cious metals have not kept pace with the supply, the latter having increased during the present year while the former has diminished, as will be seen by the following comparison :

We also annex a monthly statement of the shipments of specie from New York to foreign ports, since the discovery of gold in California :

EXPORTS OF SPECIE FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS.

Total........ $11,034,786 $4,803,450 $9,982,948 $48,743,209

Since our last, the annual statement of the cotton crop of the United States has been prepared, and we annex some particulars, compared with the summary of former years:—

TOTAL RECEIPTS OF COTTON INTO THE VARIOUS PORTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Total crop... 3,015,029 2,355,257 2,096,706 2,728,596 2,347,634 1,778,651 2,100,537

TOTAL FOREIGN EXPORTS OF COTTON FROM UNITED STATES.

1851-2. 1850-1. 1819-50. 1848-9. 1847-8. 1846-7. 1815-6.

Great Britain... 1,668,749 1,418,265 1,106,771 1,537,901 1,324,265
France......

830,909 1,102,369

241,486 359,703 75,689 86,692

421,375 301,358 289,627 368,259 279,172 N. of Europe.. 168,875 129,492 72,156 165,458 120,348 Other for. ports. 184,647 139,595 121,601 156,226 134,476 93,138 118,028

Total..... 2,443,646 1,988,710 1,590,155 2,227,844 1,858,261 1,241,222 1,666,792 The home consumption has advanced from 404,108 bales in 1850-51, to

603,029 bales in 1851-52, an increase of nearly 50 per cent. This branch of home manufacture is now prosperous, and nearly all of the mills are fully engaged. The average price of cotton at Mobile for the last season, taking the grades of ordinary to middling fair, as compared with former seasons, has been as follows:

The receipts of gold from California are as heavy as usual, but owing to a delay in the arrival of one of the steamships throwing a large shipment forward into September, the total for the previous month appears less than was anticipated.

We annex a statement of the deposits and coinage at the Philadelphia and New Orleans mints, for the month of August; a more extended statement of the total receipts and coinage at all the mints up to the 1st August, will be found in another part of the present number:

Total silver coinage..

Total coinage..

$10,000

1,585,300

$61,498

100,000
109,500 200,000 2,078,274 4,346,885

There was no copper coinage during the month. The total deposits of California gold for coinage at our mints since 1848 is about $138,000,000, and the total production of the mines since their discovery is about $205,000,000.

The increased demand for foreign goods, as already noticed, has tended to increase the imports. At New York the value of merchandise (exclusive of specie,) received from foreign ports during the month of August, is $1,976,344 greater than for August 1851, and $4,228,027 greater than during the same month of 1850. We annex a comparison for three years:—

IMPORTS ENTERED AT NEW YORK FROM FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

The item of specie under the date of 1850 includes the receipts of California gold, which up to November of that year, having cleared from Chagres, were entered as from a foreign port. Of the increased imports as shown above in comparison with the previous year, $679,290 were in dry goods, and the remainder in general merchandise. We annex a comparison of each item:

IMPORTS OF MERCHANDISE AT NEW YORK FOR AUGUST.

The increase for the month of August, however, is not sufficient to make up for the previous decline, and the falling off in the total imports since January 1st is $10,810,765, as compared with the previous year, and $13,131,620 as compared with 1850.

IMPORTS ENTERED AT NEW YORK FROM FOREIGN PORTS FOR EIGHT MONTHS ENDING AUGUST 31.

The large amount of specie as shown in the statement for 1850, is owing to the California gold then included in the returns. We annex a statement of the relative receipts of merchandise :

IMPORTS OF MERCHANDISE AT NEW YORK FOR EIGHT MONTHS.

It 'will be noticed, that the entries for warehousing have fallen off materially, the receipts being wanted for immediate consumption: while the withdrawals have been larger, leaving the stock of merchandise in bond much smaller than usual. This is especially true in the receipts of dry goods: the entries for warehousing in the month of August, being but $252,896, against $1,142,567 for August, 1851, and $798,787 for August, 1850. The following is a correct classification of this description of imports:

IMPORTS OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS AT NEW YORK FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

Total entered at the port............ $7,803,131 $7,200,591 $7,879,881 The difference in the comparative value thrown upon the market, as already explained, is much greater than the difference in the total receipts, owing to the fact that the former includes a portion of the arrivals of the preceding year, which were suffered to lie in warehouse owing to the glut of foreign goods in the market. The following is a classification of the total imports of dry goods since January 1st:

IMPORTS OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS AT NEW YORK FOR EIGHT MONTHS FROM JANUARY 1ST.

Total thrown upon the market....... $46,784,772 $48,283,480 $43,948,903

Total entered at the port..

43,414,517 44,235,721 38,966,790

.... $48,217,908 $49,440,808 $42,874,175

The receipts for duties have been larger than the imports would, at first sight, seem to warrant; owing to the considerable amount received for goods taken from the bonded warehouse.

The exports for the first time since January 1st, show a large decline from the corresponding month of last year, and a still greater decline as compared with the preceding year:—

EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

Notwithstanding the decline as shown in August, the total exports from New York, from January 1st to September 1st, (exclusive of specie), are only $894,868: a decline which will be nearly or quite recovered in September.

EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR EIGHT MONTHS ENDING August 31st.

We continue our usual comparative statement of the clearances from New