The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN COMMERCE OF THE UNITED

STATES FOR ♦ SERIES OS YEARS.

Years. Exports.
1836 $128,600,000

Imports.
$190,000,090

1810 '132:00000

107,000,000

" From this we see that th, exports in four years
increased four millions, while the imports decreased
83 millions, or showing an improvement in our fo-
reign balance of 87 millions of dollars. The reaction
that took at that period four years to produce, will
now be produced in twelve months.
" The commerce of the United Stat!s for the
fiscal year 1856 was as follows: exports, 327,000,000
dols. ; import; 315,000,000 dols. The decrease in
imports from 1836 to 1840 was 48 per cent., and
the increase in exports was 3 per cent. Applying
the same per centage of increase and decrease to
the trade of 1856, our commerce for the present
fiscal year would be as follows :

Year 1857-58.
Dale.
Exports
Imports

Balance in our favour
Add Californian gold

101,000,000
Debt due Europe 40,000,000

Balance
From this we see that, if Europe remain solvent,
the balance due us, after paying the debt whioh
now due to Europe, will be over one hundred and
fifty millions of dollars. This is an under-estimate
of our exports. The Emperor of France ha% just
i,,stted an edict forbidding the export of grain from
France. The imports of cotton into Great Britain
from India this year will be nominal. Great Britain
will want our flour and provisions for her Indian
army. Enough has been given to show that our
exports must increase, and our imports are subject
to our own control. Europe must have our cotton
and breadstuff, and India our provisions. The gold
from California must stay with us. This ail we d d
not have in 1837, and is in itself alone sufficient to
insure our recovery."
We derive the following particulars from various
sources :

"BOSTON, Oct. 14. (By telegraph.)
"At a meting of the Boston Bank Presidents
to-day a general suspension of specie payments was
agreed upon.

"BOSTON, Oet. 13.

"Messrs. Francis Shinner and Co. suspended

to-day. This is the largest dry goods commission
house in the city. They were agents of the Pep-
perell, Bates, Vassalboro, and many other promi-
nent manufacturing companies.
" The bank failures in New York, to-day, caused
considerable excitement in State-street, but as yet
the news has had no perceptible effect on our banks,
which continue to discount t 3 a reasonable extent.
The committee appoinhsd. at the meeting of the
Bank Presidents, was authorised t•o consult with
and ask the co-operation of New York banks, in
extending the line of discounts to solvent mer-
chants.

The Courier states, in regard to the suspension
of Messrs. Frank Skinner and Co., that " th-y
have stood through all the changes in mercantile
affairs for nearly 0 years, and now they yield to
the pressure from the utter impossibility of obtain-
ing that which has no peace—money. Their means
are ample, and their suspension is but temporary.
They have resources to pay their debts nearly twice
over, and their paper we are assurel will now sell
-it better prices than much of the paper offered in
the market. Such is the effect of the panic on one
of the first dry goods firms in Bos'on."
ST. Louis, Oct. 13.
_ _ _

A number of Santa Fe merchants arrived here
to-night with upwards of 100,000 in gold, for
the purpose of setting old accounts and purchasing
new goods.
" From the north, east, west, and a few locali-
ties in the south," says the Washington Union,
"our advices in relation to business and financial
matters continue to be of the msst gloomy charac-
ter. In addition to bank failures by dozsns, we
have now to record the bankruptcy of three of the
largest railroad companies in the United States—
the Reading, the Illinois, Central, and the New
York and Erie. The first continues on with its
business in spite of protest° paper ; the lsst two
have made a-signments for the benefit of their cre-
ditors."
SUSPENSION OF THE BANK OF THE STATE OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.—This banking institution of the stat
was compelled by unavoidable circumstances to
suspend this forenoon. A good deal of excitement,
on the announcement of the fact, pervades our com-
munity. There is, however, no just cause of panic
—such a panic as will induce an unnecessary run
on the other banks. The liberality of this bank in
accommodating the people, when neither fun is nor
currency could be obtained from other quarters,
had so extended its discount and circula,tioa lines
that when the o• her banking institutions, insisting
on constant discharges of balances in spzcie between
them—an unwise and incongruous measure at this
crisis—made a pre-s upon it, its suspension became
inevitable. The note holders and depositors nee i
not, however, apprehend any lass, unless in their
panic they choose to sacrifice their securiti. 5 The
itnmediate liability on bills and deposits is about a
million and a htlf. Th's is but a smal pr•pur ion
of the assets of the bank, which are unque tionable.
Its discount line of prornivory no!e,7 its hond.J, its
exchange, its st )eks, ali of which are realisable
in a limited period, are nearly treble those
ties. In addition to the amplitude of the astts
and the general sounduess of the bank, the st kte
stands as a guar tutor of is eventful liquid Aion of
all d ern a nd:-. —Charleston, News. _

RiciimoND, Oct. 10. LG ,ve.n)r Wise has iswed
a proclamation prolil3aing the notes of the Bank
of Kanawha being rec iv. d in payment for money
due to the sta`e, in cmsequeuce of the refusal of
that bank to redeem iti Lotes and removing a large
amount of its assets beyond the limits of the sta-e.

ESCAPE AND RE-CIPTURE OF A PRISONER. —Ou
Saturday last Francis Tubbs, a man about 50 years of
age, under sentence of ten years' transportati,n, made
his escape from the county gaol at Chelmsford, by first
opening the door of his c•,11 by means of a skeleton key
which he had ingeniously constructed out of the tube of
a magnum bonum pen and the ilade of a per-knife, and
then concealing himself in different parts of the building
till he reached the outer wall 18 fart high, from which
he dropped, breaking the fall by lowering himself by
some old clothes tied together. lie was taken within
four hours after his escape awl brought back-to hie old
quarters.