TRADE AND NAVIGATION ACCOIJNTS.

FOR THE MONTH AND TWELVE MONTHS ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 1855 AND 1854.

ExPoiers.

Month ended Dec. 31, 1835. 1854. Twelve Months ended Dec. 31, 1855. 1834.

Declared value of British £ X £ £ Manufactures, 3:e 8,815,442 .. 7,344,473 ....

95,669,3800..

97,184,726 Of these exports the following are items :

Cotton Manufactures : enter-

ed per yard 2,899,693 .. 1,944,437 .... 26,124,675 .. 23,481,306 Cotton Yarn 585,097.. 640,257 ....

7,230,428..

6,691,330

Haberdashery and Millinery.

272,725 .. 223,671 .... 2,682,568 ..

3,677,822

Hardwares and Cutlery 292,033.. 298,326 .... 2,960,391.. 3,868,498 Linen Manufactures: entered per yard 487,898

3,803,487 .. 3,768,107 Linen, Yarn 53,389 89,726 .... 916,429.. 944,502 Machinery and Mill-work :

Steam-Engines 44,763.. 45,189 .... 877,924.. 566,768

Ditto : of all other sorts

94,952 -

1,333,291 .. 1,364,092 Iron : Pig 42,912.. 58,227 .... 1,080,108,, 1,244,853 Bar, Bolt, and Rod 372,855 .. 270,878 .... 4,626,410 .. 5,731,671 Wrought of all sorts 204,281 .. 217,429 .... 2,395,626 .. 3,120,381 Copper : Sheet, Nails, &c. 153,126 .. 72,898 .... 1,269,008 . , 1,149,338 Silk : Manufactures and Yarn 140,790; ; 112,860 .... 3,534,856.. 1,692,380 Woollens: entered by the

piece 210,984 193,073 .... 2,374,000 .. 3,089,334 entered by the yard 303,760

2,504,860 .. 3,050,548 Worsted stuffs 174,862 130,534 .... 2,365,475 .. 2,565,474 NPORTS.

The fallowing are items : Month ended Dec. II,

Twelve Months ended Dec. 31,

Animals : Oxen and 7 53. men 1854.

Bulls number 6,122 • • 8,667 .... 63,685 • • 62,937

Cows 12 1,526 • •

2,742 .... 10,063 • • 25,271

Calves 1,870 ..

,s,

1,559 23,777 .. 26,190

Sheep St 17,270 • •

20,266 .... 156,646 . • 176,338 Lambs 193 • •

5,996••

7,098

Swine $2 394 • •

12,171 .. 11,077 Corn : Wheat qrs. 205,642 • •

2,667,702 • • 8,431,227 Barley 20,177

349,110 • • 552,972

26,917 .... 1,033,727 • • 1,014,949

Oats ' 38,410

Peas and Beans ,,' 45,829

458,427 • • 494,843 Indian Corn or Maize „ 100,232 144,774 .... 1,215,333 • • 1,349,698 Wheat-meal or

Flour ewts. 243,149 64,073 .... 1,904,224 .. 3,646,505 Provisions: Bacon „ 5,109 6,180 .... 253,766 .. 410,705

Beef: salted 21 7,065 ..

32,108 .... 230,716 .. 192,165

Pork : salted 22 8,206 ..

26,754 .... 204,326 .. 160,877

Butter SS 31,600 ..

37,033 .... 448,341 .. 482,514 Cheese .. 26,698.. 30,966 .... 385,136 .. 388,714

Eggs number 6,159,400.. 5,579,200 ....

100,005,200.. 121,946,801 Coffee lbs. 8,334,333 .. 11,413,782 .... 64,063,492 .. 66,500,358 Tea „ 17,193,750 .. 14,043,249 ... , 83,117,706 .. 85,792,032

Sugar : Unrefined .ewts. 1,134,902.. 840,281 ....

7,344,586.. 9,112,364 Refined (Foreign). „ 97,946 .. 13,673 .... 413,029 .. 399,555 Wine gallons. 1,765,318 .. 1,233,830 .... 8,946,227 .. 10,875,655 Cotton : Raw cvrts 933,523,, 720,421 .... 7,947,856 . , 7,922,617 Flax : Undressed. „ 143,206 .. 44,168 .... 1,131,475 .. 1,089,535 Wool : Sheep and

Lambs' lbs. 13,013,552 .. 14,338,475 .... 97,853,739 .. 104,854,482 Blows Couircitrriori : (entered for)

Coffee lbs. 2,311,680 .. 3,051,639 .... 35,876,287 , . 37,471,014 Tea 4,716,384 .. 5,204,419 .... 63,454,035 . , 61,970,341 Sugar : Unrefined .ewts. 217,816 .. 594,313 .... 7,396,029 .. 8,100423 Wine gallons. 482,211 .. 506,010 .... 6,670,358 .. 7,149,612

Sailing and Steam Vessels-Month ended Dec. 91, 1855. 1834. '

SHIPPING. Vessels. Tonnage. Vessels. Tonnage

Foreign Trade: Inwards. 2,373 .. 690,683 .... - 1,720 .. 533,436 Outwards 2,015 .. 495,827 .... 1,766 .. 468,688

Coasting Trade: Inwards. 9,215 .. 930,026 .... 8,717 .. 963,180 Outwards 10,355 .. 1,015,587 .... 9,857 .. 1,006,964

* The deficiency in 1855 as compared with 1854 is more nominal than real. The accounts for 1854 were made up to the 5th January 1855, being five days more than enter into the year ending 31st liecember last. To supply the means of comparison, an allowance of 1,695,2751. falls to be added. for those five days; making 97,364,655/. as the declared value of the exports for 1855.

EXPORTS OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MERCHANDISE.

For the most part a decrease is exhibited in 1855 as compared with 1854 in the quantities exported. Coffee has fallen off from 32,500,000 pounds to 29,000,000. Cotton (raw) continues at 1,100,000 hundredweight. An in- crease 18 shown under the heads of oil, hides, quicksilver, and raw silk.

CUSTOMS-DUTIES.

1853. 1834. 1835.

Net receipts £22,438,069 .. £22,166,966 .. 22,335,063

As compared with 1854, the only imports upon which increased revenue was derived in 1855 are coffee, rum, sugar, tea, and tobacco. A decrease appears under almost every other head.

EXCISE.

In the quantities of articles chargeable with excise-duties for the same two years, hops show a large increase for 1855: in England, the quantity increased from 10,000,000 pounds to 83„000,000. There is a small decrease under every other head-malt, paper, spirits, sugar.

GRAIN AND MEAL IMPORTED.

In 1855, 5,729,241 quarters of grain, and 1,922,318 hundredweight of meal were imported from foreign countries and our own colonies. With the exception of 282 hundredweight of meal, the imports from Russia are blank.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS FOR JANUARY 1856.

In the month of January, the Exports show an increase of 1,509,9901. over those of January 185o, partly owing to the prospects of peace in the last two weeks of the period. The totals were-for January 1855, 6,464,7961.; for January 1856, 7,974,786/. There was a large increase in cotton yarn, haberdashery, linen manufactures, metals, silk manufactures, woollen manufactures and woollen yarn, and in " unenumerated articles " ; there was no important decrease of any article exported.

In the Imports, most articles of provisions, tea, wines, &c., exhibit a falling-of; but the imports of sugar increased, and there was a great excess in tobacco. Of raw material, the imports of flax, hemp, silk, and tallow, were less tban in the month of 1855; but in cotton and wool there was an increase.