MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4219, 21 February 1871, Page 2

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

TUily Southern* Onobs Otiieo, Monday Evening. Mr. 0. Sibbin Fold to clay the cargo of the 'Aurora,' from the Islands :— Oranges, Sdto S.UI per do/en. ; pineapples, 3a 9<l pci> dozon ; dried banana's, 4UI to 3d per lb. ; m.u/.0, 5s 3d per bushel ; coooanut oil, 211, per ton ; Jiinejniee, Is per gallon ; Kelson iip|;!es, 4d to si> per box.

DLhJ'KUCTION' OJ' FuhXCil CoJIMkRI'E. — The Pall MaU Cktu'tlc publishes the trade statistics of October, 1869, and October, 1870, to show the falling ofi of French commence in consequence of the war. The export of some of the articles enumerated had so seriously fallen off last October that the trade iti them appears to be on the point of utter extinction. This is the case with alkali, s>teel and iron tools, copper and tin goody, seed oil, and carpets. The articles enumerated under cotton aie reduced to onetenth of their former quantity ; linen goods ta tag ilian one-twelfth • 33,000d01. WOl'tll of silk in IStSU has shrunk to 3 } DDbtiol. m 1870 ; sheep's wool for French spindles has fallen to just one-thirtieth of its former weight, woollen yarn to one-fifteenth, and worsted stuffs to less than one-seventh. The shipments of wrought and unwroughfc iron and steel arounder onp-tcnthof the quantity sent across the Channel in October, 1809. On the other hand, there aie maikcd indica- , tion& that the necessities of war, to some extent, have been fed by British commerce. Thus England has sent to Fiance '27,007 hoises, against 410 in October, 1809. Woollen and worsted cloths of all kinds lm c very j slightly diminished, and woollen shawls, ! rugM, coverlets, and wiappers have largely increased ; the export last month was 5,504 against 805 in 1809. What may be the total decrease, as measured in money value, of the October trade, is not yet known ; but the trade in September last was 570,000/. against 901,000/. in September, 1860 ; the former month, therefore, shows a decrease of 431,600/., or 35 per cent. The bullion trade between the two countries may in some dcgiee may be taken as the exponent of the condition of the trade in general. Last October the imports from France were 67,000/. against 202,000/. in October, IS69'j thy, exports to France, 35,000/., against 540.900/.