EXPORTS OF COFFEE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO. In the Merchants' Magazine for August, 1850, (vol. xxiii., pp. 172–176,) we published an interesting article on the coffee trade, from the pen of a valued correspondent -a merchant residing in Rio de Janeiro. The paper referred to embraced full statistics of the exports, &c., of coffee for a series of years, down to July, 1849. We now subjoin a statement of the exports of coffee from January to July in each of the years 1849 and 1850, as follows: SHIPMENTS, JANUARY TO JULY, 1849, AS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF 1850. Total..... 301,523 248,980 463,100 202,992 Showing a total in the six months of 1849 of 764,623 bags, and during same time in 1850 of 451,972. ་ THE UNITED STATES, ENGLAND'S BEST CUSTOMER. [FROM THE LONDON MORNING HERALD.] The value of the produce and manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1848 was a little above £247,000,000, and of that amount nearly £195,000,000 worth was consumed at home, and £13,000,000 in our colonies, making together £208,000,000, or thereabouts; while the whole amount exported to all the foreign countries of the world was not much more than £39,000,000; that is to say, in round numbers, 80 per cent of our whole manufactures were bought in the home market, 5 per cent in the colonial, and 15 in the foreign-the whole of the foreign nations of the world thus purchasing less than one-sixth of the productions of Great Britain. A calculation of the average consumption per head at home, in the colonies, and in the foreign countries affords some curious results. Taking the population of the United Kingdom at 31,000,000, and the whole consumption at £194,213,151, we get an average consumption of £6 5s. 4d. per head. Calculating the population of all foreign countries to which we export our commodities at 607,681,000, and their consumption at £39,430,481, we get an annual consumption per head of 18. 34d., or less than the 96th part of the British consumption per head. If we take the population of the British colonial possessions at 118,790,200, and their consumption at £12,819,345, and add them to the home population and consumption, we arrive at an aggregate of 149,000,000 souls, and a British consumption of £207,623,115, or an average of £1 78. 11d. per head. If, in the calculation of the foreign average, we deduct the population of China, which amounts to the formidable sum of £253,000,000, we shall raise the average of foreign consumption from 18. 34d. to 2s. 1gd. If, on the other hand, we exclude from our colonial table the East Indies, with their 114,000,000, and exports amounting to £5,077,247, as a set-off against China, we leave for the United Kingdom and the colonies a population of 34,914,200, consuming on an average £5 168. per head of all the productions of Great Britain; in other words, more than 52 times the average of the foreigners at the higher calculation. Assuming the population of the United States to be 19,500,000, and the amount of their consumption of British productions £9,564,902, (an amount considerably exceeding the average of 12 years,) we get an average consumption per head of 98. 9d., or more than four times the highest general average of foreign consumption, and considerably greater than the average of any other foreign country. If we take the American consumption at a little more than £7,000,000 a year, which was the average of the 12 years concluding with 1848, we shall still have an average consumption per head higher than that of any other foreign country. The Americans are, therefore, our best foreign customers individually, if we may so speak; but they are, also, by far our best customers regarding them as a nation. While they took £9,500,000 worth of our productions in 1848, all Northern and Western Europe, from Russia to France, took but £12,000,000; the south of Europe, with the whole of the Meditterranean, from Portugal to Morocco, but £8,500,000 and South America, with Mexico, considerably under £6,000,000. The average amount of exports from the United Kingdom to France during the five years ending with 1848 was £2,348,453 to Germany, for the same period, £6,601,393; and to Italy, £2,733,552. It is clear, therefore, that no nation takes so much of our commodities as the United States, even calculating their consumption on the average of twelve years. Taking the amount of their consumption of 1841, namely, £9,500,000, we still find the States consuming less than a quarter of our exports, while we consume more than two-thirds of the whole of theirs in the same year, amounting in value to more than £27,000,000 sterling. JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. THE AGGREGATE OF TAXATION IN GEORGIA. The following table, showing the aggregates of subjects of taxation in Georgia, with the amount of tax received from each, was compiled by Mr. Grenville for his almanac for 1851: CONDITION OF THE SEVERAL BANKS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE, 30 1850. $869,425 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $5,991,885 73 $5,430,777 $1,084,456 $493,886 $1,638,385 $1,979,428 $1,443,398 $1,841,576 $1,651,068 $15,562,978 18 LIABILITIES. $249,239 $5,350 $1,874 $145,934 $257,004 $104,811 $214,576 $81,786 $1,060,579 24 Bills of banks in this State.. Bills of banks in other States 15,000 395 4,897 12,885 33,177 00 Total resources. $5,480,777 $1,084,456 $493,886 $1,638,385 $1,979,428 $1,443,398 $1,841,576 $1,651,068 $15,562,978 18 This is due the mother bank at Charleston, for capital, &c. BANK OF CHARLESTON, COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF the bank of cHARLESTON, 1846-1850. Circulation..... 1,061,114 Individual deposits. 536,852 Sterling bills sold... 1,504,288 Due distant banks.. Due city bank. Due to agencies 432,030 Public deposits.. 2,368 Dividends unpaid. Undivided profits. DEPOSITS AND COINAGE AT THE NEW ORLEANS BRANCH MINT. STATEMENT OF DEPOSITS AND COINAGE AT NEW ORLEANS BRANCH MINT FROM THE 1ST AU GUST, 1849, TO THE 31ST JULY, 1850, INCLUSIVE. DEPOSITS OF GOLD AND SILVER. $2,720,902 62 Silver ext. frm gold, (Cal.) $13,516 81 1,195,001 25 CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. We compile from the last published report of the Hon. Washington Hunt, the State Controller, the subjoined statement of the condition of the banks (192) of the State of New York on the morning of Saturday, June 29th, 1850. For similar statements the reader is referred to the Merchants' Magazine for the months of January, April, and July, 1850. These statements are abstracts of the quarterly reports made to the Controller's Office by the several banks, banking associations, and private bankers, made in pursuance of the provisions of the third and fourth sections of an act of the Legislature of the State entitled "an act to abolish the office of bank commissioners and for other purposes," passed April 18th, 1843, and the act amending the same, passed December 4, 1847: Loans & Disco'nts, except to Incorporated Banking incorporated banking Other Directors and Brokers..... $34,734,033 $20,249,626 $22,770,323 $11,152.791 $2,286,872 Loans & disc'ts to Directors. Bonds and mortgages.... Promissory notes, other than Grand Total. $91,193,645 1,924,796 996,716 for loans and discounts... Loss and expense account... Overdrafts.. Specie.. Cash items. Bills of solv't banks on hand Total resources........ $59,552,219 $32,241,228 $32,762,910 $21,346,115 $7,192,729 $153,095,287 Capital... Profits. Notes in cir'la'n, not regist'd LIABILITIES. $16,251,200 $11,049,130 $11,365,260 $7,574,090 $1,540,047 $47,779,727 1,595,603 553,102 113,604 3,071,749 2,402 1,095 1.774 5,271 960 97 1,012 2,069 3,177,564 1,011,471 211,721 10,551,966 2,850.569 1,451,881 2,295,073 1,333,032 182,509 8,113,064 Total liabilities......... $59,552,219 $32,241,228 832,762,910 $21,346,115 $7,192,729 $153,095,287 SUMMARY OF THE ITEMS OF CAPITAL, CIRCULATION, AND DEPOSITS-SPECIE AND CASH ITEMS-PUBLIC SECURITIES, AND PRIVATE SECURITIES, OF THE BANKS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ON THE MORN We give below, from the official statement of the Board of Currency of Louisiana, a statement of the condition of the banks in New Orleans on the 31st of August, 1850. |