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The statistics presented above show that the total receipts of foreign molasses into the United States for the year ending December 31, 1860, were 31,126,015 gallons, against total receipts in 1859 of 28,960,175 gallons, and the consumption of foreign descriptions was 28,724,205 gallons, against a consumption in 1859 of 28,293,210 gallons, while the total consumption of foreign and domestic in 1860 was 47,318,877 gallons, against a total consumption in 1859 of 54,260,070 gallons, showing an increase in the consumption of foreign of 430,995 gallons, or over 14 per cent, but a decrease in the consumption of all kinds of 6,942,093 gallons, or nearly 13 per cent.

The receipts and consumption of foreign in 1860 were much larger than before in several years, owing to the crop of domestic of 1859-60 being considered below an average yield. The crop of Louisiana, etc., now coming forward, it is estimated, will not be any larger than the previous season, and very probably will be considerably less. Of the receipts into the country the past year, about 60,000 hhds. have been taken by sugar refiners, 50,000 by distillers, and the remainder has been distributed among the trade, exporters, etc.

THE STEAM MARINE OF BOSTON.

The report of the Boston Board of Trade refers to the increase of Steam coast navigation made by the merchants of that city. The Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company have four first-class side-wheel steamships, from ten to twelve hundred tons each, constantly employed. Three, with little variations, have plied between Boston, Norfolk and Baltimore, and the other between Boston, Baltimore and Savannah. These lines have materially increased the trade between us and the Southern ports above mentioned. And as the Company run their ships without insurance, and have escaped serious accidents, their business, under prudent management, has been moderately profitable.

During the past year, the proprietors of the line between Boston and Philadelphia have added the new steamer Cambridge, of 850 tons, which, with the Kensington and Phineas Sprague, of about 1,000 tons each, afford in the aggregate a freighting capacity of 20,000 barrels. One of these vessels leaves port every five days. The efficiency of this line for more than eight years, together with its valuable Southern and Western connections, via the Pennsylvania Railroad, by steamer to Richmond, and thence by Southern railroads, have justly commended it to public favor.

Within a few months, the new steamer Pembroke, of about 240 tons, has been added to the means of communication with the eastern part of Maine. This vessel is intended to ply regularly between Boston, Eastport and Pembroke, in winter as well as in summer. Her steam power is ten miles the hour, and with the help of sails she performs a passage in twenty-five hours. She is very burthensome-carrying more than her tonnage-has proved herself a superior seaboat, and, in the words of a large owner," will run more economically as regards coal than any steamer now known." She belongs to an incorporated company, but seven-eighths of the stock is held in that city, and principally by WILLIAM E. COFFIN & Co.

The house of ALPHENS HARDY & Co., are the pioneers here, and, as far as we are informed, in the United States, in the introduction of steam in the Mediter

ranean fruit trade. Their clipper, Young Rover, of 400 tons, is a very superior vessel. She is completely rigged as a bark, with auxiliary steam power, which will be used in passing the Straits of Gibralter, in head winds or calms. Good judges pronounce that she is " of a very handsome model," of great strength, and "finished in the first style of workmanship."

The Southern Steamship Company originated in this Board last year; and the iron screw steamers Massachusetts and South Carolina, of about 1,150 tons each, were placed on the route between Boston and Charleston, in June and July. The line is appreciated by the business men of both cities; both vessels have proved efficient, and have performed their trips with singular regularity.

On the first of August, 1859, the Government of the Board appointed a committee to inquire into the expediency of establishing a line to New Orleans; and on the 30th of May, 1860, the friends of the enterprise organized by the name of the Union Steamship Company. The capital stock was 400,000 dollars, and the right of navigation was limited to Boston, New Orleans, and the ports on the Gulf of Mexico; but, by an additional act, the capital has been increased 300,000 dollars, and the ports of Cuba have been included in the route. The Building Committee of the Company invited proposals for the construction of two first-class iron screw steamships, of about 2,000 tons each; one to be completed in September, and the other in November, of the present year.

LUMBER TRADE OF ALBANY FOR 1860.

A large amount of common pine was received from Michigan and Wisconsin, when usually only the better qualities are sent this way. The receipts for the year have been about ten millions of feet of boards and scantling more than in the previous year, and the total amount, 301,022,600 feet, is a larger quantity than has been received at any other market.

The following table exhibits the receipts at Albany during the years named :—

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CHICAGO AND ITS EXPORTS.

The Chicago Tribune publishes a tabular statement of the exports of that city in flour, grain, and provisions, and other leading country products, during 1860. We append the table :—

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The same paper states that a considerable export trade, under the general head of "merchandise," is not included in the foregoing exhibit. The excessively high rates of freight, also, are said to have reduced the aggregate about one sixth.

EXPORTS OF FLOUR AND GRAIN FROM LAKE MICHIGAN IN 1860. The following table shows the total shipments of flour and grain from Michigan ports during the year 1860 :

TOTAL EXPORTS OF FLOUR AND GRAIN FROM LAKE MICHIGAN IN 1860.

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The figures for Milwaukee are the receipts of grain and flour.

A YEAR'S TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

The annual statement of our foreign and colonial trade and of navigation shows that in the year 1859 the American continent, with Cuba and the West Indies, took £40,000,000 of our produce and manufactures; and India, Singapore, and Ceylon, with Australia and China, took £37,000,000 more. To these great countries we disposed of nearly £30,000,000 of our cotton goods and yarn out of the whole £48.000,000 exported. The United States took £4,600,000 of our cotton goods, £4,476,000 of our woolens, £2,160,000 of linens, and £1,568,000 of apparel and haberdashery; India, including Singapore, took £14,290,000 of cotton goods and yarn, China only £3,190,000, and £700,000 of woolens; Australia, £1,870,000 of apparel and haberdashery, £790,000 of cottons, and £765,000 of woolens. For our iron we find our principal market in the United States (£3,000,000), and also for our tin (plates) and our hardwares (above £1,000,000 of each); for our leather and saddlery in Australia (£1,000,000); for our agricultural implements in Australia and in Russia; for beer in India (£777,378) and Australia (£660,358); for butter in Australia (£342,914); for earthenware in the United States (£600,000). The exports of our pro duce to Australia, £4,000,000 in 1852. were £11,000,000 in 1859, and those to India have doubled since 1855; to the United States they were not £12,000,000 in 1849, they were above £22,000,000 in 1859; to China, £1,537,000 in 1849, £4,457,000 in 1859. To New Zealand we sent £632,907 worth of our produce in 1859, not far from double what we sent only three years before. Our exports to the whole world made no progress in the year 1859. In most European countries the demand for our produce was slack. France took less upon the whole than in the previous year, though her demand for some articles increased. She took no less than 1,391,000 tons of coal, and £493,083 worth of copper. There was a considerable increase, however, in our trade with Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; and Russia took more of our produce by nearly £1,000,000, raising her demand for machinery to £1,000,000, and for iron to £1,200,000. Our entire imports for 1859 (£179,182,355) were not far from £15,000,000 above those of the previous year, and our exports (our own produce £130,411,529, foreign and colonial produce, £25,281,446—in all, £155,692,975) were £16,000,000, above those of the previous year; and it must be borne in mind that the returns of the value of our imports include freight, the exports do not. In conducting this trade 26,520 visits were paid to our ports by British vessels, and 22,351 by foreign. The totals require such figures to express them as were never until now employed to set forth a year's trade of a nation. The world beyond the seas, civilized and uncivilized, sent to our shores on an average every day merchandise of the value of nearly £500,000, and to bring it to us nearly 1,000 ships came into our ports every week. Our exports of produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom in the short space of eight years, 1852-59, have exceeded in value the capital of the national debt. In ten years they have doubled; in 1849 they were £64,000,000, in 1859 they were £130,000,000. The enormous progress of some of our colonies and possessions of late years has more than restored the proportions sent to foreign countries and to British possessions to what they were twenty years ago-two-thirds and one-third; in 1840 foreign countries took £34,000,000, and British possessions £17,000,000; and in 1859 foreign countries took £84,000,000, and British possessions £46,000,000. The exports of our produce in 1859 amounted to about £4 10s. per individual inhabitant of the kingdom; twenty years ago they were not £2, and ten years ago they were not £3.-London Times.

LUMBER SURVEY AT BANGOR.

The amount of lumber surveyed at Bangor the present year, to December 1, was 200,391,526, exceeding that for the same time last year by 24,000,000 feet.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICAN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE.

The iron steamship " Wm. G. Hewes," says the Scientific American, is one of the largest iron steamships ever built in this country. She was launched on the 15th of December, in the presence of 5,000 people. Her hull was built by Messrs. HARLAN, HOLLINGSWORTH & Co., of Wilmington, Delaware. Her machinery was constructed by the Morgan Iron Works, of New York city. The route of her intended service is from New Orleans to Galveston. For strength and beauty of model, this steamer cannot be surpassed. We append full and correct particulars of her hull and machinery :

Length on deck, 239 feet 4 inches; length at load line, 239 feet; breadth of beam (molded,) 33 feet; depth of hold, 10 feet; depth of hold to spar deck, 18 feet; draft of water at load line. 9 feet area of immersed section at the above draft, 270 square feet; displacement at load line, 1,253 tons; tonnage, 1,477.45 tons.

Her frame is of wrought iron bars, 4 inches by 1 inch and 4 inches by of an inch in thickness, which are fastened with keepers 3 inches by of an inch thick, every 12 inches, together with rivets of an inch in diameter. Distance of frame apart from centers, 16 inches; they are molded 4 inches and sided 1 inch. Number of strakes of plate, from keel to gunwale, 16; thickness of plates, one-half to eleven-sixteenths of an inch. There are 14 cross floors, shaped I; depth of these, 18 inches; thickness, nine-sixteenths and one-half of an inch, forming belts with angle iron on top, six of them continuing up to guard deck clamp, and the balance to main deck lodger. Shape of keel, U; constructed of double plates, and of an inch in thickness; depth of same, 6 inches. There are 10 fore-and-aft keelsons, 18 inches high and shaped, T; these are capped with angle iron, continuing from end to end.

The Wm. G. Hewes is fitted with one vertical beam condensing engine; number of cylinders 1; diameter of same, 50 inches; length of stroke of piston, 11 feet; length of engine room, 76 feet; diameter of water wheels over boards, 30 feet; length of wheel blades, 7 feet 6 inches; width of blades, 7 feet 6 inches; depth of blades, 1 foot 8 inches; number, 26; material, iron; dip of wheels at load line, 6 feet.

She is also supplied with 1 return tubular boiler, made of steel plates, which is the only one of any size ever constructed in this country. Length of boiler, 21 feet; breadth, 17 feet; height, exclusive of steam chimney, 9 feet; location, in hold, forward of engine; it has a water bottom. Number of furnaces, 4; breadth of same, 3 feet 6 inches; length of grate bars, 6 feet 8 inches; number of tubes, above, in boiler, 92; number of flues below, 8; internal diameter of tubes above, 5 inches; internal diameter of flues below, 1 foot 7 inches; length of tubes above, 15 feet; length of flues below, 11 feet 4 inches. Diameter of smoke pipe, 68 inches; height, above grates, 50 feet. The boiler possesses a grate surface of 93 square feet, and a heating surface of 2,600 square feet; consumption of coal, per hour, 1,680 pounds; maximum pressure of steam, 30 pounds, cut-off at one-half stroke; maximum revolutions at this pressure, 18; weight of engines, 190.000 pounds; weight of boiler, with water, 102.690 pounds.

In addition to these essential features, the following deserve attention :Bunkers are of wood and iron; the vessel is fitted with three anchors, weight, respectively, 2.000, 1,300, and 400 pounds; water ways are of wood; she has three bulkheads, iron braced with angle iron; the water wheels have gunwale bearings; she has one independent steam fire and bilge pump, two bilge pumps, two fire pumps, one bilge injection, and five bottom valves or cocks, arranged as

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