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The quantity of Gold and Silver deposited in market from the producing countries other than America, at the commenceme of the present century.

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The annual quantities of Gold and Silver delivered by different countries into the

general market.

SILVER.

Value in

GOLD. Value in francs.

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Total value in
dollars.
$34,952,004

13,778,000

2,564,708

34,684,000

$10,354,388

The amount of specie imported into the United States 'from 1842 to 1847 (inclusive) is stated at $64,207,043, and the amount exported during the same period, $23,699,246.

MANUFACTURES.

By the census of 1840, the amount of capital invested in manufactures in the United States, was $267,726,579, while the total value of the articles manufactured was $294,106,772. The following table of the value of the articles manufactured is gathered from the census returns.

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It is computed that there were employed in 1820, in the United States in manufactures, 349,506 persons, and in 1840, 791,749, while at the same time 3,719,951 were employed in agriculture, and 117,607 in commerce.

The returns of the census of 1840 of the productive industry of the country, were evidently imperfect. The present Secretary of the Treasury estimates the aggregate amount of products of the United States at $3,028,830,000. As an evidence of the increase since the census of 1840, we give the results of the labor and employment of capital in Massachusetts, the principal manufacturing state in the Union, for the year 1845.

By the census of 1840, the estimate of the domestic industry of Massachusetts, it was put down at $75,470,297. From a table published in 1845, we make the following extracts:

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The following are among the largest items in the table:

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In other parts of the Union, we have similar evidences of the progressive state and prosperity of the manufacturing interest. Under the head of cotton, we have mentioned the impulse which has been given to manufactures in the southern states. The subject is one of absorbing interest to the American people; and we have, therefore, in preparation from recent data, full tables of the present condition and progress of the manufactures, and of the results of the whole productive industry of the Union.

A Table of the average rate of Wages in the United States.

It often happens that wages vary in different sections of the same state, and in large cities good laborers generally command $1 per day.

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In Lowell, the male operatives are paid 80 to 88 cents a day, exclusive of board.

The females earn from $3 to $4 a week.

During the month of April 1848, the following announcement of the anticipated revenue has been made.

The receipts of the customs for the fiscal year were estimated by the secretary of the treasury to amount to $31,000,000, a sum which will certainly be realized, as $28,000,000 have already been collected, and there yet remains two and onethird months of the fiscal year. The amount estimated to accrue from the sales of public lands, during the same period, was $3,300,000, of which $2,750,000 have been collected, and the large Miami sales coming off before the expiration of the year.

England and France.

The New York Herald has recently made the following statements:

The debts of these two countries amount in the aggregate to nearly five thousand millions of dollars, the interest on which annually amounts to about two hundred and fifty millions of dollars-a sum nearly as large as the aggregate indebtedness of every state in the American Union and of the general government. The annexed statement exhibits the aggregate indebtedness, and the annual receipts and expenditures at several periods:

1836

1843

1844

1845

1846

1847

Finances of Great Britain-Income, Expenditures and Indebtedness.

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In 1689, the public debt amounted to £664,263; in 1702, to £16,394,702; 1714, £54,145.373; 1763, £138,865,430; 1784, £249,851,628; 1817, £840,850,491. Since 1817, the debt has been largely reduced, and is now less than eight hundred millions of pounds sterling. Since 1815, Great Britain has been at peace with the world, and the debt has been reduced about forty-five million pounds sterling.

A statement, showing the present position of the public debt of France, the periodical increase in the amount, and the different rates of interest paid upon the debt:

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5,345,555,555 £209,629,000 $1,048,165,000

The next dividends which fall due will be those of the five per cents, on the 22d of March.

When Louis Philippe ascended the throne, the debt of France amounted to $860,000,000. Since 1830 the increase has been as follows:

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This increase is equal to one hundred and eighty-two millions of dollars, in a period of seventeen years.

State Indebtedness.

On the authority of a stock circular of Prime, Ward & Co., the following statement of the debts, revenue and expenditures of the several states was published in 1847. We do not vouch for its perfect accuracy.

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"The ten states not included in the above list, viz: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Iowa and Wisconsin, as also the District of Columbia, are without any public debt. Of the debt of Massachusetts, two-thirds ($4,000,000) was created by loan to the Western Railroad Company, by whom it is now proposed to be paid off. Against the debt of New York an annual sum is appropriated chiefly from the canal revenues, to the purposes of a sinking-fund, which is expected to extinguish the whole in 1869. Pennsylvania has now a small excess of income over expenditure, but not yet enough to commence a sinking-fund, although this is contemplated in another year."

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