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thus, a carpenter receives daily from fl 1. sL 3> 

 to C 1, St. t5; a joiaef, from fl* 1. fit. !5, to fi, 2, 

 a dyer, from 20 stivers to 1 Horio ; a smith, from 

 fl, St. 3, to fl, 2, and such other hand it rafts, 

 as are to be met with here, are paid in proportion. 



The trade of Rhio is principally international, 

 and cannot boast of any considerable exports ex- 

 cept to the different Dutch settlements, bnt, even 

 this declined very seriously in 1826 for which two 

 very adequate causes existed, viz. the disturban- 

 ces then prevailing in the interior of Java, by 

 which portion of the Netherlands government the 

 greatest proportion of its gambier was consumed, 

 and secondly, the oppressive tax on the importa- 

 tion of that article to Java. 



U doeu not, however, appear likely that Rhio 

 will ever rise into any importance as a commer- 

 cial settlemeat, so long as the Deighboring Bri- 

 tish settlement of Singapore exists. Imports to 

 any extent can never take place until she pos- 

 sesses merchants, and, an this class of men can- 

 not establisli themselves, from the absence of the 

 articles, raofit sought after by the buyers in ex- 

 change, such as» cotton goods, iron, opium, kc^ 

 h is evident thai the very first principles of trade, 

 viz. the reciprocity of exports and imports, is 

 here wanting. 



Singapore, on the other hand, from the 

 vast possessions of the British in the East, has 

 goods from all quarters of the globe pourins^ into 

 her lap ] and, not content with the produce of the 

 British possessions, by the bonus held out to 

 foreign bottoms, in the shape of reduced daties^, 

 tlecovfi, as ii were, the vessels of the very Butch 



