It would appear from these statements that, since 1833, the amount of coffee imported has increased 56 47-100 per cent, while that exported has diminished 32 12.100 per cent; that the amount consumed has increased 101 40-100 per cent; and that the cost of the article in the places of growth has advanced, as has also the price in the United States. The great increase of consumption, therefore, would seem to have been induced by some other cause than the removal of the duties, probably the increase of population; and perhaps the facilities of transportation enables it to reach the consumer in the inte rior at a diminished expense, while the demand has sustained the price in the market. The increase of population between 1830 and 1840 has been about 32 9-10 per cent. The amount consumed from 1826 to 1832 would furnish to each individual in the United States, according to the census of 1830, 3 7-10 pounds per annum; and the quantity consumed from 1834 to 1840, according to the population of 1840, would allow to each individual 4 7-10 pounds, being an increase in the latter period of 1 pound to each, per annum. This is independently, in both cases, of the consumption of 1833, which year has been excluded from all the preceding calculations. Owing to the high prices of tea, it is probable the consumption of coffee will be further extended during the present year. AMERICAN AND BRITISH SHIPPING. The annexed tables, copied from a London paper, are of interest, as showing the relative increase of American and British shipping employed in the trade between this country and the United Kingdom : Number of American Ships, and their Tonnage, entered from the United States in the ports of the United Kingdom during the past twelve years, ending the fifth day of January, 1843. Years. 1833, 1834,.. 1835,.. ENTERED. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Years. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. 1832,.... 639 229,869 651 231,280 1838,...... 602 275,813 624 284,808 432 167,359 471 176,771 | 1839,. 443 181,874 447 180,268 | 1840,. 492 204,529 546 220,913 | 1841,. 542 236,393 601 251,021 | 1842, 524 226,483 579 255,046 | 1843,. 1836, Years. CLEARED. ENTERED. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Years. 1832,.... 358 114,200 289 91,785 1838,...... 784 357,467 830 373,810 558 282,005 580 292,334 867 426,867 839 409,900 524 294,170 580 313,390 554 319,524 616 340,832 United States in same period. CLEARED. ENTERED. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. 81,023 83,203 92,482 360 180,041 275 138,201 318 159,597 267 121,777 355 195,745 281 152,833 1836, 1837,...... BRAZILIAN COTTON IMPORTED INTO GREAT BRITAIN.. The quantity of cotton imported into Great Britain from Brazil, appears to be decreasing annually. An English paper copies the following amounts of the quantities imported and entered for home consumption in each of the last ten years, from a recent parlia mentary return: COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. TARIFF OF COLONIAL DUTIES, Leviable upon Imports into British Guiana from 18th August, 1843, to 30th June, 1844, furnished for publication in the Merchants' Magazine by Benjamin and Duff, of Demerara. Oats, per bushel,..... 66 66 66 Bread, as pilot, navy biscuit, and crackers, and all other kinds, per 100 lbs. Pickled mackerel, per barrel, 200 lbs. English,.. Pickled fish of all other sorts, per barrel, 200 lbs. English,.. Barrels of beef and pork, 200 lbs. English,..... Candles, tallow, per lb. English,.......................... Candles, spermaceti, wax, or composition, per lb. English,.. $150 0 50 0 15 0 50 075 0 10 0 50 056 2.00 1.00 075 2.00 0 01 0.04 0 01 0 01 0 01 10.00 Tobacco, in packages not less than 800 lbs., per 100 lbs. English,.. Tobacco, in packages less than 800 lbs., manufactured or otherwise, per 100 Pitch, tar, and rosin, per barrel,. Crude turpentine, per barrel,.... Spirits turpentine, per gallon,.. Spermaceti oil, per gallon, Other descriptions of oils, per gallon,....... White pine lumber, per 1000 feet, board measure, Pitch pine lumber, per 1000 feet, board measure,. Red oak staves, per 1000,..... White oak staves and heading, per 1000,. Clapboards, per 1000,..... Shingles of all kinds, per 1000,. House frames, white pine, per running foot, per story, 200 0 25 5 00 5 00 6.00 4.00 0.50 0 50 0 15 0 20 0 10 2.00 3 00 1.50 2.00 150 0.50 0 10 0 20 7.00 5.00 0 08 1.00 33 00 Hams, bacon, and all other dried or smoked meats, and smoked fish, per 100 lbs. English, Pickled tongues, at the rate of, per 100 lbs.,......... 150 0 1 50 And after those rates for every greater or less quantity of such goods respectively. Coin, bullion, fruit and vegetables, ice, fresh fish and meats, live and dead stock, except horses, mules, and cattle, are exempt from any colonial duty. The above specific duties are leviable upon all imports, besides an ad valorem duty of one per cent upon all goods the production of the United Kingdom, and two and a half per cent upon all foreign goods, whether paying specific duty or not. REGULATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HAYTI. INCREASE OF TONNAGE DUTIES ON FOREIGN VESSELS-EXPORT DUTIES REDUCED AT HAYTI. The following laws bearing upon our commerce, recently enacted by the Government of Hayti, to take effect from and after the 11th day of September, 1843, were received from the United States Commercial Agent at Cape Haytien, at the Department of State, Washington, October 7th, 1843, and are published officially in the Madisonian, as follows: The tonnage duty heretofore exacted on foreign vessels, at one dollar Spanish per ton, is increased to two dollars Spanish per ton, (consequently American vessels pay two dollars and twenty cents per ton.) All foreign vessels going from one port to another, in this Island, will pay for each port visited, an additional duty of one hundred dollars, Haytien currency, on vessels under one hundred and fifty tons. Vessels from one hundred and fifty to two hundred tons, pay one hundred and fifty dollars. Vessels of two hundred tons and upwards, pay two hundred Haytien dollars. The duties on wharfage, and weighage on merchandise imported, are increased to double their former rates. The "Territorial" duty on exports is still in force; but the duty of exportation is reduced, which reduces the export duty on coffee from twenty dollars, Haytien currency, per one thousand pounds, to twelve dollars. Cocoa from ten dollars to four per one thousand pounds. Tobacco, in leaf, from fifteen dollars per one thousand pounds to five dollars. Log. wood from seven dollars per one thousand pounds to two dollars. Mahogany from twenty-two dollars to twelve dollars per thousand feet. Hides, of all kinds, are free of export duty. The wharfage and the weighing and measuring are to be added to the foregoing quan tities as follows:-On coffee, one dollar, Haytien currency. Cocoa, one dollar. Tobacco, one dollar. Logwood, one dollar. Mahogany, one dollar. Hides are charged one cent, Haytien, each. The prosent value of a Haytien dollar is two-fifths (2-5ths) of a Spanish or American silver dollar, or sixty per cent. below their par. INSPECTION OF PRODUCE IN NEW YORK. THE following act, passed April 18, 1843, amendatory of the Inspection laws of the State of New York, went into operation, according to the provision of the third section, on the first of December, 1843: SEC. 1. The provisions of title two, chapter seventeen, part first of the Revised Stat. utes, entitled "Of the Inspection of Provisions, Produce, and Merchandise," and all other statutes in relation thereto, except salt manufactured in this state, so far as the same or any of them prohibit the exportation or the buying and selling of flour and meal, beef and pork, pot and pearl ashes, fish or liver oil, lumber, staves and heading, flax seed, sole leather, hops, distilled spirits, leaf tobacco, wood, timber, bark, lime, green hides and skins, without a compliance therewith, unless by the consent or at the request of the owner, or some person interested therein, are hereby repealed. SEC. 2. The provisions of the second, third, and fourth articles of title three, chapter seventeen, part first of the Revised Statutes, and of all other statutes so far as the same require grain and stone to be measured, or any article of merchandise to be weighed, against the consent or without the consent of the owner, or some person interested there. in, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall not take effect until the first of December, 1843. DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING BEEF, ETC., FOR THE ENGLISH MARKET. Beef.-Kill fat cattle only; all parts are used but the head, feet, and legs, to be cut, as nearly as possible, into pieces of eight pounds each. Pack away in store casks, with dry salt well rubbed in, the cask to be filled up with pickle, sufficient saltpetre being added to give a bright color and proper consistency. In a day or two, or as soon as the blood is sufficiently purged out, the beef is to be removed to fresh pickle, where it remains until packed for exportation. All pickle to be made strong enough to float an egg, and the scum to be taken off after settling. Observe-Saltpetre must not be used in any pickle after the first. To be packed in barrels containing twenty-five pieces of two hundred pounds, or tierces containing thirty-eight pieces of three hundred and four pounds, perfectly watertight, with two iron hoops at each end, and made just to fit. It is important that when the packages are opened, the beef should present a sightly appearance to dealers; the edges of the pieces to be trimmed and laid in smoothly. Between each layer some fine salt is to be used, and over the top of the whole an inch or two of very coarse Turk's Island or St. Ubes should be placed. Pack dry, and after heading, pour through the bunghole three or four gallons of fresh pickle. Pork. In curing, the same process is to be observed as for beef. It must be cut into four pound pieces, and all parts used except the head, feet, and legs to the knee joints. To be packed for exportation in barrels of fifty pieces, or two hundred pounds. Avoid, in all cases, government inspection as a legalized robbery. Each packer must brand his own name conspicuously on the head of his casks, with the number of pieces, and description of beef or pork. A favorite brand will often sell for five to ten shillings per tierce more than one unknown to the English purchaser. Lard.-Really fine lard, for culinary purposes, should be packed in neat white kegs of about forty pounds each; it should be poured in, and allowed to cool before heading, a piece of white paper to be laid on to prevent its adhering to the top when opened; the kegs, in all cases, to be full. So much care is not required in barrel lard, which is chiefly used for chandlery purposes, or machinery; but if poured in before heading, there would be a greater certainty of the packages being full. LAW OF VESSELS FOR FOREIGN PORTS. The Journal of Commerce says that the collector of the port of New York requires a strict adherence to the law requiring that the manifests of vessels, bound to foreign places, shall exhibit a full account of all the articles shipped. Captains of vessels may sometimes, in the hurry of clearing, find this arrangement inconvenient, but it is imperatively demanded by the laws. We copy, for general information, the substance of part of the 93d section of the act of March 2, 1799: "The master of a vessel bound to a foreign port, shall deliver to the collector a mani fest of all the cargo and the value thereof, by him subscribed, and shall swear to the truth thereof; and if any vessel shall depart on her voyage without delivering such manifest, the master shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars for every such offence." A subsequent act, February 10, 1820, sec. xi., requires that before the collector grants a clearance, the shippers of the cargo shall deliver manifests of the parts thereof shipped by them respectively, specifying the kinds, quantities, and values of the articles shipped. The consequence is, that, if a vessel departs without furnishing a manifest and obtaining a clearance, the master is liable to a penalty; and he cannot obtain a clearance until the shippers of the several parts of his cargo have delivered manifests thereof. If, then, the vessel shall be detained by the omission of the shippers to furnish the required documents, they will be liable to the master or owners for damages. STEAMBOAT AND RAILROAD STATISTICS. PROGRAMME OF THE FRENCH STEAMSHIPS. THE starting of the French transatlantic steamships, in May, 1844, will form a new era in steam navigation. The following appears to be the programme; and the first great line, we have reason for believing, is to start in May, from Havre to New York: First great line-from Havre to New York. Four steamships are to be placed on this line; the departures are to take place once a fortnight. Fifteen days are allowed for each passage, and ten days at New York-in all, forty days. Twenty days are to be allowed to each vessel at Cherbourg, between every voyage, to rest the crew, and repair the vessel and engines. Second great line-from Bordeaux to Martinique. Three steamers are to be placed on this line; the departures are to take place once a month. Two days are allowed for the passage from Bordeaux to Corunna, and ten hours' stay there; five days twelve hours for the passage from Corunna to the Azores, and one day's stay there; twelve days sixteen hours for the passage from the Azores to Martinique, the steamers to remain ten days at Martinique. Twenty days are allowed for the return passage from Martinique to Bordeaux-in all, forty days' sailing, and eleven days and a half stoppages. Thirty-seven days are allowed between every voyage, at Rochefort or Bordeaux, for repairs and stoppages. Third great line-from Marseilles to Martinique. Three steamers are to be placed on this line; the departures are to take place once month. From Marseilles to Barcelona, one day, and four hours' stay; from Barcelona to Cadiz, three days, and twenty-four hours' stay; from Cadiz to Madeira, three days, and twenty-four hours' stay; from Madeira to Martinique, fourteen days. The steamer is to remain ten days at Martinique. Twenty-one days are allowed for the return voyage from Martinique to Marseilles-in all, forty-two days' sailing, and fourteen and a half days' stoppages. Thirty-three days are to be allowed at Toulon or Marseilles, between every voyage, for repairs and repose. Fourth great line—from St. Nazaire to Rio Janeiro. Four steamers are to be placed on this line; the departures are to take place once a month. From St. Nazaire to Lisbon, three days and a half, twenty-four hours' stay; from Lisbon to Goree, eight days, three days' stay; from Goree to Pernambuco, eight days sixteen hours, four days' stay; from Pernambuco to Bahia, one day twenty-two hours, four hours' stay; from Bahia to Rio Janeiro, three days nineteen hours. The steamer is to remain eleven days fourteen hours at Rio Janeiro. Twenty-five days twenty-one hours are allowed for the return voyage from Rio Janeiro to St. Nazaire. Forty-eight days are allowed between every voyage, at St. Nazaire or L'Orient, for rest and repairs. Second secondary line-from Havana to Vera Cruz. One steamer is to be placed on this line; the departures to take place once a month. From Havana to Vera Cruz, three days eighteen hours, and twenty-four hours' stay; from Vera Cruz to Tampico, one day, and four hours' stay; from Tampico to Galveston, two days, and four hours' stay; from Galveston to New Orleans, one day six hours, and twelve hours' stay; from New Orleans to Havana, two days fourteen hours-in all, ten days fourteen hours' sailing, and one day twenty hours' stoppages.* Third secondary line-from Martinique to the ports of the Spanish main. One steamer The first secondary line-from Martinique to Havana-is omitted by the Journal des Debats, from which we quote. There are to be three steamers placed on it; the departures are to take place once a fortnight. Seventeen days are allowed at Martinique, for rest and repairs. |