Official notices and returns on savings banks 1864
A four weeks ending 5 November 1864 return shows amounts received from and paid to Savings Banks and Post-Office Savings Banks in the United Kingdom. The totals include 143 million pounds and 0 shillings 10 pence, with the last monthly account recording 43 million pounds 3 shillings 10 pence. A Y Spearman and C J Barr sign at the National Debt Office dated November 7, 1864.
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Post-Office Savings
Post-Office
United Kingdom
A. Y. Spearman
C. J. Barr
National Debt Office
Post-office Savings’ Banks
Reneral
Imported Goods In The Customs Bonded Warehouses 1864 Update
The annexed account from Travers and Sons shows stock levels of key imported goods remaining in UK customs bonded warehouses on Sept 30 1864, compared with Sept 30 1862 and 1863. Most items rose versus 1863 and 1862, with eight of thirteen increasing and noted percentages for coffee raisins pepper brandy sugar tea tobacco and wine, while cocoa currants rum sugar and molasses declined. Overall September saw further accumulation except for pepper tea and wine.
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United Kingdom
Messrs. Travers and Sons
French Customs Returns Show Export Rise Over Four Years
Director-General of Customs reports France's exports in the first nine months reached 2 214 694 000f, up from 1 876 427 000f in 1863 and 1 616 443 000f in 1862, an increase of 800 000 000f in four years. Imports rose 16 000 000f year over year, with precious metals up but exports exceeding them. Imports grew in foreign sugar, coffee, cocoa, and cotton.
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France
Frances Trade Trends Show Cotton Shifts And Growing Exports
Import declines include bar iron, wool, raw silk, and colonial sugar as France sees 52.0 million kilograms of cotton imported this year with England supplying 20.0 million, Egypt 10.25 million, the East Indies 8.0 million, and the United States 0.212 million. Exports rise in wrought silk, wool cloth, cotton cloth, wine, and brandy, while a canal project at Siagne to irrigate 3,750 acres and supply Cannes water is approved by the Public Works ministry.
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France
England
Egypt
East Indies
Turkey
United States
Gironde
Siagne
Var
Alpes Maritimes
Cannes
Belgian National Debt and Wool Trade Insights
The article details Belgium's debt at 639 million francs with 31.25 million interest and 3.25 million sinking fund, plus a view that internal improvements sustain growth. It also reports on wool imports and values, post patterns, coal consumption in France, Tasmania trade data, and a Royalist dissolution rumor.
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Belgium
Leopold
Eoen
Antwerp
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Bradford
Zolverein
Great Britain
Tasmania
Lord Palmerston
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