EE VENUE AND INCOME. 
American and Foreign Vessels which, cleared from Ports of the United States 
during the Year ending June 30, 1851. 
American. 
Tons. 
Foreign. 
Tons, 
t 
Dutch E. Indies 
11 
4,070 
8 
3,320 
62 
29,389 
5 
2,138 
33 
11,830 
10 
3,106 
15 
6,213 
76 
24,430 
3 
349 
26 
6,780 
108 
31,623 
66 
11,970 
331 
114,335 
92 
20,883 
American and Foreign Vessels which entered the United States from the same 
Places during the Year ending June 30, 1850. 
American. 
Tons. 
Foreign. 
Tons. 
8 
3,689 
51 
23,537 
41 
21,969 
23 
7,445 
3 
945 
90 
30,502 
15 
3,679 
39 
9,267 
24 
4,195 
247 
93,588 
47 
11,640 
This tabular statement exhibits the extent and value of our 
foreign commerce in the Pacific, and the urgent necessity for the 
establishment of some inter-oceanic communication, which (in 
combination with the advantages arising from superiority of ships 
and vessels) shall enable America to distance England forever in 
the world-wide race for dominion of the seas. 
In the prospective ship canal through Nicaragua the attention 
of our merchants has necessarily been diverted from the Tehuan- 
tepec route, notwithstanding the saving in distance to be accom- 
plished by it. But, unfortunately, the hopes which were fore- 
shadowed in the projected union of the two oceans are fastly 
waning ; and the feasibility of a scheme so universally beneficent, 
and so inviting as Nicaragua promised to be, is becoming, on a 
closer inspection, a widely mooted question. In the excellent 
publication of Mr. Squier, late Charge to the Eepublics of Cen- 
tral America, we find the following statement : 
* Principally whale ships. 
