land, and 8,297,574 gallons in Ireland. The quantity of spirits charged with duty for consumption last year was, in Great Britain, 15,728,419 gallons; and in Ireland, 6,228,856 gallons. The total quantity of foreign and colonial spirits entered for home consumption in the United Kingdom last year amounted to 4,788,687 gallons, of which 4,457,455 entered England, 192,148 Scotland, and 139,084 Ireland.

PRICES OF PRODUCE AND MERCHANDISE AT CINCINNATI.

In the Merchants' Magazine for November, 1856, (vol. xxxv., pages 608–609,) we published the average prices of butter, cheese, and coffee, on the last day of each week of the year, commencing with September 5th, 1855, and ending August 27, 1856; and in the December number, (vol. xxxv., pages 748-749, the average prices of flour, corn, wheat, and rye, for the same time. In the number for January, 1857, (vol. xxxvi., pages 90–91,) we also gave the average prices of star candles, lard, oil, and barley. We now subjoin the average prices of oats, hay, hemp, and molasses :—

The following table shows the price of oats at the close of each week during the year :

The following table shows the price of hay at the close of each week during

the year :

80......

15 00 June

4.

.$11.00 11 50 12.00 13 00

...

October 3.. 14 00 February 6...... 15 00

10..... 15 00

18......

the

The following table shows the price of hemp at the close of each week during

year :

September 5...... $150 January 9...... $160 May

12...

19

150 150

16.....
23....
30.....

160

10.

The following table shows the price of molasses at the close of each week during

According to the Statesman, the following figures of the receipts of barley at

tide-water, during the following years, show:

Within twelve years the receipts have increased nearly 200 per cent, and the business has increased in this city in greater proportion. In 1843 and 1844, we find the business done in barley was not reported over 50,000 bushels per week; now it is not uncommon to report a daily business of 40,000 to 50,000 bushels. Of the quantity sold, 895,300 bushels is four-rowed, 604,500 is two-rowed,

123,800 bushels is Canadian, and 59,200 is mixed. The average value of the sales of four-rowed may be put at $1 264; of two-rowed, at $1 224; of Canadian at $1 274; and of mixed at $1 18. The aggregate quantity and value of the reported sales, may thus be stated :—

Making an average of a small fraction under $1 25 per bushel.

The highest figure paid for four-rowed was $1 32, in September; for Jefferson County two-rowed, $1 26, $1 28, and $1 33, was paid; and it is the large sales during the season of this description of barley that brings the average of tworowed barley up to $1 224; the highest figure paid for Canadian barley was $1 32, in November.

The greatest quantity of two-rowed barley sold at one price, was at $1 25; at which sales of 80,500 bushels were reported. Of Canadian, more than one-third of the whole quantity reported sold, was at $1 30; the sales, at that figure, reaching 52,500 bushels. Of four-rowed, 145,200 bushels were reported at $1 26, and 142,100 bushels at $1 264; being more than one-third the whole quantity reported at $1 261.

STATISTICS OF THE WHALE FISHERY.

We publish below a statement of the receipts of the whale fishery in the United States for the year ending December 30, 1856, to which we have appended the receipts for each year from 1845 to 1856, inclusive; and also, the importations of whalebone :

The Moscow correspondent of the London Morning Chronicle confirms the estimate made during the war in Parliament by Mr. Cobden, as to the vast internal trade of Russia, compared to which all her maritime trade is a mere fraction. He says the great fair of Nijney Novogorod has been going on for some time past, and some idea may be formed of the enormous extent of the transactions there, from the value of goods, domestic and foreign, sold at the fair last year. Total value of native and foreign goods and manufactures, $39,580,075; total of foreign goods, $12,150,985; making the enormous amount of native and foreign goods brought to the fair, $51,731,035. Among the foreign goods there were 46,000 chests of tea from China; raw cotton and yarn from Bokhara and Khiva; silks from various parts of Transcaucassia; toys, dyestuffs, and carpets from China, and madder and furs from Derbent, Bokhara, and Khiva.

POSTAL DEPARTMENT.

SAILING OF MAIL STEAMERS BETWeen united STATES AND EUROPE. We are indebted to HORACE KING, Esq., of the Post-office Department, for an official copy of a "SCHEDULE OF THE DAYS OF SAILING OF THE United States MAIL STEAMERS between the UNITED STATES ANd Europe for 1857;" together with the instructions of the Postmaster-General in regard to the postage on letters, pamphlets, periodical works, &c., to foreign countries, which we publish in connection with the schedule for the information of our readers :

The single rate of letter postage by either of the above lines, (and the same in respect to the British lines,) to or from any point in the United States, (except