TRADE AND COMMERCE OF PHILADELPHIA. From the eighteenth annual report of the Directors of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, made to the members of that association, at their annual meeting on the 15th of January, 1851, we derive the subjoined statistics of the revenue of that port for 1850, as compared with previous years, as follows: ARRIVAL OF VESSELS AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA DURING THE YEARS 1848, 1849, AND 1850. Schooners. Sloops..... 7,681 5,200 6,430 4,486 5,907 3,629 Total.... 27,555 25,169 24,483f The value of the imports and duties received at the Custom-House, at the port o Philadelphia, have been as follows:: Years. 1850..... 1849... 1848... Value of imports. Duties. Years. $14,004,860 $3,361,112 | 1847.... 10,700,865 2,762,093 The annual inspections of flour and meal at Philadelphia for five years, have been During the same period the measurement of grain, by the public measurers, was :— The annual inspection of Quercitron Bark, for five years, has been : The inspection and stock of Tobacco, at the Philadelphia City-Warehouse, has been The imports of Cotton during the last four years, from all places, have been : The imports of Coffee annually, for four years, have been : Bales. 41,516 41,835 The imports of Hides during the last four years have been: Foreign Ports. Coastwise. Total. Years. Foreign Ports. Coastwise. Total. 103,882 102,697 47,891 151,673 1848. 52,414 72,300 124,714 88,284 189,982 1847. 76,139 75,818 151,957 The comparative imports of Sugar, from foreign ports, for four years, have been:— Years. Hhds. Boxes. Barrels. Bags. Years. Hhds. 1850. 16,105 34,731 3,385 27,834 1849. 15,046 20,253 2,185 37,158 1848.. 18,532 Boxes. Barrels. Bags. 31,657 3,683 33,908 54,297 7,966 32,570 COMMERCE OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. The rapid growth in the Commerce of the Sandwich Islands will be seen by reference to the following statistical table, which we extract from the Polynesian :— Gross receipts at the Custom-House, Honolulu, 1849... Increase in 1850..... Gross receipts at the Custom-House, Lahaina, 1849..... Increase in 1850.... Gross receipts at Hawaii and Kauai, 1849. Increase in 1850.... $79,802 75 116,190 68 $36,387 93 $3,330 70 5,203 15 $1,872 75 $97 87 112 90 $15 03 The whole number of merchant vessels that visited the Islands in Whole number of whalers in 1849 was.. 241,315 84 $227,314 84 $729,730 44 1,053,058 70 $323,319 26 180 469 274 Whole number of whalers in 1850 was.. 237 18 14 $81,340 00 140,000 00 Vessels of war, &c., in 1849 was....... Vessels of war, &c., in 1850 was...... The supplies furnished to these vessels in 1849 amounted to.. In the year 1849 the value of imports from California was $131,505 89; while in 1850 it had amounted to $305,912 28. COMMERCE OF IRELAND. The gross produce of Customs' Duties in Ireland has ranged in the period from 1841 to 1850, inclusive, from £2,135,667 in 1841, to £2,285,195 in 1849. In 1850, the gross Customs' receipts were only £2,165,874. The number of British vessels engaged in foreign trade which have entered inwards at the Irish ports has ranged during the same period from 822, (tonnage, 164,488,) to 2,109, (tonnage, 393,067.) The lowest number was in 1843, and the highest in 1848; the number last year was 1,677, (tonnage, 317,707.) The number of foreign vessels entered inwards have varied from 115, (tonnage, 16,622,) in 1844, to 1,153, (tonnage, 240,280,) in 1848. The number last year was 769, (tonnage, 146,427.) The lowest number of British vessels cleared outwards during the period referred to was 502, (tonnage, 134,024,) in 1844, and the highest 1,685, (tonnage, 360,273,) in 1848. For foreign vessels cleared the highest number was 904, (tonnage, 198,923,) in 1848, and the lowest 72, (tonnage, 9,876,) in 1845. The British vessels engaged in the coasting trade entered inwards at the Irish ports have varied from 19,061, (tonnage, 1,783,006,) in 1842, to 22,812, (tonnage, 2,447,907,) in 1847; and those cleared outwards from 11,357, (tonnage, 1,488,626,) in 1848, to 14,361, (tonnage 1,640,732,) in 1846. The number of vessels registered in Irish ports have ranged from 1,967, (tonnage, 183,854,) in 1841, to 2,347, (tonnage, 269,742,) in 1849. The number registered in 1850, was 2,330, (tonnage, 267,682.) EXPORT OF TEA FROM SHANGHAE TO UNITED STATES. We are indebted to GIDEON NYE, Esq, an American merchant, residing in China, for files of the Northern China Herald, to February 1st, 1851, from which we compile, for the Merchants' Magazine, the subjoined statement of the export of Tea from Shanghae to New York, from July 1st, 1850, to February 1st, 1851. Of the above totals, there was exported of Congou and Souchong, 3,208,895 lbs.; Oolong, 28,782 lbs.; Pekoe, 14,160 lbs.; Young Yyson, 2,719,014 lbs.; Hyson, 166,378 lbs.; Hyson Skin, 970,811 lbs.; Twankay, 384,865 lbs.; Gunpowder, 568,330 lbs.; Imperial, 362,457 lbs. In order to show the comparative tea trade of England and the United States, we give, from the same authentic source, the export of tea from Shanghae to Great Britain, from 1st of July, 1850, to 1st of February, 1851, as follows: Total from 1st July, 1850, to 30th January, 1851.. 15,319,305 1,718,820 17,038,125 The above tables embrace of Congou, 14,235,325 lbs.; Scouchong, 487,609 lbs. ; Pekoe, &c., 323,099 lbs.; Sorts, 273,272 lbs.; Twankay, 110,061 lbs.; Hyson Skin, 16,746 lbs.; Hyson, 156,643 lbs.; Young Hyson, 690,384 lbs.; Gunpowder, 619,739, lbs.; Imperial,125,247 lbs. INSPECTION OF BREADSTUFFS AT BALTIMORE IN 1850. INSPECTIONS OF FLOUR AND MEAL IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE FOR THE YEAR 1850. COMPILED BY SHAW & BELL, FLOUR AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE BALTIMORE PRICE CURRENT. 1850. Months. January. March... April,. May... June.. July. Rye Flour. 791 844 538 270 573 892 543 August.... 78,069 4,884 197 The total quantity of wheat flour imported during the year amounted to 882,777 barrels, and 27,630 half-barrels. Of this amount, there was inspected of Howard Street, 547,406 barrels, and 3,656 halves; of City Mills, 284,420 barrels, and 23,632 halves; of Susquehanna, 17,028 barrels, and 38 halves. IMPORTATION OF COTTON INTO LIVERPOOL. The Liverpool Chronicle says:-"The cotton imported into Liverpool amounts to more than seven-eighths of the consumption of this material in all our manufactories. one-eighth going to the ports of London, Glasgow, Hull, and casually to minor ports. Of the whole of this import, five-sixths come from the United States, the remaining one-sixth from Brazil, Egypt, and the West Indies. The whole quantity received in Liverpool in 1850 was 1,573,202 bales, worth twelve millions sterling, imported in 250,000 tons of shipping, and employing for wages, machinery, and interest of capital invested in the cotton manufactories, at least forty-seven millions sterling a year, and paying not less than £17,000,000 annually in wages. PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET. The following table shows the number of cattle offered at the Philadelphia Cattle Market during each of the six years, from 1845 to 1850, inclusive. IMPORT OF BREADSTUFFS INTO GREAT BRITAIN. It is shown by a Parliamentary return, obtained at the instance of Mr. Miles, that the total imports of all sorts of corn, grain, meal, and flour, in 1850, amounted to 9,078,493 quarters, of which 4,856,039 were wheat, and wheat flour; 1,043,082 were barley, and barley meal; 1,169,811 oats, and oat meal; and 1,289,589, Indian corn and meal. The countries furnishing the largest imports of wheat were France, (1,150,897 quarters,) Russian ports, within the Black Sea, (572,446 quarters,) and the United States of America, (542,930 quarters.) The highest monthly average price of wheat in England and Wales in 1850, was 48s. 8d., (in August;) and the lowest, 375. 10d., (in April.) The general average for the year was 40s. 3d. COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. OF INFORMATION IN RELATION TO FOREIGN IMPORTS. CIRCULAR TO CONSULS AND COMMERCIAL AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 7, 1851. With a view of guarding the Customs revenue of the United States from attempted frauds, this Department is desirous of procuring authentic information on various points connected with the cost, charges, and the circumstances attending the purchase and shipment of foreign merchandise in the countries of its production or ports of shipment, for the information of the Collectors or Appraisers at the different ports of entry, and to assist them in levying the duties with uniformity and correctness. You are, therefore, respectfully requested to furnish the Department with replies in detail to the following queries, accompanied with such remarks and explanations as you may think will be necessary or useful; and you will please consider them as applying not only to the trade of the place of your actual residence, but also to the neighboring country or towns with which it may have a regular and constant business connection, or through which their merchandise may be shipped to the United States. First. What are the usual terms on which merchandise is bought and sold, whether for cash or on credit; and what, if any, are the usual discounts allowed, either from custom or in consideration of cash being paid, or from any other cause, and if such discounts are uniform, or if they vary in the same description of goods, and if they are different on different description of merchandise? State, also, if such discounts are considered as a bonus or gratuity from the seller to the buyer, and usually retained by the latter for his own benefit, even where he purchases and ships the merchandise under orders for account of others. Second. On what articles shipped to countries are bounties allowed; what are the rates of such bounties, and state how they are calculated-whether on the weight, measure, price, or value-and the respective rates, on what principle, and for what reason, and under what circumstances, are such bounties allowed, and are they similar in amount when the articles are exported by national vessels, and by foreign vessels? and if there is any difference, please state it. Third. What is the customary charge of commissions for purchasing and shipping goods? and if it is different on different descriptions of merchandise, please give the needful details. Fourth. What is the usual brokerage on the sale or purchase of merchandise, and is it paid by the buyer or seller, or sometimes by one and sometimes by the other, accordingly as the broker may be employed to buy or sell, or do both buyer and seller always pay a brokerage. Fifth. What are the usual and customary expenses attending the purchase and shipment, one or both, of merchandise, at the port of your official residence, specifying them in detail, and including not only commissions and brokerages alluded to, but also export duty, dock trade, or city dues, lighterage, porterage, labor, cost of packages, covering or embaling, cooperage, guaging, weighing, wharfage, and local imposts or taxes of any kind, etc., and whether any, and which of the above or any other items are usually included in the selling price of the article, or if they usually form items of separate charge to be paid by the purchaser or shipper? Sixth. If goods produced or manufactured in the interior, and purchased there for account of foreigners, or by residents for shipment to foreign countries, are usually exported through your port, or if thus produced, manufactured, or purchased in some neighboring nation, which may have no seaports of its own, and are usually or occasionally shipped through your port; what are the customary expenses attending their transportation from such interior places of produce or manufacture to your port, including all transit or export, or import frontier duty, and every other charge up to the time of their arrival at your port from the interior, besides the ordinary expenses attending their shipment at your port? If there be any other points connected with the subject which are not embraced in the preceding inquiries, and which you may think would be useful or acceptable, you are respectfully requested to include them in your reply, and to accompany the latter with all the requisite details, together with any printed or other documents, which you may think will be desirable for the Department to possess. |