There are several small towns not embraced in the above table, which will probably swell the total to 1,500,000. From the foregoing, we gather the following results for the last five years: Total number for 1843-4, 912,000; 1844-5, 642,314; 1845–6, 955,588; 1846-7, 800,000; 1847-8, 1,492,924. The following statement has been furnished us of the operations of the several slaughterers in this city during the past season: Number of Hogs packed in St. Louis for the season 1847-8. Mr. S. Finley, H. Ames, McAlisters, Risley, Conn, Steitz, Bates, McFaul, Sigerson, 9,000 Finney, 9,300 Waddingham, 5,000 Schipman, 5,500 Schoenthaler, 5,112 Shaffer, 3,000 3,500 7,390 Total number, 1,000 2,000 1,272 1,050 800 3,000 63,924 From the foregoing statements, it will be seen that there has been an increase in the number of hogs slaughtered, amounting to 50 per cent. on the products of any previous year. In this city the slaughtering business has risen from 33,000 in 1846-7, to 63,000-about double-in 1847-8. The following table furnishes a list of the number of hogs put up each year in Cincinnati, since 1833, inclusive, and the prices at which the market opened. The season begins in November and ends in March. Each year refers to that in which business closed: · Hogs packed in Ohio. In 1844, 560,000; 1845, 450,000; 1846, 425,000; 1847, 325,000; of which aggregate, Cincinnati packed alone, in 1844, 43 per cent.; in 1845, 47 per cent.; in 1846, 68 per cent.; in 1847, 70 per cent. The entire packing of the west may be divided as follows: 1844. 1845. Missouri, 16,000 31,700 Tenness. 16,000 1,500 Kentucky 91,000 83,300 Illinois, 136,709 67,964 Fire minor points in this State not ascertained, and not included in this list, are supplied by estimates in tables, showing the number of hogs put up in each year. Price of Pickled Pork in New York, from 1823 to 1847, inclusive. But a small quantity of what is packed is actually exported to foreign coun More than three-fourths of the exports are to the British Colonies, South America, and the West India Islands. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. COMMERCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH THE UNITED STATES, The following statement of the trade and commerce of the United Kingdom with the United States, is derived from Parliamentary returns to the British House of Commons in 1847. The commercial and fiscal year of Great Britain ends on the 5th of January. EXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.-An account of the declared value of the various articles of British produce and manufac tures, exported to the United States of America for each of the past seven years, ending the 5th day of January, 1847. Apparel Brass and Cotton manu Slops and Copper manu- factures, includ'g Earthenware H'rdw're Years. Haberdashery. factures. Cotton Yarn. Iron & Steel wro't and unwro't. 1840 £109,341 £107,473 £1,123,439 £179,933 £334,065 £355,534 Aggregate value of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures, exported from the United Kingdom to the United States of America. 1843. 1844. 1845. 1810. 1811. 1812. 1846. £5,283,020 7,098,642 3,528,807 5,013,514 7,938,079 7,147,663 6,830,460 IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. An account of the quantities of the various articles imported into the United Kingdom from the United States of America, with the quantities so imported entered for home consumption. *Exclusive of quantities cleaned in the United Kingdom, and exported on drawback. Tobacco. Manf. or Segars. Turpentine. Wax, Bees'. 6,164 Seeds, Linseed and Flaxseed. Imported. Home con. Skins, Bear. m 6,216 Qrs. 2,864 Free. Imported. No. 552 344 90 494 303 Free. Free. Wool, Cotton. Wool, Sheep and Lambs'. Years. Imported. Home consumption. Imported. Home consumption. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. The following extract from a speech recently made by Mr. NILES, in the Senate of the United States, is credited by the St. Louis Republican to the Richmond Whig. We commend it to the attentive consideration of our readers, and more especially to the provision and grain growers of the west. The opinion has generally been entertained in this country that the British Corn Laws were the only obstacle to the consumption of American breadstuffs in Great Britain; and it was pretty generally believed that when the poorer classes of that country learned to cook and eat Indian corn, the people of the west would find a market for all they could grow. Let us observe how this matter stands after the experience of two years. The recent famine caused a suspension of the Corn Laws, and necessity compelled the poorer classes to use Indian corn to a very considerable extent; and for a time this article appeared to be in great favor, there being a less difference between the price of corn and wheat in Great Britain than in this country. But as soon as a favorable crop is gathered, neither the suspension of the Corn Laws nor the acquired fondness for Indian corn can induce the people of Great Britain to purchase more of our breadstuffs than formerly; and we find the quantity of corn exported to Great Britain, which was 6,931,640 bushels for the six months ending on the 4th of March, 1847, reduced to 1,337,204 bushels for the six months ending on the 4th of March, 1848, and even a large part of this was shipped before the effects of the famine had passed away. These facts ought to convince the American people of the folly of looking abroad for a market for their grain. |