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The total exports from New-York to foreign ports, exclusive of specie, since January 1st, are larger than for the first six months of any previous year. On the other hand, the exports of specie are less than for the same period for many years:

EXPORTS FROM NEW-YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR SIX MONTHS, FROM JANUARY 1.

Domestic produce,.

Foreign merch., (free,)...
For'gn merch., (dutiable,)
Specie and bullion,.....

Total exports,......

1858.

1859.

1860.

1861. $28,580,392 ..$28,435,582 ..$38,775,862 ..$61,477,439

782,561

2,280,425.

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3,438,463

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Total, exclusive specie, 31,643,378.. 31,609,263.. 43,567,846.. 66,601,231

It will be seen that the total, exclusive of specie, even compared with the very large figures for the corresponding period of last year, shows an increase of over fifty per cent., and, as compared with the previous year, the gain is over one hundred per cent. We now produce our comparative tables for the whole year, from which it will be seen that the largest previous exports of produce and merchandise were for the year ending June 30th, 1857, when the total was about eighty-two millions; it will be seen, therefore, that the total for the twelve months just ended was forty-five millions larger than for any former year in the history of the trade. In consequence of the disturbed condition of the South and West, a large amount of produce will be diverted from other channels to this port, but the natural outgoes to foreign ports can hardly be as large during the next twelve months as they have been in the year just closed. Even if the same quantity were to be shipped, the total value must be greatly diminished by the falling off in price. The business of the coming year depends largely upon the results of the English

harvest.

IMPORTS OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS AT New-York for tHE FISCAL YEAR Ending June 30.

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Total on market,.. $70,475,766.. $95,881,215.. $105,975,669

$75,545,173

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In order to distinguish the dry goods from the general imports, we have compiled a table which gives at a single glance the whole imports of dry goods for the year, compared with the preceding three years:

IMPORTS OF DRY GOODS AT New-York for the Year ending June 30.

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The total cash duties received at New-York for the past five fiscal years have been $170,540,990, an average of about thirty-four millions of dollars, viz.:

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In order to illustrate the commerce of the State for ten years, we republish the tabular returns of domestic and foreign produce exported, the imports, and the increase of tonnage for each year, 1850-1860:

FOREIGN COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, FROM JULY 1, 1850, TO JULY 1, 1860.

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Total,... 959,017,139 $154,297,506 $1,113,314,645 $1,915,154,188 $21,815,192 $11,436,517

$210,160,454

236,493,485

RECAPITULATION OF FOREIGN COMMERCE OF NEW-YORK AND THE UNITED STATES FOR FIVE YEARS, and the pER CENTAGE OF NEW-YORK TO THE WHOLE.

YEAR.

1855-1856,....

1856-1857,

Imports State N. Y.

Other States.

Total U. S.

Per Cent.

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The foreign export of wheat from this port to Great Britain, since 1st September last, has been over seventeen millions bushels. the following from EDWARD BILL's flour and grain circular:

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Freights to English ports have checked the export demand, viz.: To Liverpool, 28. 104d. @ 38. per bbl. on flour, and 9 @ 101d. per bush. on grain; to London, 3s. 6d. on flour, and 104 @ 114d. on wheat; to Glasgow, 38. 3d. on flour, and 104d. on wheat; to France, 18c. on wheat.

EXPORTS FROM NEW-YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 30.

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Domestic produce,....$ 55,931,987 ..$ 53,894,893 ..$ 70,249,811 ..$ 118,189,900 Foreign merch., (free,)

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3,104,160

7,809,672

Specie and bullion,.... 34,322,071

2,202,868

3,596,336

46,839,444

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Total exports,.......$100,667,890 $106,443,541 $138,036,550 exclusive of specie, 66,345,819 59,604,097 79,938,904

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The message of Secretary CHASE to Congress contemplates an aggregate expenditure by the general government of $320,000,000 for the year. Of this sum, it is proposed to raise $80,000,000 by the tariff and the ordinary receipts of the Treasury, and $220,000,000 by loans and treasury notes.

I. Three year treasury notes or exchequer bills, bearing 7.30 per cent. interest, for the convenience of calculation, or two cents per day for each hundred dollars, or twenty cents per day for each thousand dollars; this interest payable semi-annually. It is thought that this mode of loan may become a popular measure, by distributing it in small sums among the people, to the extent of one hundred millions of dollars.

II. A thirty year funded stock, inscribed or coupon bonds, bearing seven per cent. interest, in sums of $500, $1,000 and $5,000, not to exceed one hundred millions of dollars, including sterling bonds in sums of £100, £500 and £1,000.

III. Treasury notes to the extent of twenty millions of dollars, in sums of ten and fifty dollars, for general circulation.

The Secretary proposed to Congress that a duty of 23 cents per pound be laid on brown sugar, of 3 cents per pound on clayed sugar, of 4 cents per pound on loaf and other refined sugars, of 2 cents per pound on the syrup of sugar cane; of 6 cents per pound on candy; of 6 cents per gallon on molasses, and of four cents per gallon on sour molasses; and it is also proposed that a duty of 5 cents per pound be imposed on coffee; 15 cents per pound on black tea, and 20 cents per pound on green tea. From these duties it is estimated that an additional revenue of not less than $20,000,000 annually may be raised, while the burden of this revenue upon our own people will be to some considerable degree mitigated by participation on the part of the foreign producers.

IV. Treasury notes, of $10 and $20, payable one year from date, bearing an interest of 3.65 per cent., or one cent per day per hundred dollars, convertible into treasury notes or exchequer bills, bearing 7.30 per cent. or on demand in coin. The aggregate not to exceed $50,000,000. The dividends on rail-road shares, payable in July at Boston, were $1,150,156, viz.:

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The following is a recapitulation of rail-road and other dividends payable at Boston in July:

Miscellaneous,.

Interest on bonds,..

Total for July, 1861,

do. Jan., 1861,.

do. July, 1860,.

$217,191

$2,353,231

3,049,710

3,088,759

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439,984.. Rail-road dividends,...... 1,150,156 Total for January, 1860,.. $ 2,992,891 do. July, 1859,.. 2,270,736 do. January, 1859,.. 2,435,342

The Bank of Commerce received instructions in June to pay, when due, the July coupons on the three millions Missouri State bonds issued to the Hannibal and St. Joseph Rail-Road Company. These bonds were issued under stringent restrictions, and, in case of default on the part of the company, the State authorities have the right to foreclose the road, they being a first mortgage on the entire line. The first mortgages of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Rail-Road Company are a lien, simply, on a million of acres of land. The company have also an issue of second mortgage bonds which is a second lien on the line.

The Secretary of the Treasury, in his communication to Congress, under date July, 1861, examines closely the sources of revenue for the coming year. His estimates are as follow for increased duties on sugar, molasses, tea and coffee:

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Allow for the large stock on hand, on which no duty will be realized, and for diminished consumption owing to the increased duty and the troubles at the South, the revenue this year may be estimated, as Secretary CHASE states, at twenty millions of dollars.

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Omitting the seceding States, the amount is as follows:

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The direct tax on these amounts would be as follows:

One-eighth of one per cent. on $16,102,934,116,.

Or, one-fifth of one per cent. on $10,900,758,007, property in the nonseceding States,.....

$20,128,667

21,800,056

Or, 30-100 of one per cent. on $7,630,530,603, real property only,... 22,891,590

In other words, the tax of 12 cents per hundred dollars on the whole real and personal estate of the country would be $20,128,000. Or, twenty cents per hundred dollars on the gross value, excluding the seceding States, would be $21,800,000. Or, thirty cents per hundred dollars on the real property alone, $22,891,000.

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