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 [*Transcriber's 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 in 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.