A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation . 1,600 Sundries ... *9 Total value of import cargoes Or, at 12 florins per £ - - £72,373 10 O * The imports of copper, in 1828, amounted to 11,631 piculs, worth88,635 florins. Products 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 Camphor ,Topper wares -Basket work . - -Other articles - Total - {fl°£ florins 115,100 295,972 10,357 15,009 florins13,100205,51227,05919,074 florins11,750 323,97926,18919,193 381,11131,759 florins17,380 187,7034,79440,097 florins 13,960 203,015 4,826 26,809 450,19855,875 265,54521,945 249,9712
A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation . 1,600 Sundries ... *9 Total value of import cargoes Or, at 12 florins per £ - - £72,373 10 O * The imports of copper, in 1828, amounted to 11,631 piculs, worth88,635 florins. Products 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 Camphor ,Topper wares -Basket work . - -Other articles - Total - {fl°£ florins 115,100 295,972 10,357 15,009 florins13,100205,51227,05919,074 florins11,750 323,97926,18919,193 381,11131,759 florins17,380 187,7034,79440,097 florins 13,960 203,015 4,826 26,809 450,19855,875 265,54521,945 249,97120,831 247,61020,634 Opening of the Trade.—But after the trade toChina had been thrown open, and the late eventsin that empire had brought English, French, andAmerican squadrons to the gates, as it were, ofJapan, it was not to be expected that its rulers would be able much longer to maintain their jea-lous, anti-social policy. The occurrences in Chinamade them aware of the power, and in semedegree, also, of the policy of those with whomthey had now to deal. In 1853, when the Amcri-. NAGASAKIHARBOUR LithogT ?>nJon. l^nqmiirtj & Co. NAGASAKI 9J1 can squadron under Commodore Perry appearedin their waters, they were fain to allow them to takein water and other stores ; and in the followingyear, when they revisited their shores, they con-cluded a treaty with them (called, from the placewhere it was signed, the treaty of Kanagawa), inthe 7th Art. of which it is stipulated that citizensof the United States resorting to the ports of Japanopened to them by the treaty, and bringing withthem gold and silver coins and goods, were to bepermitted to exchange them for other goods undersuch regulations as the Japanese Governmentmight think fit to establish. Soon after thistreaty had been negotiated, Sir James Stirling,who then commanded the English naval forces inthese parts, entered into a similar, though lessliberal, arrangement with the Government ofJapan. The concessions t
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