COMPARATIVE PRICES OF MIDDLING TO FAIR COTTON, AT NEW ORLEANS, ON THE FIRST OF EACH MONTH, DURING A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS-TOGETHER WITH TOTAL RECEIPTS AT NEW ORLEANS, AND THE TOTAL CROPS OF THE UNITED STATES. COMPARATIVE PRICES OF SUGAR ON THE LEVEE, AT NEW ORLEANS, ON THE 1ST COMPARATIVE PRICES OF MOLASSES ON THE LEVEE, AT NEW ORLEANS, ON THE 1ST OF EACH MONTH FOR FIVE YEARS.. COMPARATIVE PRICES OF FLOUR, AT NEW ORLEANS, ON 1ST OF EACH MONTH, FOR FIVE YEARS. 1844-45. Dollars. July.... 3 a 4 3 a 48 August. 3 a 4 a 44 a 51 4 a 44 COMPARATIVE PRICES OF MESS AND PRIME PORK, AT NEW ORLEANS, ON THE 1ST OF EACH MONTH, FOR TWO YEARS. 4 a 44 1845-46. COMPARATIVE PRICES OF CORN IN SACKS, AT NEW ORLEANS, ON THE 1ST OF EACH MONTH, IMPORT OF CURED PROVISIONS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM. It will be seen, by the following abstract of a return ordered by the British House of Commons, that more than half of the whole imported cured provisions into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, &c., was received from the United States. This official return shows that there were imported into the United Kingdom, from the 5th of January to the 5th of July, 1846, from all quarters, 93,322 cwts. of salted beef; 27,135 of salted pork; 1,326 of bacon; 5,447 of hams of all kinds. These articles having been admitted free of duty since the 18th of March, 1845, no account of the quantity retained for home consumption, or taken for ship stores, can be given subsequently to that date. The quantity retained for home consumption before the 18th of March is quite inconsiderable. There were taken for sea stores, during that period, 19,140 cwts. of salted beef, 5,957 of salted pork, and 596 of hams of all kinds. The quantities re-exported during the half-year are 705 cwts. of salted beef, 1,726 of salted pork, and 611 of hams of all kinds. More than the half of the whole imported cured provisions came from the United States:88,585 cwts. of salted beef, 15,454 of salted pork, 1,272 of bacon, and 1,130 of hams of all kinds. The nearest to America, in point of quantity, are the Hanseatic towns; which amounted to 2,711 cwts. The bulk of the re-exports were for Africa and the British colonies. BALTIMORE FLOUR INSPECTIONS. The Baltimore Commercial Journal, (edited with care and industry by William G. Lyford, Esq.,) of Feb. 13, 1841, contains the inspection of wheat flour in the city of Baltimore, for each quarter of the year, commencing March, 1798, and ending with December, 1840. That table was transferred to the pages of the Merchants' Magazine, for June, 1841, (Vol. IV., No. 6, p. 569,) and now, for the purpose of continuing the table, we resume it, (being indebted to the same authentic source,) with September, 1840, the period at which the miller's year begins, and close it with the end of June, 1845, as follows: The quantity of flour inspected during the year ending with June last, exceeds in amount any previous year, since 1798; the next largest being that which ended with June, 1840, which was 731,979 barrels, and 21,196 half-barrels. PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH COMMERCIAL MARINE DURING THE LAST FORTY-FIVE YEARS. A return has been presented to the British House of Commons, containing a retrospect of the progress of the British commercial marine since 1820. "It may," says the London Economist," be called a succinct history of the fate of the British mercantile navy from the time when Huskisson commenced, till the time when Peel and Russell almost completed, the transition from a restrictive to a free commercial policy." In 1821, there entered inwards from the colonies, 2,532 British vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 656,213 tons; there cleared outwards to the colonies, 2,698 British vessels, with an ag gregate tonnage of 663,145 tons. In 1845, there entered inwards from colonial ports, 5,685 British vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 1,895,529 tons; there cleared outwards for colonial ports, 5,046 British vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 1,706,835 tons. In the year 1821, there entered inwards, from foreign ports, 6,669 British vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 863,691 tons; there cleared outwards for foreign ports, 5,766 British vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 757,295 tons. In 1845, there entered inwards from foreign ports, 13,817 British vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 2,289,744 tons; there cleared outwards for foreign ports, 14,008 British vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 2,427,552 tons. The result is, that the comparative movements of British registered shipping making the voyage in 1821 and 1845, is as follows: Making allowance for slight oscillations from year to year, the increase has been uniform and steady throughout the period; if anything, it has been in an accelerated ratio since 1840-41. LOUISIANA DRY DOCK, AT NEW ORLEANS. This dock was built under the superintendence, and upon the plan of John S. Gilbert's Patent Balance Dock. It is capable of taking up ships of 1,200 tons, and drawing 16 feet water, and all steamboats not exceeding 275 feet in length. The following are the rates of dockage charged on ships and steamboats, at the "Louisiana Dry Dock:"RATES FOR DOCKING SHIPS, AND DAILY USE OF RATES FOR DOCKING STEAMBOATS, AND DAILY USE OF DOCK. Tons. St'mboats und. 100, THE DOCK. Tons. Rates for Rates per day. Rates for docking. Rates p. day. Vessels under 100,.. $75 $14 $95 $14 100 and under 125,. 80 16 100 and under 125,. 100 16 Every additional 25 tons will pay $10, and $2 50 per day, and all boats over 210 feet long will pay $3 for every additional foot. and $2 per day. Passengers leave New York by the South Ferry, for Brooklyn. Cars leave the depot in Brooklyn, daily, Sundays excepted, for Boston, via Norwich and Worcester, at 7 A. M. Returning, cars leave Boston at 8 A. M., by the same route. Time through, 10 hours. Stages are in readness, on the arrival of trains at the several stations, to take passengers, at low fares, to all parts of Long Island. A steamboat, also, leaves Greenport for Sag Harbor, on the arrival of the cars. The foregoing tabular statement of the Long Island Railroad route, between New York and Boston, is from the fourth edition, published the present year, of Disturnell's valuable Guide Book, giving the particulars of all the important lines of travel through the Middle, Northern, and Eastern States. It is patronized by most of the railroad and steamboat companies in those regions of country, and may be relied upon for its general accuracy. It should be in the possession of every traveller, as he will find information that will well repay him for the trifling cost of the work. STATISTICS OF ALL THE CANALS OF NEW YORK. We are indebted to the polite attention of A. C. FLAGG, Esq., the Comptroller of the State of New York, for a copy of his valuable reports made to the convention for revising the constitution of the State, in obedience to a resolution of that body, of June 18th, 1846. The answer to one of the requirements of the resolution, which we publish below, shows the revenues of all the canals taken as one system, the expenses of all of them, |