The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-15 00:00:00

REPORT OP THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS•

TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES, &c.

In presenting to the Treasury, in a report issued
to-day, statistics of trade and revenue for the year 1866,
the commissioners of her Majesty's customs mention a
variety of facts of unusual interest. The values of the ex-
ports of British and Irish produce in 1866 show as com-
pared with 1865. which was a year of great prosperity,
an increase of 23,000,0001., and the imports into this
country an increase of 24,000,0001. On nearly every article
of general consumption liable to duty there was a conside-
rable rise in the quantities consumed, increasing the gross
receipt of dutiestlespite the extensive reductions that have
taken place in latter years, by 196,379/.
Examining a little more in detail the above results,
we find that the foreign country which has taken the
greatest supply of our produce andmannfactures,and which
shows the largest increase in the values of our exports, is
the United States. France stands next in order—then
come Brazil and Egypt, China and Holland after them.
The result of the vast increase in our trade with the
United States has been to restore the values of our exports
to that country to a superior position to that which they
occupied before the American war.
The rise in our exports to France is also remarkable,
showing an increase over 1865 of 2,633,9211., and over 1862,
the highest previous year, of 2,486,6491., and presenting
a return considerably more than that of 1860, the year
before the treaty took place. The principal articles
exported to France which show an increase are cotton
piece-goods, woollen manufactures, worsted stuffs,
cotton goods, wool, coals, and wheat. The latter
item is calculated to excite some surprise, con.
sidering the deficiency of our harvest, but it appears
that at some period of the year prices ruled higher
in France than in this country ; and tempted the transfer
of a portion of our supplies to meet the wants of our neigh-
bour, who, though sending us such large quantities of
grain, is nevertheless an importer on her own account of
considerably more than she exports.

With the whole of the vast increase of more than
24.000,0001. in our imports, the United States are to be
credited. The imports from the United States last year
were 46,852,41., an amount not only more than doubling
that of 1865, and exceeding that of 1864 and lBtis
put together, but surmounting also that shown in any
previous year in the history of our trade with the United
States, with the single exception of the year 1861. The
supplies from the Southern States have risen first from
365,000/. only, to upwards of 5,000,0001. in 18115, and to
upwards of 24,000,0001. in 1666. It seems that the supply
of wheat from the United States almost entirely failed us
in 1806, having fallen to the value of 375,0001. as com-
pared with the value of 3,685,000/. in 1864.
The values of our imports to France have considerably
increased, though not in the same proportion as those of
our exports to that country, the latter showing a rise of
29 per out. and the former one of 17 per cent. It appease
that the quantities of cotton imported from all countries
show an increase of 41 per cent, on quantities as compared
with an increase of 17 percent. on values. Of the increase
of 3,563,854 cwts. given by the total return the United
States contribute 3,430,580 cwts. There is, moreover, a
large increase in the supply of cotton from our Indian
powleasions, amounting in the aggregate to 1,512,035 cwts.
Brazil also, though exporting in much smaller quantities
than India, has increased her cargoes by 117,137 cwts. ;
while Egypt, China, and Turkey, the countries next in
importance, and to whom we have been much indebted
during the years of the cotton famine, have in 1866 fallen
short in their supply to this country by 921,240 costs.
The commissioners think the fact especially worthy of
observation that out of the 11,000,000 cwts. of cotton
forwarded to England in 1801 upwards of 7,000,000 carts.
was sent by the United States alone ; while last year,
on the other hand, the picture is reversed. The
United States, though fast recovering from their state
of depression, have only sent us 4,600,000 ewes., while the
necessities and advancing consumption of England have so
encouraged the cotton culture in other countries of the
world, actually creating it in some instances where none
before existed, that the supply of 4,000,000 cwta in 1861
has been raised to more than 7,600,000 cwts. in 1866.
We observe from the return that the import of French
wines into this country is making rapid strides, the
quantity having increased in 1866 by upwards of 25 per
cent. as compared with an increase of Spanish wines of 9
per cent, only, and an actual falling off in Portuguese
wines of 5 per cent.

IL Gregory Gamow and M. Simon Deutsch
bate unwed at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris' .