These figures of course are not strictly accurate, but they are probably as nearly so as possible PRODUCTION OF SHEEP AND WOOL IN THE UNITED STATES. The Superintendent of the Census of the United States furnishes the annexed table, showing the number of sheep and pounds of wool produced in each of the States and Territories of the Union, according to the census of 1850: WHALE FISHERY IN THE REGIONS ABOUT BEHRING'S STRAITS. On the 22d of March, 1852, the United States Senate adopted a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Navy "to communicate to the Senate his opinion of the expediency of a reconnoissance of the routes of navigation in the northern seas, and the China and Japan seas, and whether any vessels belonging to the service can be used for that purpose; and also, what would be the expense of such a reconnoissance.” The Secretary of the Navy, under date of April 5th, 1852, in reply to the Senate's resolution, has extracted from the files of the Navy Department, a carefully prepared discussion of the subject by Lieutenant MAURY, the able and efficient Superintendent of the National Observatory at Washington. From the reliable statements of Lieutenant MAURY, we make the following extract touching the value and importance of the whale fishery in the Anadir, Ochotsk, and Arctic seas, as the whaling grounds in the regions about Behring's Straits are called. In the summer of 1848, Captain Roys, of the whaleship 'Superior,' penetrated the Arctic ocean through Behring's Straits, and encountered in his adventurous pursuit all the dangers of an unknown and Polar sea. He was successful in his enterprise, filling his ship with oil in a few weeks. Influenced by the report which he brought back as to the abundance of whales, owners in the United States fitted out a large fleet for those grounds, and in 1849, Captain Roys was followed by one hundred and fifty-four sail of whale ships, each vessel (said to be) worth on the average, with her outfit, $30,000, and manned by thirty able-bodied seamen each. This fleet took that season 206,850 barrels whale oil, and 2,481,600 pounds of bone. "In the summer of 1850, there went up a whaling fleet of one hundred and fiftyfour American vessels, manned as above and of a like average value. This fleet, in the course of a few weeks, left for their pursuits in those inhospitable regions, took 243,680 barrels whale oil, and 3,654,000 pounds of bone. "In the current year (1851) there went up a fleet of about one hundred and fortyfive American vessels; but their returns have not been received; partial accounts of wreck and disaster only have reached us. They are startling. "The lives and property at stake there, for the two years for which we have complete returns, may thus be stated: "The losses during the year 1851 have been unprecedented, so far as heard from. No less than seven sail of this fine fleet of 1851-the Honqua, the New Bedford, the Arabella, the America, the Armata, the Mary Mitchell, and the Henry Thompsonhave been wrecked there and left behind as monuments of the dangers which meet these hardy mariners in their adventurous calling. There are reports of other losses and wrecks these are certain; and though several of them were lost, not on shoals, but otherwise, yet these are enough to tell of imperfect hydrography, and to show the national importance of looking to it; for it may be so that, in case of loss in the ice, the knowledge of a sheltered anchorage near, and which a survey would give, would have prevented the exposure to the ice which induced the loss. "All our Commerce with what is called 'the East' is not so valuable as this was for 1849 and 1850." AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS OF VIRGINIA. In compliance with a resolution of the House of Delegates, the Secretary of the Commonwealth recently communicated to that body a statistical table of the Agricultural productions, &c., in Virginia, compiled and arranged from the census returns, from which the following tabular statement is derived: The following statement, derived from an authentic source, shows the quantity and value of principal exports from Galena, Ill., for the year 1851, and also the amount and value of lumber received at Galena, during the same period :— The total amount and value of lumber, &c., received at Galena, for the year 1851, IMPORTATION OF BREADSTUFFS INTO GREAT BRITAIN. A TABULAR STATEMENT OF THE QUANTITY (IN QUARTERS) OF CORN MEAL AND FLOUR IMPORTED INTO GREAT BRITAIN FROM IRELAND, THE BRITISH COLONIES, AND ALL OTHER PARTS, IN EACH YEAR, FROM 1815 To 1851, INCLUSIVE. From Ireland. From Brit. Colonies. From other parts. Total imp'd. Year. 1815 .quarters 821,192 25 333,041 1,154,258 COMPARATIVE COMMERCE OF PORTS IN THE UNITED STATES. We give below official tables of the value of foreign and domestic exports from the seven principal commercial cities of the United States, also a comparative statement of the value of imports into the same, all in each quarter, of the years from 1850 to 1852: A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE VALUE OF FOREIGN GOODS, &C., EXPORTED FROM THE FOLLOWING DISTRICTS. $6,424,842 $3,293,553 $5,149,979 $3,667,358 $3,192,169 40,603 104,453 81,229 ...... $727,252 1850. 3d quarter. 1851. 1850. A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FROM THE FOLLOWING DISTRICTS. 4th quarter. 1st quarter. Boston.... $1,390,850 $3,303,004 $2,898,609 $3,741,791 $1,685,301 New York. 13,364,937 19,476,164 12,370,315 18,540,781 1852. 1st quarter. $2,761,602 Philadel'a. Baltimore. Charleston.. 936,200 1,452,500 1,321,316 1,421,324 1,203,039 1,288,057 N. Orleans. $30,721,761 $33,781,671 $34,486,672 $39,350,469 $27,911,884 $24,694,516 A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS IN THE FOLLOWING DISTRICTS. 1852. 1850. 1851. 3d quarter. 3d quarter. 1st quarter. Boston..... $7,880,117 $9,095,182 $5,883,439 $6,010,793 $8,365,748 $8,151,858 New York. 49,266,402 42,297,534 20,106,910 22,086,714 42,557,960 32,110,000 4,176,770 4,842,691 2,021,599 2,059,052 4,451,638 4,612,098 $65,009,509 $61,084,710 $34,600,488 $37,331,370 $60,130,345 $48,600,487 STATISTICS OF THE SLAVE TRADE. A return, as nearly as the same can be furnished, of the number of slaves embarked on the coast of Africa, and landed in Cuba and Brazil, in each year from 1842 to the latest date to which the accounts extend:* |