NAVIGATION. Statement showing the navigation at the port of Smyrna for the year ending December 31, 1880. Report, by Consul Williams, on the trade and navigation at Aden, for the fiscal year 1881. UNITED STATES CONSULATE, Aden, October 17, 1881. I have the honor to submit the returns of trade and navigation at the port of Aden for the year ending March 31, 1881, as official returns are are made to this date by trade registration department here. During this time the crops of grains and coffee have proved a failure both in Arabia and Africa owing to want of rain, and from this cause the decrease in value of imports of coffee amounts to $604,500 while the increase in value of grains imported is $559,619. The large decrease in exports to the United States, $463,859, for the same time is owing to the small supply of coffee and consequent high prices. JAMES S. WILLIAMS, Consul. Statement showing the imports at Aden for the year ending March 31, 1881. The above table shows the principal articles imported by sea. Total sea imports, $7,712,563; total land imports, $771,886-$8,484,449. Coffee: Statement showing the exports from Aden for the year ending March 31, 1881. Articles. Quantity. Value. Whither exported. Statement showing the exports from Aden, &c.—Continued. The above are the principal articles exported by sea and valued at $6,058,453; exports by land, $433,453; total, $6,491,906. Statement showing the imports and exports between Aden and the United States for the year ended March 31, 1881. Increase in value of imports $58,701 over year ended March 31, 1880. The large decrease in exports is owing to the failure of the coffee crop the past two seasons, Some 200,000 yards of American manufactured domestics have been received from the United Kingdom. Much produce intended for United States is sent from here to London and appears in returns with the United Kingdom. Statement showing the navigation at the port of Aden for the year ending March 31, 1881. Report by Consul-General Mattson for the fiscal year 1881. UNITED STATES CONSULATE-GENERAL, Calcutta, January 18, 1882. In pursuance of paragraph 556 Consular Regulations, I have the honor to submit the following report upon the trade and industry of British India for the official year (of India) ending March 31, 1881. AGRICULTURE. The natives of India may properly be termed "the children of the soil," and they are almost entirely dependent on its products; but for all that, the agricultural interest is in very poor condition, and but little, if any, improved since a thousand years ago, except in the area of cultivation, but the soil is rich and the climate favorable, so that when neither droughts nor inundations destroy the crops, rich harvests are gathered in return for very inferior husbandry and labor. The last official year |