The Board of Trade returns of exports and imports for
October are fun of most cheering facts. There is again a great increase in the expo rta over those of the corresponding month of 1855—no less than 1,806,3S71. ; aud this fairly spread over nearly, every branch of industry, though the greatest augmentation has been in metals, the increase in that item being 457,964/. There is a large increase in hardwares ; while cotton-manufactures ma- chinery, and woollen-yarn, have all considerably augmented. The total exports for the first ten months of the present year have amounted to 96,573,556/., against 78,087,4311. in the same period of 1855; showing an increase of 17,486,1251., or about 221 per cent. As compared with the same period of 1854, the increase has been 12,443,468/. The imports exhibit equally striking indications of the activity and pros perity of our trade; all kinds of provisions, except sugar, have been intro- cluced in greater amount. The imports of tea and wine have been doubled, spices more than doubled. There is a slight falling-off in sugar. Here than three times the amount of wheat has come in, and other cereals in pre.. portion. The imports of raw material have all been increased, silk and tallow enormously. Imports generally have been large.
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