, 1865-03-14

pairing tor a commencement OF the sugar
crop, which will probably be early in
February. Belmont in St, Patrick's, and
Dunfermline in ST. Andrews, both likely
to make large crops, had already turned
some hogsheads in, and other estates IN
different parishes could also show a few
casks but the crop would pot I've tlIrly
entered upon before two or three weeks
more. Cocoa was being rapidly brought
20 town for expectations, and cotton pick
ing aud ginning proceeded cheeftuliy'
There will be a good deal of cotton ship
ped this year, and of excellent fibre.
The island was healthy. Colonial banks
selling rates of exchange were 80 DAYS
draugnts, $3.50; 60 days, S4623; 80
days, S485.
A comparative statement of the eX-
ports Of the islaad Of Porto Rico, publish
ed by the RsujSta Commercial, shows THAI,
with the exception of cotton, there was
a decrease in All the crops of 1864 com
pared with 1868. This is ascrIbed chiefly
10 excessive drought. The new sugtr
croD had commenced on several estates,
and promised results exceeding the ave
rage of some years.
lit SANi''IItI'uoS ''' ~ 'AS
French Island Of Martinique for the year
1864 are published. They show a fall
ing off in all the exports except cotton,
in which an increase of 6,635 kilogram-
mes appears compared with the year
1868. There is il decreas. in sugar of
6,997,532 kiIogrammAs, or 1854 hhIs
For the previous ten years there had
been constantly obtained crops of So 90
to $4,000 hhIs,, ard the greatest differ
ence between any two OF those years
never exceeded 5000 hhd&. Tnc dmiau-
lion lust shown OF 1851 hhdS. sugar, at
the prevailing price of PSI. per 50 kiio-
grammes (about 2OS. sterling per cAi.)
represents loss of 3, 1875, 500f (I25 0O0L J.
an immense drawback, considering that
the expectation generally ranged between
$4,000. 00Of. and 10000, 000f. annually.
The decrease in Other exports is given as
follows rum. 2,424,00O ~litrrs; cocoa,
37.O5I kilogrammes; casS a, 6l,292 kllo-
grammc<; coffee, 2l.455 ki.ogrammeS.
The following IS an account OF the total
crops shipped from HE 1<t of January to
to the 3ISt of December 1864 Sugar,
24,l6I 24G kilogrammrS rum, 1901 ,043
Hires; coff e, 10 FOG ki!ogr ,mmes; CIT
ton, 1O,135 k~lIogrammeS; cocoa, 22l,076
kilogrammes cassia, 500. 297 kiogram-
mes.
The only intelligence from GnadaIoupe
relates 10 The crops, in which, as in tn
of Martinique, a large decrease appears
by the Custom house accounts. The total
exports in 1864 are as follows Sugar,
Is, 7S4, 300 kllogrammeS; ram, 9 1929
litres coffee, 219,9 94 kllogram e<; CT
ton, 1O5,50I kilogramme> ; cocoa, 60,220
kilogrammes, c%assia, $50 kiI"grammrs.
Compared with the returns Of the year
1858 the above figures show a decrease, in
sugar, of Ia, 407 ,742 kilogrammeS, or 2S,-
8l4hhd., represeniingone one million oftrnncS,
at25f the SO kiIogrammes;inrum 1925, 408
litres, value 35S 892f, at SIC. the htre
in coffee, 169,065 klIogrammes, value
378, 1907, at IF. the kiIogramme. An III
crease appears in the cotton exported Of
1909 kiIogrammes over last year.
The principal item of interest from
Central America is the excitement caused
throughout the different States by the
arrival in Costa RIGA Of the ex-President
Of Salvador, General BarrioS. The pro-