BRITISH EXPORTS TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A return has just been issued by the British Board of Trade, of the declared value of British and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the United Kingdom in the year 1850, specifying the amount to each country and colony. From this an English cotemporary has compiled the following list, which will show the order in which the various communities of the world rank as as the customers of the United Kingdom : British Pos. and settlements India..... North America.. Australia.... West Indies.. South Africa.. Gibraltar..... Mauritius...... ... 368,726 Indian Seas. 314,386 Egypt 183,352 West Coast of Africa. 135,912 Austria in Italy... £1,026,446 1,029,204 864,997 848,800 845,639 774,512 769,409 700,768 648,801 641,975 .... 607,755 454,304 Aden....... 13,711 Mexico. ..... 451,820 Falkland Islands ........ 1,145 Sweden in Norway 362,947 Heligoland.. 250 New Granada..... 330,810 Syria and Palestine. 303,254 Total...... 18,628,899 Venezuela..... 301,094 The Liverpool Times, in commenting upon the foregoing statement, remarks: "Our own possessions, in conjunction with the United States, it will be observed, take nearly one-half of the entire total, and it is satisfactory, by a comparison of the present returns with those for 1849, to find that while the general total to all countries has increased from £63,596,025 to £71,367,885, or about 12 per cent, the increase to our colonies has been equal to 19 per cent, and to America about 25 per cent. With regard to the colonies this improvement is most noticeable in the cases of India and Australia, and it is a fact that the latter, although she is still denied the advantage of steam communication, now takes of our goods 30 per cent beyond the amount taken by the West Indies, that have enjoyed for ten years the favor of the government, at a cost which has lately reached £240,000 per annum. Among the countries to which our exports have declined, as compared with 1849, are Prussia, Russia, Belgium, Greece, Naples, Tuscany, Austria in Italy, Sweden and Norway, New Granada, Buenos Ayres, Peru, Mexico, Syria, Morocco, the Azores, the South Sea Islands, and Greenland. All the others show an increase, and in the case of Spain it amounts to nearly 40 per cent. The most remarkable instance, however, is furnished by Central America. The total taken by the small republics in that region has risen from £117,933 in 1849, to £251,073, or nearly 115 per cent. The Republic of Ecuador, also, has risen from £9,689 to £33,289; and Venezuela from £178,998 to £301,094." FUR TRADE OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. ACTUAL IMPORT INTO LONDON of furs and SKINS, FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1850, TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1851-COMPRISING THE ENTIRE COLLECTION OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, AND THE ENTIRE COLLECTION FROM CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, (EXCEPT SHIPMENTS MADE DIRECT FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GERMANY, AND SMALL LOTS USED FOR HOME CONSUMPTION, WHICH CANNOT BE ASCERTAINED.)-THESE ENTIRE IMPORTS WERE SOLD AT AUCTION IN LONDON, IN JANUARY, MARCH, AND SEPTEMBER, 1851. General Parker, of Lycoming county, in a speech before the Senate of Pennsylvania, February 21st, 1851, says: "I have prepared, from an official source, a table showing the value of the entire Commerce of the lakes, both imports and exports, for the year 1848; and I regret that I have not been able to lay my hand upon the reports for the year 1849. The value of the trade in the year 1848 on $115,785,048 Lake Champlain 24,320,481 ..... 28,141,000 Total............ $16,750,700 639,524 $186,484,905 Showing the total value of our lake trade, for the year 1848, to be over one hundred and eighty-six millions of dollars! And I have not included in my calculation the passenger trade-in itself a most important and profitable item. One hundred and eighty-six millions, Mr. Speaker, of a commerce concentrated on your northern frontier, accessible within your own borders, through the best harbor on Lake Erie." POPULATION OF THE FIVE STATES BORDERING ON, AND CONTIGUOUS TO, THE LAKES, WHOSE PRODUCE CHIEFLY FIND OUTLET BY THE LAKE, COMMERCE OF CUBA IN 1850. FROM THE DIARIO DE LA MARINA, OF HAVANA, NOVEMBER 8, 1851. The general movement of the revenue in 1850 was over $54,615,175 56; in 1849 it was $48,757,016 68. We have thus an increase in the first place of $7,858,158 874, equivalent to 12 per cent. In this increase we reckon the importations, which, in 1850, were over $28,983,227 56, and in 1849, $26,320,460 by $2,662,767 56, that is, by 5.45 per cent and the exportations, which in 1850 were $25,631,948, and in 1849, $22.436,556 68 by $3,195,391, equivalent to 6.54 per cent. Now, compared with each other, the importations of 1850 exceeded those of 1849 by 10 per cent, and the exportations by 14 per cent. We see, then, that notwithstanding the disadvantageous circumstances, which have borne upon the Commerce of the island, it has continued to increase in the same ratio as that which we announced with pleasure in previous years. A multiplicity of figures is not, we are aware, most agreeable to the majority of readers, but without them we are unable to descend to the details of the general movement of Commerce with different nations. These details were as follows, for the two years given: Spanish.... Ports. 1849. Importations. $7,682,757 681 1849. Exportations. $3,113,070 50 1849. Total. $10,795,828 184 United States.. French.. English Spanish American.. German........ Belgian 402,785 18 673,562 25 .... 1,076,347 43 In order to enable our readers more readily to understand the relation each country thus bears to ours, we have reduced the table to so much per cent, and find the following result: Total........... 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 In the carrying of the above values, or the merchandise represented by them, Spanish and foreign bottoms have compared as follows: SOUTHERN AND WESTERN ROUTES FOR PRODUCTS TO NEW YORK. A late number of the Cincinnati Price Current contains a long letter from Messrs. J. S. Chenoweth & Co., merchants of that city, urging the superior cheapness of the northern route to shippers of Western produce. We make the following extract :— The advantages of the northern route to New York over that by New Orleans, are vastly superior. By the northern route, tobacco is delivered in New York in from thirty to thirty-five days, in as good order and condition as when shipped. It is delivered dry and free from sweat, and opens a hundred per cent better than that shipped by New Orleans, which requires double the time to arrive in New York. Tobacco shipped by New Orleans is nearly always injured to some extent from the sweat caused by heating in the hold of the vessel, which uniformly happens from the great heat of the weather in that latitude at this season of the year. We subjoin the cost of transportation on a single hhd. by each route, say by Louisville: Showing a difference in favor of the Lake route, of $4 50. We are now shipping tobacco to New York at 50 cents per 100-thirty days. IMPORT AND EXPORT OF MERCHANDISE FROM 1820 TO 1851. STATEMENT EXHIBITING THE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF MERCHANDISE EXCLUSIVE OF SPECIEIMPORTED FOR CONSUMPTION, AND THE AMOUNT OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS—EXCLUSIVE OF SPECIE FROM 1ST OCTOBER, 1820, то 30TH JUNE, 1851-AND SHOWING, ALSO, THE AVERAGE AMOUNT EVERY FIVE YEARS. Foreign merchandise imported. Average amount 49,874,079 COMMERCE OF NEW SOUTH WALES IN 1849 AND 1850. From a statement of the imports and exports from Sydney and Port Philip, it appears that in 1850, the value of the imports to Sydney were £1,333,413; and to Port Philip, £744,295; making a total of £2,078,338. The exports from Sydney were £1,357,784; and from Port Philip, £1,041,796; being a total of £2,399,580, or an excess of exports over imports of £321,242. In 1849 the imports in gross amounted to £1,793,420; and in 1850 to £2,078,338, showing an increase last year of £284,918. The exports in 1849 were £1,891,270; in 1850, £2,399,580; showing an increase last year of 508,810. In 1850, the amount of wool exported from Sydney was 14,270,622 |