| Date of Export. | Tea. | Raw Silk. | |
| Pounds. | Bales. | ||
| Year | 1860-1861 | 87,220,754 | 88,754 |
| " | 1861-1862 | 107,351,649 | 73,322 |
| " | 1862-1863 | 118,692,138 | 83,264 |
Remarks. The Ti-pings captured Soo-chow, the capital of the silk districts (and shortly after the whole of that valuable country), in the month of May, 1860. It will be seen that, instead of injuring the silk trade, at the termination of the next business year season 1860-61, commencing June 1, 1860, and ending 31st May, 1861 they had increased it to 88,754 bales, the greatest number ever exported from China in one year; to 73,322, season 1861-62; and 83,264, season 1862-63; whilst the export of tea, mostly from regions in their possession, was raised from 66,000,000 pounds in 1860, to 119,000,000 in 1863! These figures cover the period of entire occupation of the silk districts by the Ti-pings, and their occupation of the tea districts of Fy-chow, Taeping-hien, and others in the provinces of Ngan-whui, Che-kiang, Kiang-si, and Kiang-su, and extend to the end of May, 1863.
Total Exports since the Ti-pings have been driven from the Silk Districts.
| Date of Export. | Tea. | Raw Silk. | ||
| Pounds. | Bales. | |||
| Year | 1863-1864 | 119,689,238 | 46,863 | |
| " | 1864-1865 | 121,236,870 | 41,128 | |
Remarks. These returns prove, better than any history or argument, who were the devastators of the former Ti-ping territory. While the revolutionists held and governed the valuable silk districts, that article was produced and exported in larger quantities than had ever been known before. After the British had made the producing districts the theatre of the war, and finally succeeded in driving the Ti-pings out, the supply of silk at once fell to half the export during the Ti-ping dominion, and the second year after to still less.