Finance.
The annual fin:nce accouats, vTaich have been distributed to the MIembers of the House of Commons, do not show so fattednga re- sult in (he statements concerning trade and navigation as the laa.. guage of 31inicters on the subject had led us to expect. For the last three years the amount of the mercantile shipping registered, and of the sP-Amen employed in navigating them, has been notvcry considerably, but yet sensibly, dinninishing. Thevesselsregistered in the British empire on the30th September- 121 a'mounted to . 2,560,902 tons 1822 . 2,519,044 1823 . .2,506,760 The men employed in navigating them in 1821. 169,179 1822 166.3l3 1823..... 165,474 The value of the produre and manuFactares of the United King- dom exported fromn Great Britain, according both to the " real and declared value," and " the official rates of valuation," diminished last yegr. According to the real andl declared value, the exports of the three last vears were as follow:- i821. 35,826.082 12-2. 36.176,896 13 2..34691,124 According to the official rates of valuation- 1821. . . . . '40,1l4,892 1822. 43,5&488 1823 43,144,466 The value of the imports, according to the official rate of valua_ tion (the real value of them cannot be obtained-the official rate shows the relation of one year to another), has increased. Itwas i* 1821. . . . . {'29,724,173 1822. .9.401,807 1823. 34,544,245 The foreign and colonial merchandise exponred was in value, ac- cording to the official rates of valuation,_ - In 1821 .10,602,090 1822. 9,211U,19 1823. . . . . 8,588,995 These statements relate to Great Britain, and excluively of the trade to lreland, which would add about a m,ilion to the expOrts and imports, and not affect the rate of inciease and der rease. FIN-rANCE.