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EMIGRATION from the United Kingdom to the United States, North American Colonies, &c., during the twenty Years, from 1825 to 1844, inclusive.

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The following are additional particulars, not contained under the trade of each port, which see

PHILADELPHIA Charges for American Vessels, or for those of States having Reciprocity Treaties.

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NEW ORLEANS.-Customs' fees for entrance and clearance of vessels are from five to ten dollars.

Harbour-master's fees, three cents per ton, American measurement.
Port-wardens' fees, five dollars for each vessel.-Vouchers always given.

NEW YORK.

Light Money.-Not charged to any vessels.

Entry Fee.-Every vessel, under any flag, pays this charge, being three dollars, if under 100 tons; and five dollars fifty cents, if of 100 tons or over.

Measurement.-Every foreign vessel upon entering a port in the United States for the first time pays this charge, which is, if under 100 tons, one dollar; over 100 tons, but less than 200 tons, one dollar fifty cents; if 200 tons or over, two dollars.

Telegraph.-Paid only by vessels which use it by contract, having private signals.

Permits. These, being for passengers' luggage, are charged to the vessel, twenty cents for every five passengers.

United States' Hospital Money.-This is a charge made exclusively to American vessels, being twenty cents per month for master, officers, and crew, each, for the time absent from the United States.

The above are the fees paid upon the entering of a vessel, and for which a voucher is given by the cashier of the customs.

Upon clearing for a foreign port, the only charge to a foreign vessel is, if under 100 tons, one dollar fifty cents; if 100 tons or over two dollars fifty cents. The same charge to American vessels, with these additional: crew-list, sixty-five cents; articles certified, twenty cents; bill of health, when required, twenty cents; and certified manifest, when required, twenty cents. No voucher is given for these charges.-See all other particulars under the head of New York.

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Vessels arriving from sea between the 30th of April and the 1st of November are required to come to, at the Lazaretto Point, and there remain until visited by the health officer.

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United States vessels are also charged with hospital money, from which, of course, British vessels are exempt.

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* The surveyor's fees are only charged on the first visit of a vessel to that port.

Harbour-master's fee, one cent and a half per ton.

The officers of customs give no vouchers for their fees; the harbour-master does.

There are no charges levied on British vessels in the port of Charleston which are not levied on vessels under the American flag; nor are there any commercial, fiscal, or other advantages enjoyed by American vessels at this port from which British vessels are excluded.

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.-There are neither tolls nor dues of any kind imposed by public authority on British shipping in the ports of this district, and the only fees to which they are subject are, two dollars for a square-rigged, or one dollar twenty-five cents for lesser vessels, to the harbourmaster, for mooring, securing, or removing the vessel; and the fees of the custom-house, upon entry or clearance, depending, however, principally upon the number and nature of the documents that may be required, the charge for each being regulated by Act of Congress, and precisely the same throughout the United States, viz. :—

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The only vouchers given are the documents that may be required, or, if specially desired, a emorandum of the several charges incurred will be furnished; but such is not usually called for. There are no charges levied on British vessels to which those under the flag of the country are not liable; nor are there any sort of commercial, fiscal, or other advantages enjoyed by the one and not by the other, being placed upon terms of perfect reciprocity by the commercial treaty

between the two countries.

RATES of Pilotage for Tybee Bar and River Savannah; as revised by a Law of the State of Georgia, passed December, 1836, adding Twenty per cent to the former Rates.

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THE Export of Domestic Cotton Goods from the Port of Boston, during February 28th,

1845, has been as follows:

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GROSS Return of British and Foreign Trade at the Port of Philadelphia, during the Year ending December 31, 1844.

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The number of vessels which arrived at the port of Philadelphia, in the coasting trade, during the year (the tonnage of which cannot be ascertained), was as follows, viz.: ships, 56; brigs, 293; schooners, 1496; sloops, 329. Total, 2174 vessels.

Of the sixty-eight British vessels which arrived at the port of Philadelphia in 1844, there were from Great Britain, with iron fifteen, value of cargoes 40,5031. 10s. 4d.; salt two, value of cargoes 22921. 4s. 6d. ; salt and coal one, value of cargo 15757.; salt and merchandise one, value of cargo 20251.

From Trinidad, with hides, cocoa-nuts, &c., one, value of cargo 245l.; hides one, value of cargo 2707.; in ballast six. Port of Spain, in ballast five. St. John, Nova Scotia, lumber one, value of cargo 135l. 10s. 6d. St. John, New Brunswick, staves and grindstones one, value of cargo 831. 10s. 6d. ; laths one, value of cargo 561. 10s. 6d.; plaster seven, value of cargoes 3591. 12s. 1d.; salt and fish one, value of cargo 877. 10s. 6d. ; plaster and fish one, value of cargo 797. 10s. 6d. ; plaster and salt one, value of cargo 877. 12s. 1d. Dorchester, New Brunswick, with grindstones one, value of cargo 477. 10s. Id. Windsor, Nova Scotia, with plaster two, value of cargoes. 1391. 9s. 11d.

From Nova Scotia, with laths one, value of cargo 611. 7s. 6d. ; in ballast one; fish one, value of cargo 36l. 1s. 6d. Nassau, New Providence, with turtle, sponge, &c. one, value of cargo 1261. 5s. Kingston, Jamaica, with confectionary one, value of cargo 1137. 10s. 6d. ; in ballast one. Salt Key, in ballast one. Ragged Island, in ballast one. Eleuthera, with pine apples one, value of cargo, 1057. 6s. 6d.; in ballast

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Turk's Island, with salt one, value of cargo 961. 5s. 1d. Abaco, in ballast Harbour Island, with fruit two, value of cargoes 2221. 15s. 4d. Bermuda, with arrowroot one, value of cargo 1651. 6s.; in ballast two. Barbadoes, in ballast one, Matanzas, in ballast one. Sidney, Cape Breton, with coal one, value of cargo 90%. Total number of vessels, sixty-eight. Total value of cargoes, 49,0047. 8s. 11d.

Of the sixty-four British vessels which departed, there were for Great Britain, with quercitron, bark, and bones one, value of cargo 11111. 7s. 7d.; bread stuffs one, value of cargo 8791. 17s. 6d. For Quebec, in ballast four. For Charleston, in ballast one. Shelbourne, Nova Scotia, with bread stuffs six, value of cargoes 31647. 1s. 4d. Halifax, Nova Scotia, with bread stuffs five, value of cargoes 48291. 12s. 3d. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, with bread stuffs one, value of cargo 7371. 3s. 6d. St. John's, Newfoundland, with bread stuffs two, value of cargoes 14087. 9s. 6d. St. John's, New Brunswick, with bread stuffs sixteen, value of cargoes 18,9947. 2s. 4d.; in ballast one, with bread stuffs, and pork, &c. one, no value given; with bread stuffs and apples three, value of cargoes 17131. 5s. 10d. For West Indies, with bread stuffs one, value of cargo 6361. 19s. 6d. Jamaica, with bread stuffs one, value of cargo 13937. 4s.; bread stuffs, pork, and sundries two, value of cargoes, 20857. 16s. 10d. Bermuda, with bread stuffs one, value of cargo 11287. 16s. 6d. Trinidad, with bread stuffs three, value of cargoes 31497. 12s. 10d.; with bread stuffs and furniture one, value of cargo 12831. 12s. 6d. Antigua, with bread stuffs one, value of cargo 7397. 11s. 6d.; bread stuffs and tallow one, value of cargo 10627. 4s. 6d. For Barbadoes, with bread stuffs one, value of cargo 8771. 13s. 10d. Abaco, with bread stuffs and sundries one, value of cargo 4331. 19s. 4d. Harbour

Island, with bread stuffs one, value of cargo 205l. 11s. 1d. Eleuthera, with bread stuffs three, value of cargoes 1345l. 15s. 3d. For Port of Spain, with bread stuffs three, value of cargoes 21977. 19s. 4d. Mauritius, with bread stuffs, &c., two, value of cargoes 34231. 68. 2d. Total number of vessels, sixty-four. Total value of cargoes, 23,8021. 38.

GROSS Return of British and Foreign Trade, at the Port of Mobile, during the Year ending the 31st of December, 1844.

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Of the seventy-two British vessels which arrived at Mobile, there were from Great Britain, with salt thirty, value of cargoes 10,6861.; salt and potatoes two, value of cargoes 6771.; salt and ale one, value of cargo 450l.; in ballast twenty-eight. From Picton, in ballast, one; from Gibraltar, in ballast, two; from Rio de Janeiro, in ballast, one; from Dominique, in ballast, one; from Halifax, in ballast, one; from Virginia, in ballast, one; from Demerara, in ballast, one; from Algiers, in ballast, one; from Jamaica, in ballast, two. Total number of vessels, seventy-two. Total value of cargoes, 11,8137.

Of the seventy-seven British vessels which departed, there were for Great Britain, with cotton sixty-eight, value of cargoes 2,790,6967.; with cotton and beef two, value of cargoes 28,300l.; for St. John's, in ballast, two; for New Orleans, in ballast, one; for Quebec, in ballast, four. Total number of vessels, seventy-seven. Total value of cargoes, 2,818,9967.

Census of New York, 1845.-Population of city, 366,785; Brooklyn, and other suburban towns, estimated at 85,000; or a total population of about 450,000.

RETURN of British and Foreign Trade at the Port of New York, during the Year ending the 31st of December, 1844.

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