THE CHEESE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Cincinnati Price Current, in accordance with its custom, gives a brief review of the cheese trade for the season of 1851-52, from which we derive the subjoined statements. The following table shows the monthly average price for good merchantable Western Reserve Cheese in the months of each year, from 1848 to 1852:

It is seen the average prices for the past season are better than for either of the

three preceding years.

The receipts at the port of Cincinnati during the last five years ending March 31, were, in boxes, as follows:

Estimating the average weight of boxes at 35 pounds, and the amount received would be as follows in pounds:

Thus, it is seen, the receipts since 1847-8 have increased very nearly 100 per cent. With regard to the future of this trade, we may say there is every prospect that the increase for years to come will be even more rapid than heretofore, and it is very safe, we think, to predict that in ten years, i. e., in 1861-2, the receipts at this port will be 30,000,000 pounds, which amount is 13,000,000 less than the present yearly receipts at the port of New York.

Cincinnati is the distributing point for a vast extent of territory, where the consumption of cheese is rapidly increasing. The following States are now supplied, in a great measure, from this point; namely, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas, besides a portion of Ohio. The free population of these States, according to the last census, was about eight millions, leaving twelve millions for the remainder of the United States. Now let us see by whom the cheese is produced. The amount of cheese produced by each State during the year ending June 30, 1850, was as follows:

Thus, it is seen, the States containing a population of about twelve millions produce over seventy-seven million pounds of cheese annually, while the Western and

Southern States, with a free population of eight millions, produce only thirty-five mil lion pounds. Of the former, New York produces forty-nine million, and of the latter, Ohio produces twenty-one million. The Southern States produce a very small quantity in proportion to their population, and as it is not now, nor is not likely to become a profitable business in those States, the consumptive demand must be supplied from Ohio, and hence we may look for a steady increase in the trade at this point, Cincinnati being, as already remarked, the distributing market for the South and West, and as railroads are extended, the area of country supplied from this place will increase. Before many years elapse, North and South Carolina and Georgia will be connected by railroads with Cincinnati, and, indeed, already the merchants of that city are receiving orders from Georgia, the Chattanooga Railroad having connected some portions of that State with the western rivers.

When the statistics of this trade in the United States are fully considered in connection with the facts presented, our prediction that the yearly trade at the port of Cincinnati will in ten years have increased to thirty million pounds, will not be regarded as too large an estimate. This increase would be greatly less than that experienced in New York. The receipts at that port in 1834 were 6,340,000 pounds; in 1844, 29,672,000; and in 1850, 43,097,000.

COMMERCE Of Sweden.

The following table of the Commerce of Sweden during the year 1850, is derived from official tables just published. It will be seen from this table that Sweden imports more from Brazil than any other country, and that her exports to Great Britain and Ireland are double what they are to any other country. The trade of Sweden with the United States, in exports and imports, amounts to Rd. bko. 4,157,000.

The import of coffee was, in 1841, 5,300,000 lbs.; in 1850, it was about 8,000,000 lbs. Raw sugar was imported in 1841 in the quantity of 14,500,000 lbs.; in 1850, it reached 25,000,000 lbs. Arrac, rum, and cognac, in 1846, 290,000 cans; in 1850, 390,000 cans.

The commercial fleet consisted, in 1840, of 2,171 vessels, of 175,558 tons; in 1850, of

2,744 vessels, of 225,966 tons. The merchant fleet of Stockholm decreases annually, while that of Gothenburg and Gefle increases rapidly. In 1850, 841 vessels were engaged in foreign trade, with a burden of 141,746 tons, their crews amounted to 1,283 officers, and 8,050 men, an increase, since 1840, of 283 officers and 1,106 men.

The Navigation act was used in Sweden in 1850 by 7 English ships, of 2,522 tons; in England, by 112 Swedish vessels, of 26,032 tons.

MARINE DISASTERS ON THE NORTHERN LAKES.

JOHN C. DODGE, Esq., agent for the New York Board of Underwriters, has sent us a tabular statement of marine disasters, losses to vessels, &c., on the Northern Lakes in 1851, and also a comparative statement for the years 1848 to 1851, inclusive, a summary of which we here subjoin:

LOSS OF LIFE, DAMAGE TO VESSELS, ETC., IN 1851.

The timber forming this trade consists of white pine, red pine, oak, elm, tamarac and spruce. White pine forms three-fourths of all the timber received at Quebec. The aggregate amount of all kinds, in cubic feet, exported from there to Great Britain, for two seasons, has been as follows:

1850. 22,128,203

1851. 23,951,393

Increase. 1,823,195

The vast amount of commerce made by this amount of timber, with the staves, sawed lumber, and articles of produce exported from Quebec, is indicated by the arrivals at that port. The arrivals by sea at Quebec have been, for two seasons, as follows:

COMMERCE OF CEYLON.

STATEMENT SHOWING THE VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS INTO AND FROM THE ISLAND
OF CEYLON, ALSO THE TOTAL REVENUE DERIVED THEREFROM IN THE SHAPE OF CUSTOM
DUTIES, TOGETHER WITH THE
WHICH ENTERED INWARDS AND

CLEARED OUTWARDS.

NUMBER OF VESSELS

STATEMENT SHOWING THE EXPORTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF COLONIAL PRODUCE

DURING THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS.

129,457

NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM.

The following table will show the amount of tonnage which entered the ports of Great Britain and the United States for nine years:—