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TRINIDAD. 



Thus the only countries to which we sent more than we 

 received are the United Kingdom and France. As to our other 

 commercial connections, taken collectively, the foregoing" com- 

 parison shows that we really disburse in their favour, and that 

 in hard cash, a yearly average (more or less) of £630,000. Our 

 trade with the United Kingdom would certainly seem to be the 

 most advantageous, since the colony apparently receives, as 

 annual remittances, the sum of £659,885. But this advantage is 

 only apparent, as proved by a close examination ; for the greater 

 part of that sum remains in Great Britain, either as an income 

 to absentee proprietors, or in payment of the interest and capital 

 money advanced. A return of the total value, in pounds sterling, 

 of the imports and exports of the colony of Trinidad in the year 

 1880, has just been published, which I beg partly to transfer to 

 these pages. 



I have left aside some figures which cause the grand total cop 

 from the return not to agree exactly with the total put down 

 me, the difference between the two not being over £10,000. 



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