IMPORTS OF FOREIGN MERCHANDISE AT NEW YORK FOR OCTOBER. The total from January 1st, however, shows a falling off in the receipts both of dry goods and general merchandise, making a total of $8,260,088 below the imports of the corresponding period of last year, as will be seen by the annexed comparison: IMPORTS OF FOREIGN MERCHANDISE AT NEW YORK FOR TEN MONTHS. The amount for the expired portion of the current year, it will be seen, compares very nearly with the corresponding total for 1850. When we come to examine the particulars, however, we notice some remarkable changes; in the specie, it will be remembered, that the item for 1850 includes California gold: FOREIGN IMPORTS ENTERED AT NEW YORK FOR TEN MONTHS. Here it will be seen that while the goods entered directly for consumption are $5,000,000 less than for the same period of last year, and the goods entered for warehousing show also a similar decline, the goods withdrawn from warehouse exhibit an increase of $2,000,000. A more striking difference still is exhibited in the comparison with the similar ten months of 1850. The value entered directly for consumption is nearly $4,000,000 greater, while the goods entered for warehousing are $6,000,000 less, and the total withdrawn from warehouse is $4,000,000 in excess. We may now expect an increase in the value of goods warehoused, but for the last year, and particularly the last two quarters, the demand for foreign merchandise has been so active that a large proportion of the imports have been thrown directly on the market, and the stock in warehouse drawn down very low. This has been especially the case in dry goods, the trade in which has been particularly profitable. We have given above the total imports of dry goods; we now annex particulars both for the month of October and the ten months since January 1st. It will be seen that for the month there is an increase from last year in the total entered at the port of $922,475, and about the same amount as compared with 1850; while for the ten months there is a decrease of $4,090,894 from 1851, and of $3,013,228 as compared with 1850: IMPORTS OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS AT NEW YORK FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. IMPORTS OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS AT NEW YORK FOR TEN MONTHS, FROM JANUARY 1ST. Notwithstanding the falling off in the imports, there has been as already hinted, but little decline in the revenue, the total receipts at New York for ten months showing a decrease of only about $1,000,000. The export trade has been very animated; the value of domestic produce. shipped from New York during the month has largely increased, and from southern ports it is also in advance of last year. The corresponding month of 1850 was very heavy in this item, but no other previous year witnessed so large a total, since 1846. EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. This brings the total since January 1st (exclusive of specie,) $694,590 in excess of the same period of last year, and only $3,789,421 below the amount for the first ten months of 1850, which was unusually large. EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR TEN MONTHS. The exports of specie are already $10,000,000 less than for the same period of last year, and this difference will be still greater when the year is completed. The shipments of specie from New York during November and December of last year amounted to $10,702,231; during these months the current year, they will not reach $3,000,000, so that the total decline in specie shipments for the year, will be about $17,000,000. We annex a comparative statement of the shipment of some of the leading articles of produce, from New York to foreign ports from January 1st to Nov. 20th: 1851. 1852. 1851. 1852. 23,467 16,083 Naval Stores... bbls. 326,256 491,146 1,597 1,088 ...lbs. 257,567 378,253 Ashes-Pots....bbls. Pearls....... Oils Beeswax.... Whale.. gals. 1,098,807 46,473 The above shows a very large increase in the export trade, which has been particularly active during the month of November. There has been a general advance in the prices of all species of provisions, and the general tendency in most is still upward. Rents of dwelling houses have risen in almost every thickly settled locality, and in New York and adjacent cities this advance is equal to nearly 25 per cent. Cotton, woolen, and silk goods, have also advanced, so that the expenses of living have largely increased. This bears with peculiar hardship on persons with a small salary, or with a moderate fixed income from any source, and is attracting serious attention from the industrial classes. The increased demand for our produce abroad, has given great activity to freights, and prices have ruled higher than for many years. The diversion of a large portion of British and other foreign tonnage to the Australian and East India trade, has given domestic ship owners an unusual advantage. It is computed that not less than 400,000 tons of extra shipping have cleared from British ports for Australia since the excitement commenced there, and no inconsiderable portion of this has been drawn from the direct trade between our ports and British home and provincial markets. What changes may be wrought during the coming year by the turn which has thus been given to Commerce, it is of course impossible to predict; but the new elements which have thus far appeared, have tended greatly to strengthen our commercial prosperity. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF COTTON. The Savannah Republican estimates the supply of cotton for 1852 as follows: And we have the total supply of cotton for 1852, about....... 4,024,000 The increase in the supply of cotton for the year ending on the 1st of September last, the Republican estimates at 660,000 bales, as compared with that of the preced. ing year, and then proceeds to show that the consumption has been fully commensurate with the increased production. It elucidates its position thus:— Stock, 1st September, 1852, in the United States.. Stock, 1st September, 1852, in England . .bales 91.000 617,400 Stock, 1st September, 1852, in France.. 63,000 Total stock on hand.... 771,400 Deduct increase of last over the previous crop of the South............. 660,000 And it would leave a stock of only...... 111,400 Against a stock of between 700,000 and 800,000 bales on the 1st September, 1851, thus showing that the increased product has been all taken up. The average weekly deliveries for consumption for 1852, are estimated at:- |