IMPORTS OF SUGARS, MOLASSES, COFEEE, AND TEAS, INTO THE U. STATES, FROM 1790 TO 1844. Tea. Pounds. 3,047,242 2,614,008 2,009,509 COMMERCE OF OSWEGO. Oswego, (New York state,) is a port of entry and semi-capital of the county of the same name. It was incorporated in 1828. The two parts of the village are connected by a bridge across the Oswego river, 700 feet log. The harbor, next to that of Sackett's harbor, is the best on the south side of Lake Ontario It is formed by a pier, or mole, filled with stone, 1,259 feet long on the west side of the harbor, and 200 feet on the east side, with an entrance between them. The water within the pier has a depth of from 12 to 20 feet. The cost of this work was $93,000. On the end of the west pier there is a light, and lighthouse on the hill on the east side of the harbor near the port. More than 70 vessels, including steamboats, are owned at this port, besides a large number of canal boats. A considerable portion of the trade from New York city with the west, goes through Oswego and the Welland canal, which passes round Niagara Falls into Lake Erie. The salt from Salina, destined for the west, generally passes this way. The tonnage of the district of Oswego in 1843, according to the Treasurer's report, was 7,420 tons; and on the 30th of June, 1814, it was 9,387 tons. According to the census of 1840, Oswego village contains three commercial and four commission houses in foreign trade, with a capital of $246,000; 40 retail stores, with a capital of about $100,000; 2 cotton factories, 1 iron foundry, 8 flour mills, a tannery, morocco factory, &c. Daily lines of steamboats for the conveyance of passengers run from Oswego to Lewiston, Sackett's Harbor, Ogdensburgh, Kingston in Canada, &c. . We give below a statement of business done at this port during the year 1845, under the Drawback Law. STATISTICS OF POPULATION. EMIGRATION FROM GREAT BRITAIN, IN 1843-44. THE British Report of the Emigration Commissioners has just been published; and is, as usual, an interesting document. Its bearing upon the moral, social, and commercial destiny of the United States, renders the following summary, derived from the report, interesting to the readers of this Magazine. The following table exhibits the number of emigrants who have left the United Kingdom in 1843 and 1844, distinguishing the different places to which they proceeded: Destination. United States,.......................... Texas,....... Central and South America,..... North American Colonies:-Canada,.... 1843. 28,335 1844. 43,660 Of the 70,686 emigrants who left the British Isles in 1844, the following were the proportions from each kingdom : About four-fifths of all the English emigrants went to the United States, and only onesixth to the British North American colonies. Of the Scotch emigrants, only one-third went to the United States, and more than one-half to these colonies; while fully threefourths of the Irish went to these colonies, and only one-fifth to the United States. The proportion of cabin passengers from the three kingdoms affords a sort of index to the condition of the emigrants: England,. Ireland,. It thus appears that Scotland sends out a much greater proportion of persons in respectable circumstances, as emigrants, than England, and an infinitely greater proportion than Ireland. The three years of dearth and depression, ending with 1842, gave a tremendous impulse to emigration, almost doubling the annual amount for the preceding five years; while the two last years of cheap corn and improved trade have again reduced it in nearly the same proportion. The most extensive emigration ever known from Great Britain, or we suppose from any other country, was in 1842, when 123,344 persons left the British isles, to settle abroad. The three great streams of emigration are to the North American colonies, the United States, and Australia, (including New Zealand.) Their variations, in the last nine years, are shown in the following table : : 34,226 37,774 We publish below, from the Michigan state paper, the following complete census of Michigan, taken in 1845, compared with that of 1840, and the gain in each organized county. Counties. 1840. 1845. Gain. Counties. Allegan,...... .1,783 3,158 1,375 Lapeer,.... Barry, .1,078 2,602 1,524 Lenawee,... .17.889 Berrien,..... .5.011 7,941 2.930 1840. .3.342 1845. Gain. 5,314 1,972 23,011 5,122 Livingston,... ..7,430 10,888 3,559 CENSUS OF ILLINOIS, IN 1840-'45. The Illinois State Register furnishes us with a census of Illinois for 1845, compared with that for 1840. The returns for 1845 are all in, except four counties. When complete, they will probably show an increase of about 200,000 inhabitants since 1840; which will, says the State Register, be the greatest increase of any state in the Union. * Portions of these counties have been cut off. + In these four counties, the census for this year have not been received.—State Register. |