany) yds.

.lbs.

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224,367,464 250,225,983

239,509,200

32,404,719

35,548,448

35,536,848

43,726,67!

235,936,604 307,668,058

TABLE IV.-EXPORTS.-VALUES OF THE LEADING CLASSES OF ARTICLES.

Total value of exports of merchandise
Beer and ale (U.State and Brit. Possessions)
Coal, cinders and culm..

£179,677,812 £190,045,230 £199,586,822 £219,319,071 1,895,724 1,881,673 1,870,977

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5,069,574

5,638,371

6,267,047

52,971,873

53,001,551

56,745,210

57,635,570

14,714,899

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Linen manufactures, exclusive of yarn...

7,113,873

6,798,373

7,248,545

7,521,561

Linen yarn..

2,398,494

2,328,778

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Iron and unwrought steel..

15,036,398

19,519,201

21,675,2:8

23,248,526

Woolen and worsted manuf., exclu of yarn.

19,536,073

22,625,190

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Woolen and worsted yarn.

6,364,011

5,857,905

4,994,249

6,101,777

Tin and tin plates....

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2,996,202

3,663,309

(a) These quantities represent the home consumption only. (b) Value of total import, of which about 5-6 is re.exported. (c) Value of total import, of which from 1-5 to 1-6 is re-exported to Holland, Germany, Belgium Russia, and other countries. (d) About 1-4 re-exported. (e) About 2-5 re-exported. The re-exports of the other commodities are less important."

Statistics of the Cotton Manufactures of the United States, 1870.

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Total United States... 956 $40,706,291 398,308,257 $117,737,686 7,134,415 r57.310 $39,044,132 $177,489,739 Statistics of the Woolen Manufactures of the United States, 1870.

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Total U.S..... 2891 $98824,531 154767,075 17311,824 $96432,601 1845,496 14,939 20,144 $26877,575

NOTE. The statistics of the Cotton and Woolen Manufactures of the United States for 1860 £31 1850 are valueless for comparison.

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BIOGRAPHY

OF

HORACE GREELEY.

maternal grandfather resided. He was early distinguished for his recitations and for the skill which he displayed in the spelling exercises. He was a gentle and timorous child, but it was observed that ghost stories never frightened him.

In his seventh year even the limited success which had attended his father's farming ceased, and ruin could be no longer postponed by unflinching hard work. When the child was ten the ruin was consummated, and his father was an exile and fugitive from his native State. He began the hard business of life again in the town of Westhaven, Rutland Co., Vt., where he was employed by a country gentleman of large estate. In 1826, young Greeley entered the office of The Northern Spectator, at East Poultney, Vt., as an apprentice to the art of printing. He was now at the college of which he was destined to be one of the most distinguished graduates. It need not be said that he went on acquiring, for it was nature with him to acquire. He had a plenty of newspapers to pore over, and a tolerable store of books. He joined the village Lyceum, which was also a Debating Society, of which he was "the real giant." His parents were away upon a new farm in Pennsylvania, but twice he visited them, walking a great part of the distance of 600 miles, and ac

HORACE GREELEY, the founder of the NEW YORK TRIBUNE, was born at Amherst, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire, on the 8d of February, 1811. He was the son of Zaccheus and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley, and his father was a plain, hardworking farmer, struggling to pay for land which he had bought at a high price, and Mr. Greeley's earliest years were passed in such farm labor as a mere boy was equal toin riding horse to plow, in picking stones, and in watching the charcoal pits. He himself states in his "Recollections" that he was "a feeble, sickly child, often under medical treatment, and unable to watch, through a closed window, the falling of rain, without incurring an instant and violent attack of illness." His mother had lost her two former children just before his own birth, which led her to regard him with more than common tenderness and anxiety. From the first he manifested signs of extraordinary intelligence. These his mother, who was a woman of uncommon intelligence and information, marked with affectionate interest. She was a great reader, and she naturally impart-complishing the rest on a slow canal boat. At ed to her child the same love of books which she herself entertained. Mr. Greeley says that the stories which she told him awakened in him "a thirst for knowledge and a lively interest in reading and writing." He could read before he could talk-that is before he could pronounce the longer words. When he was but two years old the Bible was his favorite book. The newspaper, which was given to him as a plaything, be examined with curiosity; inquiring first about the pictures, then the capital letters, then the smaller ones. At three years of age, he read correctly any book prepared for children, and at four any book whatever. He himself draws a pretty picture of his learning to read at his mother's knee. "I can," he says, "faintly recollect her sitting at her little wheel with her book in her lap whence I was taking my daily lessons; and thus I soon acquired the facility of reading from a book sidewise or upside down as readily as in the usual fashion-a knack which I did not suppose at first peculiar, but which, being at length observed, became a subject of neighborhood wonder and fabulous exaggeration." It has been stated that so soon as he could form any resolution, he determined to be a printer. In his third winter he attended the district school of Londonderry, where his

this early period he was already a teetotaler, and though the apprentice boarded at a tavern where the drinking was constant, he continued a rigorous abstinent. His fund of information was such that he came to be regarded as a sort of walking encyclopedia, and to him the disputes of the villagers were referred. As a printer he was reckoned the best workman in the office. But the newspaper made no money, and when Horace was in his 20th year its publication was discontinued. He immediately looked out for work elsewhere, after he had written his parents in Pennsylvania, and he obtained employment as a journeyman in Jamestown and Lodi in New York, and Erie, Pa.

He

It was in August, 1881, that he came to the city of New York, poor in everything except good principles and indomitable energy. found employment first as a compositor, after much difficulty. Subsequently in copartnership with a Mr. Story he started the Morning Post, the first penny daily ever printed in the world, and which soon glided into bankruptcy. The printing office continued, obtaining some job work, and the concern was becoming comparatively prosperous when Story was drowned. Mr. Winchester came in, and The New Yorker was started. This was a

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