The Times- says France and Prussia may not be what are known ai maritime powers ; but few are aware how extensive are their maritime interests. Since the Crimean war, France Has not only been able to offer the produce of her own markets, but her import trade has steadily increased year by year. So remarkable is this, that in the course of ten years the value of imports into France has almost trebled. The French navy has also so greatly increased that while in 1853 there were only 14,600 vessels, there are now nearly 16,000; and if statistics are worth anything, they prove that France has gradually during the last twenty years devoted herself so steadily to the pursuit of commerce that it has led to increase of the merchant navy, to the increased cultivation of a sea life among the people, and, consequently, to the increased strength of the Imperial navy,
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Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 50, 26 October 1870, Page 7
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