REPORT OF THE TRADE AND NAVIGATION OF JAVA FOR THE TRANSLATED FROM THE OFFICIAL RETURNS

YEAR 1839.

TO THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT.

COMMUNICATED BY J. N. MOOYAART ESQ.

THE IMPORTS WERE FROM THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES AND IN THEM ARE INCLUDED GOODS WAREHOUSED FOR RE-EXPORTATION TO THE AMOUNT OF

NUMBER AND TONNAGE OF VESSELS UNDER DIFFERENT FLAGS ENTERED INWARDO

VALUE OF EXPORTS TO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN THE YEAR 1839.

NUMBER and Tonnage of Ships under different flags, cleared Outwards in 1839 with amount exported by them.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT BETWEEN THE TRADE IN 1839, and 1838.

"A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you, is greeting familiar to the ears of most of our readers. To John Bull it is synonymous with soins of beef, reeking hot puddings, coal fires, smiling faces and warm shakes of the hand. Even in distant, tropical climes he is not willing to forget and forego the festivities of his fatherland, though he be obliged to substitute a lump of buffalo flesh for his fine rosy sirloin, and a dusty punkah for his brightly blazing fire. Iu England, more particularly in Loudon, this is the gayest, if not the happiest season of the year. Every - one by common consent forgets for a time his vexations and his sorrows,

and gives a free vent to his gayer feelings. Families are united in happy, innocent enjoyment. Old and young, parents and chil dreu, join in the same games and laugh at the some funny stories, Acquaintances who have during the past year met coldly and distantly, now throw aside reserve, and become the best companions in the world. Friends who have been seperated by distance or cir cumstances, come together to crack jokes and walnuts, and to express their astonishment at each other's looking so remarkably young and well. Sturdy cast-iron men of business are seen to relax their copper countenances, unbolt their crazy old hearts, and let loose a few half starved smiles. Even the poor pauper in the workhouse partakes of the almost universal relaxation, and gets an extra basin of pea-soap and a red herring during the week, and if he be in high favor with the parish beadle, is treated to an order on the parochial cook for a plateful of scraps from the churchwarden.s annual dinner.

London, the queen of cities, is more replete with bustle and retail business during the christmas week than at any other time, although large mercantile transactions are almost at a stand still. All the world appear to have assembled there to make merry and spend their money. From day-break to night-fall, and often till long after, there is oue continued ebb and flow of men, women and children. Long strings of short stages are pouring into and depositing their contents in the " great metropolis." Steam-boats literally cover the waters of the Thames, laden with living cargoes. The Northern and Western out-lets of the capital towards Kensington, Hampstead and Highgate, are swarming with foot-passengers, bending their light steps to the favorite places of resort. It is a fine,

clear, frosty day: not a cloud to be seen, to throw a gloom upon the mery doings of the busy world below: the saber citizens and their families, dressed in their sunday best, pour from their lanes and courts by hundreds and thousands, all panung for a few hourą of sweet, wholesome air and cessation from toil. The North and City Roads are as crowded as Fleet Street or Holborn at mid-day, and if the frost should have been severe enough to have formed ice, numbers will turn off at the City Canal to see the skaiters, and perhaps have a slide and a tumble or two. Many a straggling pair may be seen on Shepherdess fields and near Copenhagen House: pretty servant girls or small tradesmen's daughters, strolling with their beaux in their sunday ribbons and shoes, and may be half promising to be at the dance in the evening at the Eagle Tavern. As the day wears on, a dense fog gathers over the dingy housetops and gives timely warning to the swarms of pedestrians lo seck their hones, and their firesides.

If there be one class of human beings happier than another, and which does the heart more good to behold, at this period, it is young children. To them the new year is peculiarly auspicious, for they partake of all its festivities without any of the regrets and sorrows which somehow or other, will force themselves edgeways into the bosops of those riper in years, spite of all their miery feehugs. We