East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-12-09

the whole kingdom. Five hundred OF
these are steamers, and one half of all
the mercantile steam navy of England
belongs to and is registered in the port
of London. No less than 80, 900 ships
enter the port of London yearly--more
than 80 per day Some of these ships
make many voyages, but there are
10000 arrivals with $4,000 cargoes.--
The vessels average 200 tuns each,
giving us ON aggregate of 100000
tuns.
The coasting trade Of London is
most wonderful. OF the 10000 YES
sells just named, $4,000 bring cargoes
from other British ports, and 5000 Of
these 60 back empty, mostly to coal
ports. Five million tuns of coal are
burned annually in the metropolis,
and about II, 700 cargoes of coal are
brought into the Thames annually
one every hour, and handsome sur
plus over. The spread of railways
from London has had very little effect
in diminishing trade by other modes
Of conveyance. The canal boats carry
more than before railways were con-
structed, and the number of carriages
and horses employed in Great Britain,
the use Of which railways were design
ed to supercede, is greater than it was
before these railways were made
But the grandeur of the foreign trade
of London strikes the imagination still
moro forcibly. All the corners of the
earth seem TO be brought to focus in
the river Thames; 10000 ships now
enter there yearly, bringing nearly l2,-
600 cargoes ofall that the earth can pro-
duce of value and beauty. Every 40
minutes during the year a ship passes
Gravesend, bringing stores from some
colonial cline, in many cases much
nore than London's own proportion.
For instance, seven-eights of all the
coffee brought to all parts of the
United Kingdom seven-ninths of all
the live stock one-half of the sugar,
tobacco, wool, fruit, rice, hides and
skins; nearly one-haH of the bacon,
ham, barreled salt meat, butter, cheese
eggs and lard five-sixths. of oil the
spices, and no less than fifteen-six-
teenths Of all tho tea. London con-
sumes just as much Of all this as she
wants, and sends the rest into the
provinces and abroad
1t is truly wonderful where all the
commodities go to: 10000 pounds of
pepper every year-the sound of the
words makes one sneeze .-24 100000
bushels of corn, 100000 hundred
weights of flour and meal, and more
than 100000 Of oil cake entered the
Thames alone in one recent year.
Two ships every day, or thereabouts,
of the average capacity of 700 tuns,
enter the Thames from India and
China alone. The export trade is
enormous. No less than ten or eleven
millions sterling arc in the forms Of
clothing and materials for clothing
81, 200, 900 in boots and shoes, 81, :
600, 900 in "millinery and haberdash-
cry" 81, 100000 for apparel and slops
all go from one port in one year.
Some of the items of import are Gu
rious. Think of whole ship-loads of
Dutch eels, in cargoes of20, 900 pounds
each, coming to London; oxen fatten-
cd for the London market in Schles-
wig Holstein; Ostend butter and Os-
tend rabbits, which are sure to find a
market in spite of the home supply.
Two million empty oyster shells
were once brought over TO London in
one ship for the sake of that beautiful
lining which constitutes the mother-of-
pearl used for many fancy and orna-
mental purposes. One fact most in
structive is observable in this vast
trade of the port of London, viz, what
ever is brought over in whatever
shape, from whatever place and by
whatever persons, it is sure to find
market. The price may be beaten
down, if the demand is languid but
they never think of saying "We don't
want any"
Notwithstanding the vast CONNER
cial Importance of London the great
American trade is mostly within the
grasp of Liverpool, because the Mor-
sey is nearer to America than the
Thames, and cotton is most needed in
Lancashire, and because the chief ar
ticles sold TO America such as metals,
hardware, earthenware, &c.--are fab
ricated nearer to Liverpool than to
London. In the trade with Australia,
too, Liverpool beats London, as meas
ured by the relative population of the
two places. = Chambers Journal.