236 COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



LEITH. 



REPORT BY CONSUL WALLING, OF EDINBURGH. 

 QUANTITY AND KINDS IMPORTED. 



The customs authorities at Leith, in answer to my inquiries on this 

 subject, inform me that no record is kept of either the quantity or kind 

 of cotton textiles imported into Leith. The value only is recorded. In 

 the " bill of entry " supplied to the custom -house from each vessel arriv- 

 ing the item frequently occurs expressed thus : u Cotton manufactures, 

 unenumerated," and only the number of " cases" or "packages "of 

 these and their total value are given." Such imports are almost always 

 consigned " to order," and the consignee in the course of his sales may 

 distribute the consignment to many merchants or dealers. 



From the " annual statement of the trade of the United Kingdom for 

 the year 1888, compiled in the custom-house at London from documents 

 collected by that department," I learn that the total value of cotton 

 manufactures imported to Leith in 1888 was 26,137. Neither the quan- 

 tity nor kind of such manufactures is stated. From the same source I 

 find that the total value of cotton manufactures imported in same year 

 to Graugemouth, a port in this district on the Firth of Forth, a few miles 

 west from Leith, was 8,565. 



The questions of the weight per yard, how purchased, the place of 

 manufacture, and whence imported can not be ascertained. 



There are no customs duties charged at Leith on imports of cotton 

 textiles. 



WlLLOUGHBY WALLING, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Edinburgh, August 9, 1889. 



GIBRALTAR. i 



REPORT BT CONSUL SPJtAGUE. 



I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your circular, under 

 date of the 27th ultimo, on the subject of the importation of cotton 

 textiles in this district, and beg to state in reply that it is quite impos- 

 sible to obtain here any reliable information as to the quantity and de- 

 scription of the cotton textiles imported yearly in this market, there 

 being no custom-house or any other Government department established 

 in Gibraltar, where any statistics are kept on the subject for affording 

 the required information. 



