This exceeds, to a very large extent, the amount shipped in last year, or in any two years previous, and we may congratulate those in Canada interested in this important trade on the success of the season, so far as they were concerned.

The prosperous state of the crop markets during the year affords a basis for the considerable expansion of the banks of Canada, as is manifest in the following table:

The loans and circulation took a very decided expansion, and a movement that could not but promote a fair import trade, the promise of which was clouded by the turn of political affairs in the United States. The dry goods importations of Toronto were, as compared with those of the three previous years, as follows:

This shows an increase last year over 1859 of $134,088, and over 1858 of $653,930, and compared with 1857, a falling off of $243,144. The increase in the imports of dry goods last year over those of 1859, $134,000, is not nearly as large as might be expected in view of the increased extent of trade done during the year. But the reader must remember, that it was only in the fall months that the business was at all pushed, and the above increase must be attributed to the importations for the fall trade entirely. Had the business been as brisk throughout the year as during the three months after harvest, or had the spring been at all an average one, the importations would have shown a much greater increase.

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The following are the comparative imports of the leading articles of grocery trade for the past four years:

The grocery branch of business has also been increased, and the results satisfactory, although the aggregate presents a decline, which arises solely from the decrease in tea and coffee, and must be accounted for by the fact that very extensive importations of coffee were made prior to the enforcement of the new tariff, in order to avoid the increased duty; while for teas, the anticipated advance in prices during the fall of 1859, and the low rates which were then prevailing, induced large purchases just before the close of last year, which stocked the market, so that the spring importations were unusually light. This circumstance, with considerable

purchases of the direct importations from China at Montreal, and the diminished consumption above alluded to, will explain the apparent decrease in the extent of the trade in these articles.

There has been, also, a fair business in the hardware trade. The following table exhibits the imports at Toronto of the principal articles for the past three years:

The other branches of Toronto trade present more or less the same features. The leather trade enjoys some advantages. Under the tariff of 1857, hides were charged 5 per cent. in the United States, but imported into New-York they pass from the warehouse free into Canada. Nevertheless, there appears to have been no increase of business in the past year. This, together with the decrease in the importations of boots and shoes, is ascribed to the growth of the home trade.

The aggregate imports for the past nine years is interesting.

Statement of Imports and Duties at Toronto from 1852 to 1860, inclusive.

The number of steamboats trading to the port of Toronto, during 1860, was 32, of 10,147 tons, and 673 hands. The sailing tonnage was 22,260, and 896 hands.

Although navigation opened with low rates, still a small profit was returned to the owners of vessels until September, when the abundant harvest began to crowd the storehouses and depots, and freights rose rapidly, and at the close of navigation the losses of two bad seasons had

been, in nearly all instances, made good, and a margin left besides. During the summer, wheat was carried to Oswego for 14c. per bushel; after the harvest it rose to 5c. @ 54c. Flour to Montreal was carried as low as 15c. per barrel. In October, 45c. was the current rate, and several steamers obtained 50c. for a short time. A larger number of vessels are being rebuilt to replace, in a measure, those lost during the severe gales of last November. Mr. G. H. WYATT, ship broker, reports only three new vessels building on the lake, viz: One at Oakville, owned by HENDERSEN & COLPOYS, 10,000 bushels; one at Wellington Square, owned by MCCULLOCH & BAXTER, 11,000 bushels; one at St. Catharines, owned by L. SHICKALUNA, 18,000 bushels. A passenger and freight steamer is also being built on lake Simcoe to replace the steamer Morüng.

The passenger business has been divided between the Express line with the mail steamers, and the American steamers on the South shore. The monopoly tried by the Grand Trunk in securing seven of the best passenger steamers by charter, has not proved satisfactory in a pecuniary way, as it is generally known that the steamers made little more than their expenses, leaving the charter money, £35,000, to be provided for. The freight line of steamers has also shared in the improvement of the lake business, and first-class steamers have made very handsome profits. Some of the largest propellers made several trips between Chicago and Montreal, carrying very large freights.

CANADA.

The trade of the whole of Canada was as follows:

A few of the chief articles of import, and their value, are given in the

One cannot but remark upon the great value of many manufactured articles; of boots and shoes, $119,927, and of all kinds of manufactured leather, $532,000; of hats, caps and bonnets, $326,420; of clothes, ready-made, $118,000; paper and paper hangings, $107,000; starch, $33,500. Such items show the scope there is for home manufactures. Of cottons we imported $5,750,297 worth in 1860.

F. Fixed.

Ff. Fixed and Flashing. R. Revolving. I. Intermitting. Est. Established.

(a.) 35.-The notice says that the light shows consecutively a red, green and white light, at intervals of thirty seconds. It is visible seaward when bearing between S. S. W. W. and North. It is seen as far as N. by E. E. over a sloping hill situated south of the light-house; but then a vessel must be a considerable distance to the southward of it. In entering Jervis Bay the light will be eclipsed by Bowen Island, forming the south point of entrance, when bearing S. W., and it will only be visible from a portion of the bay, between the bearings of S. S. E. E. and S. E. The white light will be seen in clear weather at a distance of about nineteen miles, and the green and red lights at fourteen miles.

Directions.-Vessels approaching Cape St. George from the southward should always endeavor to make this light, to avoid being embayed in Wreck Bay, the deep indentation westward of the cape. The light will first open over the sloping hill to the southward of it, bearing N. b. E. † E.