Passengers:--Falmouth to Bombay, 48 voyages, at 20 each = 960, at 80_l._ L76,800 Ditto to Calcutta and Madras, &c. 48 ditto, at 25 each = 1200, at 90_l._ 108,800 Mauritius to Calcutta & Madras, &c. 48 ditto, at 10 each = 480, at 60_l._ 28,800 East Indies to Batavia, China, &c. 48 voyages, at 15 each = 720, at 40_l._ 28,800 New South Wales and Falmouth, 48 voyages, at 10 each = 480, at 120. 57,600 Madeira, St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, and Coasting voyages, India, 48 voyages, and 48 Ceylon and Calcutta, together, say yearly 28,800 New South Wales coastways, 48 voyages, at 10 each, average 12_l._ 5,760 -------- Total L335,360 Deduct for finding _one-third_ 111,786 -------- Balance gain L223,574 Freights--Parcels, Packages, Fine Goods, 48 voyages, 150 tons each, average at 15_l._ per ton of tonnage L108,000 Freight--Specie, say 35,000 Government Troops, Stores, &c. 35,000 Ditto Mails, Despatches 90,000 ------- 268,000 ------- Total 491,574 Deduct expenditure L309,038 Sinking Fund, to replace Capital, 10 per cent 52,900 Sundries, Port Charges, &c. 20,000 ------- 381,938 -------- Balance gain L109,636 -------- GEOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ISTHMUS OF AMERICA, (p. 083) AND THE PRACTICABILITY OF A COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA AND NEW SOUTH WALES WESTWARD THROUGH IT. A ready and safe communication with these important places, and at the same time with all the most eastern parts of Asia, with all the Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and with all the western coasts of the great continent of America, it will be readily allowed, is of the utmost importance to Great Britain and to the whole civilized world.