EXPORTS FROM NEW ORLEANS TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR THREE MONTHS FROM JANUARY 1ST.

If a corresponding increase has been realized from other ports, (and we think this may be safely reckoned upon, from the large shipments of grain and flour taken from Southern Atlantic ports,) the exports for the fiscal year 1853-54 will be swelled beyond all former precedent.

THE NEW YORK COTTON MARKET

FOR THE MONTH ENDING MAY 15.

PREPARED FOR THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE BY UILHORN & FREDERICKSON, BROKERS, 148 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK.

Cotton has varied but little in price during the past month. The demand has been eteady, and holders on the whole have offered freely. The low grades have attracted little or no attention, from their abundance, the principal demand being for middling qualities and above. The finer grades continue scarce, and are held above the views of shippers; our own spinners in the purchase of same are compelled to pay greatly above the quoted rates.

The business of the first week of the month under review exceeded 2,000 bales per day, at an advance of c. per lb. on the previous week. The foreign advices being of a favorable character, and confirmatory frost accounts from various sections of the South, tended to the above elevation in prices, which were firmly maintained throughout the week, with the following sales:

PRICES ADOPTED APRIL 24TH FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:

For the week ending May 1st the demand somewhat moderated, and prices were reduced a shade on all grades; the market throughout the week was well supplied and holders disposed to sell. The Arabia's advices, received this week, were favorably construed. Politics looked brighter, money easy, and many of the English spinners commencing the cotton sail-cloth manufacture, gave hopes that the consumption of the staple would increase. The prospect here, however, was clouded by the apprehension of a decline to be received in answer to ours, and the week closed dull, with the following sales and quotations:

PRICES ADOPTED MAY 1ST FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:

The depression noticed above continued through the following week, without any material change in prices. The operations were principally on spinners' and speculators' accounts, the demand for export being lessened by the withdrawal of orders and decreased limits on advances from abroad. The quotations below were obtained for a strict classification, but mixed lists were unsalable unless at a decline of about fc. a fc. per lb.

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6,877

Total sales during the week.....

PRICES ADOPTED MAY 8TH FOR THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES :—

The week ending May 15th witnessed a revival of a demand from all parties. Our own manufacturers took to the extent of 4,616 bales, mostly of grades above good middling. Their purchases of lower grades are very small. The high price of labor, and the imperfections of our machinery, require a much better article of cotton to produce the same quantity and quality of yarn than is necessary on the other side. Prices gradually hardened during the week, and at the close an advance of tc. per lb. was observable on all grades-holders offering their stocks sparingly, especially the better grades, which were only obtainable at outside figures. The market closed firm, at the following quotations :

Export..

Home use

...bales.

3,985 Speculation.
4,616 In transitu..

........bales.

Total sales during the week.......

PRICES ADOPTED MAY 15TH FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:—

1,514

1,289

11,404

The following is from our " Cotton Report" prepared for the steamer of the 18th instant:

CROP PROSPECTS. The probable extent of last year's crop is lost sight of in the interest manifested in regard to the growing one. From all sections of the cotton-growing districts, and from New Orleans, Mobile, Apalachicola, and Savannah, the complaints are numerous and well founded, of the damage done to the crop-and the unseasonableness of the weather is the tenor of all letters to the latest mail dates. The frosts of the 17th and 18th of April have been followed by extremely cold weather to the end of the month. The damage done to cotton in many districts is such that planters have decided in most cases to plant corn instead.

Cotton seed for replanting is likewise scarce in many places, and the prospect for the supply of cotton out of the growing crop is anything but encouraging, following as it does our present deficient receipts of 496,000 bales, as compared with last year.

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JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE.

CORPORATED WEALTH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

VALUE OF PROPERTY AND TAXES OF STOCK COMPANIES IN NEW YORK CITY.

In the Merchants' Magazine for May, 1854, (Vol. xxx., No. v.,) we published a statement of the relative value of the real and personal property in each Ward of the City of New York in the years 1852 and 1853, derived from the report of Hon. A. C. Flagg, City Controller. We now give, from the same official source, a statement of the moneyed or stock corporations in the City of New York, deriving an income from their capital, showing the name of each company, the amount of personal and real estate, the total valuation, and the amount of tax levied on each company in July, 1858:Personal estate. Real estate. Tot'l valuat'n. Am't tax.

These amounts are all embraced in the table published in the Merchants' Magazine for May, 1854, vol. xxx., No. 5, p. 608.