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The total value of exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States for the year ending June, 30th, 1853, according to the report of the Register of the Treasury, was $213,417,697. The value of the three leading products of the Southern States, cotton, tobacco, and rice, amounted to $122,433,381, leaving a balance of $90,984,316 for all other products and manufactures. We have omitted in this statement sugar, chiefly from Louisiana, as only 672,274 lbs., valued at $33,854, was exported during the year. The gold and silver coin exported amounted to $23,548,535, which, if taken from the balance, ($90,984,316,) after deducting the value of the cotton, tobacco, and rice, leaves $67,435,781 for all other exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States. A portion of the tobacco exported, we know not how large, is the product of the Northern and Western States. The leading agricultural exports of the northern and western ports of the Union consist of breadstuffs, and including wheat, flour, Indian corn, Indian and rye meal, amounted in the year, ending as above, to $21,256,034.

IMPORTS OF. BREADSTUFFS INTO GREAT BRITAIN.

THE TOTAL IMPORTS IN GREAT BRITAIN OF GRAIN, MEAL, AND FLOUR, FOR FIVE YEARS PAST, AS MADE UP FROM THE OFFICIAL RETURNS, WERE:

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THE FOLLOWING IS AN OFFICAL STATEMENT OF THE IMPORTS OF WHEAT AND WHEATFLOUR INTO GREAT BRITAIN FOR FIVE YEARS:

9,010,590 9,618,026

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DUTIES COLLECTED AT BOSTON.

The annexed statement exhibits the amount of duties collected at the port of Boston in each of the past sixteen years, distinguishing the amount paid on merchandise brought in American and foreign vessels:

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In the year ending June 30, 1853, the amount of duties was upwards of a million of dollars more than in any previous year. The foreign trade of Boston has increased very rapidly since the Cunard steamers commenced running to that port.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF CHILI.

The official custom-house report of the foreign trade of Chili for six months of 1853 shows a total of $5,152,900 imports, against $6,504,000 exports. England stands first in importance, the United States next. The totals, to England, France, the U. States, Germany, &c., were as follows:

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Imports.
$1,862,834

Exports. $2,117,472

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SHIPS CLEARED FROM LONDON TO AUSTRALIA.

Mr. R. P. Mitthofer, shipping agent at London, furnishes the following statement of the amount of" register tonnage" of ships cleared from the port of London for Australia from the 1st of January to the 31st of March inclusive, compared with the tonnage for the same period in 1853:

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The total for the first three months of 1854 includes 13,262 tons cleared in January, 18,845 in February, and 22,943 in March. The total cleared from London for Australia during 1853 was 287,332 tons, (559 ships,) and in 1852, 155,787 tons, (277 ships.)

PRICES OF GRAIN IN ENGLAND AND OTHER PARTS.

AVERAGE PRICE OF WHEAT AND OATS PER QR. IN ENGLAND AND WALES FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS, ENDING 1853, AND WHEAT SINCE 1802.

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PRICES OF WHEAT IN FOREIGN PORTS, PER QR., IN 1852-3, MOSTLY TAKEN IN DECEMBER.

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EXPORTS OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE SEA FROM THE UNITED STATES. We compile from the Report of the Register of the Treasury, on the "Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending June 30th, 1853," a statement of the quantity and value of various products of the sea, exported during the year above mentioned. This statement, it will be seen, embraces the products of the whale, including whale and other fish oil, spermaceti, whalebone, and candles, fish, dried, smoked, and pickled.

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$1,418,845

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The total value of the products of the sea exported during the commercial year ending as above stated is, $3,279, 413.

EXPORT OF ANIMALS AND THEIR PRODUCTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. COMPILED FROM THE REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF THE TREASURY FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1853.

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The total value of animals and their products for the year ending June 30th, 1853, is $7,915,259.

PRICES OF WHEAT AT ALBANY FOR 61 YEARS.

The following table, showing the price of wheat per bushel at Albany, New York, on the first of January in each year, from 1793 to 1854, has been prepared from tables kept at the office of the Van Rensselaer Manor at Albany :-

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COMMERCE OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

During the year ending June 30th, 1853, there arrived at Gloucester, from foreign ports, 24 American vessels and 183 foreign vessels. Total number of arrivals from foreign ports 207. These vessels brought cargoes of molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa, salt, coal, wood, lumber, &c., &c. In the same time 204 vessels cleared for foreign ports. Gloucester owns nearly 31,000 tons of shipping; being 500 tons more than the port of Salem, and 5,000 tons more than Portsmouth, N. H. 41 vessels were built last year, being more in number than in any district in New England, except Waldoboro', Bath, and Boston. The vessels built at Gloucester averaged a little more than eighty tons each. The present season will show a great increase of tonnage built in that district. Newburyport and Boston are the only places in Massachusetts that exceed Gloucester in the amount of tonnage built last year.

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

NEW INSPECTION LAW OF MARYLAND.

The provisions of the law passed at the late session of the Maryland Legislature, to "regulate inspections in the city of Baltimore," are as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the first day of May next, on which day this act shall go into effect, any free white citizen of the State of Maryland, on application to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the city of Baltimore, and paying to the said clerk, as the case may be, the sum hereinafter named, shall be entitled to receive a license to act as inspector of the article mentioned in the license, and the several sums to be paid for licenses shall be as follows: For a license to act as inspector of leather, $150; for a license to act as inspector of lumber, $150; for a license to act as a gauger of casks and inspector of liquors, $150; for a license to act as inspector and corder of firewood, $150; for a license to act as inspector of lime, $150; for a license to act as inspector of ground black oak bark, $100; and for a license to act as inspector of coal, $150; and no license shall authorize any inspector to act as such out of the limits of the city in which the same may have been granted; and any person licensed to act as inspector in said city, and who shall act as such in any city in which he has no license, shall subject himself to the penalties hereinafter provided for the punishment of persons acting as inspectors without license; and no license shall continue in force for a longer period than one year from the day of its date.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person not having a license to act as such inspector, who shall act as inspector of any of the articles named in the first section of this act, shall forfeit and pay to the sheriff of the city, as the case may be, a sum equal to double the price of the license to act as inspector of said article, as prescribed in the first section of this act, and penalty to be imposed as a fine by the court having criminal jurisdiction in the city on presentment or indictment by the grand jury, and conviction in due course of the law, and one-third of the penalty shall be paid by the sheriff to the informer, who is hereby declared competent as witness, and the residue shall be accounted for by the sheriff to the treasury of the State, as other fines and forfeitures are required to be accounted for: provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed to forbid the manufacturer or the actual and bona fide owner of any article or merchandise from marking or stamping thereon, or on the package containing the same, the quantity or quality of the same.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person or persons may buy or sell, export or otherwise dispose of any of the articles mentioned in the first section of this act, without having the same inspected, measured, or gauged by any inspector, but in all cases of difference between the buyer and seller, as to the quantity, quality, or measurement of any of the said articles, either party may call in any inspector of the article authorized to act in the city where the article may be situated, and the judgment of the inspector shall bind the parties.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the fees for inspections shall be the same as those now fixed by law; no person shall be entitled to license or inspect, or shall act as in

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