COMMERCE, NAVIGATION, AND REVENUE OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA.

A correspondent of the Merchants' Magazine residing at Havana has sent us the following statistical view of the imports, exports, revenues, taxation, and navigation of the Island of Cuba for a series of years:

GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE COMMERCE OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA IN 1848, AND COMPARISON

The importations are comprised of the following articles and their value :—

The exportations are comprised of the following articles and their value:—

IMPORTATIONS INTO THE DIFFERENT PORTS OF THE ISLAND IN 1848.

In Spanish vessels. In foreign vessels.

EXPORTATIONS FROM THE DIFFERENT PORTS OF THE ISLAND IN 1848.

In Spanish vessels. In foreign vessels.

Havana....

Matanzas.

Cardenas.

Mariel.

Trinidad

Cienfuegos....

Nuevitas...

EXPORTATIONS FROM THE DIFFERENT PORTS OF THE ISLAND-CONTINULL.

The amount of inland taxes amounted in 1848 to $6,038,715 0; the amount of maritime tax to $6,883,858 54; total, $12,922,573 6, being the whole amount of the revenue of the Island of Cuba for the year 1848.

Of the exports of 1848, there was taken by Spain, 27 87-100 per cent; by the United States, 27 26-100 per cent: by England, 19 55-100 per cent; by all other ports, 25 32-100 per cent.

Of the imports of 1848, there was received from Spain, 15 6-100 per cent; from the United States, 31 77-100 per cent; from England, 27 9-100 per cent; from all other ports, 26 8-100 per cent.

EXPORT OF MOLASSES FROM CUBA IN 1849.

EXPORTS OF MOLASSES FROM THE 1ST OF JANUARY TO THE END OF DECEMBER.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF MATANZAS, 1849.

LAGUE LA GRANDE, February 6, 1850.

TO FREEMAN HUNT, ESQ., Editor of the Merchants' Magazine, etc.

DEAR SIR-Annexed you will find the exports and imports of Matanzas for 1849 submitted for insertion in the pages of your valuable Journal.

Yours truly,

DAVID M. BALFOUR.

PRICES OF COTTON WOOL AT LIVERPOOL IN 1849.

In the Merchants' Magazine for Oetober, 1849, (vol. xxi., pp. 447–449,) we gave a table compiled from authentic sources, showing the prices of cotton wool in England in each year from 1806 to 1848, a period of forty-two years; and in the number for September, 1849, (same volume, page 327,) a statement of the quotations of cotton wool in Liverpool at the close of the last week in each month of the year 1848; also the amount of sales, and proportion on speculation. We now subjoin a similar table

for 1849:

STATEMENT OF THE QUOTATIONS OF COTTON WOOL IN LIVERPOOL AT THE CLOSE OF EACH WEEK IN THE YEAR 1849; ALSO, OF THE WEEKLY AMOUNT OF SALES AND PROPORTION ON