Exportation of Manufactures.

We are informed that more than $2000,000 worth of American clocks have been shipped to England within a year past, notwithstanding the heavy duties thereon. Ten thousand clocks have been sent from one house in Boston. Cotton goods of various kinds have been shipped in considerable quantities, and we know of several articles which might be, and soon will be exported with great advantage. But what seems decidedly queer, is that the British manufacturers are now putting American stamps on their articles of export, even when sent to their own colonies. It is reported that a bale of goods recently arrived at Quebec, from England was stamped "Saco, Me." We hope our Canada neighbors will look sharp to the "auld folks at home," or they may find themselves "taken in" more essentially than they have thereto learned to anticipate.


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