STATISTICAL VIEW OF THE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES-CONTINUED. NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH ALL COUNTRIES. STATISTICAL VIEW OF THE TONNAGE OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN VESSELS COMING FROM, AND DEPARTING TO, EACH FOREIGN COUNTRY, DURING the year ending June 30th, 1850. TONNAGE OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE 30TH OF JUNE, 1850. Aggregate amount of tonnage of the United States on 30th June, 1850 3,535,454 23 Licensed tonnage, under 20 tons, employed in coasting trade 42,027 86 8,160 34 Total licensed tonnage under twenty tons... 50,188 25 Total...... 3,535,454 23 Of the enrolled and licensed tonnage there were employed in the— Of the registered tonnage, amounting, as stated above, to 1,585,711 22 tons, there were employed in steam navigation. 44,942 25 Of the enrolled and licensed tonnage amounting, as stated above, to 1,899,554 71 tons, there were employed in steam navigation..... 481,004 65 525,946 90 *Several tables compiled from the Report of the Register of the Treasury on Commerce and Navigation are omitted in the preceding collection, in order to find room in the present number for other matters of equal importance. Notwithstanding the enlargement of our Magazine some sixteen pages a month, with the commencement of the new year and the twenty-fourth volume, we find it difficult to crowd into it all the "figures and facts" that deserve a permanent record, for the purpose of present and future reference. We shall, however, continue our extracts from the Register's Report in the April number of the Merchants' Magazine. EXPORTS OF WHALEBONE FROM THE UNITED STATES. The following table shows the exports of Whalebone in each year, from the 30th of September, 1839, to the 31st of December, 1850. From 1840 to 1842, inclusive, the years in this table close on the 30th of September. The commercial, or fiscal year was changed in 1843, consequently the exports under that year include only nine months. From 1843 the years end on the 30th of June. ..... Total value.. $583,870 $671,601 $314,107 $337,714 $646,483 The total exports of Whalebone, in pounds, from 30th of September, 1839, to 31st of December, 1850, to each country, has been as follows: Showing a total of 17,599,902 pounds, in eleven years and three months. FOREIGN COMMERCE OF PORTLAND. Other ports. 236,170 A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ARRIVALS AND CLEARANCES OF VESSELS AT PORTLAND, MAINE, IN 1849 AND 1850-YEARS ENDING December 31ST. It will be seen by the above, that there has been an increase in the amount of tonnage over 1849. The number of foreign clearances at Portland for the year ending December 31, 1849, was.. For the year ending December 31, 1850. Decrease in 1850 527 479 48 This decrease consists almost entirely of small vessels running between Portland and the British Provinces. |