COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF PORTLAND IN 1847. The number of arrivals from foreign ports at this port for the year 1847 was 204-tonnage, 30,483 34-95ths. The foreign vessels arrived were mostly small craft from the British provinces-aggregate burthen, 6,562 51-95ths tons. The whole number of clearances for foreign ports for the year 1847 was 304-tonnage, 47,375 79-95ths. The value of imports at this port for the year 1847 was $420,405 06. ARRIVALS AND CLEARANCES AT PORTLAND IN 1847. The whole number of arrivals and clearances during the year 1847, coastwise and foreign, was as follows: Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'nrs. St'ps. Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'nrs. Sl'ps. The Portland Advertiser says:-The arrivals above enumerated comprise only such as enter at the custom-house, or report at the reporting offices. Probably more than onefourth of the vessels which enter the harbor of Portland do not report their arrivals, and we think the whole number of sailing craft that arrived here in 1847 may be set down at fully three thousand. The great disparity between the arrivals and clearances may be accounted for in the fact that most of the coasters which leave the port do not clear at the custom-house, or make known their time of departure at any of the reporting offices. The number of steamboat arrivals during 1847 may be put down, in round numbers, at six hundred and fifty. PHILADELPHIA EXPORT OF BREADSTUFFS. We are indebted to the industry of Col. C. G. CHILDS, the editor of the Philadelphia Commercial List, for the following statement, prepared from official documents, of the export of flour, meal, grain, and shipbread from that port, commencing in 1790, with the value of the same, as far as ascertained. It will be seen that no returns have been obtained from the year 1821 to 1836. The aggregate importance of the French fisheries may be estimated from the following custom-house returns: The total value of fish, oil, whalebone, cod-sounds, &c., was, in 1846, 15,438,658 francs. The total quantity of fish exported in that year was 8,809,346 kilogrammes, at a declared value of 1,737,749 francs, of which more than one-half was sent to the French colonies, and a considerable portion to Sardinia. SHIPMENT OF FLOUR AND GRAIN TO LIVERPOOL: OR, THE PRICE AT WHICH FLOUR AND WHEAT MUST BE BOUGHT IN NEW YORK AND SOLD IN LIVERPOOL TO COVER COSTS AND CHARGES. The Rochester Advertiser furnishes the following table, showing at what prices flour and wheat must be bought in New York and sold in Liverpool, in order to cover costs and These estimates are made with exchanges at 7 per cent. When they are more or less than this, of course the sterling rates will be reduced or increased in proportion. If 5 per cent primage be charged, there must be added to the above rates the following charges for freight: Where freights range from 11d. per imperial bushel of 70 pounds, with 5 per cent primage, to 2s. per bushel, there should be added to the above rates from 14d. a 1s. 6d. per bushel. The sales in New York are always made at 60 pounds the bushel, and in Liverpool at 70 pounds. The charges are made up of the following items:-Say exchange at 7 per cent; commission, &c., 4 per cent; brokerage, &c., 3 cents per bushel; marine insurance, 1 per cent; dock and town dues, cartage, turning, storage, fire insurance, loss in weight, 2 per cent; commission for selling, &c., 4 per cent; which must be added to the current rates of freight. CORN. Indian corn, by the same rule, with 7 per cent exchange, and 9d. sterling freight, with 5 per cent primage, gives the estimate below. In order to cover costs and charges, the purchase in New York, and the sales in Liverpool, must be at the following rates:Price in New York, per 56 lbs. 45c. 50 55 60 65 70 Price in Liverpool, per 480 lbs. sales at 30s. 2d. Price in New York, per 56 lbs. 75 Price in Liverpoo!, per 480 lbs. sales at 42s. 8d. " 45 0 66 47 3 If freights range from 10d. (with per cent primage) to 2s. per imperial bushel, there must be added to the above rates from 94d. to 12s. per 480 pounds. IMPORTS INTO CANADA BY SEA: IN EACH YEAR FROM 1838 To 1847, INCLUSIVE. We give below a tabular statement of the quantity of wines, spirits, whiskey, molasses, sugars, coffee, teas, tobacco, and salt imported into Canada by sea, from 1838 to 1847; also the total value of goods paying ad valorem duties, and of goods admitted free of duty. 1841...... 1842. 78,691 2,878,717 9,548,119 218,933 1,057,455 349,728 1,911,670 6,857,940 60,806 273,131 7,927,535 152,060 1,610,659 11,513,684 432,105 1845.. 352,970 1,448,840 5,025,748 45,448 151,675 895,046 8,546,982 105,282 365,450 880,305 8,719,090 261,444 1,963,403 1,475,306 417,060 1,761,732 778,367 641,100 1,270,294 937,774 835,560 2,042,469 725,070 373,830 2,185,344 603,038 345,396 2,211,154 816,866 87,880 1,783,682 1846.. 1847...... EXPORT OF BREADSTUFFS FROM CRONSTADT, RUSSIA. COMPARATIVE NOTE OF GRAIN, FLOUR, AND MEAL CLEARED OUT FROM CRONSTADT, AND REMAINING ON THE SPOT, AT THE CLOSE OF THE NAVIGATION OF 1844, 145, 1846, AND 1847. |