RECEIPTS OF COTTON AT BOSTON.

The imports of cotton wool into Boston during the past year, 1850, have been, in bales, as follows:

New Orleans.

98,681

Mobile. Charleston. Savannah. Ap'lachicola. Galveston. Other places. 22,350 20,799 26,387 22,325 1,103 3,431

The total receipts of cotton at Boston for each of the last twenty-one years has

The exports from Boston to foreign ports for five years past have been as follows:

It will be seen from the above table that there has been a marked falling off in the receipts of cotton at Boston the past year. The Boston Price Current_attributes this to the depressed condition of the manufacturing interests in Massachusetts, and the ruling high prices of cotton throughout the year. Prices ruled lowest early in the year, middling fair New Orleans selling at 12 cents; and the highest prices were in October and November, when 16 cents was obtained for middling fair. The stock on hand in Boston at the close of 1850 was 4,500 bales, against 2,800 bales in 1849, and 1,200 bales in 1848. The stock in the hands of manufacturers is estimated to be much smaller than for many years past, so that the actual falling off in the consumption is not so great as the difference in the receipts indicate. The exports this year are quite small compared with previous years.

EXPORTS OF ICE FROM BOSTON IN 1850.

The following table exhibits the total amount of ice, in tons, exported to the undermentioned ports during the year ending December 31st, 1850, and the total amount

for the five previous years:—

EXPORTS OF BOOTS AND SHOES FROM BOSTON.

This branch of Massachusetts manufactures appears to have been unusually active and prosperous during the year 1850, as will be seen by the subjoined table, in the increase of exports over previous years. This increase is attributed for the most part

to the large shipments to California, either direct from Boston, or via New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The clearances at the custom-house have been as follows:

1848.

1849.

1850.

72,424 79,118 101,371

Cases. 147,769

FOREIGN COMMERCE OF BALTIMORE.

We publish below a tabular statement of the foreign trade and commerce of BaltiIt comprises monthly statements, as more for the year ending December 31st, 1850. will be seen, of the arrivals and clearances, and value of cargoes, as also the value of exports from Baltimore to California.

FOREIGN ARRIVALS AND CLEARANCES AT THE PORT OF BALTIMORE IN 1850.

ARRIVALS.

CLEARANCES.

Schooners982

Total.....

46

43

39

40

51

3

7

15

7

32

12 8

21

9

50

June

July..

August

September

5

October..

November..

3

December.

VALUE OF EXPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTS AND SAME TO CALIFORNIA.

During the year ending June 30, 1850, there were built in Connecticut, 3 ships, 7 brigs, 27 schooners, 9 sloops and canal boats, 1 steamer-total, 47; tonnage, 4,820. The tonnage of the several districts in Connecticut is as follows:

EXPORTS OF PHILADELPHIA TO FOREIGN PORTS.

A STATEMENT OF THE EXPORTS FROM PHILADELPHIA TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES DURING THE YEAR ENDING 30TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1850,

FOREIGN COMMERCE OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

The exports from Charleston to foreign countries, during the year 1850, amounted to $12,394,497, being an increase of nearly $1,500,000 over the exports of 1849, and of $4,500,000 on those of 1848. It is gratifying, also, that this increase of exports has been attended with a corresponding increase of imports, as will be seen by the following comparative statement of the duties collected on foreign imports during the years specified: :

If the goods in the public warehouse had been taken into consumption, the aggregate amount for the past year would have been considerably over $600,000, as the quantity of goods similarly situated at the close of last year was comparatively trifling.

IMPORTS OF WHEAT AND FLOUR AT BUFFALO AND OSWEGO.

The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser and the Oswego Commercial Times have published statements of the imports at their respective ports of the articles of flour and wheat for the season just closed; the former paper to the close of lake navigation, and the latter to 1st of December, 1850. From those statements we arrive at the following results:-

IMPORTS OF FLOUR AND WHEAT AT BUFFALO AND OSWEGO, AND AT TIDE-WATER FOR THE YEARS 1849 AND 1850.

These figures show a decrease in the receipts at Buffalo and Oswego of 142,049 bbls. of flour, and 1,073,703 bushels of wheat; while at tide water the receipts of flour show an increase of 8,102 bbls., and of wheat, 869,987 bushels: showing that New York must have made up the large deficiency of about 150,000 bbls. of flour, and 1,900,000 bushels of wheat.

TRADE OF BOSTON WITH CALIFORNIA.

It is stated in the Boston Price Current that the most marked feature in that mar ket during the year has been the demand for goods for California, and the large in crease of the Boston trade with the Pacific. Early in the year, the attention of al classes and callings were directed to this new field for commercial enterprise, and it was deemed merely necessary to make shipments there to realize a golden harvestAs might have been expected, the anticipations of many were doomed to disappointment, especially those who depended solely on shipments of lumber. The trade, of late, has passed into fewer hands, and is now confined principally to experienced mercantile houses, who are cautious in their shipments, and generally send out assorted cargoes, selected with a regard to the wants of that market, and which, so far, have yielded satisfactory returns. In order to show, at a glance, the extent of the trade of Boston with California, the Price Current gives the clearances from the Port of Boston for the years 1849 and 1850, as follows:

Although this table shows an increase of only fifteen vessels, compared with 1849, the quantity of merchandise going forward has been much larger, and of far greater value.

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS OF SPAIN.

EXTRACTS TRANSLATED FROM THE CUSTOMS REGULATIONS OF SPAIN.

ART. 1. Shippers of merchandise in foreign countries shall present to the Spanish Consul a statement in duplicate, and without corrections or erasures, of the goods they embark, expressing the name and nature of the vessel, and of the master, port of destination, description of the bales, boxes, packages. &c. &c., to be shipped, their marks and numbers, class, quality and quantity of the merchandise contained in each, in Spanish weight or measure, the consignees thereof, of what nation the produce and manufacture; if of the country, whence shipped; and if not, of what other nation or fabric may be their origin, concluding the statement or note with a declaration that it details the true contents of the packages, and that they contain nothing else. There must be separate notes from each shipper and for each consignee.

ART. 3. From all these notes the Consul is to form a general summary, with a copy of which, and one of each of the notes of the shippers, he is to form a true register of the cargo, to be delivered to the master in a sealed dispatch, (with wax and wafer,) addressed to the adminiustrator of the custom-house at the port of destination. No merchandise can go on board after delivery of the register to the master, without subjecting all to seizure on arrival in Spain.

ART. 8. The master, who in the act of receiving pratique, shall not deliver to the administrador the sealed despatch or register handed to him by the Spanish Consul, shall pay a fine of $400, the cargo discharged and stored, until the consul shall remit a certified copy of the original notes presented by the shippers, aud for which the administrador shall apply.

ART. 10. On examination by the administrador, in presence of the master, of these sealed despatches or register, if they manifest marks or evidences of having been previously opened, the master shall be fined $100 for this alone, and

ART. 11. In case amendments and alerations are observed in the notes, the master shall answer before the tribunal of finance for the crime of forgery, which he may be guilty of.

ART. 12. Where no consul resides, shippers must send their notes to the one nearest resident, and the master shall receive from him these registers, with the understanding

that merchandise from a foreign country shall not be admitted to entry which shall not come with the requisites detailed.

ART. 14. The exceptions to the above are cargoes of lumber, staves, codfish, hides, coals, which it shall be evident come to the order of the master in search of a market; but in such cases a document of origin must be presented from the place of loading, specifying the quantity aboard of the vessel.

ART. 23. Within twenty-four hours after anchoring, (being visited,) the master shall present to the administrador of the custom-house a manifest of the cargo, &c.

ART. 27. Fine of $100 if the manifest be not presented within twenty-four hours. ART. 38. Fine of $100 for every package in excess, and $50 every one manifested less than what is expressed in the register made up by the Spanish Consul.

ART. 39. If the manifest does not specify minutely the contents of the packages of prohibited merchandise manifested in the transitu, they shall be landed and examined. ART. 42. All goods must be manifested to specified consignees, in no case to “order." The general term " merchandise" is not recognized nor admitted, in which case the goods shall be landed and examined in the presence of the master or his agent, and if they shall be found to be illicit goods, they shall be forfeited, and the master fined twentyfive per cent if they be worth more than $2,000, and if less $500. If the goods be of licit traffic, half the sums.

ART. 181. Transhipments prohibited.

ART. 182. Merchandise cannot be manifested in transitu for the port from which the vessel originally called, nor those touched at in the voyage.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT-ORDER IN COUNCIL.

In consequence of the application by the Governor of Malaga, relating to the complaint laid by the Spanish Consul at Leghorn for having allowed entry at some custom-houses, particularly at Malaga, foreign vessels with cargoes of vegetable, coal, without the requisite consular documents-considering that only from long usage and in especial cases, some vessels have been admitted with such cargoes without the consular notes, although always with the other documents which the custom regulations require, in conformity with what has been manifested by the custom-house at Malaga, and the general direction of customs, H. M. has been pleased to order that limiting the aforesaid practice to the smallest number of cases possible, and even then with respect to cargoes of vegetable, coals, and others of a voluminous nature and of limited value and duties, and under the strictest vigilance, that the actual instructions for the customs be strictly and punctually observed.

MADRID, September 19, 1850.

EXTRACT-ANOTHER.

"Your Excellency will please to notify (H. M.) consuls abroad that under no pretence they give course to the declarations or notes of shippers unless exactly in conformity with the customs regulations, nor despatch registers including articles of probibited traffic, under the understanding that for the confiscations and fines which shall be imposed for defects in consular documentation, the consuls themselves shall be responsible, notifying them also that all the documents which they give course to, must, without exception, be made in the Spanish language."

MADRID, September 26, 1850.

SYNOPSIS OF THE NEW TARIFF OF CUBA.

A Royal (Spanish) ordinance has introduced a revised tariff, the leading features of which are embraced in the subjoined synopsis :

ARTICLE 1. Augments the duties upon all articles of foreign importation 1 per cent, (which with the per cent added 1st of November last, makes 35 per cent upon the chief articles of our production.)

ART. 2. Increases one-seventh the impost upon national imports.

ART. 3. Increases the export duty upon each box of sugar fifty cents; makes now 874 cents per box.

ART. 4. Increases twenty-five cents upon each quintal of leaf tobacco exported. ART. 5. Increases twenty-five cents upon every thousand cigars, making seventy-five cents per thousand export duty.

ART. 6. Spanish flour to pay one-seventh additional to the duty now paid.
ART. 7. This extraordinary exaction will continue in force two years.

By instruction of the Board of Directors of the Boyal Treasury here, the application