The value of merchandise not enumerated in the preceding abstract is classified in respect to the rate of duty, under the tariff of 1846, and the mode of importation, as follows: SHIPPING BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES, 1855-6. The following table, derived from the report of the Register of the Treasury Department, shows the number, class, and tonnage of vessels built in the several States for the year ending June 30th, 1856: MACKEREL AND OTHER FISHERIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. We compile from the returns of the inspectors a statement of the number of barrels of mackerel and other pickled fish inspected in Massachusetts for the year ending December 31, 1856 :— The comparative inspection for a number of years has been as follows: Total......... 214,312 211,952 135,3498 133,340 217,540 The other kinds of pickled fish inspected during the year 1856 were as follows: The Merchants' Magazine of March, 1856, (vol. xxxiv., pp. 362–363,) contains the inspector's statement for the year 1855. The Magazine for February, 1855, (vol. xxxii., pp. 237-238,) contains the inspector's statement for 1854, and the totals of inspection from 1825 to 1854. PORK TRADE AT CINCINNATI. From a number of the Cincinnati Price Current we take the following items :—The whole number of houses engaged in the pork packing business at Cincinnati during the last season was 37, being five houses less than in the previous season of 1855-6. The whole number packed, as reported by each house, was, in 1855–6, 405,396; in 1856-7, 344,512, showing a deficiency in the last season of 60,884. The total number received, as published in the Price Current from week to week during the season, was 343,817, while the number reported by packers was 344,512, showing a difference of only 695. The average weight of the hogs packed in 1856-7, slightly exceeded the corresponding weight of the previous season, according to the returns of 21 houses. In 1855-6, the average per hog was 204 pounds; in 1856-7, it was 205 pounds. This shows but a very slight increase, and, says our cotemporary, "if we had been able to obtain the comparison from all the houses, we are inclined to think it would have shown that the average weight for both seasons was about the same." The yield of lard was not as good as that of the previous season by from two to three pounds per hog. The shrinkage in curing the meat the last season was also above the average percentage. The extreme prices for hogs were- -$5 70 per 100 pounds in November; $7 80 in January; average of the year, $6 23§. Average of 1855-6, $6 044; of 1854-5, $4 454; and of 1853-4, $4 444. The following table shows the whole number of hogs packed in Cincinnati each season since 1834 : PROBABLE LOSS OF THE REVENUE BY THE TARIFF OF 1857. The Union publishes a statement, furnished, we presume, by one of the functionaries of the Treasury Department, showing the changes from one rate of duty to another, as made by the tariff act of 1857, (published in another part of this Magazine,) when applied to the importations of the year ending June 30, 1856. It is as follows: The loss of revenue by additions to the free list is..... 46 66 66 46 G, or 8 66 $1,145,615 90 775,535 67 263,247 41 4,922 80 Subjoined is a statement exhibiting the revenue which the importations into the United States in the year ending June, 1856, would produce under the tariff act of 1857 :-* * This includes an approximation to all the changes made by the new tariff, except bleached, printed, painted, and dyed manufactures of cotton, and of de laines, transferred from schedule D to C, (or 25 to 24 per cent,) and of japanned leather or skins, transferred from schedule E to D, (or 20 to 19.) These changes, raising from a lower to a higher schedule, would increase the aggregate above given, equal to the difference made by the transfer, and in proportion to the amount of such importations, which are not returned in such a manner as to be separated from other similar goods. FOREIGN EXPORTS OF PHILADELPHIA IN 1855 AND 1856. According to an official statement, the exports from the port of Philadelphia to foreign countries amounted, in the year 1855, to $6,935,359, and in 1856, to $7,899,920, showing a difference in favor of 1856 of $964,570. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF LIVERPOOL.-ALL BEARINGS BY COMPASS. Official information has been received at this office, that the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks and Harbour have given notice that the following changes in the buoying and lighting of the northern approaches to the port were carried into effect on Monday, the 6th of October last : CROSBY LIGHTHOUSE.-A light was exhibited at Crosby Lighthouse at sunset of the above date, and continued every night from sunset to sunrise. The light is stationary, of a red color, elevated 96 feet above the level of the sea at halftide, and visible between the bearings of S. S. E. † E., and east, which limits will indicate respectively when a ship is westward of Formby Spit, or to the southward of the Crosby Light-ship. FORMBY OLD LIGHTHOUSE.-The light in this tower was discontinued on the evening of the above date. Formby Light-ship was moved from her former berth, S. E. by S. S., a mile, into 33 feet at low water. Crosby Lighthouse bearing E. by S. S. southerly; N. W. mark N. E. by E. E. Crosby Light-ship S. E., distance 1 mile. Crosby Light-ship was moved from her former berth, N. by W. W., 330 fathoms, into 46 feet at low water. Crosby Lighthouse E.S; N. W. mark N. E. ↑ N. The Bell Beacon was moved from her former berth, north, 200 fathoms, into 25 feet at low water. N. W. Light-ship S. W. W., distance 3§ miles. Formby Light-ship, E. by S. 4 S. southerly, 3 miles. K. 1. Black Nun Buoy was moved N. E. by N., mile, into 18 feet at low water. N. W. Light-ship, W. † N., 24 miles. Bell Beacon, N. by E., 24 miles. V. 1. Red Can Buoy was moved N. W. by W., 180 fathoms, into 12 feet at low water. V. 1. Black Nun Buoy, N. by E., mile nearly. Bell Beacon, N. W. by W., § of a mile. V. 2. Black Nun Buoy was moved south, 45 fathoms, into 20 feet at low water. V. 2. Red Can Buoy, S. E. by S.,mile ncarly. Formby Lighthouse, E. S. E., 14 mile. Zebra Fairway Buoy was moved N. E. E., 325 fathoms, into 12 feet at low water. Formby Light-ship, S. S. E., 24 miles nearly. Bell Beacon, S. W. by W. W., 2 miles. Crosby Lighthouse, S. E. E. Z. 1. Black and White (striped vertically) Nun Buoy was moved N. E., 140 fathoms, into 8 feet at low water. Formby Light-ship, S. by E. E., 1 mile. Crosby Lighthouse S. E. by E. Z. 1. Black and White (striped horizontally) Nun Buoy was moved N. 4 E., a mile nearly, into 7 feet at low water, on the N. E. edge of Zebra Bank. Formby Light-ship, S. S. E. E., 1 mile. Crosby Lighthouse, S. E. by E. Q. 1. Black and White (check |