TRADE AND COMMERCE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

Charles Seymour, Esq., of St. John's, Canada East, publishes a letter in a Burlington paper, accompanied by one from Hon. William Hamilton Merrit, Commissioner of Public Works in Canada, in reference to the trade of Lake Champlain. These letters are addressed to the Hon. Timothy Follet. It appears that arrangements are now in progress for removing obstructions from the main channel of the St. Lawrence, above Montreal, and for deepening and widening the Chambly Canal, so as to admit boats of 105 feet long and 22 feet beam, and sufficient depth of hold to contain a cargo of 2,000 barrels of flour, if not 2,500. When these works are finished, vessels of the size named can load at Chicago, or any port this side of it on the great lakes, and, without breaking bulk, lay down its cargo at the wharves in Burlington.

Mr. Seymour's letter shows a great increase in the lake trade within a few years. He says:

"In 1846, the number of vessels from Chambly Canal was 426; 1850, up to September 30, was 1,844; to which add October and November, 737, making a total of 2,581, besides about 2,000,000 cubic feet of square timber, showing an increase of 600 per cent in the business within four years.

"Lake Champlain received of sawed lumber from the port of St. John's:

"In 1850, the total lumber exports to Lake Champlain up to October 10, amounts to the large sum of 61,705,941 feet broad measure."

STATISTICS OF THE CHEESE TRADE.

James McHenry, of Liverpool, under date of October 24th, 1850, writing to the Cincinnati Price Current, says:—

"The very great increase in make of English cheese last season, caused a considerable decline in value, and proportionate reduction should have been submitted to for American, which would have effected clearances soon after arrival of the various shipments. Unfortunately, most of the latter imports were warehoused, and held for the full prices of the preceding year; the quality, generally inferior at first, rapidly depreciated, and disastrous losses resulted. For the season 1850-51, there are good hopes of more successful business, especially for selected fine cheese. Mixed and inferior parcels must always be disposed of at a very low proportionate rate."

EXPORT OF DRY GOODS FROM THE UNITED STATES.

The subjoined table, compiled from the returns of the Register of the Treasury, shows the value of dry goods exported for each year from 1848 to 1850, inclusive;

Butter is, perhaps, the most important of all the articles which appear in the list of Danish exports. In 1830 the exports of this article amounted to 114,548 cwts., (51,563 Danish tonder;) in 1840, to 164,513 cwts., 74,031 tonder; in 1847, to 183,790 cwts., (82,755 tonder;) showing a very rapid rate of increase. Three-fourths of the exports of butter are from the Duchies, and of this again six-sevenths fall to the share of Holstein; indeed, in the last year for which the returns are complete, the proportion was even more considerable, Holstein having furnished 61,218 tonder out of the whole export of 82,755. In 1848 the export of butter from Denmark proper amounted to 23,342 ewts., (10,513 tonder.) The export of butter has been trebled since the commencement of the century, and doubled in twenty years. The exports of cheese in 1847 were 8,770 cwts., of which 5,112 were from Holstein. Not less remarkable is the increase in the exports of flesh and pork. In 1831 these amounted to 7,060 cwts. of flesh, and 18,150 of pork; in 1840, to 36,194 cwts. of flesh, and 63,670 of pork; in 1847, to 21,914 cwts. of flesh, and 38,235 of pork. In 1848, the exports from Denmark proper alone were 9,993 cwts. of flesh, and 9,398 cwts. of pork. The exports of wool in 1848 from Denmark proper alone were 18,065 cwts. This shows a very remarkable increase in this article within the last ten years, the exports having remained stationary for a long time up to 1840. The exports of skins and hides were 27,307 cwts., in 1840, and 14,723 in 1847. The falling off in this branch is ascribed to the establishment of new tanneries, and to the consequent increase of domestic consumption. The export of oil-cakes averaged 101,237 cwts. in five years, up to 1840; in the latter year it reached 170,000 cwts.; in 1844 it was 210,000 cwts; and in 1847 208,519 cwts. The great bulk of this article is exported from the Duchies, (and chiefly from the port of Flensburg,) the shares of Denmark proper being only one-twelfth. Almost the whole export goes to England. The exports of flax and hemp seem also to be increasing of late years, though

the quantity is but inconsiderable. In 1845 they amounted to 207,625 lbs.; in 1847 to 215,674 lbs.; and in 1848 the exports of Denmark proper alone were 234,106 lbs. Enough has been stated to show the rapid growth and progress of Danish agricultural industry within the last twenty years.

STATISTICS OF THE VIRGINIA TOBACCO TRADE.

SHOWING THE INSPECTIONS OF TOBACCO IN VIRGINIA FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS, VIZ: 1841-'50. Also, the exportS OF TOBACCO AND STEMS, THE MARKETS TO WHICH THEY WERE SHIPPED, AND THE STOCKS LEFT ON HAND ON THE 1ST OF OCTOBER EACH YEAR.

We give below a statement of the export of tea from Canton and Shanghae from July to September, in the years 1849 and 1850:

The returns of the foreign commerce of France during the first ten months of 1850 show that the manufacturing and commercial movement has acquired fresh progress. The improvement is more particularly remarkable in the month of October, when the

• Exclusive of 657 hogsheads shipped to Havre on the 2d of October.

import duties received amounted to 11,957,000 francs, whereas, in 1848, they were only 9,089,000 francs, and in 1849 11,486,000 francs. The proceeds of the duties are, it is true, for the ten months somewhat less than they were for the corresponding period of last year, being only 104,806,000 francs, instead of 106,639,000 francs; but this diminution arises solely from the duty on colonial sugar, which, in consequence of the emancipation, fell off nearly 5,000,000 francs. With the exception of this item, the receipts of the import duties have, in reality, increased 3,000,000 francs. The increase bears chiefly on the importation of raw materials for the use of manufactories, particularly coal, wool, raw silk, &c. The exports also continue active; amongst the manufactured products, woolen goods, silk, earthenware, glass, refined sugars, and millinery, have been exported in large quantities. The movement in the shipping is not less satisfactory; the tonnage of vessels entered has risen from 1,667,000 to 1,755,000, and of those which have sailed from 1,267,000 to 4,383,000. The French flag has lost a little in imports, but it has gained in exports.

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION,

BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE KING OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

We publish below the articles from an official copy of a "Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, between the United States of America, and His Majesty, the King of the Hawaiian Islands, which was concluded and signed at Washington on the 2d day of Nov., 1850. This Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Honolulu on the twentyfourth day of August, 1850, CHARLES BUNKER, Consul of the United States at Lehaina, and R. C. WYLLIE, Minister of Foreign Relations of His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, on the part of their respective governments.”

The Proclamation of Millard Fillmore, President of the United States, has caused the said Treaty, under date, November, 1850, "to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof."

ART. 1. There shall be perpetual peace and amity between the United States and the King of the Hawaiian Islands, his heirs and his successors.

ART. 2. There shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and the Hawaiian Islands. No duty of customs or other impost shall be charged upon any goods, the produce or manufacture of one country, upon importation from such country into the other, orther or higher than the duty or impost charged upon goods of the same kind the produce or manufacture of, or imported from, any other country; and the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, do hereby engage that the subjects or citizens of any other State shall not enjoy any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce and navigation, which shall not also at the same time be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other contracting party, gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other State shall have been gratuitous, and in return for a compensation, as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional.

ART. 3. All articles, the produce of manufacture of either country, which can legally be imported into either country from the other, in ships of that other country, and thence coming, shall, when so imported, be subject to the same duties, and enjoy the same privileges, whether imported in ships of the one country or in ships of the other, and, in like manner, all goods which can legally be exported or re-exported from either country to the other, in ships of that other country, shall, when so exported or re-exported, be subject to the same duties, and be entitled to the same privileges, drawbacks, bounties, and allowances, whether exported in the ships of the one country or in ships of the other; and all goods and articles, of whatever description, not being of the produce or manufacture of the United States, which can be legally imported into the

Sandwich Islands, shall, when so imported in vessels of the United States, pay no other or higher duties, imposts, or charges than shall be payable upon the like goods and articles when imported in the vessels of the most favored nation, other than the nation of which the said goods and articles are the produce or manufacture.

ART. 4. No duties of tonnage, harbor, lighthouses, pilotage, quarantine, or other sim ilar duties, of whatever nature, or under whatever denomination, shall be imposed in either country upon the vessels of the other, in respect to voyages between the United States of America and the Hawaiian Islands, if laden, or in respect of any voyage, if in ballast, which shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on national vessels.

ART. 5. It is hereby declared that the stipulations of the present treaty are not to be understood as applying to the navigation and carrying trade between one port and another situated in the States of either contracting party, such navigation and trade being reserved exclusively to national vessels.

ART. 6. Steam vessels of the United States, which may be employed by the gov ernment of the said States in the carrying of their public mails across the Pacific Ocean, or from one port in that ocean to another, shall have free access to the ports of the Sandwich Islands, with the privilege of stopping therein to refit, to refresh, to land passengers and their baggage, and for the transaction of any business pertaining to the public mail service of the United States, and shall be subject, in such ports, to no duties of tonnage, harbor, light-houses, quarantine, or other similar duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomination.

ART. 7. The whale-ships of the United States shall have access to the ports of Hilo, Kealakekua, and Hanalei, in the Sandwich Islands, for the purposes of refitment and refreshment, as well as to the ports of Honolulu and Lahaina, which only are ports of entry for all merchant vessels; and in all the above named ports they shall be permitted to trade or barter their supplies of goods, excepting spirituous liquors, to the amount of two hundred dollars ad valorem for each vessel, without paying any charge for tonnage or harbor dues of any description, or any duties or imposts whatever upon the goods or articles so traded or bartered. They shall also be permitted, with the like exemption from all charges for tonnage and harbor dues, further to trade or barter, with the same exception as to spirituous liquors, to the additional amount of one thousand dollars ad valorem for each vessel, paying upon the additional goods and articles so traded and bartered no other or higher duties than are payable on like goods and articles when imported in the vessels and by the citizens or subjects of the most favored foreign nation. They shall also be permitted to pass from port to port of the Sandwich Islands for the purpose of procuring refreshments; but they shall not discharge their seamen or land their passengers in the said Islands, except at Lahaina and Honolulu; and in all the ports named in this article the whale-ships of the United States shall enjoy, in all respects whatsoever, all the rights, privileges, and immunities which are enjoyed by or shall be granted to the whale-ships of the most favored foreign nation. The like privilege of frequenting the three ports of the Sandwich Islands above named in this article, not being ports of entry for merchant vessels, is also guarantied to all the public armed vessels of the United States. But nothing in this article shall be construed as authorizing any vessel of the United States having on board any disease usually regarded as requiring quarantine to enter, during the continuance of such disease on board, any port of the Sandwich Islands other than Lahaina or Honolulu.

ART. 8. The contracting parties engage, in regard to the personal privileges that the citizens of the United States of America shall enjoy in the dominions of His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, and the subjects of his said Majesty in the United States of America, that they shall have free and undoubted right to travel and to reside in the States of the two high contracting parties, subject to the same precautions of police which are practiced towards the subjects or citizens of the most favored nations. They shall be entitled to occupy dwellings and warehouses, and to dispose of their personal property of every kind and description, by sale, gift, exchange, will, or in any other way whatever, without the smallest hindrance or obstacle; and their heirs or representatives, being subjects or citizens of the other contracting party, shall succeed to their personal goods, whether by testament or ab intestato; and may take possession thereof, either by themselves or by others acting for them, and dispose of the same at will, paying to the profit of the respective governments such dues only as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are shall be subject to pay in like cases. And, in case of the absence of the heir and representative, such care shall be taken of the said goods as would be taken of the goods of a native of the same country in like case, until the lawful owner may take measures for receiving them. And if a question should arise among several claimants as to which of them said goods belong, the same