The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-30
COMMERCIAL EtTTERS.

The Nv York K. or AID Cheese Exchanc
refused 70 nass resolution not to meet OF
Good Friday oat Of respect Tor the day.
On J&n.,ry j, 1874, TIE trench CONNER
cal Eiaf.z numbered l5,slG vessels Ct 81
$50 tons register including steamers "
l42,Ji2 tc-la register.
The amount Of gol1 exported from MI
bourne aEStrelia including Now Zealand gold
exported Va Melbourne, during the year 1874
exclusive Ct the month Of December, was 81 !, !
ol3 ounces The v;iGe in round numbers
was SIS GVt geo S nee tie year 1851 there
has been ctca iv falling oil in the exports.
The Plih1eiphi. Co,a4ee;1;a, List saws
The repos. which has been freely circulated
during the past week, OF the failure Of one Of
our largest skipping houses, Is, we are assured
entirely wit.Jut foundation.
1t was stated the other day in the British
Parliament by Sir Ii. James that the debt
owing BY bankrupt foreign States amounts to
no less team {. 5000 600, of which the greater
part, almost AL, is held in England.
Those who are wondering why their stores
and buildings sill not rent, butreE.ain empty
month after month, shonld 60 among the
merchants and learn how high rates Of freight
are driving business from Boston j. boston
4jOaunG! Of COn3.r'c re-
The steady absorption Of specie by the
sank OF France ca not fail to create some
little CONSERVATION in Berlin and mo- little
gneaslness in LaLdon. For severa. months
past the Gtock OF srt Gle in the Bank OF France
has lnct eased STEADILY ut the rate of /. ) COO
SoJto 20, 100000 flames per week. This in
crease of from $1,000 600 to 81 OOG 500 per
weak has continued until there is nov N the
bark the almost incrediable accumulation of
somewhere near S32C, 900, 900 of specie.
IEi5 IS not only a greater sum than any
where else liz the world, but it is considerably
greater than the aggregate Of specie il the
Bank Of England, the Bank of Prussia, and
the Uaited States Treasury all together.
AmGag the crlriosIties. If the London Mer-
ket is a Chinese loan ut upon the market.
The loan has been set ahoat under the e1.;-
pieces OF The Hong Kong and Shanghai Corpa:-
alton, AID it has met with such favor that The
applcatiGaS for the first 1000 bonds of cIGU
each, have reached e20l7 900
Three hundred cargoes of sugar and two
hundred az ,nolasses are expected TO arrive at
Boston tbs year, according to the Boston
s4dUeftiSer.
Iu-tenlx Decisions.
The United States Treasury Department |
has affirmed the deeis ons q Collectors i'm
posing duty, at fifty per cent, on brandy, |
costing over four dollars per gallon; on silk |
wearing apparel and heaa-nets at sixty per
cent ad valorem; disallowing all damage By
breakage on vines beyond five per cent, as
pfeyided by the act Of February : aislllow-
Inc damages by freezing occurring to wines
on i2land transportation.
The Cuban sugar Trade.
The Havana Weekly Repot publishes a
statement Of the movement in sugar ana
molasses in the Island of Cuba during the
CALENDER year 1874. The total exports were
|, lG5, ar boxes and $50 600 hhds, against
|, 42i, Us boxes and 7l3 ij6 hhds in 1873. Of
he shipments of 1874 the United States took
AZ 1876 boxes and Gil, 10 hhds Great
Britain 355, 716 boxes and 81 S0l hhds. Spain
md south o. Europe 15G l3S boxes and 1919
lhds. The exports Of molasses were 2G9, $50
aids, agains. 29l 2S2 the previous year. OF
his, in 1874, 2S2 hhds. went to the
United States; 10 33i to Great Britain. ,
iavana exported SO per cant of the sugar |
q boxesed Ind 10 per cent Of tina! in hhds.
Rio JaEeirO Markets.
WRIGHT 4 co. 5 TELEGRAM.