Salt is received as return cargoes from Spain, Portugal, France, and Sicily, and occasionally from Liverpool. Grain comes from Denmark, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden.

Colonial produce is sent from Hamburgh, Altona, Holland, France, Denmark, and Great Britain.

Provisions are imported from Denmark, Russia, Hanover, and Holland; and raw cotton, cotton twist, manufactured goods, glass, serge stuffs, and earthen-ware, are supplied by Hamburgh, Altona, and Great Britain.

The following short abstract from Mr. Crowe's tables of the articles imported into Norway from the several countries, may perhaps be some guide to the extent and nature of the different branches of the Norwegian import trade.

The trade of Denmark with Norway was stripped of its magnitude and importance when the two countries were separated by the Congress of Vienna, and Denmark was consequently deprived of many commercial advantages which she had formerly enjoyed in her relations with Norway. The trade in grain, provisions, and colonial produce, was exclusively in the hands of the Danes; and the merchants of Copenhagen were in fact the bankers of Norway, and as such controlled nearly the whole of her commerce-not only that which related to Denmark, but also the trade with the rest of Europe. The Exchange at Copenhagen was the mart where most of the commercial affairs of Norway were arranged.

The simple interchange of their superfluous produce now forms the trade between the two countries, but it is yet of an extent to be of importance to Denmark.

Instead of inserting in this paper the entire tables of the import trade with the several countries, we shall only abstract the quantities of the most important articles.

The imports from Denmark, in each of the years 1835, 1838, and 1841, appear in the next table.

By this table, it will be seen that the trade of Denmark, in these periods, has, for the most part, suffered a gradual decline. Grain, the demand for which fluctuates, of course, with Norwegian harvests and provisions, forms the most important features of the trade, and appears to be likewise the most prosperous.

According to the most careful official estimate, the imports are valued at rather more than 1,500,000 specie dollars, or £326,000.

In the same ratio as the intercourse with Denmark has declined, has the trade with Sweden increased, and a lively intercourse by sea and land has sprung up.

The quantities of the principal articles imported by sea from Sweden, in each of the years 1835, '38, and '41, are given in the following table :—

No particular results are to be deduced from this statement, and it affords but an imperfect idea of the commercial intercourse that exists between Sweden and Norway, as quantities of manufactured and other goods find their way by land, and of which no returns can be obtained.

The value of the imports that pass through the customs does not exceed 1,000,000 specie dollars, or £217,500.

The trade between Norway and Russia is of a two-fold character: the first, with the Baltic, is simple, and similar to that carried on between Norway and Prussia; the second, with the northern provinces of Norway, the White Sea, and Finmark, is of a more complicated and peculiar character. These places are mutually dependent on each other for the sale of the superfluous produce of the fisheries, and for the most important articles of food. It is also of great political importance to Russia, and peculiar privileges and immunities are granted by that power to that particular trade; and, by virtue of treaties with Sweden and Norway, Russia has secured to herself exclusive immunities, not enjoyed by other nations.

No correct return of the extent of the trade with Russia can be given, as the Russians are not bound to unload at the established ports, like other foreigners. The following figures are taken from a table compiled from official returns of imports, but it may be safely assumed that not one-half of the Russian produce imported appears in these returns :—

As it has been before remarked, these figures are, in all probability, far

from exhibiting the extent of the actual imports from Russia. They are, however, given here as some guide to the nature of the transactions.

The trade between Norway and Prussia is confined to a few articles of mutual necessity. The following were the principal imports in each of the years 1835, '38, and '41 :

A more extensive import trade is carried on by Norway with Altona, Hamburgh, and the German States, than with any other country. No less than 150 articles are specified in the table given by Mr. Consul Crowe; and of the greater part of these, large quantities were imported. The following table is a short abstract of the most prominent imports, in 1835, '38, and '41:-

A glance at the preceding table will at once establish the fact of the importance and prosperous condition of trade between Altona and Hamburgh and Norway. A great and continual increase has taken place since the year 1835, in the imports of the following articles :-Bricks, cotton wool, and cotton manufactures, colonial produce, (particularly coffee,) glass, hardwares, linens, silks, soap, tobacco, rice, and woollens. The value of the imports is not given.

The quantities of the principal articles imported into Norway from Holland, in 1835, '38, and '41, appear in the next table :

This statement does not show any sign of increased activity in the trade with Holland. Bricks, glass, hoops, and refined sugar, exhibit an increase; but most of the other articles have retrograded.

The next table exhibits the quantities of the principal articles imported into Norway from Great Britain, in 1835, '38, and '41 :—

A considerable increase has taken place in many of the imports from Great Britain, such as in cotton wool, cotton twist, and manufactures, earthen-ware, gunpowder, lead, and woollens; but, on comparing the trade in manufactured goods and colonial produce between Great Britain and Norway, and between Altona and Hamburgh and Norway, it will be found that we fall far short of the latter. Since, however, says Mr. Macgregor, in his Commercial Tariffs, Part XII., the establishment of a regular communication once a week by Hull steamers, between that port and Christiansand, considerable quantities of colonial produce and of British manufactures are imported that way into Norway; and it is hoped that the direct trade with England through that channel will increase, and supersede, in some degree, the indirect and costly traffic by way of Hamburgh and Altona.

Our trade with Norway will most probably receive an impetus from the recent modifications of our tariff; and, should alterations be made in the duties now levied in that country on our cottons, woollens, and hardware, the improvement would no doubt be rapid and lucrative, and the trade might again be drawn into its legitimate and direct course.

The imports from France, although, generally speaking, they have increased of late years, are not as yet of much consequence. The exports of Norwegian produce form the principal trade with that country. The following were the principal articles imported from France, in 1835, 38, and '41:-