The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-11-03

Coiones win the aouht Oh goods imported and exported
in each -
FROM, 70 rHr BHIrsa AMERICAS coLoS D sltAHhO
Am tonnage entered $500 sss s ss s2 M sao
FPsts do o s lses sss sSs. l,sssi
h9po sGai il S, do s sasf sss
EspofSs ioS DO S SHS Uses s s sS So
This table presents the fact that than half of
the whole foreign tonnage entered and cleared from
United States in year from and the British North
American Colonies. In 1910 it stood as fOllows-
Entered Cleared.
Fran aud to British American Colonies sS',si7 aosO5
Foreiln tonnage employed ia trade with
all other countries, 377 755 S5,3s7
The whole amount of imports and exports in foreign
vessels in $40 $50 of this the 7se 752
poyed the British trade did 81
only leaving OoI the of the remaining
1888 l5l foreign tonnage. The comparative employ
of American and foreign tonnage in the trade with
the British American Colonies is then Us follows
American vessels. no 2os 6,622,sl3
Excess tonnage, 1850
This might appear singuar practical expla-
nation is given in a Rochester paper follows
There two Canadian boats lying here, averaging
300 tons EACH Canadian They make three trips
each week. six in the aggregate for say twenty
weeks in the year Six times twenty-six gives trips
which multiplied by 800 tons for DO will give entry
tonnage OF 46 800 for these two boats alone similar
calculation for Lake Erie and for the remainder the
ports for Lake Ontario and below would show that fully
three quarters of the foreign tonnage during the
year, the Lakes. 1t shows large raper-when,
in fact the real oftonnsge
able, and the results comparatively trifng."
Here is tense solution of the anomaly. The
American vessels fact do all the business In the of
these facts within the reach OF every who chooses
be informed the subject it is not singular that the New
York Courier Enquirer should that all trade
is passing into the hands Of foreigners or that
The carriage of three fourths of cotton tobac
effected in British vesselsr' because the bus
tering superficial folly which characteristics that
are but too well known, and it would require
no comment; but when papers in neighboring cities
make such publications as the following, it becomes
necessary at this juncture to expose the alsehoods.
The following remarks of General Tallmadge though
applied to the city of New York. may be of interest the
ship builders of BALTIMORE
"The time when New York was the Commercial
Emporium OF our country Is it so now? Is not EN-
porium virtually London or Liverpool The time
when she had forty ships the stocks the when
she has not The external Commerce of the country
has passed mainly into foreign hands, with
carrying trade, tonnage shipbuding Is it
time that the country should earnestly resolve to take
care OF its own intereststo cherish efficiently its own
Commerce and its Home Labor2 Let us hope that the pas
sage OF the New Tariff marks the commencement of such
policy"
Abroad, where the composition of what is called the
"Home League" is known. such an announcement as
this is calculated to bring rdicule upon the city in the
minds OF all we'll informed persons The ignorance display
ed by these people nexcusable and their motives in
making them may well be questioned when the object is
to draw attention from the late prohbitive tariff the
of hepresent Distress and endeavor ascrbe
to prior existing treaties. 1
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