STATISTICS OF TRADE AND COMMERCE. GRAIN RECEIVED AT BUFFALO IN TWO YEARS. The table which we present below of the receipts by lake at Buffalo during the year, embraces all the principal articles reported at the custom-house. It will be seen by the comparative table that there is a handsome gain in nearly every article of produce as compared with the receipts of 1857. This increase is perhaps more noticeable in the total of grain and flour reduced to wheat, which compare as follows: 1857. 1858. 10,451,132 Increase in favor of 1858...... From this table it will be seen that the total receipts of grain and flour reduced to wheat this year reaches the enormous quantity of 27,386,090 bushels. The increase in receipts of provisions is no less marked. The receipts in 1857 and 1858 compare as follows: Pork.. Beef... Lard. Bacon Tallow. Butter.. 1857. 1858. Increase. These figures all show a very large increase in favor of 1858. The article of whisky also shows an increase of 15,861 barrels. IRON EXPORTED FROM STOCKHOLM. The quantity of iron exported from Stockholm in the past two years has been as follows in centners, distinguishing the destination:— THE LAKE TRADE. GRAIN EXPORTED FROM THE LAKE region in 1856 and 1857, and THE ROUTES BY WHICH By Lake Erie.... 1,279,487 8,477,258 5,835,065 1,321,406 22,031,164 27,829,612 Tot. West & South 512,302 2,873,000 1,552,210 1,086,170 8,072,890 7,521,950 Via Lake Ontario. 1,160,465 RECAPITULATION. ...... 8,137,889 2,944,767 472,562 17,357,543 23,188,580 148,138 1,049,108 2,422,620 8,477,258 5,835,065 1,321,406 22,031,164 27,999,612 462,976 4,352,036 4,216,957 ........ Total eastward... 3,397,958 16,768,285 8,779,832 2,256,944 44,789,851 57,707,769 ... .3,910,260 19,636,285 10,332,042 3,343,114 52,862,741 65,229,719 TABLE SHOWING THE RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE AT BUFFALO IN 1857, AND THE STATES FROM The live-stock credited Canada, reached Buffalo via Buffalo and Lake Huron Railroad and Great Western Railroad, and nearly all came over at Detroit from Western States. The following table will show the ports from which the above wheat was received during the year 1857: Chicago....bush. 5,285,071 | Huron.....bush. 35,938 Green Bay.. bush. 2,182 Sheboygan.. 1,580 Port Washington. 336 17,463 206 EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF BALTIMORE. The table given below shows that there was a considerable decrease last year in the foreign trade of Baltimore. The exports were $1,156,253, and the imports $4,162,584, less than in 1857, making a total decrease in the foreign trade last year of $5,319,127. The decrease in the foreign trade of Baltimore was not, however, proportionately greater than in the other Atlantic cities: VALUE OF FOREIGN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AT THE DISTRICT OF BALTIMORE FOR THE PAST LUMBER TRADE OF ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK. In 1858, 53 vessels were cleared, measuring 45,299 tons, valued at $2,264,950, carrying deals valued at $321,165, and earning freights to the amount of $330,952; value of vessels, cargoes, and freights, $2,917,067. It is worthy of remark that not one of these vessels received any damage in leaving the Bay of Fundy : No. of vessels..... Tonnage.... 1857. 1856. 1855. 1854. Value of tonnage.. $3,214,600 Standard deals 25,600 Earnings of freights.... 425,584 718,915 549,070 540,058 SUGAR EXPORTED FROM CUBA. The exports of sugar from the island of Cuba to different countries, distinguishing the hogsheads from the boxes, have been for five years as follows: TONNAGE OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE COD FISHERIES, THE ALLOWANCES PAID, ETC., FROM 1848 To 1857. Allowances employed. fishing vessels. 1848.. 82,652 $243,484 $22,811 95 $220.622 1849.. 73,882 287,604 21,809 66 265,794 1850.. 85,646 286,796 22,307 76 264.488 1851.. 87,476 328,267 25,193 08 303,074 1852.. 102,659 304,569 26,855 59 277,713 1853.. 99,990 323,199 24,847 41 298,351 Average allowance per year for ten years.. Average sum due as drawback per year for ten years.. Average excess of bounty over drawbacks per year for ten years... TRADE OF DENMARK FOR 1857. $323,046 30 26,612 40 296,433 60 IMPORT OF IRON AND STEEL INTO THE UNITED STATES. QUANTITY AND VALUE OF IRON AND STEEL IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1857 AND 1858. COMMERCE OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. The following are the official returns of the commerce of the Sandwich Islands, furnished by the Collector-General of the Customs :— These figures give the number of custom-house entries of whalers at the vessels entering at three, four, and even five ports during the year. different whalers during 1858, spring and fall seasons, will not exceed 230. various ports, some of The actual number of |