| Countries. | Vessels. | Tons. | Crews. |
| Europe— | |||
| Malta, | 85 | 15,326 | 893 |
| Africa— | |||
| Bathurst, | 25 | 1,169 | 215 |
| Sierra Leone, | 17 | 1,148 | 111 |
| Cape of Good Hope, | |||
| Cape Town, | 27 | 3,090 | 265 |
| Port Elizabeth, | 2 | 201 | 10 |
| Mauritius, | 124 | 12,079 | 1,413 |
| Asia— | |||
| Bombay, | 113 | 50,767 | 3,393 |
| Cochin, | 15 | 5,674 | 275 |
| Tanjore, | 33 | 5,070 | 257 |
| Madras, | 32 | 5,474 | 248 |
| Malacca, | 2 | 288 | 13 |
| Coringa, | 17 | 3,384 | 126 |
| Singapore, | 13 | 1,543 | 289 |
| Calcutta, | 186 | 51,779 | 2,004 |
| Ceylon, | 674 | 30,076 | 2,696 |
| Prince of Wales Island, | 7 | 996 | 51 |
| New Holland— | |||
| Sydney, | 293 | 28,051 | 2,128 |
| Melbourne, | 29 | 1,240 | 147 |
| Adelaide, | 17 | 864 | 60 |
| Hobart Town, | 103 | 7,153 | 724 |
| Launceston, | 42 | 3,150 | 257 |
| New Zealand— | |||
| Auckland, | 13 | 305 | 42 |
| Wellington, | 2 | 262 | 32 |
| Countries. | Vessels. | Tons. | Crews. |
| America— | |||
| Canada, Quebec, | 509 | 45,361 | 2,590 |
| " Montreal, | 60 | 10,097 | 556 |
| Cape Breton, Sydney, | 369 | 15,048 | 1,296 |
| " Arichat, | 96 | 4,614 | 335 |
| New Brunswick, Miramichi, | 81 | 10,143 | 509 |
| St. Andrews, | 193 | 18,391 | 918 |
| St. John, | 398 | 63,676 | 2,480 |
| Newfoundland, St. John, | 847 | 53,944 | 4,567 |
| Nova Scotia, Halifax, | 1,657 | 82,890 | 5,292 |
| Liverpool, | 31 | 2,641 | 163 |
| Pictou, | 60 | 6,929 | 354 |
| Yarmouth, | 146 | 11,724 | 637 |
| Prince Edward's Island, | 237 | 13,851 | 857 |
| West Indies, Antigua, | 85 | 833 | 220 |
| Bahama, | 140 | 3,252 | 587 |
| Barbadoes, | 37 | 1,640 | 305 |
| Berbice, | 18 | 854 | 89 |
| Bermuda, | 54 | 3,523 | 323 |
| Demerara, | 54 | 2,353 | 250 |
| Dominicia, | 14 | 502 | 85 |
| Grenada, | 48 | 812 | 198 |
| Countries. | Vessels. | Tons. | Crews. |
| Jamaica, Port Antonio | 5 | 95 | 22 |
| Antonio Bay, | 2 | 70 | 13 |
| Falmouth,, | 5 | 107 | 29 |
| Kingston, | 68 | 2,659 | 359 |
| Montego Bay, | 18 | 849 | 105 |
| Morant Bay, | 9 | 251 | 51 |
| Port Maria, | 3 | 86 | 18 |
| St. Ann's, | 1 | 20 | 5 |
| Savannah la Mar, | 3 | 153 | 22 |
| St. Lucca, | 2 | 64 | 10 |
| Montserrat, | 4 | 100 | 19 |
| Nevis, | 11 | 178 | 45 |
| St. Kitts, | 35 | 546 | 114 |
| S. Lucia, | 19 | *013 | 132 |
| St. Vincent, | 27 | 1,164 | 180 |
| Tobago, | 7 | 182 | 46 |
| Tortola, | 48 | 277 | 127 |
| Trinidad, | 61 | 1,832 | 378 |
| —— | ——— | ——— | |
| Total, | 7,304 | 592,839 | 40,659 |
[* Transribers note: This figure is not correct]
It will be seen, from the foregoing statement, that the tonnage of the vessels belonging to our colonies is about equal to that of the whole of the French mercantile marine, which in 1841 consisted of 592,266 tons—1842, 589,517—1843, 599,707.
The tonnage of the three principal ports of Great Britain in 1844 was:—
| London | 598,552 |
| Liverpool | 307,852 |
| Newcastle | 259,571 |
| ———— | |
| Total | 1,165,975 |
On Lake Erie, the Canadians have a splendid steamer, the London, Captain Van Allen, and another still larger is building at Chippewa, which is partly owned by government, and so constructed as to carry the mail and to become fitted speedily for warlike purposes.
Lake Ontario swarms with splendid British steam-vessels; but on Lake Huron there is only at present one, called the Waterloo, in the employment of the Canada Company, which runs from Goderich to the new settlements of Owen's Sound.
Propellers now go all the way to St. Joseph's, at the western extremity of Lake Huron; and the trade on this lake and on Michigan is becoming absolutely astonishing. Last year, a return of American and foreign vessels at Chicago, from the commencement of navigation on the 1st of April to the 1st of November only, shows that there arrived 151 steamers, 80 propellers, 10 brigs, and 142 schooners, making a total of 1,078 lake-going vessels, and a like number of departures, not including numerous small craft, engaged in the carrying of wood, staves, ashes, &c., and yet, such was the glut of wheat, that at the latter date 300,000 bushels remained unshipped.
Upwards of a million of money will be expended by the Canadian Government in protecting and securing the transit trade of the lakes; and the Canadians have literally gone ahead of Brother Jonathan, for they have made a ship-canal round the Falls of Niagara, whilst "the most enterprising people on the face of the earth," who are so much in advance of us according to the ideas of some writers, have been, dreaming about it.—So much for the welfare of the earth being co-equal with democratic institutions, à la mode Française!
The American government up to 1844 had spent only 2,100,000 dollars on the same objects, or about half a million sterling, according to the statement of Mr. Whittlesey of Ohio. But that government is actually stirring in another matter, which is of immense future importance, although it appears trivial at this moment, and that is the opening up of Lake Superior, where a new world offers itself.