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Exports of Certain Leading Articles of Domestic Produce from New-York to Foreign Ports for the first Nine Months of the Year.

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The importations of coffee since the passage of the tariff bill have been materially below the average, viz.:

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The stock of coffee at New-York on the 1st October was less than the average monthly imports of the year 1858 or 1859, viz.:

Stock of Coffee at the five principal Ports of the United States of America on the 1st of October, 1858-1861.

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European ports have five-fold the stock that our ports have.

Stocks of Coffee in the six principal Depots of Europe, up to 1st September.

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The stock of sugar in New-York on the first of October, 1861, was about one-half what it was at the same date in 1860. The new tariff of August, 1861, has reduced the importations to a low figure. We find that the importations of sugar for nine months of the year 1861, compared with three previous years, are as follow:

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In the leading ports of Europe the stock, on 1st September, was four times that of the United States, (from E. H. MORING'S N. Y. Circular,) viz.:

Stocks of Sugar in the six principal Depots of Europe, up to 1st September.

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Total, Sept. 1st,.. .tons, 136,550.. 148,000.. 147,300 .. 185,350.. 154,299

"" 40,517.. 55,912 .. 89,458. 42,377..

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The stock on hand in New-York, on 1st October, was only 32,820 tons, or about equal to the average of forty-five days' imports, and about one-half what it was in October, in 1860, viz.:

Stock of Sugar on hand at four Principal Ports, October 1st.

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One of the most interesting items of the month is the completion of the telegraphic line of communication from New-York City to Salt Lake City, via St. Louis. The first message was published at New-York on Saturday, October 19th, dated Salt Lake City, October 18th. The line from the latter city to San Francisco, was completed on the 24th of October; thus giving us a direct communication between the Atlantic

and the Pacific.

Measures have been taken by the Russian government to extend the telegraphic line from Moscow, eastwardly, to the mouth of the Amoor. Of this line, some fifteen hundred miles have been completed. From the Amoor, the line will be further extended through Asiatic Russia to Behring's Straits; thence across to Russian America, where a connection will be formed with the British territory, and to the extreme northern point of the United States on the Pacific, and thence to San Francisco; thus giving, at an early day, a complete telegraphic communication from New-York, westwardly, to Asia, and to Russia in Europe and to other portions of the European continent.

We reported in our September number, (page 331,) that the banks of New-York, Philadelphia and Boston had agreed in convention to take the new loan of the general government to the extent of fifty millions of dollars, with the option of taking fifty millions further on the 15th of October, and fifty millions on the 15th of December. The first subscription of fifty millions was allotted as follows, showing the capital and specie of the banks of the three cities, August 17:

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The effect of this upon the New-York banks was to increase the loans from 108 millions, as reported on the 17th August, to a weekly average of 137 millions on the 24th, the specie funds becoming reduced thereafter according to the instalments drawn for by the treasury. The changes in the aggregate movements of the banks are indicated in the following table of loans, specie, circulation, deposits and exchanges, at the beginning of each month, since January last:

Specie. Circulation. Deposits.

88,847,249 11,468,789 88,313,230 4,616,620 81,415,525 6,738,059

Weekly Sub1861. Loans. Clearings. Treasury. Jan. 5, $129,625,465 $ 24,839,475 $8,698,283 $86,454,430 $95,994,868 $ 3,645,500 Feb. 2, 121,907,024 31,054,509 8,099,376 87,879,743 122,138,525 4,328,000 Mch. 2, 121,893,963 34,480,407 8,290,755 89,635,298 126,728,832 9,166,030 Apl. 6, 122,113,496 41,705,558 8,930,141 94,859,810 123,277,671 8,486,494 May 4, 124,610,166 38,054,254 9,296,399 94,977,381 106,413,316 9,761,752 June 1, 118,290,181 37,502,402 8,683,780 90,197,459 July 6, 112,134,668 45,630,025 8,862,799 90,579,753 Aug. 3, 111,719,111 46,226,181 8,585,574 92,229,384 Aug. 17, 108,717,434 49,733,990 8,521,426 92,046,308 Sept. 7, 139,158,230 41,887,230 8,890,581 114,091,061 Sept. 14, 136,565,624 37,529,412 8,792,620 106,760,876 Sept. 28, 126,128,326 38,123,552 8,638,780 96,551,898 Oct. 5, 148,545,488 39,809,901 8,884,056 120,607,549 110,687,877 10,629,098 Oct. 12, 156,318,914 41,139,606 8,733,090 129,188,487 113,981,352 10,802,803 Oct. 19, 151,828,438 42,282,884 8,583,673 126,433,063 122,803,544 9,508,649

80,172,670 4,380,239

89,058,896 13,094,909

95,611,078 14,293,222

85,685,514 13,103,484

The receipts and shipments of wheat at Milwaukie last week were the largest ever known for a single week at that city, amounting to more than six hundred thousand bushels received, and over a million bushels forwarded. The receipts were, for the year:

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Total since Jan. 1, 376,181 .. 10,615,559.. 70,118.. 81,858.. 35,429.. 62,285 Same time in 1860, 107,860.. 6,093,329.. 148,864.. 107,355.. 64,253.. 34,234 Same time in 1859, 142,871.. 3,314,290.. 201,236.. 137,450.. 101,178.. 9,554 Shipments of flour and wheat from January 1st to October 19th, in the years 1860 and 1861, compare as follow:

..flour, bbls. 287,550 wheat, bush. 4,794,815

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The annual meeting of the Clearing-House Association of the banks of this city was held October 15th, when THOMAS TILESTON was re-elected Chairman, and WILLIAM B. MEEKER, Secretary. The following committee was elected and appointed:

Clearing-House Committee.-J. D. VERMILYE, GEORGE S. COE, J. M. MORRISON, E. D. BROWN and J. M. PRICE.

Committee on Conference.-JAMES GALLATIN, JACOB CAMPBELL, Jr., GEORGE W. DUER, A. S. FRASER and R. H. HAYDOCK.

Committee on Admissions.-D. R. MARTIN, C. F. HUNTER, H. BLYDENBURG, J. Q. JONES and M. M. FREEMAN.

Committee on Arbitration.-H. H. JACQUES, JOHN THOMPSON, J. W. DUER, W. L. JENKINS and F. A. PLATT.

Mr. G. D. LYMAN was re-appointed manager.

CLEARING-HOUSE TRANSACTIONS FROM OCTOBER 11, 1853, TO OCTOBER 1, 1861.

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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE

OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

LONDON, October 5th, 1861.

WHILE the Bank of France and its branches have felt the necessity of curtailing their loans on commercial paper, owing to the drain of gold from the country, the Bank of England pursues an opposite policy, by reducing the minimum rate of discount.

From the 16th of May to the 1st of August the Bank of England rate stood at 6 per cent.; at the latter date it was reduced to 5 per cent.; on the 15th of August, to 44, and on the 29th to 4 per cent. On the 19th September a further reduction to 3 per cent. was made.

On the 26th of September the Bank of France advanced their rate of discount from 5 per cent., at which it had stood since the 22d of March, to 5 per cent. This movement was partly anticipated, a belief having been entertained in Paris during the previous week that an increased demand for money would soon be felt from the continued grain purchases. On Tuesday, October 1st, the Bank of France raised the rate of discount to 6 per cent., the former rise, on the 26th ult., not having been found effectual in arresting the efflux of bullion. Advices from Paris state that the condition of the Bourse on the 2d was such as has not been paralleled for many years. The uncertainty and agitation were extreme, and at one time it was almost impossible to transact business. This was, in part, produced by the Bank of France having borrowed, till the next settlement at the end of the month, an amount equal to about a million sterling, upon French rentes, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. The scarcity of money thus produced caused the general terms for carrying on transactions from account to account to advance, until between 8 and 10 per cent. were the minimum rates.

The following is an abstract of the gross revenue of the United Kingdom in the year and quarter ending September 30, 1861, compared with the corresponding periods of the preceding year:

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Subjoined are the imports of wheat and flour into Great Britain, in quarters, for the three previous harvest years, ending 1st August, with

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