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TRADE AND NAVIGATION RETURNS.

The Board of Trade returns, for the month ended September 5, show that the increase in the consumption of Foreign and Colonial produce had not been checked up to that date, whatever it may have been since. In sugar, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, and wine, there is a considerable increase as compared with the same month last year. In tea the increase has not been equal to Mr. Gladstone's calculations; owing, probably, to the rise in prices. The quantities entered for home consumption were— MONTH ENDED 3m 8EPTE2dBEE

1853. 1869.

Tea, pounds 4,593,435 4,653,090

tZujreare,

hundredweights 641,490 716,846

pounds 2,676,557 2,970,193

Cocoa,

„, 238653

328.848

,

2,278,633 961

2,460,514

'Wine e

gallons 516,333 605,980

In salted provisions, and in dairy produce, the increase is much greater; owing, no doubt, to the dearness of these articles for some time past.

Bacon,

Pork, salted

Butter Cheese, Eggs, hundredweight ., '• mber number In 5852 25:917

3 7,6333 4 In 301853 .346 13,231 42,253 50,519 11,481,163 It was lately remarked by a country newspaper that the poultry mania had begun to tell upon the market, and that our importation of eggs from France was declining. An increase of more than 50 per cent over the same period last year does not encourage that notion.

As regards our exports during last month, they exhibit no decline; the news from Australia not having begun to tell upon our shipments up to the end of August. Our textile manufactures show a large increase in declared value, with the exception of woollen manufactures and cotton yarn.

MONTH ENDED 11EPTEMBER 5,

1852. 1853.

Cotton Manufactures LI 787 088 £2,022,214 Cotton Yarn Linen Manufactures 686,186 595,268 ......

352,750 407,624 Linen Yarn Silk Manufactures 111,339

57,109

Woollen Manufactures ..... 994,044 19161:013521 942,285 Woollen Yarn 152,229 158,018

The total declared value of our exports for the month was 8,297,0861.; for the same month last year 6,870,58U—showing an increase of 1,426,500/. The declared value of our exports for the first eight months of the present year was 58,158,7291.,—an increase of nearly 12,000,0001. over last year.