the largest total ever attained, the amount in 1857, the great year of inflation, having been only £122.066,107. In cotton manufactures alone the improvement on 1858 was £5,820,897, or 16 per cent, and in woolen, silk, and linen manufactures, as well as in the metal trade, the augmentation has been very large. "Haberdashery." which includes all kinds of ready-made clothing, exhibits an extraordinary increase, and the same is the case with regard to hardwares, which likewise depend in a great degree upon the activity of our colonies. There is scarcely a single item on the unfavorable side. Wool presents a falling off of £262,374, but this is simply from the fact that the demand for raw mate rial on the part of our manufacturers has been such as to leave little for expor tation. A reduction observable in cotton and linen yarn also is evidence on the present occasion that the activity of foreign manufactures has not kept pace with that of our own. The subjoined table gives the exact increase or decrease under each head : Subjoined are the quantities of provision, &c., imported and taken for home The following are the comparative imports and exports of raw material : 1,103,296 983,777 4,077,820 11,614,903 4,760,677 5,015,737 33,833 20,689 The annexed summary shows the manner in which the 47 articles that are henceforth to be retained in the British tariff may be classified, only 16 being for revenue, and 13 being terminable at specific dates: 1. Articles on which a duty is to be levied for revenue purposes :-Chicory, cocoa, and chocolate, coffee, corn and flour, currants, figs and fig cake, pepper, plums, prunes, raisins, spirits, sugar, tea, tobacco, wine, wood. 2. Articles on which a duty is to be levied to countervail a duty of inland revenue-Beer or ale, of all sorts, hops, cards (playing cards,) dice, malt, plate (gold or silver.) vinegar. 3. Articles on which the duties are to cease on and after a specified date :March 31, 1861, corks, hats or bonnets. February 1, 1861, plating, gloves of leather, of all sorts. 4. Articles containing sugar to be charged with duty until the 1st of July, 1861-Almond paste, cherries (dried,) cocoa paste and chocolate, comfits, (dried,) confectionery, ginger (preserved.) marmalade, plums (preserved.) succades 5. Articles of farinaceous character, to be rated as flour :-Arrow-root, bar ley, (pearled,) biscuit and bread, cassava powder, potato flour, powder, (hair,) powder, (perfumed,) powder, (other sorts.) rice, sago, semolina, vermicelli and maccaroni. The following table shows the imports and exports of wheat into France and England for many years, with the exports from the United States in a corresponding period. The general result is an increasing trade between the United States and Europe in breadstuffs. The French wheat includes flour :- IMPORT AND EXPORT OF WHEAT INTO AND FROM FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES, AND IMPORT OF WHEAT AND WHEAT FLOUR INTO GREAT BRITAIN. 1844... 4,514,543 6,462,949 ... 811,685 841,474 1845... 1846... 945,864 3,198,876 1847... 1848... 1849... 1850...... 1851...... 1852... 558,917 6,973,680 6,900,238 3,654,585 389,716 1,195,230 11,460,728 16,624,422 3,467,833 1,613,795 2,289,476 6,329,058 21,251,232 28,754,658 4,154,427 4,399,951 4,382,496 1,765,475 20,752,104 4,494,199 3,576,546 2,034,704 2,119,083 3,349,830 32,763,024 1,264,217 5,002,152 1,527,534 3,855,059 30,036,745 2,772,081 6,919,398 608,661 5,314,414 40,496,072 2,003,943 6,327,735 1,026,725 3,889,583 25,551,136 4,126,640 4,014,107 2,694,540 2,799,339 1,436,575 2,108,013 1,285,448 2,202,335 BEET ROOT SUGAR PRODUCT IN THE ZOLLVEREIN. The following is the quantity of beet roots manufactured into sugar in the Zollverein for the last two years:— 1859. 31,600,308 1,293,852 14 2,628,440 1,139,735 1 798,126 935,325 6 4,157,915 377,166 7 421,780 225,853 15,770 118,738 136,131 84,346 2 303,845 The sugar product is about seven per cent, amounting to 1,927,680 cwt. in 1858, and 2,600,000 in 1859. GOLD EXPORTS OF CALIFORNIA. San Francisco papers contain the full returns of the gold trade and general commerce of that port for 1859, of which an abstract was furnished some days since through our overland dispatches. We copy as follows :— The total production of sugar has been for several years comparatively as fol Total beet-root... 13,000 17,192 95,500 187,935 162,953 222,439 222,646 857,500 Grand total..... 1,010,800 1,452,612 1,370,989 1,431,930 1,357,605 1,665,000 BURNING OF COTTON AT SEA. We copy from the New York Herald the following list of vessels, laden with cotton, that have been destroyed by fire since the 1st of January, 1859. It appears that sixteen of that class of vessels have been burnt since the above date, at an estimated value of $2,247,000. Eight of those, or one-half of them, were burnt in port, caused by the stevedores smoking their pipes, and dropping fire into the cotton. A portion of those burnt at sea are supposed to be from ignition caused by the concentration of the sun's rays through the decklights :— The following table shows the value of Ohio fleece wool in October of each year, from 1840 to 1859, from actual sales : Showing an improvement in the finer kinds especially. For 1857, the price in August is given, as there were no sales in October. CEYLON EXPORts of produce, OCT. 1 TO SEPT. 30. The chief articles of export from Ceylon have been as follows: |