DESTINATION OF VESSELS DEPARTING LOADED FROM IBRAILA, AND CARGOES OF THE

Total....... 505 283,290 149,731 44,593 398 205,520 25,460 527,281

NOTE OF VESSELS DEPARTING LOADED FROM IBRAILA, AND CARgoes of the SAME, IN 1850.

Total........ 505 283,290 149,784 44,593 398 205,520 25,460 527,281 NOTE OF ALL VESSELS DEPARTING FROM GALATZ AND IBRAILA, WITH REGISTER TONNAGE AND NUMBER OF CREW, IN 1850.

No. of Register No. of No. of Register
vessels. crew. tonnage.
2,089 36,980

Turkish

75

714 14,195

100

952 15,543

English..... 50 415 10,583

56

478 9,596

Austrian... 40

432

8,324

Wallachian. 17 184

Russian

Ionian.

Sardinian.. 21

Samian..

...

Prussian... 5

Butter, 690 cwt.; cheese, 1,722 cwt.; potash, 540 cwt.; yellow berries, 120 quarters; hides, 355 pieces; kidney beans, 333 quarters; millet, 68 quarters; pastroma, 1,243 cwt,; prunes, 657 cwt.; honey, 71 cwt.; rapeseed, 1,200 quarters.

* Yellow berries, 120 cwt.; bones, 82 tons. Potash, 260 cwi.; yellow berries, 120 cwt.; hides, 355 pieces; cw; kidney beans, 83 quarters; jerk beef, 494 cwt.; prunes, 125

quarters; bones, & quarters.

cheese, 1.097 cwt.; butter, 250 cwt.; honey, 71 cwt.; millet, 68

Potash, 192 cwt.; kidney beans, 41 quarters; pastroma, 93 cwt.; prunes, 77 cwt.

Rapeseed, 1,200 quarters.

Potash, 88 cwt.; cheese, 199 cwt.'; butter, 186 cwt.; kidney beans, 128 quarters; pastroma, 256 CWL.; pranes, 261 cwt.

Cheese, 90 cwt.; butter, 54 cwt.; kidney beans, 27 quarters; pastroma, 331 cwt.; prunes, 196 cwt. #Cheese, 291 cwt.; kidney beans, 38 quarters; pastroma, 69 cwb

#Cheese, 45 cwt.; kidney beans, 16 quarters.

In the preceding report on the Commerce of the Danube, mention has been made of the passage of Sulina, the most important, if not, indeed, the only navigable mouth of this river. The "Journal de Constantinople," under date of May 9, 1852, publishes the following note of the number of vessels which passed Sulina during the previous year, and as it brings down the navigation to a more recent period than is embraced in the report, occasion is taken to add the note to the same:

Among the vessels arrived in the Danube in 1851, there were 97 in ballast destined to Russian ports of the Danube, and 2,292 for foreign ports. There passed also 43 steamers under Austrian colors; the number of Russian steamers, if any, have not been indicated; nor are the English screw steamers mentioned, which is to be regretted, as these latter have commenced running from England direct to the ports of the Danube for the purpose of making quicker passages than the sailing vessels. Their cargoes are generally wheat and Indian corn, which commodities, it is here worthy of remark, can be carried to England, as thus appears, cheaper from the Danube in screw steamers than they can be taken from the United States to English ports in American sailing vessels. Among the ships which entered the Danube in 1851, 8 were wrecked in the river, and of those which left it, 2 were lost.

The report adds that the cargoes of the vessels which entered the Danube are not known at Sulina. Those sailing out of it had the following articles as cargoes, all products of the Danube:—

The note from which the preceding is taken, says that in 1850 1,152 vessels entered the Danube, (at Sulina,) and that 1,380 left it; consequently the number was greater than in 1851. The value of the cargoes of 1851 was not given, but comparatively with those of 1850, the quantity of grain was greater by 900,000 tehetwarts; the Indian corn and rye figure largely in the note, the former being mostly exported from Galatz and Ibraila, whilst the exports from the ports of Ismail and Reuni form only one-fifth of the whole quantity. It is worthy of remark, that whilst during the past year (1851) the exportation of grain from Odessa, in South Russia, has been less than in 1850, that of the ports of the Danube and of the two principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, as well as of Bessarabia, has been greater in 1851 than in 1850, which is readily seen by the number of the vessels being almost double.

In terminating the present report of the trade of one of the greatest rivers of Europe-indeed, of the world-it may not be wholly without utility to add a price current, of a recent date, of grain at Constantinople, where the prices of the grains do not differ much from those of the ports of the Danube. Under date of May 14, 1852, the "Journal de Constantinople" publishes the following:

The Turkish government sustains the exchange on London at piastres 110 though the free exchange is much greater, say piastres 116 in specie, and piastres 120 in the Sultan's paper currency, called Caïméhs. The piastre is worth in specie about 4 cents, and in Caïméhs 3 per cent more.

J. P. B.

Art. III.-COMMERCIAL CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES.

NUMBER XXXIII.

NEW YORK.-PART II.

POPULATION-ABSOLUTE PROGRESS.

THE amount of the population of New York at various intervals since its foundation, as furnished by the estimates and enumerations of the earlier period, and later by the official returns of the census, periodically taken under the authority of the State and of the United States-the numerical increase between the consecutive periods—with the actual ratio for such times, and the corresponding ratio for decennial terms, where the interval is more or less than ten years—are embraced in the following statement:

The average ratio, according to this table, for each decennial period from 1656 to 1850 is about 40 per cent. The progress has been steadily ahead throughout, except in two instances, occurring when the United States was at war with Great Britain. Several unfavorable causes, of very potential influence, have also tended to check the ratio of other periods. The growth of the period 1673-96 must have been limited very sensibly by the French and Indian War of 1689-97; and that of the interval 1731-56, when there was the least ratio in any period of actual advance, was in like manner affected by the mortality and alarm consequent on the yellow fever in 1741-2, the Negro panic of the same years, the great fire of 1741, the second French War, of 1744-48, and the commencement of the third, in 1754. The growth of New York at this period was probably somewhat retarded, also, by the advance of the other colonies, which were drawing an enlarged proportion of the European emigration. Boston and Philadelphia, the latter previously behind New York, were now both ahead of her, and growing faster. If we had statements of the population at regular and very brief intervals for the century preceding the Revolution, there would undoubtedly be seen one or two cases of actual decline, but only in periods of very short duration; probably, as afterwards, in none of so much as ten, and perhaps not in any of above five years' length.

In the tables which follow, we have estimated the population of the city in quinquennial periods during the time embraced in the table preceding, and upon the ratios respectively attached to the periods therein designated. The figures are so arranged as to present also a distinct view of the decennial periods. In the succeeding tables, the progress by consecutive quarter, half, and entire centuries is also given, and a view of like periods calculated from the successive decennial intervals. Also, a comparative exhibit of the Dutch, English, and American periods, and of the periods preceding and succeeding the Constitution of the United States: