particularly in the imports, for in addition to the large quantities of tanning materials, such as oak-bark, valonia, shumach, etc., we obtain hides from India, Holland, South Africa, Uruguay, Brazil and the Argentine Confederation, and tanned hides from Australia. The imports of fibres for ropes and cordage are very large in the shape of hemp from Germany, Italy and the Philippine Islands; as also of indiarubber and gutta-percha from Brazil, Africa and the Straits Settlements.

SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF INDUstries.

[The names of those towns only are given which have some special industries. The populations are those of the Census of 1881.]

ENGLAND.

BEDFORDSHIRE (149,461)—Agriculture; lace, and straw plait.

Bedford (19,532)-Agricultural machinery; pillow lace; straw plait.

Dunstable (4,627)-Straw plait.

Luton (23,959)-Straw plait; hat and bonnet making.

BERKSHIRE (218,382)—Agriculture; sheep farming. Reading (32,050)-Biscuit making; iron works; seed growing; rifle making.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (176,277)-Agriculture; pillow lace.

Aylesbury (7,795)-Preserved milk and butter making; poultry breeding; silk weaving; straw plait. Chesham (6,853)-Butter-print making; brush making.

Newport Pagnel (3,686)-Brewing.
Slough (4,529)-Brickfields.

Wolverton-Railway works.

Wycombe (10,618)-Chair making; paper and lace making.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE (185,475)-Agriculture; coprolites. Newmarket (5,160)-Horse training.

Waterbeach-Coprolite digging and grinding for

manure.

CHESHIRE (643,237)-Dairy-farming; salt; silk. Altrincham (11,249)-Vegetable growing; linen weaving.

Birkenhead (83,324)-Docks; ship building; engineering.

Bollington (3,962)-Cotton spinning.

Chester (36,788)—Ship building; lead smelting. Congleton (11,116)-Silk and cotton spinning; millstone grit quarrying.

Crewe (24,372)-Railway works; iron and steel making.

Hyde (28,629)-Cotton spinning.

Lymm (4,665)-Fustian cutting.

Macclesfield (37,514)-Silk and cotton spinning;

velvet making.

Middlewich (2,379)—Salt making.

Nantwich (7,488)-Boot and shoe making.

Northwich (12,246)-Salt mining and making; ship building.

Parkgate (3,289)-Coal mining.

Runcorn (19,202)-Shipping for Staffordshire potteries and Cheshire salt.

Stalybridge (22,784)-Cotton spinning.

Stockport (59,444)-Cotton spinning; hat making. Widnes (24,919)-Chemical and alkali works. Winsford (10,041)-Salt making.

CORNWALL (329,484)-Tin, copper and iron; granite; china clay; early vegetables.

Bodmin (5,061)-Wool spinning; boot and shoe making.

Botallack-Tin and copper mining.

Callington (7,678)-Tin and copper mining. Falmouth (4,373)-Shipping port; ship building; fishing.

Hayle (1,089)-Engineering.

Liskeard (4,479)-Granite quarrying; mining.

Lizard-Serpentine quarrying.

Looe (5,661)-Granite shipping.

Lostwithiel-Iron-ore mining.

Mevagissey (4,227)-Pilchard fishing.

Newquay (1,589)-Iron-ore shipping.

Padstow (6,120)-Shipping port.

Par-Iron-ore and china-clay shipping; tin smelting.

Penzance (11,684)-Fisheries; early vegetables; mining.

Redruth (9,335)-Tin and copper mining.

St. Austell (3,612)-China clay digging and shipping.

St. Ives (6,441)-Fisheries.

Tintagel Slate quarrying.

Truro (10,663)-Tin, copper and iron mining and shipping.

CUMBERLAND (250,630)—Agriculture; coal; hematite iron ore.

Alston (4,621)-Lead mining and smelting.

Carlisle (35,866)—Cotton spinning; hat making; biscuit making.

Cleator (10,420)—Iron mining and smelting.
Egremont (5,976)—Iron mining.

Keswick (3,219)-Copper mining; lead-pencil making.

Millom (6,231)-Iron and steel making.

Maryport (8,177)-Coal shipping.

Whitehaven (19,321)—Coal and iron-ore shipping.

Workington (13,305)—Coal shipping.

DERBYSHIRE (461,141)-Iron; coal; lead; silk; hosiery.

Alfreton (4,492)—Coal mining; pottery.
Ambergate-Limestone burning.

Belper (9,875)-Hosiery and silk trades; nail making.

Buxton (6,021)-Limestone quarrying; mineral springs.

Castleton-Lead mining.

Chesterfield (12,221)—Coal mining; iron working; lace and silk weaving.

Clay Cross (1,870)-Coal working.

Cromford Cotton spinning.

Derby (80,410)-Silk and hosiery weaving; cheese

making; iron and engine works.

Dronfield (4,331)-Iron and steel works.

Glossop (19,574)-Cotton spinning and paper making.

Hathersage Needle and fish tackle making.
Hayfield (12,736)-Dyeing and print works.

Ilkeston (14,119)-Coal and iron works; lace and hosiery weaving.

Matlock (11,930)—Lead mining and mineral springs. Staveley-Coal and iron works.

Trent-Railway works.

Winster-Lead mining.

Wirksworth (3,678)-Lead mining.

DEVONSHIRE (604,397)-Agriculture; copper; granite;

lace.

Axminster (5,186)-Carpet making.

Barnstaple (12,283)-Fisheries; ship building; pottery; lace making.

Bideford (6,512)-Shipping and ship building.
Bovey Tracey-Lignite coal working.

Brixham (4,941)-Fisheries; rope making; ship building.

Colyton (6,497)-Pillow lace making.

Combemartin (3,235)-Lead mining.

Dartmoor-Granite quarrying.

Devonport (48,745)—Naval station; victualling.

Exeter (37,608)-Paper making.

Exmouth (8,275)—Lace making.

Honiton (3,349)-Pillow lace making.

Ivybridge (1,830)-Paper making.

Kingsbridge (4,289)—Malting.

Newton Abbot (14,233)-Tiles and pottery; railway

works.