Price of Silver at London.

The table following shows the highest, lowest, and average price of bar silver in London per ounce, British standard (.925), since 1833, and the equivalent in United States gold coin of an ounce 1,000 fine taken at the average price:

From 1687 to 1832 the ratios are taken from Dr. A. Soetbeer; from 1833 to 1878 from Pixley and Abell's tables, and from 1879 to 1898 from daily cablegrams from London to the Bureau of the Mint.

* Gold the nominal standard. Silver practically the standard.

+ Silver the nominal standard. Paper the actual currency, the depreciation of which is measured by the gold standard.

Value of the rupee to be determined by consular certificate.

$ By Imperial ukase January 3-15, 1897, 11⁄2 paper roubles=1 gold rouble.

4 Customs.

The law of February 11, 1895, introduced the gold standard, with an ideal gold peso weighing .599 grams as the monetary unit.

**The British dollar" has the same legal value as the Mexican dollar in Hongkong, the Straits Settlements, and Labuan.

Imports and Exports of Gold and Silver by the United States.

VALUE OF GOLD COIN AND BULLION IMPORTED INTO AND EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES,

FISCAL YEARS 1864-1898.

VALUE OF SILVER COIN AND BULLION IMPORTED INTO AND EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES,

FISCAL YEARS 1864-1898.

Excess of Exports over Imports.

112,409,947

44,653,200 104,868,476

$2.795,064

1885.

3,311,844

9,262,193

5,950,319

1866..

2,503,831

14,846,762

12.3'2.931

1867

1838

5,450,925

21,387.758

15,9333

1889.

5,675,308

21,134,882

15,459,574

Weekly Imports and Exports of Specie at New York.

513,504 10,526,640 1,914,761
828,095 11,354,735 3,804,371
518,000
8,250
547,500

7,294,178

11,098,549

1,634,808

1,072,600

25

543,240

1,496,694

17,524,552

5,916,207 23,440,759

4,619,179 28,059,938

2,759,575 30,819,513

11,872,735 1,487,731
11,880,985 3,699.927 16,286,207
12,428,485 762,447 17,048,654
12,428,485 58,967 17,107,621
12,500 12,440,985 42.985 17,150,606
150,000 12,590,985 149,663
186,225 12,777,210 37.972
12,777,210 13,729
14,412,018 595,770 17,947,740
15,484,618 37,244 17,984,984
16,027,858 20,595 18,005,579
39,838 18,045,417
21,045 18,066,462
38,214 18,101,676
13,877 18,118,553
3,934,780 34,754,293 35,886 18,154,439
1,834,225 36,588,518 131,363 18,285,802
2,436,838 39,025,356 82,212 18,368,014
890,730 39,916,086 121,747 18,489,761
950,000 40,866,086 15,256 18,505,017
1,262,625 42,128,711 89,234 18,594,251
42,314,473 25,445 18,619,696
45,686,451 13,960 18,633,656
50,773,792 156,863 18,792,519 1,014,915 28,903,448
50,890,792 121,737 18,914,256 1,191,850 30,095,298
26,050 50,916,842 82,960 18,997.216
10,800 50,927,642 28,450 19,025,666

12,586,280

98,705 501,40572,362 573,768

50,933,942 33,841