Returns of the manufacture of cotton goods during the year 1860, show an increase of 75.78 per cent. in their value, as compared with the corresponding returns in 1850. The value of these goods for 1860 is given at 115,137,926 dollars, the number of spindles at 5,035,798, and of looms at 129,458, the amount of capital invested at 99,551,465 dollars. Returns are also given of the number of establishments, of the quantity of cotton employed, of the value of the raw material, of the average number of hands employed, and of the cost of labour. In this branch of manufacture the State of Massachusetts produced goods to the value of 36,745,864 dollars, or nearly one-third of the whole.

The increase of woollen goods, including carding and fulling and mixed goods, was 51 per cent., the value having been 45,281,764 dollars in 1850, as compared with 68,865,963 dollars in 1860. The principal share of this manufacture belonged to Massachusetts, the produce of which State was valued at 18,930,000 dollars.

The subjoined table gives a summary statement of the value of the exports, of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States during the three years ending June 30, 1861:

Subjoined is a statement exhibiting a summary view of the exports of domestic produce, specie and bullion, of the United States from June 30, 1847, to June 30, 1861 :—

33,853,660 39,803,080 373,189,274 36,418,254 3,543,695 23,799,870 227,966,169 368,165,600 31,651,289 461,897,424 3,536,110,776

The following is a statement exhibiting the exports to and the imports from Canada, and other British possessions in North America to the United States, from July 1, 1851, to June 30, 1861:

2,676,322
2,279,308 56,946,851

57,502,305

335,894,385

Imports

The subjoined table gives a view of the commerce of the United States, exhibiting the value of exports to and imports from each foreign country, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861:

The following is a return exhibiting the commerce of each State from July 1, 1860, to June 30, 1861:.