State of Commerce in the year 1833, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Condensed and brought into Form from Various Documents.

There arrived 1704 national vessels, and departed 1629; and arrived 696 foreign vessels, and departed 617.

The exports consisted of the following articles, viz.:—

Valuation.
Coffee, 577,764 bags and barrels10,494,576000
Sugar, 15,000 boxes, 11,204 barrels, and 7,217 bags1,459,513500
Hides, 187,530754,048880
Horns, 380,24248,922340
Rice, 14,248 bags80,276000
Rum, 3,492 pipes192,928000
Tobacco, 15,919 rolls158,584500
Ipecacuanha, 458 barrels and bundles59,880000
Tapioca, 937 barrels and bags3,002000
Cotton, 196 bales1,488000
Timber, 1,633 dozens40,860000
Tanned half hides, 5,21020,987000
Gold, diamonds, &c.2,400,000000
Valued at15,715,060820
Mil Reis.Rs.
The imports were valued at16,560,372752
The revenue amounted to the sum of4,847,952550

There were imported 184,000 barrels of flour, including 13,000 barrels on hand, on the first of January; and there were exported 48,500; and there were on hand, the first of January, 1834, 35,000, which gave 100,500 barrels consumed—164,185 barrels were imported from the United States, and 6,815 barrels from Europe and elsewhere.

The number of foreign vessels despatched during the year, were 565, measuring 149,746 tons, of which,

208were English,measuring53,985tons.
167 „ American „50,410 „
7 „ Austrian „1,771 „
5 „ Belgian „1,149 „
16 „ Danish „4,688 „
26 „ French „7,252 „
6 „ Spanish „1,059 „
3 „ Dutch „1,225 „
13 „ Hamburgh „3,919 „
6 „ Montevideo „1,054 „
4 „ Neapolitan „815 „
40 „ Portuguese „7,327 „
26 „ Sardinian „5,661 „
21 „ Swedish „5,496 „
2 „ Tuscan „382 „
2 „ Russian „1,366 „
3 „ Bremen „904 „
1 „ Roman „158 „
9 „ Argentine „1,116 „

There were shipped, by American vessels to the United States, 236,708 bags of coffee, and to Europe, 67,043 bags; making 303,751 bags, &c., which is upward of one half of the whole quantity exported.

Production of coffee throughout the world, in 1833:—

Pounds.
Brazil92,432,240
Java40,000,000
Rest of India and Arabia30,000,000
Cuba50,000,000
Porto Rico15,000,000
St. Domingo40,000,000
British West Indies20,000,000
French „15,000,000
Dutch „10,000,000
Spanish „10,000,000
Total pounds322,432,240

Consumption of coffee in 1833, copied from an Antwerp newspaper:—

Pounds.
Low Countries90,000,000
Germany and the Baltic70,000,000
Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean65,000,000
England and Ireland25,000,000
France24,000,000
United States80,000,000
354,000,000
Pounds.
In 1830, Brazil produced 391,785 bags62,685,600
„ 1831, „ „ 430,672 „ 68,907,530
„ 1832, „ „ 513,296 „ 82,127,360
„ 1833, „ „ 577,764 „ 92,432,240

Being an increase of nearly fifty per cent., from 1830 to 1833.

Coffee consumed in the world:—

Tons.
The consumption in Great Britain,is about10,000
„ „ France„20,000
„ „ Netherlands„40,000
„ „ Spain and Portugal„10,000
„ „ Germany and the Baltic„32,000
„ „ United States„15,000
127,000

This quantity is produced as follows:—

British West India Islands13,390
Java20,000
Cuba15,000
St. Domingo16,000
Dutch West India Colonies5,000
French ditto and Bourbon8,000
Brazil and S. Main32,000
109,390

Population of Brazil in 1819, continued:—

Whites843,000
Indians259,400
Free casts426,000
Ditto blacks150,500
Black slaves1,728,000
3,406,900
Produce:100,000 cases sugar, of 15 qtt., of 128 pounds each.
150,000 bales of cotton, 12,500,000 pounds.
Between 12 and 13 millions pounds of coffee.

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