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EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS IN THE MONTH OF MAY.

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This shows a gain on May of last year, but is a little below the corresponding totals of several previous years. In specie, it shows the largest monthly export on record. The heaviest shipments in any previous month were in May, 1859, when the total was $11,421,032. We present also the exports from this port from January 1 to the close of May:

EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR FIVE MONTHS FROM JANUARY 1ST.

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This shows a large increase the last five months over the same period of 1865. If now we add the figures for the previous six months we have the following as the exports for the eleven months of the fiscal year :—

EXPORTS (EXCLUSIVE OF SPECIE) FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR ELEVEN

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In estimating the trade of the country from these figures for the port of New York, it should be remembered that they do not represent the same proportion of that trade as formerly. The last year nearly all the imports for the South have been entered at New York, while the exports from the South have been very large; in cotton alone .amounting to about 700,000 bales.

TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

COTTON, BREADSTUFFS, PROVISIONS, ETC.

Our London correspondent furnishes us an analysis of our trade with Great Britain during the first five months of the present year, compared with the corresponding period in 1865 and 1864. The figures presented to us exhibit many features of great interest at the present moment, and show how extensively our inward and outward trade with Great Britain has been augmented.

The total declared value of the exports of British and Irish produce from Great Britain to all quarters from Jan. 1 to May 31 was £78,227,710, whilst in the corresponding period last year, it amounted to only £60,901,576; and in 1864 to £64,069,060

There is, therefore, an increase in the present year in this department of trade of nearly £18,000,000 as compared with 1865, and of £14,000,000 as compared with 1864 For each month the figures stand thus:

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The details for each country embrace a period of only four months, and for that period the return gives the following results so far as the United States are concerned :

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The computed real value of the principal imports into Great Britain for the four months ending April 30 was £68,804,895, against £45,337,850 in 1865, and £54,719,390 in 1864. For each month in each of the last three years the figures were as follows i

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Cotton continues to be imported freely into Great Britain from the United States. In May the largest supply was received from that quarter the receipts from American ports being very nearly one half of the total importation. The total impor in May was 1,490,636 bales being an increase of 880,000 bales as compared with May last year, and an increase of 500,000 bales as compared with the same month in 1864. The total receipts for the five months ending May 81, were 5,180,070 bales, against 2,687,022 bales last year, and 2,756,664 bales in 1864. The details are as under:

IMPORTS OF COTTON INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM IN FIVE MONTHS,

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The computed real value of the cotton imported during the four months ending

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The export of cotton from Great Britain in May were less than in the corresponding month in 1865. This circumstance arose from the fact that a probability then existed of a Fenian 'war, the decline in the export being chiefly as regards the Hanse TownsThe total for the month is 268,945 cwts. ; against 323,864 cwts. in 1865, and 275,301 cwts. in 1864. For the five months ending May 31, the exports to each of the leading countries were of the following magnitude:

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Now that war has been commenced on the Continent of Europe, and that a considerable rise has taken place in the value of wheat in England, statistics relating to the extent of the imports of wheat and flour into Great Britain are of valuable importance. The most significant fact to be drawn from the latest statement of imports into Great Britain is the extent to which the export trade in wheat and flour from French ports has been augmented during the present year. Russia, in the export of wheat, shows a very large increase; but, as regards the United States the figures are quite anim. portant. The quantity shipped from Prussian ports is small as compared with the exports from France and Russia. Our latest advices from London, Liv rpool, and the other principal markets of the United Kingdom, state that, in consequence of the fineness of the weather, the continuance of a high rate for money in the discount market, and an increasing importation, the wheat trade had become most inactive; but, in consequence of the Continental war, holders of wheat were quite indisposed to make any concessions in prices. It appeared doubtful whether the advance in the quotations of 6s. @ Ss. per quarter could be wholly maintained, there being a tendency to a lower range of values. The statement of imports into the United Kingdom is as follows:

IMPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM IN FIVE MONTHS.

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It will be observed that Egypt has not yet assumed her position as a wheat export

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BRITISH AND IRISH PRODUCE.

The exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures in May show, as regards many articles, a diminution from previous years, not so much, indeed. from last year, at which period comparatively little business was then passing between the United States and Great Britain, but from 1864 and previously to that period. The aggre

gate for the present year, however, is large, and compares very favorably with many previous years:

DECLARED VALUE OF EXPORTS OF BRITISH AND IRISH PRODUCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN TO THE UNITED STATES FROM JAN. 1 TO MAY 31.

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668,531 1,754,972

Worsted stuffs of wool only, and of wool mixed with other mat. 1,291,022

PROVISIONS.

In the imports of provisions the principal increase is in lard and eggs. The former of these articles is selling at high prices in the United Kingdom, although they exhibit a considerable decline from the quotations current at the close of last year. Of other provisions the arrivals show no material variation from last year:

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In consequence of the war, the import of live stock from Austria into Great Britain

is stopped. The British Government, however, have modified their recent orders, and the import of fat stock is now permitted from ports in Friesland and Groningen. The imports of live stock into Great Britain for the five months ending May 31, were as under:

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In May, 40 vessels, of a tonnage of 41,897 tons entered at ports in the United Kingdom. In the corresponding time last year, the aggregate was only 23, of 22,590 tons burden; but in 1864 the total reached 40, whilst the tonnage was 48,398 tons. During the five months the entries were 191, against 106 last year, and 173 in 1864, the tonnage in those years being 194,486, 115,862, and 199,987 tons respectively. The clearances of American vessels in May were 45, against 44 in 1865, and 40 in 1864. During the five months ending May 31, the total entries of American vessels were 233, of 231,011 tons; against 138, of 142,286 tons last year, and 183, of 203,930 tons in 1864. In May, 159 vessels entered at ports in the United Kingdom from American ports, the total during the corresponding month last year being only 45, and in 1864 95. The total entries of vessels from the United States during the five months ending May 31 were 705, of 653,116 tons; against 201, of 230.042 tons last year; and 428, of 425,977 tons in 1864. The clearances of vessels of all nationalities at ports in Great Britain for American ports were as follows: In May, current year, 126; do. last year, 83; do. in 1864, 112; in the five months ending May 31, 1866, 648; in 1865, 270, and in 1864, 395.

ANALYSES OF RAILROAD REPORTS. No. 11.

1. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad.-II. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company.— III. Cumberland Valley Railroad.

The Financial Statement of the Illinois Central, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago and Chicago and Rock Island Companies appeared in the July number. We now give brief historical sketches of each, which were received too late for insertion in their appropriate places.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.

The Illinois Central Railroad Company was chartered by the State of Illinois February 10, 1851, and authorized to construct a railroad from La Salle, northwes, to the Mississippi River opposite Dubuque, Iowa, and southwardly to Cairo at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi, and also a branch from the main line to Chicago. The Company's capital was fixed by this charter at $1,000,000, and might be increased to whatever sum the cost of construction might involve.

The charter also surrendered to the Company all the property acquired by the State in the course of previous efforts made to construct a railroad between the same points; and all the lands donated by the United States under the act of Congress of September 30, 1850. These latter consisted of nearly 2,600,000 acres in alternate sections within six miles on both sides of the road. This property was placed in trust to be applied only to the construction of the works projected. Upon

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