September 1 Whole year. Years. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. ... All kinds. U. States. All kinds. U. States. All kinds. U. States. .bales 232,000 220,000 224,000 211,000 300,000 290,000 250,000 238,000 246,000 234,000 327,000 316,000 306,000 294,000 312,000 302,000 TABLE IX. CONSUMPTION OUT OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND UNITED STATES. Years. Richmond. three years. p. ct. South of Total. Art. III.-COMMERCIAL CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES. NUMBER XXXIII. THE CITY OF NEW YORK.-PART V. TONNAGE. THE following statement, which we have carefully compiled from the annual reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, exhibits the registered, the enrolled and licensed, and the total tonnage belonging to the district of New York, from the year 1826 to the present time. The year ends with December 31 up to 1835, thence with September 30 to 1843, and from that time it ends with June 30 Within this period of 26 years the tonnage of this port, it will be seen, has just about trebled. The lowest figure within this period was in 1830, the highest in 1851: COMPARISON OF THE TONNAGE OF NEW YORK WITH THAT OF BOSTON AND THE UNITED The tonnage of several other of the leading ports was, in 1851, as fol In 1826, the tonnage of New York, according to the above, was 184 per cent of that of Boston, and 20.6 per cent of that of the United States; in 1835, it was 167 per cent of that of Boston, and 20.6 per cent of the United States; in 1845, it was 250 per cent of the tonnage of Boston, and 22.8 per cent of that of the United States; in 1850, it was 267 per cent of the Boston tonnage, and 23.7 of the tonnage of the United States; and in 1851, the tonnage of New York was 272 per cent of that belonging to Boston, and 24.7 per cent of the total of the United States. The tonnage of New York in 1851 also exceeded, by about 10,000 tons, the united tonnage of Boston, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, the cities next in order in the importance of their shipping, with that of Bath, the seventh in the list, added to theirs, HOW EMPLOYED. The proportion of this commercial navy of New York employed in the several departments of the coast trade, in steam navigation, and in the whaling business, since 1829, is seen in the table annexed: In 1849, there were 148 42-95ths tons belonging to New York engaged in the cod fishery, which is, we believe, about the extreme upper limit of New York enterprise in that direction. In 1851, there were 137 28-95ths tons employed in pursuing codfish. The Steam Tonnage of New York compares as follows with that of several other cities of the several coasts, inland divisions, &c.—and of the United States in 1851 : The Steam Marine of New York is nearly equal to that of the empire of Great Britain with all its dependencies, which amounts to 1,184 boats, of 142,080 tons. The number of passengers carried by the steamboats to and fro on Long Island Sound during the year was 302,397; on the Hudson River the number of passengers was 995,100; and between New York and Philadelphia, the human movement by steamboat reached 840,000. ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. Annexed is a tabular statement of the amount of tonnage entered and cleared the port of New York, from foreign ports, in each year from 1821 to 1851, a period of thirty-one years, distinguishing the foreign from the American. The years end with September to 1843, thence with June: AMOUNT OF TONNAGE ENTERED THE CITY OF NEW YORK FROM, AND THE AMOUNT CLEARED THE PORT OF NEW YORK FOR, FOREIGN PORTS. 1850 569,711 361,798 931,509 885,666 982,478 1851 734,431 419,900 1,145,331 The entrances aud clearances at New York, at different periods, compare as follows with those of Boston and the United States for the same years. VESSELS ENTERED NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND UNITED STATES. |