fined sugar, £7,827; woolen yarn, £12,050; Linen yarn, £91,237. The destination of the exports has been as follows for four year :

DECLARED VALUE OF EXPORTS OF BRITISH AND IRISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO EACH FOREIGN COUNTRY AND BRITISH POSSESSION, FOR THE YEARS 1845, 1852, 1857, AND 1858.

Total exports.. . . . .

20,082,439 37,154,688 40,224,994 57,993,277 84,911,419 76,389,337

60,111,082 78,075,716 122,066,107 116,614,331

ARTICLES REMAINING IN BOND, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ON THE 31ST OF DECEMBER IN

The figures of neither of the above tables include specie, of which the movement is as follows:

BULLION AND SPECIE IMPORTED and exported TO DECEMBER 31st, 1858.

IMPORTS.

Countries.

Russia, N. ports

-Month ending December 31, 1858.-Year ending December 81, 1858 —
Gold.

Silver.

.......

Total.

.....

Gold.
£1,446,813

Silver.

Total

The customs revenue for the years 1856, 1857, 1858, averaged over twentythree millions sterling, viz. :—

Messrs. Augustus Heard & Co., of Boston, in a circular upon the consumption of tea in the United States, remark :

We commence the account on the first of January, 1850, because the stock on hand in the United States was very small at that time, and was ascertained with great exactness, which has also been the case on the 1st of January, 1859. In determining the importation for the nine years, we have taken the reports of our firm in China, which are made up with great accuracy on the 30th of June in each year, after deducting cargoes known to be lost. To this import from China, we add all the imports from other countries, and deduct the exports to Great Britain; regarding the exchanges which occur between Great Britain and the United States as a mere shifting of stocks, and assuming the exports to the British Provinces, South America, and other countries, as part of the regular requirements for the United States. And it may be remarked that these exports have the regularity and gradual increase of natural consumption.

Total.. 283,501,255 8,140,434 2,769,582 1,879,352 295,883,602 6,910,025 407,021, 5 per cent for probable loss at sea.

In the above table, the imports from Singapore are taken from the printed circulars of Messrs. Boustead & Co., which are confirmed in the latter years by some private records of arrivals kept here. For the fourth column, we are obliged to rely on the official reports of the United States, although we know them to be extremely imperfect with regard to teas as well as many other articles. The item, however, is not important, and the fault of our official returns seems to be chiefly in omissions. The exports to, and imports from. Great Britain for the first seven years are from the official reports of the British Government, and, in the absence of those documents for 1857 and 1858, these years are taken from the United States reports. If we had taken the whole of these two columns from the United States reports, it would have added upwards of a million of pounds to the total consumption. We have, then, 285,309,280 lbs., as the aggregate consumption of the United States for the nine years--1850 to 1858, inclusive.

It is not probable that the consumption of tea in the United States, where it pays no duty, and is a cheap article as compared with other countries, is much affected, in ordinary years, by price. It will, therefore, approximate very near to the truth to apportion this aggregate consumption according to population. By the census of the United States, the ratio of increase in each decade has been very uniform, varying only between 32 and 36 per cent, and averaging 341. Assuming the mean ratio from 1850, we have the following result :—

We are advised that the shipment of Aukoi teas from China to Singapore at the last dates was very short, while the recent decision of the Treasury Depart ment to impose a duty of 15 per cent on teas from that quarter will deter ship

ments.

While the consumption of Great Britain and the United States has been constantly increasing, with scarcely any check from the Crimean war or the panic of 1857, the power of production in China, as shown by the exports of the last five years, has been diminished, notwithstanding the stimulus of high prices in 1857:

Of the exports of 1858, 12,000,000 lbs. were the production of the previous year, detained in Canton by the war and blockade.

LAKE TRADE OF BUFFALO.

STATEMENT OF IMPORTS BY LAKE AT BUFFALO, OF FLOUR and grain FOR A SERIES OF YEARS.

1836.

139,178

304,090

204,355

28,640

4,876