EXPORT OF BREADSTUFFS FROM CRONSTADT, RUSSIA.

Comparative note of Grain, Flour, and Meal cleared out from Cronstadt, and remaining on the spot, at the close of the navigation of 1844, 1845, 1846, and

1847.

We have before us a report of the Register of the Treasury, of the commerce and navigation of the United States for 1847, which is worthy of more than a passing notice. During that year breadstuffs to the amount of $57,000,000 were exported from this country-the value of flour being $26,000,000; wheat, $6,000,000; Indian corn and meal, $18,000,000; and cotton, $53,000,000. The value of manufactures exported was less than $10,000,000, of which $4,000,000 was for manufactures of cotton. The export of fish amounted to $800,000, and of oil, whalebone and candles to upwards of $2,000.000. In value, nearly half of these exports were to England; to France, $17,000,000; Ireland, $12,000,000; British West Indies, $4,000,000; British American Colonies, $6,000,000; Cuba, $6,000,000; Brazil and Chili, $4,000,000; Italy, 1,000,000; Austria, $1,000,000; Hayti, $1,200,000, &c.

The value of foreign exports-i. e. exports from the United States of goods, wares and merchandise of the growth and manufacture of foreign countrieswas $8,011,158. More than one-fourth of these exports were to British American Colonies; namely, $2,165,876. To Cuba, about a million; England, $800,000; to Belgium, $348,000; Hanse Towns, $266,000; France, $450,000; South America, $700,000; Hayti, $112,000, &c.

Almost all the exports of foreign produce were from New York and Massachusetts. Including both foreign and domestic, the exports from New York were nearly $50,000,000; South Carolina, $10,000,000; Maryland, $9,000,000; Louisiana, $42,000,000; Massachusetts, $11,000,000; Pennsylvania, $8,000,000, &c. &c.

The value of imports for the year is $149,545,638. Of this amount $41,772,636 was for articles admitted free of duty-including nearly 16,500,000 pounds of tea, and 140,000,000 pounds of coffee, together valued at over $13,000,000; and $24,000,000 of specie.

Of articles paying ad valorem duty, the value was $91,000,000, and of articles paying specie duty $13,000,000.

The annexed table, from the N. Y. Herald, exhibits the quantity of breadstuffs exported from the principal ports of the United States to Great Britain and Ireland from the 1st of September, 1847, to the latest dates, 1848, compared with the corresponding period the previous year:

Exports of Breadstuffs from the United States to Great Britain and Ireland.

Flour, Corn Meal,

bbls.

bbls.

bush.

New Orleans to May 27

Other ports to May 31

34,813

Decrease this year

1,833,108 550,891 1,687,880 10,599,233 There were exported, last year, 46,171 bushels of rye, 373,972 bushels of oats, and 172,202 bushels of barley. This season, not a bushel of these grains has been exported to Great Britain or Ireland. The above statement shows an immense falling off in the shipments of all kinds of breadstuffs. We annex a table giving the value of the shipments of breadstuffs from the United States to Great Britain and Ireland, up to the latest dates each year:—

Value of Breadstuffs Exported to Great Britain and Ireland, 1847 and 1848.

We extract from the N. Y. Express the following:

The returns of the imports at the port of New York for the first six months of the past three years are as follows:

January
February
March
April
May
June

1846.

1847.

$376,905

$478,443

1848. $1,000,829

474,360

1,092,476

2,228,878

1,300,751

738,755

1,283,754

1,239,006

Exports of Breadstuffs from Philadelphia for a series of years.

[Prepared by Col. Childs, editor of Commercial List.]*

We noticed in our first number (p. 97) that Col. C. had in preparation a set of tables exhibiting the exports of breadstuffs from the United States since 1785: we are now enabled to give the following statement of exports from Philadelphia from the year 1790 until the present time.

* We are informed by Col. C. that there are some inaccuracies in this table, in consequence of his sickness at the time it was made up-they will be rectified hereafter.

CEREAL GRAINS OF THE UNITED STATES.

PRODUCTION OF 1847-CONSUMPTION AND SURPLUS FOR EXPORTATION.

[Hon. E. Burke's Report.]

I.-Quantity of the different Grains produced in the United States in 1847.

The following is the amount of the different kinds of grain produced in the United States in 1847, according to the estimate contained in the table preceding the agricultural report of this office for the present year, viz: