COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

EXPORTS OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE FOREST FROM THE UNITED STATES. We compile, from the report of the Register of the Treasury, the following statement of the quantity and value of the products of the forest exported from the United States during the year ending 30th June, 1853 :—

Value.

Quantity.

Staves and heading.

.M.

28,693

The total products of the forest during the year ending June 30th, 1853, are valued, according to custom-house returns, at $7,915,259.

EXPORT OF THE PRODUCTS OF AGRICULTURE FROM THE UNITED STATES. We compile from the annual report of the Register of the Treasury the subjoined statement of the export from the United States, for the year ending June 30th, 1853, of the various products of agriculture:

BREADSTUFFS AND OTHER VEGETABLE FOOD, AND PRODUCTS OF AGRICULTURE.

The total value of exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States for the year ending June, 30th, 1853, according to the report of the Register of the Treasury, was $213,417,697. The value of the three leading products of the Southern States, cotton, tobacco, and rice, amounted to $122,433,381, leaving a balance of $90,984,316 for all other products and manufactures. We have omitted in this statement sugar, chiefly from Louisiana, as only 672,274 lbs., valued at $33,854, was exported during the year. The gold and silver coin exported amounted to $23,548,535, which, if taken from the balance, ($90,984,316,) after deducting the value of the cotton, tobacco, and rice, leaves $67,435,781 for all other exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States. A portion of the tobacco exported, we know not how large, is the product of the Northern and Western States. The leading agricultural exports of the northern and western ports of the Union consist of breadstuffs, and including wheat, flour, Indian corn, Indian and rye meal, amounted in the year, ending as above, to $21,256,034.

IMPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS INTO GREAT BRITAIN.

THE TOTAL IMPORTS IN GREAT BRITAIN OF GRAIN, MEAL, AND FLOUR, FOR FIVE YEARS PAST, AS MADE UP FROM THE OFFICIAL RETURNS, WERE:—

THE FOLLOWING IS AN OFFICAL STATEMENT OF THE IMPORTS OF WHEAT AND WHEATFLOUR INTO GREAT BRITAIN FOR FIVE YEARS

9,618,026

7,746,669 10,173,135

DUTIES COLLECTED AT BOSTON.

The annexed statement exhibits the amount of duties collected at the port of Boston in each of the past sixteen years, distinguishing the amount paid on merchandise brought in American and foreign vessels:

In the year ending June 30, 1853, the amount of duties was upwards of a million of dollars more than in any previous year. The foreign trade of Boston has increased very rapidly since the Cunard steamers commenced running to that port.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF CHILI.

The official custom-house report of the foreign trade of Chili for six months of 1853 shows a total of $5,152,900 imports, against $6,504,000 exports. England stands first in importance, the United States next. The totals to England, France, the U. States, Germany, &c., were as follows:

Imports.
$1,862,334

Exports. $2,117,472

SHIPS CLEARED FROM LONDON TO AUSTRALIA.

Mr. R. P. Mitthofer, shipping agent at London, furnishes the following statement of the amount of " register tounge" of ships cleared from the port of London for Australia from the 1st of January to the 31st of March inclusive, compared with the tonnage for the same period in 1853:

Jan. 1 to
March 31.

Jan. 1 to

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1853.

The total for the first three months of 1854 includes 13,262 tons cleared in January, 18,845 in February, and 22,943 in March. The total cleared from London for Australia during 1853 was 287,332 tons, (559 ships,) and in 1852, 155,787 tone, (277 ships.)

PRICES OF GRAIN IN ENGLAND AND OTHER PARTS.

AVERAGE PRICE OF WHEAT AND OATS PER QR. IN ENGLAND AND WALES FOR TWENTY-SIX

YEARS, ENDING 1853, AND WHEAT SINCE 1802.

PRICES OF WHEAT IN FOREIGN PORTS, per QR., IN 1852-3, MOSTLY TAKEN IN DECEMBER,

EXPORTS OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE SEA FROM THE UNITED STATES. We compile from the Report of the Register of the Treasury, on the "Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending June 30th, 1853," a statement of the quantity and value of various products of the sea, exported during the year above mentioned. This statement, it will be seen, embraces the products of the whale, including whale and other fish oil, spermaceti, whalebone, and candles, fish, dried, smoked, and pickled.

Value. $1,418,845

321,989

223,247

2,825,069

1,063,705

....

343,992

112,600

.cwts.

131,665
14,807

371,607

2,027

89,409

The total value of the products of the sea exported during the commercial year ending as above stated is, $3,279, 413.

EXPORT OF ANIMALS AND THEIR PRODUCTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. COMPILED FROM THE REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF THE TREASURY FOR THE YEAR

The total value of animals and their products for the year ending June 30th, 1853, is $7,915,259.

PRICES OF WHEAT AT ALBANY FOR 61 YEARS.

The following table, showing the price of wheat per bushel at Albany, New York, on the first of January in each year, from 1793 to 1854, has been prepared from tables kept at the office of the Van Rensselaer Manor at Albany :