Mr. Stikeman, the Secretary of the East India and China
Asso- ciation, has prepared a comparative statement of the number of British ships with their tonnage entered into and cleared outwards from and to
places within the limits of the East India Company's charter, from the 1st of January to the 3oth of September 1635 and 1S40. By this state- ment, it appears that the tonnage inwards for the first three-quarters of last year was 1S2,582, while that for the same period in the present year is 185,594—giving an increase of 3,012 tons: and that the ships during similar periods are 474 for last :.'ear, and 47 for the present— giving a decrease of 7 slops. In 1,d19, the ships entering the London port during tins period were 34s ; this year they are only 324. which is a decrease of 24 while in Liverpool they have increased from 95 to 107 ; and in other ports there has also been an increase. The tonnage outwards for the same periods is 215s09 for 18n1. and 27:3,85:3 for 1340 ; and the number of ships is 542 for the former and 702 for the latter—giving an increase of 5s,044 tons and Ido ships. Iliy.vever, with respect to the number of tons cleared for China and the Cape of
Good hope, has decreased .7:.,o20 fur ill:: former an I l.t70 for the latter. The increase is attributed to the sending troops to India and emigrants to Australia.
The steam-ship Oriental performed the whnle distance to Alexandria and back in thirty-six hours and a half less th n th,.1 contract time. During the passage oat she had to strain the whole distance from Fal- mouth to Cape I nosterre against a
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