BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

Press, Volume XII, Issue 1578, 27 November 1867, Page 2

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

[From **Morgan's British Trade Journal"] The Board of Trade returns for July indicate the continuance of a steady export business, the declared value of our shipments having been £15,5H2,430, or 4 *per cent, in excess of those of the corresponding month of last year, and 10 per cent, above those of July, 1865. The exportation of yarns of all kinds—cotton, linen, and woollen—and also of machinery, seems to confirm the evidence afforded by the returns of the previous month of the revival which ia taking place in the manufacturing industry of the Continent. "With regard to cottons, it appears that our consignments of cotton-yarn have been about 48 per cent, both in value and quantity, more than in July last year; but of cotton manufactures, although there has been an increase of 4 per cent in quantity, there is a fallingoiF of 6 per cent in value. One' of the most important instances of improvement is in iron, tlie consignments of which show an increase of 11 per cent, partly from a better demand from the United States. Machinery likewise figures for an increase of 11 per cent. Linen yarns show an increase of 48 per cent ; wool, 35 per cent.; woollen yarns, about 100 per cent, j and woollen manu factures, 6 per cent .'On the other hand, there has been a diminution of 7 per cent in the shipments oi earthenware, 8 per cent, in hardware, 21 per cent, in haberdashery, 10 percent, in linen manufactures, and 10 per cent, in silk manufactures. As respects the principal articles of importation, it appears that the arrivals of cotton have again been relatively sntall. the total being 748,898 cwt. agaiu*t 1,075,244 cwt. in July, 1866,1 .<jM Wheat the supplies have been large, the total being 3,295.622 cwt, or 45 per cent in excels uf July, 1866, considerably more than onethiw of which has been received from Kussia Of 'flour, owing t& th*> scantiness of the arrivals from France, the total shows a fallingoff of 86 per cent. Of other grain, with, the exception of barley and maize, the quantities received huve been considerable.

The total value of bur exportations during tfafffiwrseven-Tnonths nf the -prsient year-har beeu £105i175i914, being a decrease ofi4± per cent, compared wjih the tirst seven months of an increase of 17 per cent, on the corresponding period of 1865.