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7. March. 1868.

Profits of the Bank of England.


	Rate of dividend for the half year.
Half year ending Sept. 5 1866	61/2
March 6 1867	51/2
Sept. 4 1867	41/2
March 5 1868	4

Board of Trade Returns.


	1865	1866	1867
Imports year ended 31. Dec. Computed Value of Articles enumerated:	£219,393,987	238,773,192	220,862,585
Exports ditto. Declared Value. British und Irish Produce und Manufacture	165,835,725	188,917,536	181,183,971

Import Trade
	Month ended December 31
	1865	1866	1867
Totals enumerated	£38,930,967	27,174,309	23,977,798
	Year ended December 31.
Totals enumerated	£219,393,987	238,773,192	220,862,585
Deduct wheat	£9,775,616	12,983,090	24,985,096
	£209,618,371	225,790,102	195,877,489
Deduct raw cotton	66,032,193	77,521,406	51,997,766
	£143,586,178	148,268,696	143,879,723

Raw Cotton Imported
Quantities cwts:	1865:	8,731,949	1866:	cwts 12,295,803	1867:	cwts: 11,272,651
Computed value:	1865:	£66,032,193	1866:	£77,521,406	1867:	£:51,997,766


	A) Exports January	B) Imports.	B) Imports December
January 1866	£14,354,748	December 1865	£38,930,067
1867	12,768,842	1866	27,174,309
1868	12,252,688	1867	23,977,798.

Railway Finance (Inserted)

If placed to capital The Money Market Review: reckless expenditure
Schließen (irrationelle Ausgaben), there will be a perpetual reduction of future dividends of shareholders (common stock); if charged to revenue, that course would be ruinous to his present income. Kommentar von Marx.
Schließen (Aber die Gegenwart ihm die Hauptsache)|

Import of Cotton in 1867.


U. States:	cwt 4,715,733	First year since 1861 in which cotton Import from U. St. > import from British India.
British India:	4,449,259
Ejypt	1,127,541
Brazil	628,761
Turkey	57,024
Bahamas und Bermuda	10,623
China	4,707
Mexico	22 cwts
Other Countries	278,981
Total	cwt 11,272,651.

Quantity Exported from U. Kingd. in 1867 cwts 3,130,593, leaving 8,142,058 cwt, excess of imports over exports, quantity 4 times exceeded, in 1859, 1860, 1861 und 1866.

Fires and Incendiarism. Economist. 11 January. 1868.

The evidence given before the Select Committee on Fire Protection startling. After carefully weighing the evidence presented to it, the committee reports that apparently 1/3 of the fires which occur in England are intentional. … There is such a competition for business among the various offices, that it is better worth their while to pay fraudulent claims than to alienate new insurers. „The sympathy of the jury, and of the Court, is always against the office“, says the Imperial Fire Assurance Office. – Insurance office which prosecute are supposed to do so with an eye to personal advantage – and that the verdict of guilty for which they strive, is in reality a verdict for the amount of the policy. … The assessor to the County Fire Office gives as a list of the classes with whom fires are most frequent: „small shopkeepers on the verge of bankruptcy; foreigners principally of the Hebrew Persuasion, Germans or Poles; the stock of these persons consists principally of dummies or imitation goods made of plaster of Paris; cheesemongers and chandler-shop keepers have half-tubs of butter, sides of bacon, bladders of lard, cheeses; grocers have loaves of sugar, chests of tea, and reams of paper; tobacconists have cigars in bundles; tailors and linendrapers, rolls of cloth made of straw, and parcels filled with sawdust; publicans, wine merchants, and perfumers, the contents of bottles are coloured water.“

The insurance offices remark that whenever one branch of trade is depressed, fires are sure to happen among their votaries.