Species of merchandise. Quantity. Value. PAYING DUTIES AD VALOREM. Teas, imported from places other than their growth and pro duction,...... ....lbs. Corks,. Coffee,.............do..............do.............do.............do. Quills,..... Wood, unmanufactured, mahogany and rose,.......................... Articles not enumerated-at 1 per cent,....... 272,458 22,261 2 do........ 1,690,460 4,975,003 32,576 29,685 170,641 12 do......... 15 do......... 25 do........ 30 do......... 253 292,873 2,290,897 1,103,334 1,064,616 35 Total,......... $60,191,862 PAYING SPECIFIC DUTIES. Silks-sewing silk, silk twist, or twist of silk & mohair,. lbs. pongees, plain white, and other manufactures of,.do. raw silk, and all silk in the gum, &c................do. silk shoes and slippers, laced boots, &c.......... pairs. silk hats and bonnets,.. Jute, sisal grass, coir, &c., used as hemp for cordage,.do.... Cordilla, or tow of hemp or flax,.. Flax, unmanufactured,. Rags of all kinds,........... .do.... 10,903,101 421,080 SUMMARY STATEMENT OF THE QUANTITY AND VALUE OF MERCHANDISE PAYING SPECIFIC DUTIES, DESIGNATED AS ARTICLES NOT ENUMERATED IN THE GENERAL STATEMENT OF FOREIGN MERCHANDISE IMPORTED DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1845. Hat bodies, or felts, made in whole or in part of wool,.. No. 216 249 Copper, rods and bolts,. nails and spikes,.. Lead, shot,............... TRADE AND COMMERCE Of the uniteD KINGDOM, IN 1845-46. We have received the official accounts of the British Board of Trade, relating to the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom, for the twelve months ending the 5th of January, 1846,* as compared with the twelve months ending on the 5th of January, 1845, (the previous year.) The first table gives the quantities of the principal articles of merchandise imported into, and also the quantities entered for the home consumption of, the United Kingdom. The articles marked thus, (*) in the column of quantities cleared for consumption in 1846, are those on which the duty has been repealed; the only return, therefore, being the quantities imported in the column under that head. Table II. embraces an account of the exports of foreign and colonial merchandise from the United Kingdom, in the twelve months ending on the 5th of January, 1846, as compared with two preceding years. In Table III., we have an account of the declared value of exports *The English commercial or financial year closes on the 5th of January. of the principal articles of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures, in the twelve months ending January 5th, in each of the years 1844, 1845, and 1846. Table IV. gives the number and tonnage of vessels employed in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom, for three years. These tables are prepared either by, or under the direction of G. R. Porter, Esq., and dated at the "Statistical Department, Board of Trade, February, 1846"-so that, in less than a month after the close of the commercial year, the British merchant and statesman is in possession of a summary view of the commerce of the kingdom for the past year, and we are thus enabled to lay the accounts of British trade and navigation before the readers of the Merchants' Magazine, in this country, some eight or nine months earlier than the statements embraced in the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, (of the United States,) on Commerce and Navigation, for the same year. We earnestly hope Mr. Secretary Walker, or the Congress of the United States, will adopt a similar expeditious course, in the promulgation of these important documents. Their chief practical value depends upon their prompt publication. The only remedy for the evil is that which we suggested in the Merchants' Magazine for May, 1846.* 1.-IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM. An Account of the Imports of the Principal Articles of Foreign and Colonial Merchandise, and of the consumption of such articles in the twelve months ended 5th January, 1846, compared with the preceding year. The reader is referred to some remarks on this subject, introductory to the statements of the Commerce of the United States for 1845, in the Merchants' Magazine for May, 1846, Volume XIV., page 465. |