BELIZE, the capital of British Honduras, and the only trading-port in the colony. It is situated on the sea-coast, at the mouth of a river of the same name, in lat. 17° 29' N. and long. 88° 8' W. It consists of one principal street along the shore with a number of offshoots, is for the most part well built, and has a governor’s house, a fort, a courthouse, a jail, a Gothic church, a hospital, and a number of schools. The exports are principally mahogany, rosewood, cedar, logwood, cocoa-nuts, fustic, and sugar. In 1872, 379 vessels, most of them British, with a total tonnage of 32,345 tons, entered the port. Regular steamboat communication has been established with Kingston, Jamaica. The population is about 5000.