Years. TOTAL WHALERS AT THE PORTS OF HONOLULU AND LAHAINA. Total. 1847...... 1846...... 359 3 9 22 19 The number and tonnage of vessels at Honolulu during the year 1847, amounted to 72 merchantmen, with a tonnage of 16,185, and 123 whalers, with a tonnage of 37,011. The total imports at Lahaina and Honolulu amounted to $738,150. The mercantile marine belonging to Hawaiian islands January 1st, 1848, consisted of one bark, two brigs, sixty-one schooners, and three sloops-sixty-seven vessels of about 2,160 tons, estimated value $110,000. The increase over 1847 was 19 vessels. VIRGINIA TOBACCO STATISTICS. A correspondent, residing at Richmond, Virginia, has compiled from authentic sources the following table, which, we assure him, is a most "acceptable contribution to the Merchants' Magazine." It shows the quantity, in hogsheads, inspected, the stock on hand, and the exports, foreign and domestic, in each year from 1843 to 1848, the years ending on the 30th of September. The stocks on hand in 1833 and 1848 were nearly the same. Some shipments are made to Europe via Baltimore and New York, which do not appear in the inspection returns of those cities, being merely transferred from one vessel to another. In addition to the quantity inspected there is a good deal brought to market in a loose state, and sold to the manufacturers-equal, probably, to 4,000 or 5,000 hogsheads. The principal coast wise export is to New York, which was unusually large in 1847, being 3,350 hogsheads, exclusive of transhipments. The exports from Norfolk to the West Indies are not included above. EXPORTS OF BRITISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURE. It is instructive and interesting to watch the progress of trade, its increase and decrease, and the causes which operate upon its distribution, creating changes in the intercourse between countries, which convey lessons of wisdom to those who will read them aright. In returns lately made by Parliament we have instructive evidence of the kind laid before us, and from which we select the following table of exports of British produce and manufactures for the years 1845, 1846, and 1847 : To those advocates of the restrictive system who will persist that the foreigner will take nothing in return for his corn but specie, the truth may be conveyed to their minds if they will take the trouble to study the fact now before them, in our exports to the United States, by which it will be seen that our transatlantic brethren have purchased the increased amount of four millions sterling of our manufactures in return for the large quantity of breadstuffs which we have bought from them to make up the deficiencies of our harvest in 1846. Causes equally natural are seen to affect the other portions of our foreign trade-thus the distress in the East and West Indies, China, and Mauritius, and the great depreciations in the value of property and the produce of those countries, disable them from buying so freely from us; and the wars in Mexico and Central America, with their destruction of credit and confidence, have a similar effect, and fully account for the falling off which is here exhibited.-Wilmer and Smith's Times. INSPECTIONS OF FLOUR AT RICHMOND, VA., FROM 1819 TO 1848. We are indebted to an intelligent correspondent, residing in Richmond, (Va.) for the subjoined statement of the quantity of flour inspected at that place for each of the last thirty years: Richmond also receives the flour inspected at Lynchburgh and Scottsville, (on James River,) and the quantities inspected there are about one-fifth of that inspected at Richmond; so that 20 per cent may be added to the above to show the actual flour trade of Richmond. PRICES OF FLOUR IN NEW YORK ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY IN EACH MONTH FOR THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. The following table gives the price of good Western and State brands of flour in New York on the first Wednesday in each month for a series of years : TRADE BETWEEN FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN. The total official value of exports from Great Britain to France in 1845 was £5,035,296 ; in 1846, £5,127,073; and in 1847, £4,371,253. The official value of the exports from France to England was, in 1845, £4,097,050; in 1846, £1,745,645; and in 1847, £4,792,663. COALS, CINDERS, AND CULM EXPORTED FROM ENGLAND. A return has just been prepared, by order of the House of Commons, of the total quantities of coal, cinders, and culm exported from the United Kingdom to all parts of the world, in each year, from 1810 to 1847, both inclusive-distinguishing the quantities ex• ported to the countries named below respectively, from those exported to all other parts. The total for the years 1840 and 1841 were respectively 1,606,313 tons and 1,848,294 tons; the details of the remaining years are as follows:- All other parts....... 1,190,848 1,126,098 1,069,056 1,471,785 1,480,833 1,497,577 Total 1,999,504 1,866,211 1,754,171 2,531,282 2,531,108 2,483,161 The official returns of exports, says the Gateshead Observer, furnish, we are happy to perceive, satisfactory evidence as to the improvement of our export trade in coal-the declared value of that article having increased during the three months ending April 5th, 1848, to the extent of fully forty per cent as compared with the corresponding period of 1847. A period of three months, however, is perhaps too small on which to found any sound calculations as to the state of trade; but on examining the returns for several months past, we find that a steady improvement has been going on, the following having been the total annual values during the last two years:-Year ending April 5, 1847, £926,084; year ending April 5, 1848, £1,047,766. It is true that in 1845 very large shipments took place, the declared value for the 12 months ending April 5, 1846, having amounted to £1,031,700-a sum, nevertheless, which has been exceeded by the exports of the year ending the 5th of April last. This fact, we repeat, affords satisfactory evidence of improvement. EXPORTS OF SUGAR AND MOLASSES FROM CUBA. From Matanzas. EXPORTS OF MOLASSES FROM THE FIRST OF JANUARY TO THE END OF JUNE. COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. COMMERCIAL ORDINANCES OF MAURITIUS AND DEPENDENCIES. WE have received from the Department of State, at Washington, official copies of several ordinances "Enacted by the Governor of Mauritius with the advice and consent of the council of the government thereof." The ordinances (seven) are in the English and French languages, and numbered 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and are entitled as follows: No. 3. "To repeal and alter the colonial duties levied on the exportation of certain goods." No. 6. "For altering and consolidating the port charges upon vessels in the harbor of Port Louis." No. 8. "For altering and amending the immigration law on spirits." No. 9. "For altering and amending the colonial laws regulating the customs duties." No. 10. " To alter and amend the colonial law relating to the quay duties and wharfage dues." No. 11. "For the purpose of placing certain articles of foreign production, when imported into Mauritius direct from the place of produce, on the same footing as if such articles were imported through the United Kingdom; and of repealing the duties of customs on certain other articles." No. 12. "For repealing the tonnage dues and the duties on coasting vessels, and for altering the duties on the licenses of boats, lighters, &c." We publish the several ordinances in the order as enumerated above, beginning No. 3 and closing with No. 12. Each ordinance is signed " D. W. Ricketts, Secretary of the Council; published by order of His Excellency the Governor, George F. Dick, Colonial Secretary;" which we have omitted for the sake of brevity. III. TO REPEAL AND ALTER THE COLONIAL DUTIES LEVIED ON THE EXPORTATION OF CERTAIN GOODS. Whereas it is expedient to repeal and alter the colonial export duties of customs levied on certain articles the produce of Mauritius: His Excellency the Governor in council has ordered and does hereby order : A colonial customs duty of nine pence for every 100 lbs. nett French weight of sugar exported to be levied.-Art. 1. In lieu of the duty of 1s. per 100 lbs. French imposed by the arrete of 30th Fructidor, an 12, on the exportation of sugar, there shall be raised, levied, and collected on the exportation of all sugar the produce of Mauritius a colonial customs duty of nine pence for every 100 lbs. nett French weight. The duties on the exportation of ebony, coffee, cotton, cloves, &c., repealed.—Art. 2. The duties imposed by the said arrete, and also the duties imposed by government authorities on the exportation of ebony, coffee, cotton, cloves, indigo, clove stalks, tortoise shell, and gums, the produce of Mauritius are hereby repealed. Promulgation-Art. 3. The present Ordinance shall have effect from the day of its publication. Passed in council at Port Louis, Island of Mauritius, this 7th day of February, 1848. VI. FOR ALTERING AND CONSOLIDATING THE PORT CHARGES UPON VESSELS IN THE HARBOR OF PORT LOUIS. Whereas it is expedient to alter and consolidate in one Ordinance the several port charges leviable under sundry Ordinances and notices upon vessels entering or clearing from the harbor of Port Louis: His Excellency the Governor in council has ordered and does hereby order : The charges hitherto levied on vessels entering or clearing from the harbor of Port Louis shall cease and be replaced by the different charges fixed in the following schedale.-Art. 1. The several charges leviable upon vessels entering or clearing from the harbor or roadstead of Port Louis under the Ordinances Nos. 44 of 1829, 17 of 1840, and proclamation of 22d September, 1841, and under the notices dated 7th December, 1825, 1st August, 1841, and 9th September, 1846, shall cease, and in lieu thereof there shall be levied the several following charges, that is to say: |