Total... 17,960,000.. 2,717,000.. 2,972,000.. 7,520,000 28,860,000.. 16,258,000.. 9,094,000.. 21,832,000 $261,878,000 $61,986,000 $29,280,000 $161,584,000 We see from these statements that the increase or decrease of specie in the several cities has been as follows: Taking the aggregate of the two years, however, would show the greatest of specie in New-York city. 3.-COMPARATIVE TARIFF REVENUES. NATIONAL REVENUE DERIVED FROM TEN LEADING ARTICLES IN EACH COUNTRY. In Russia the ten articles which give seventy-two out of one hundred and four millions revenue are sugar, coffee, cotton, tea, tobacco, wine, salt, cottons, silks. and woollens. In Holland 3,767,000 out of 5,960,000 francs are given by iron, tea, tobacco, machinery, hardware, earthenware, cotton yarns, cottons, silks, woollens, &c. IMPORT, STOCK AND CONSUMPTION OF COTTON IN EUROPE-(continued). 1855. Total deliveries in 1855 and 1856..bales.. 2,461,000 153,000 31,000 470,000 Of the exports, those marked were to France, Holland, Belgium, Trieste, Genoa, and Spain, and are comprised in the imports in those places: and those marked †, were to the Baltic, &c. P 7%d 69,000 768,000 62,000 5.-CUBA AND OUR RELATIONS WITH HER. The increase in the exports of sugar from the Island of Cuba is thus shown: Of the total revenues of the Island, which amount to $21,321,665, but $1,404,059 were remitted to Spain. The aggregate population in 1857 was The population of the Island in 1775 was 169,370; and in 1827, 704,487. Since 1841 the increase has been small. The following tables, taken from Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, will show the articles which we send to Cuba, or receive in return from her. 6.-WHALING INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Estimated value of the 661 whale vessels sailing from the Six per cent. per annum, interest on the same. ........ .$16,525,000 Fresh supplies purchased by the masters, equal to about $1,200 per annum each... 991,500 1,600,000 413,125 793,000 Amount of money paid to masters, officers, and crew, being their shares of the oil taken, equal to one third of the gross value of the products........ 4,013,601 Total amount of money invested, including interest, &c... 24,336,226 12,040,805 Difference between the whole capital invested and the yearly 12,295,421 INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 1.-RAILROAD SYSTEM OF THE SOUTH. THE usually very accurate Railroad Journal, published in New-York, is authority for the annexed statistics, which our readers will find interesting and valuable. The total miles of railroad in the United States is 27,857, and the cost of construction $961,047,000. The Journal follows a classification of the States, which we proposed in the Compendium of the Census, but departs from it somewhat. There are about 6000 miles of railroad in process of construction in the Union. In the last 11 years, 22,592 miles have been constructed. |