COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE EXPORTS OF COTTON FROM MOBILE FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 1, 1851, AND ENDING AUGUST 31, 1852.

MONTHLY RANGE OF PRICES OF COTTON AT MOBILE FOR SIXTEEN YEARS.

Other foreign ports..

27,048

5,461

102

Total foreign.....

430.478

8,478

Total United States.

144,626

4,181

Grand total.....

575,104

The receipts up the latest dates, at all the ports, give the following results:-

The foreign exports this season, as compared with last, will exhibit an in

The increase in coastwise exports is 275,558 bales. The decrease in stock at all the receiving ports is 15,023 bales.

THE GROWING CROP. Notwithstanding the unpropitiousness of the planting season, the heavy rains that followed bringing on lice and other insects, causing, to the sorrow of the planters, great destruction of the young plant, thus throwing the crop back about two weeks, the prospects are fine for at least an average crop. The weather, after the plant had attained some little age, was fine for cultivation, and so continued, and at last account from the interior the picking season had commenced, and all the hands were busy in the fields. From East Mississippi we hear complaints that the boll-worm had commenced its ravages, but with this exception, and a repetition of the same complaint fro.n some portions of West Alabama, the reports from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are mostly of a favorable nature. From the great uncer

tainty in arriving at anything like a correct estimate of the amount of receipts, we refrain from giving any figures. The first bale of the new crop was received on the 19th, and last year on the 7th of August.

COTTON CROP OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA FOR 23 YEARS.

Incerase. Decrease.) Years.

Bales. Increase. Decrease. 251,742

445,725 193,983

1839..

58,065

1840.

1841.

LUMBER, TIMBER, AND STAVES. Our tables show a large increase in the amount of exports of the two former, and a decrease in the latter of the above articles. The lumber trade is rapidly increasing, and several new saw mills have been erected, which, together with those previously in operation, have been pretty generally employed throughout the year, sending off about two-thirds larger quantity than last year. Several vessels have loaded with timber, principally for French ports, and the exports double those of last year. From the uncertainty in obtaining staves, at stated times, this business has greatly fallen off.

COMPARATIVE EXPORTS OF STAVES FROM THE PORT OF MOBILE FOR THREE YEARS, TO

COMPARATIVE EXPORTS OF SAWED LUMBER FROM THE PORT OF mobile for three years,

NAVAL STORES. The trade in these articles, though only about four or five years old, has met with unprecedented success. Constant improvements are making in the manufacture of the various articles; the quality of spirits of turpentine is much better than at the commencement, and has commanded 40 cents per gallon for a medium article. Very little Naval Stores have been sold in this market. Most of the crude turpentine, and A No. 1 white rosin was shipped to New York, and the balance westward. The receipts and prices are as follows: 1,460 bbls. spirits turpentine, 40 cents per gallon: 799 crude do., $1 75 a $2 per bbl.; 482 do. pitch, $3 bbl.; 258 do. tar, $2 per bbl.; 20 bbls. bright and varnish at 20 cents per gallon; and 3,019 bbls. rosin, $1 25 a $3 50 per bbl.

FREIGHTS. The large increase in the cotton crop gave additional animation to the freight market during the year under review, and for the greater part of the business season rates ruled high. For a long time d. was paid to Liverpool,

and to Havre 13-16 to 1 1-16 cents was the range. Until April, vessels trading to coastwise ports were doing a good business, 9-16 cents being obtained for New York. Shipments have been made since as low as 75 cents per bale. The lumber and timber tables show large exports, indicative of a considerable business in freight for these articles. More vessels have loaded with timber for the various ports on the Eastern Continent, and with lumber to Texas and Northern ports, than we have noticed for several years. The timber freights are generally A scarat a round charter, and those for lumber vary from $3 to $12 per M. city of vessels, of light draught, interfered with more extensive business in lumber on the Texas coast.

CURRENT RATES OF COTTON FREIGHTS, FOREIGN AND COASTWISE, AT THE PORT OF MOBILE DURING THE COMMERCIAL SEASON OF 1851 AND 1852.

EXCHANGE. There is less evidence of uniformity in the rates of sterling exchange, as exhibited by our tables this year, than was noticed in our last annual report. Sixty-day bills on New York were at 1 per cent discount at the opening, and are at per cent discount at the close of the year. Bills on France have varied very little-5 20 a 5 30 being the range. The supply of exchange, particularly of domestic bills, has been moderate, and the demand pretty brisk. COMPARATIVE RATES OF EXCHANGE ON LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK, ON THE 1ST OF EACH MONTH, FOR THREE YEARS PAST.

STATEMENT OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS AND DUTIES AT THIS PORT FOR THE THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTERS, 1851, AND THE FIRST AND SECOND QUARTERS, 1852.

COMPARATIVE IMPORTS OF THE FOLLOWING STAPLE ARTICLES INTO THIS PORT FOR

UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES A FOREIGN MINISTER CAN SUE AND BE SUED IN THE UNITED STATES.

In the case of Bosch Spencer vs. Romain D. Boon and Annie Vanlangenhore, in the Superior Court of Baltimore city, it was decided under what circumstances a foreign minister has the right to sue and be sued in this country. The question arose upon a motion to quash a writ of attachment which had been sued out under the laws of Maryland, Acts of 1825, chapter 114, by the plaintiff, describing himself "an inhabitant of the District of Columbia, in the United States," against the defendants, who are alleged not to be citizens of the United States, nor to reside therein.

On behalf of the defendants, a certificate from the Department of State is produced, showing that the "Chevalier de Bosch Spencer is the Charge d'Affaires duly accredited, of his Majesty the King of the Belgians, near the Government of the United States;" and for this, and other reasons assigned, the present motion is made to quash the proceedings.

About $20,000 remained in warehouse.