All the usual tests indicate that--the state of the Revenue, the Bankers' Clearing-house figures, the returns of exports and imports are all plain, and all speak the same language.

But few have, we think, considered one most remarkable feature of the present time, or have sufficiently examined its consequences.

That feature is the great rise in the price of most of the leading articles of trade during the past year.

We give at the foot of this paper a list of articles, comprising most first-rate articles of commerce, and it will be seen that the rise of price, though not universal and not uniform, is nevertheless very striking and very general.

The most remarkable cases are-- January December L, s.