The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-27 00:00:00

BOXRD OF TRADE RETURNS.

The Board of Trade returns for the month of
Sane were issued yesterday. We subjoin a state-
ment of the total declared value of the exports of
British and Irish produce and manufactures during
the month and six months of the last three
years :

For the month. For six months.
1858 £10,241,433 £53,467,804
1859 10,665,891 .... 63,003,159
1860 9,236,454 62,019,989
The aggregate shipments in June were
less by £1,429,437, or 13 per cent., than in June
1859, and less by £1,004,979, than in June, 1858.
The exports for the six months of the present year
were less by £983,170 than in 1859, and larger
by £8,552,185, or about 16 per cent., than in 1858.
The decrease, however, appears to be partly a
matter of account, as indicated in the following
official note, -which is attached to the returns:—
" Note.—The comparative decrease in the regis-
tered exports of British merchandise for the month
of June, 1860, is in part attributable to the opera-
tion of a clause in a recent act of Parliament (23
Viet., c. 22, s. 22), which allows to exporters a
delay of six days after the sailing of the vessel for
the correction of their entries."
Examining the chief items of these exports, we
I arrive at the subjoined general figures for the
month, viz. :

Month of June.
1858. 1859.
Apparel and slops £177,602 £228,873
Beer and ale
Books 26,000 41,690
Butter
Coals and euhn 328,435 351,758
Cottons
Cotton yarn
Counterpanes and small

1860.
£176,261
143,648
31,686
44,005
316,484
2,434,963
561,153

wares
Earthenware and porce-
lain
Furniture ..
Glass, common bottles..
Haberdashery and mil-
linery 291,081
Hard wares and cutlery 281,614
Leather, unwrought
Ditto, wrought 114,609
Saddlery and harness 44,404
Linens
.(cloths of all
kinds and cambrics) . 337,255
Linen yarn
Machinery, steam en-
gines
Ditto, other sorts
Iron, pig
Ditto, bar, bolt, and rod 189,114
Ditto, railway of all
kinds
Ditto, cast
Ditto, wrought 259,242
Copper, unwrought
Ditto, sheets and nails 154,424
Lead
Tin, unwrought
Tin-plates
Silk manufactures (silk
only)
Other articles (of silk
39182
Silk,only) thrown 45,531,
Ditto, twist and yarn
Spirits (British)
Wool .. 81,297
Woollens (cloths, &c.).. 273,959
Ditto (mixed stuffs,
flannels, &c.)
Worsted tuffs ..
Woollen and worsted
yarns
Compared with last year, the principal decrease
is in cotton goods and yarn, linens, haberdashery,
and millinery, woollen and worsted goods, and rail-
way iron. There is, however, a remarkable
crease in woollen and worsted yarns.
The annexed shows the quantities of the chief
articles of food taken for consumption during the
month of June :-

27,012

42,755

29,182

97,318
16,765
22,556

105,923
17,082
24,000

94,343
18,117
29,180

397,130
328,973
18,339
128,549
23,637

274,571
240,142
36,743
125,393
22,216

358,379
81,828

250,787
113,441

95,011
166,312
55,233
205,309

110,882
178,257
78,479
157,546

460,141
75,228
256,229
30,777
99,183
47,460
17,132
122,450

305,592
93,621-
254,043
13,179
151,003
52,421
39,371-
93,806

55,352

64,377

40,325

28,048
35,664
15,055
20,355
130,614
191,908

17,385
45,665
28,436
25,963
128,449
175,525

1858. 1859. 1860.
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Cocoa
Coffee
Wheat qrs. 573,636 645,323 413,49/
Flour cwts. 405,549 663,036 375,686
Butter
Rice cwts. 131,426 82,220 Free
Cheese cwts. 21,190 31,261 Free
Eggs No. 16,560,600 17,416,000 Fret,
Pepper lbs. 246,580 235,468 233,7.0
Rum gals. 196,523 212,023 259,943
Brandy
Sugar, unrefined,cwts. 783,543 1,376,672 851,195
Tea

Wines gals. 549,573 578,792
The falling off in the quantity duty paid of
sugar, wheat, and flour, and the increase in wine 4
are the principal changes. Cocoa and coffee pt
sent larger figures, whilst the quantity of tea taken
for consumption in the month was less. Occasional
monthly variations are of course to be looked for.