The following is a list of the directors of this company: Willard Phillips, Geo. H. Kuhn, Charles Browne, Sewell Tappan, Marshall P. Wilder, Charles P. Curtis, Thomas A. Dexter, Wm. Perkins, N. F. Cunningham, Charles Hubbard, A. W. Thaxter, Jr. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. THE IRON TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN. We have already alluded to a series of valuable papers on the Iron Trade of the World, as in course of publication in the London Morning Chronicle. A number of that paper contains still further information, and particularly the following tables, which embody a highly interesting view of the iron trade of Great Britain since 1806. It will be seen that in the year named, the total number of furnaces was 216, and the production, 243,851 tons; whereas in 1852, the total number of furnaces was 655, and the production, 2,701,000 tons. RETROSPECT SINCE 1806, AND THE INCREASED PROPORTION WHICH SCOTLAND BEARS TO THE WHOLE : FURNACES IN BLAST, AND PRODUCTION IN GREAT BRITAIN. AVERAGE PRICES OF PIG AND BAR IRON FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. EXPORT OF TEAS TO THE UNITED STATES. We are indebted to our attentive correspondents, Messrs. King & Co., for the subjoined statement of the export of teas to the United States. THE QUANTITY OF CORN, MEAL, AND FLOUR IMPORTED INTO GREAT BRITAIN FROM IRELAND IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS: COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE OF WILMINGTON, N. C. A correspondent of the Journal of Commerce, writing from Wilmington, communicates a statement of the exports from that port for the year 1853, for the purpose of calling attention to the place of persons of capital who would like to engage in mercantile pursuits, in a healthy city of increasing commercial importance. He says:— The exports of Wilmington in 1840 were less than $1,500,000, in 1853 more than $7,000,000—with a banking capital of only one and a half millions of dollars, but which will probably be increased to two and a half or three millions by legislative enactment next year. The Manchester Railroad, after the completion of the Great Pedee bridge, prior to 1st September, will bring us Lext year 75,000 bales of South Carolina cotton, to pay for which, cash buyers must come from your city and other places. At 10 cents per pound, this article will add $2.500,000 to the exports next year. The freight on cotton from this place is ct. per lb., while from Charleston it is ct. This will always be the case, as the great buik of our exports are naval stores, which, from their great weight, pay a heavy freight. Turpentine, per barrel, to New York, at this time, 70 cents. In four months from this time the Deep River Canal will be opened, and we expect the article of coal will be exported from our port next year to a very great extent. A very gratifying circumstance to our place is, that in the last year our Bar has deepened from 12 to 14 feet water on ordinary high tides. This is owing to the enterprise of our merchants in subscribing $60,000 to the works on our bars, which we hope Congress will make additional appropriations to. The Senate has voted to us $200,000, but the bill appears to sleep in the House of Representatives. EXPORTS FROM THE PORT OF WILMINGTON FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1853. 972 bbls, 159 boxes, 181 bags. bundles. Sheep skins, 43 bunLeather, 154 sides, 55 bundles. bbls., 33 boxes. Bacon, 6 hhds. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. Dried fruit, 67 hhds, Fur, 10 boxes, 1 hhd., 2 bales. Hides, 711, and 236 dles. Rags, 72 bales. Tobacco, 7 hhds., 286 boxes. Feathers, 6 bags. Wax, 20 hhds., 7 casks, 17 bags, 75 Copper ore, 1,216 bbls., 36 boxes. Pipes, 21 boxes, 3 casks, 4 bbls. Sugar, 7 hhds, 491 boxes. Old iron, 693 tons, 8 hhds., 3 tierces, 12 bbls. Varnish, 6 bbls. Molasses, 85 hhds. Brandy, 12 bbls., 54 pipes. Eggs, 2 bbls. Coal. 2 bbls. Tallow, 9 bbls. Old copper, 7 bhds., 1 box. Reeds, 173 bundles. Batts, 15 bales. Merchandise, 347 boxes, 2 bales, 21 bbls., 10 hhds. Pine wood, 20 cords. Nails, 37 kegs. Tea, 1 chest Fish, 64 bbls. COMMERCE OF HONOLULU, SANDWICH ISLANDS. The following statement of imports, exports, receipts, etc., at the custom-house at the port of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, from the year 1843 to 1852, inclusive, is taken from the Polynesian and the custom house records : Total .... $7,265,587 05 $1,085,119 23 $644,334 76 $556,894 82 1844. 289,969 77 8,970 13 411 60 4,881 33 14,263 58 Total.... $6,695,381 26 $581,565 76 $4,768 49 $63,576 19 $669,987 57 LUMBER TRADE OF CHICAGO AND THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. The annexed statement exhibits the receipts of lumber, shingles, and laths at Chicago for seven years :— Shingles. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. Lumber. 32,118,225 12,148,500 Laths. 5,655,600 The amount of capital engaged in the business cannot be less than $3,500,000. It gives employment to a large number, which will be greatly increased this season, and, in fine, is one of the most important trades in some of our western cities. To give some idea of the immense quantity of lumber manufactured in Michigan, we give the quantity of lumber estimated to be manufactured in St. Clair and Sanilac Counties, Michigan, during 1854: Lumber... 92,900,000 Logs furnished by these counties and sawed by mills on Detroit River. 33,000,000 6,000,000 Add ten per cent for increased machinery and improvements, and general advance in value...... 13,190,000 Quantity of lumber and logs for 1854...... 145,090,000 Worth, at a low estimate of $10 per thousand, $1,450,900. Add to this sum the value of laths, shingles, fish, staves, and spars, and the exports from the two counties above named will not fall below two millions of dollars for the present year. IMPORTS FROM RUSSIA INTO THe united kingdOM IN 1852 AND 1853. Hemp. ...... .cwt. 918,523 1,287,978 386,699 21,048 609,197 847,267 518,667 765,015 1,459,303 2,477,789 10 918,523 1,287,988 42 543,965 836,473 Wool, sheep's.......lbs. 1,652,992 3,693,926 3,760,780 5,360,517 5,363,772 9,054,443 37,348 ...... Iron, unwrought .....tons ACCOUNT SHOWING THE ENTIRE QUANTITIES OF THE SAME ARTICLES IMPORTED FROM ALL PLACES IN 1852 AND 1853. 1,792 5,079 236 974 1,042 656 28,297 45,427 THE PROPORTION OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES DERIVED FROM RUSSIA, AS COMPARED WITH THE ENTIRE IMPORTS, IS AS FOLLOWS: PROPORTION OF THE ENTIRE FOREIGN SUPPLIES DERIVED FROM RUSSIA. The quantities of iron and copper are so small that they are not worth the computation. It thus appears that for the supply of foreign tallow, linseed, flax, hemp, and Bristles, England is mainly indebted to Russia. Of grain, wool, and timber, the proportions are not so important. GRAIN AND FLOUR TRADE OF THE United kingDOM. A return has been issued showing the quantity of grain, flour, and live stock, imported into the United Kingdom from each country and colony in 1849, 1850, 1851, and 1852, with the official value of these imports and of all the imports, and the declared value of the exports. Converting meal and flour into their equivalent in quarters of grain, the return shows that the chief sources from which was drawn the grain, meal, and flour consumed in the United Kingdom in 1852 were the United States, which sent 1,400,558 quarters; Egypt, 777.745; Wallachia and Moldavia, 713,877; France, 745,161; Denmark, 770,196; Prussia, 554,702; Russia sent 957,877 quarters from Black Sea ports, 343,948 from Northern ports; Wallachia and Moldavia sent only 325,128 quarters in 1849, and 217,505 in 1850; but those provinces have since risen into much more powerful competition with Russia in the corn trade. |