EXCHANGE BETWEEN LONDON AND THE UNITED STATES. CONTINUED, AMSTERDAM remitted to London for negotiation, compared with a direct remittance at 60 days sight, exclusive of commission. TO REDUCE DOLLARS TO POUNDS STERLING.-From one-fourth of the number of dollars deduct 10 per cent. of that 4th, and the remainder will be pounds, and the decimals of a pound. Example. Required the value of $444.44 in pounds sterling. Nots. The value of a British silver shilling in the United States is 22 cents 2 mills. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. NEW YORK ARRIVALS AND CLEARANCES FOR NOVEMBER, 1840. A Table, showing the number of vessels which arrived at and cleared from the port of New York during the month of November, 1840. COMMERCE OF PORTO RICO, 1839. TRADE, COMMERCE, and Navigation of the IslanD OF PORTO RICO, FOR THE YEAR 1839, as translated from the Noticioso y Lucero, of Havana, for the New Orleans Bulletin. Do. do., 1838,......... ..1,160,057 02 | Increase, 1839,............................ The importations and exportations in ships of different nations, were as follows: Imports. $725,740 40 1,951,617 81 4,302,149 94 Do. do., 1838,............... ..$5,516,611 60 5,254,945 69 ..261,665 91 Exports. $400,401 86 414,996 21 U. States do Of the productions of the island, comprising the principal articles of exportation, the Statement of the amount at the different ports of entry in the island: ..galls. 3,311,7194 .hhds. 649 ..lbs. 4,320,339 8,891 $10,978,818 57 On the preceding, the editor of the Noticioso y Lucero lectures thus :-" In all places, like causes produce like effects. The liberal policy, as regards the money market, enjoyed in the Island of Porto Rico, is unquestionably the sole cause of its present enviable state of prosperity. In the year 1838, the arrivals were 1,201 vessels of all nations, the tonnage of which was 101,609; the clearances were 1,313 vessels; tonnage, 104,098. This will leave an excess for 1839 of 101 vessels, and of 14,718 tons for the arrivals; and for the clearances, of 9 vessels and 6,447 tons. The preceding summary, says the Noticioso y Lucero, shows most conclusively that the Island of Porto Rico, like Cuba, is in a state of increasing prosperity. COMMERCE OF QUEBEC. Comparative statement of arrivals at the port of Quebec in the years 1839 and 1840, to the undermentioned dates, inclusive. |