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IMPORTS ENTERED WAREHOUSE

$8,560,680 $8,141,725 $4,482,794 $5,571,936 $4,510,225 $10,241,576
3,751,673 3,370,486 8,657,775 4,991,898
3,084,187 4,811,846 6,016,901 6,641,408

5,568,127 11,626,677

7,872,555 9,539,100 7,448,371 10,159,657

4,17,678 3,853,218 6,456,208 5,905,540
5,842,313 4,600,920 5,437,404 14,727,176 5,288 049 13,902,407
3,245,504 3,874,127 5,377,885 16,906,96 7,128,792 10,957,050
1,769,636 4,502,764 6,057,342 14,954,635 7,815,947 11,801,274
2,660,457 2,939,721 4,409,891 10,437,478 7,553,260 8,123,406
1,390,766 4,351,084 3,431,310 5,258,568 4,936,209 7,817,045
2,082,381 3,689,806 4,189,457 5,332,928 5,903,993 8,113,869
2,150,561 2,108,009 4,956,415 4,160,532 9,184,116 8,345,859
2,346,387 4,212,725 5,676,955 4,250,862 10,506,502 10,105,018

$41,072,228 45,486,431 60,144,837 99,139,425 83,741,146 20,232,938

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2,191,513 1,122,092 781,053

1,258,634

953,226

1,002,330

2,972,054 1,831,931

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899,549

1,816,124 982,992

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931,877

1,577,885 1,784,804

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840,082

2,163,452 1,004,870 741,888

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1,964,644 1,526,496 665,207 911,976

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November

December..

Total.........

2,574,248 1,950,504 834,074 1,125,718 913,937

.$30,353,918 $23,291,62 › $11,567,000 $11,731,902 $10,410,837 $13,001,588

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$37,088,413 $1,390,277 $1,525,811 $2,265,622 $2,123,281 $9,578,020

TOTAL IMPORTS.

$26,872,411 $12,620,829 $15,739,576 $18,977,394 $10,620,117 $30,109,830 16,341,727 13,872,140 13,027,846 21,643,937 11,473,668 30,692,557 18,204,351 18,719,866 18,390,895 23,667,119 16,012,373 26,204,940 14,886,393 13,252,882 17.385,315 26,168,631 14,174,464 24,840,605 14,949,281 14,248,521 14,324,925 23,970.144 12,876,109 28,818,447 12,649,733 12,336,195 12,597,516 23,926,314 16,855,321 22,736,652 14,938,851 20,353,002 16,003,677 22,383,299 19,161,838 26 851,187 8,8-5,928 14,304,843 15,038,129 18,223,463 24,475,608 23,884,665 7,305,461 18,047,917 15,499,940 10,589,459 22,674,496 27,079,089 8,523,741 13,413,906 16,894,967 10,088,308 23,134,675 24,832,184 9,639,012 10,309,398 16,045,695 8,597,595 27,235,651 20,710,854 9,616,921 13,072,618 17,126,098 9,935,098 26,048,099 19,852,174 .162,768,790 174,652,817 187,014,577 218,125,760 224,742,419 306,613,184

WITHDRAWN FROM WAREHOUSE.

$2,543,273 $4,356,252 $2,881,531 $4,950,418 $5,653,554 $7,424,388 5,781,728 3,466,641 2,499,127 5,285,680 5,673,619 7,666,543 5,817,144 3,339,567 3,456,530 5,215,983 5,795,512 7,844,644 1,761,215 4,405,410 4,132,633 14,183,873 7,880,008 8,640,260 1,606,864 2,700,232 9,794,773 659,869 10,277,170 9,450,597 1,963,842 5,054,106 3,830,387 2,544,914 6,346,958 8,967,431 6,622,454 6,102,033 4,227,265 3,386,873 8,612,411 9,084,242 2,614,052 2,386,604 6,429,421 7.867,843 9,661,136 10,530,593 2,938,464 2,715,630 6,942,561 6,852,829 8,042,603 11,091,194 2,518,080 3,109,388 4,858,512 5,504,138 4,699,328 8,789,838 1,987,626 1,9:4,983 4,084,183 5,829,884 4,249,381 6,126,72 3,561,887 1,282,908 3,7 4,294 5,400,974 3,636,662 4.564.836 39,717,259 41,563,754 50,851,167 67,480,778 80,524,343 100,241,282

Below we give in detail the receipts for customs at New York each month

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Total......

52,274,116 75 58,386,054 42 66,937,127 51 101,772,905 94 128,079,761 60

The total custom receipts for the year amount to $128,079,761, as given in above table. This is a large increase over previous years, and probably larger than it will be for some years to come.

DRY GOODS IMPORTS FOR 1866.

In the foregoing we have classified the imports, showing that the total dry goods amounted to $126,222,855. We now give a detailed statement of the dry goods imports, showing the description of goods and the relative totals for the previous five years:

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The increase this year has been pretty evenly distributed among the different classes of goods. We now give a summary of the imports each month, from which can be seen the course of the trade throughout the year. The returns for the previous four years are added:

TOTAL IMPORTS OF DRY GOODS AT NEW YORK.

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The above statement shows that about two-thirds of the imports for the year were during the first six months. As our readers may be interested in seeing the

totals for the anterior period, we annex the following, showing the total imports of dry goods at this port each year since 1849:

IMPORTS OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS AT NEW YORK.

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The Paris correspondent of the Liverpool Express, under date of Dec. 31, gives an account of a law suit of very great interest, which was heard on the preceding day in a preliminary stage, before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine presided over by M. Benoit Champy. The plaintiff is Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; and the defendants are M. Arman, the great shipbuilder of Bordeaux, a member of the Corps Legislatif, and others. The circumstances of the case fully appear from the declaration filed by the President of the United States, which is as follows :—

whereas in the course of the year 1861, several States belonging to the Republic of the United States of America took up arms against Federal authority, and attempted to form a separate confederation under the denomination of the Confederate States of the South; and whereas the French Government did, it is true, recognize the said states as belligerents by an Imperial declaration published in the Moniteur Universel, of June 30, 1861; but whereas the said declaration positively prohibited French citizens from taking any part whatso ever in the manning or arming of any ship of war or privateer belonging to either party, and moreover strictly enjoined all French subjects to refrain from any act whatsoever which, in violation both of the laws of the Empire and of the law of nations. might be considered as a hostile act towards either party and contrary to neutrality; and whereas in defiance of the precise terms of the above declaration, and of the various laws on which it was grounded, and at the risk of most seriously compromising French neutrality, a joint-stock company for the purpose of supplying vessels of war to the so called Confederate States, was formed in France under the inspiration and direction of the defendant Arman of the one part and the defendants Voruz, Joilet, Babin, Dubigeon and Mazeline, of the other part; and whereas by verbal conventions agreed upon in Paris on April 15, 1863, M. Arman contracted with one Bullock, a confederate agent, as well to build in his own docks two ships of war for the Confederate States as to obtain from MM. Voruz, Joilet, Babin, Dubigeon and Mazeline a contract for the construction of two other similar ships; and whereas the price of the four ships aforesaid was fixed at 1,800,000f each, or 7,200,000f in all, the money to be payable in Paris; and whereas it being impossible that these contracts could be otherwise than provisional so long as permission for the sailing of these armed ships was not obtained, M. Arman did, on June 1, 1863, solicit

the Minister of Marine for permission to take away the ships aforesaid, armed with from 12 to 14 guns, alleging that they had been ordered of him for the account of a foreign merchant, who wanted them for a mercantile packet service in the Pacific and Chinese seas, and who moreover looked forward to the possi bility of selling them as ships of war to China or Japan; and whereas the Minister of Marine, deceived by the above false and fradulent allegation, granted the permission required on June 6; and whereas, on the very same day, on the ministerial authorisation being communicated to him, M. Flisell [Qy.? Slidell], who assumed the quality of Confederate envoy in Paris, confirmed the contract which had been made by Bullock on the preceding 15th of April; and whereas three days after this ratification, and on June 9, M. Erlanger, a banker in Paris, and a financial agent for the pretended Confederate Government, undertook for a commission of 5 per cent. to guarantee M. Arman the payment of the first two-fifths of the stipulated price for the four ships; and whereas the adhesion of MM. Voruz & Co. to the verbal convention of April 15 was obtained by M. Arman; that Arman and his co-defendants received accordingly, in the course of the year 1863, at least two-fifths of the price, i. e. 2,800,000f.; and whereas the French Government being informed by the American Government of the real destination of the four ships aforesaid, did, in October, 1863, expressly withdraw the permission which had been obtained from it by fraud and surprise, and upon the faith of which alone the payments on account aforesaid were made to Arman and his co-defendants; and whereas it appears from the facts above stated, that Arman and his co-defendants are now holders, without any lawful right or title, of the sums of money handed to them in pursuance of an illicit contract, and which sums they ought to refund; and whereas the Government of the United States is the only party entitled to call for the restitution of the sums of money aforesaid; and whereas Arman and his co defendants having acted in bad faith in receiving the sums aforesaid, are bound to refund the same with interest; and whereas the said defendants have by their conduct done most serious damage to the United States, and in particular did, so far as depended on them, prolong the duration of the rebellion by contributing to accredit the belief that the French Government favored the cause of the Southern States, and was even about to recognize in them a distinct nationality; and whereas the Government of the United States is, therefore, justified in sueing the defendants jointly and severally for reparation for the damage done as aforesaid, and whereas the sum of 2,800,000f., with interest, can only be considered an extremely moderate estimate of the damage so caused -May it please the court to condemn the said defendants to pay the Government of the United States the sum of 2,800,000f., with costs of suit, and without prejudice to any further claim for damages, or for larger sums which they may be proved to have received on account of the said ships.

The interlocutory motion made by the counsel for the defendants, was (says the correspondent) one simply of course that President Johnson, as a foreigner sueing in a French court, should give proper security for costs (judicatum solvi is the French term) in case of his losing the action. The only question before the court was what that amount should be, and upon this the estimates of counsel on either side differed widely. On the one part it was con

tended that registry dues for the transfer of the various ships in question which had been sold ought to be provided for by the caution money; while, on the other, it was said that these dues, being incurred subsequent to a fradulent transaction, could in no event whatever be charged to the United States, and that it would be a great libel on the assumed cheapness of French law to fix the se'curity for costs at more than 5,000 francs. The court, however, gave the defendants the utmost sum they asked for, and "condemned" Andrew Johnsoncondemned being no doubt the matter-of course and appropriate word--to pay 150,000 francs ($30,000) into court.

PRUSSIAN NAVY.

According to the publication which has been made in Germany, the merchant navy of the new Confederation, of which Prussia is the head, will be composed as follows:

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In reality the total is rather larger, the figures here given being only of the year 1863 for Hanover, of 1862 for Schleswig-Holstein, and of 1864 for other countries. The difference, however, cannot be great. The Germans give the following as a comparison of the mercantile fleet of the Confederation with those of other countries. The figures are not, perhaps, quite exact, but they are sufficiently so for the purpose sought

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It thus appears that in tonnage the new Confederation occupies the fourth rank in maritime states, and that it is already superior to France.

COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE AND REVIEW.

Business for December.-Rate of Interest.-Speculation in Gold.-Course of Governments.Consols and American Securities at London.-Compound Interest Notes-Course of Exchange.-Movements of Treasure, &c.

The course of business during December has been unsettled and irregular. An currency to the South, connected with speculative tampering with the money market, have produced a partial stringency in the money

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