EXPORTS OF ANTHRACITE FROM THE SCHUYLKILL AND DELAWARE. Statement of the number of tons of anthracite, which had descended from the Lehigh and Schuylkill navigations, and which were shipped for exportation coastwise, together with the number of vessels of all sorts, [brigs, schooners, and sloops,] freighted therewith at Philadelphia or Bristol. This statement is exclusive of the coal which passed through the Delaware and Raritan, and the Morris canals.* PRICES OF ANTHRACITE IN PHILADELPHIA, Average Retail Prices for unbroken Coal, delivered in Philadelphia, per ton of 2240 lbs., chiefly derived from the Commercial List, and from Bicknell's Reporter, and the Pennsylvania Inquirer. * Partly taken from the Commercial List of Philadelphia, Jan. 9, 1847. DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL, Pennsylvania coals [Schuylkill and Lehigh] which passed through the Delaware and Raritan Canal to New York. Number of Canal Boats which cleared from Bristol, on the Delaware Canal. Total number of clearances from the port of Philadelphia, in 1846, of coals of all descriptions, 8953 vessels, averaging 120 tons, and containing 1,065,228 tons, in addition to that shipped in boats from the Lehigh.* In the year 1847, the number of clearances of vessels laden with coal, from Port Richmond, near Philadelphia, was increased to 11,439. Rates of Commission as regards coal, adopted by the Philadelphia Board of Trade. Commission on Sales, Receiving Commission, DOMESTIC COMMERCE OF PHILADELPHIA. The following tables show the progressive increase, in periods of five years, of the enrolled and licensed tonnage, engaged in the trade of Philadelphia, and of the total registered, enrolled, and licensed tonnage of that port; which increase is, in great measure, attributable to the coal trade of Pennsylvania, within the last twenty years.† There are a few unavoidable, but not very material, discrepancies in some of these returns, owing to the different sources from whence the data have been obtained. Philadelphia Commercial List, 16th January, 1847. + Statistical Annals of the United States. Adam Seybert, M.D. Phila. 1818, and other authorities. FOREIGN COMMERCE. As regards the foreign commerce of Philadelphia, our returns exhibit a great falling off, whilst that of New York and Boston has considerably augmented. The following abstract is sufficient to show the relative proportions of the foreign trade enjoyed by these three principal ports. Table of the Foreign Arrivals and Departures, and of the aggregate Value of the Exports and Imports. Value of Exports, domestic and foreign, from the Custom-house returns, from the Ports of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Value of the General Commerce, foreign and domestic.—Imports and Hazard's Regis. of Penna., 1828. Dictionary of Commerce. Geography of Pennsylvania, Trego, p. 145. Commercial List and Philadelphia Prices Current. American Almanac, 1845-7. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. Niles's Register. M'Culloch's Gazetteer. Emigrants' Directory, 1820. Commerce and Navigation of the U. S., 1844. Custom-house returns.-Commercial List. Value of Imports and |