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 NEW YOKE (Our) 385 steamers. Besides the Hudson river and other local boats, there are more than 20 lines to various ports on the Atlantic and gulf coasts, owning 75 steamers, with an aggregate of 75,000 tons. To the West Indies and South America six lines despatch 25 steamers with an aggregate tonnage of 75, 600. These include the Pacific Mail line, running via the isthmus of Panama to San Francisco, and a line to Rio de Janeiro. There are 12 lines of ocean steam- ers to British ports, with 105 ships of 310,460 tons, and 7 lines to continental ports, with 69 ships of 205,614 tons ; total transatlantic lines, 18, with 174 ships of 516,074 tons. Eu- ropean steamers leave regularly on four days in the week: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thurs- days, and Saturdays. The principal lines run to Antwerp, Bremen, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hamburg, Havre, Liverpool (several), London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Rotterdam, and Stettin, one or more of them touching at Bergen (Nor- way), Brest, Cherbourg, Copenhagen, Cork, Plymouth, Queenstown, and Southampton. New York is preeminently a commercial city, ranking among the first in the world. More than half the foreign commerce of the United States is carried on through the customs district of which it is the port, and about two thirds of the duties are here collected, the whole amount for the year ending June 30, 1874, be- ing $160,522,284 63, of which $109,549,797 79 was collected in the New York district. This district, besides the city, embraces the greater part of Long island, including Brooklyn ; Sta- ten island ; the New Jersey shore N. of Staten island, including Jersey City; and the shores of Hudson river. The following table exhibits the growth of the foreign commerce of the district, and its percentage of that of the whole United States: FISCAL YEARS. Import*. Percent- age. Exports of foreign products. Percent- age. Domestic exports. Percent- age. Total foreign commerce. Percent- age. 1821-'30 (average) 1881 -'40 (average) $86,337,956* 75,892,170* 45# 58 $8,797,218* 9,952,966* 89 50 $12,786,118* 18,005,852* 24 20 $57,921,292* 103,850,988* 87 48 1841-'50 (average) 1851-'5 (average) 75,757,184* 162,470,257* 59K 64V 8,850,715* 15,568,924* s* 80,181,578* 82,028,805* & 1 114,289,477* 260,062,986* 45 62V 1856-'60 (average) 208,080,148 62?| 12,657,925 53 102,257,675 81 822,995,748 47 1861 222 966,274 66V 18,311,495 64V 187,879,956 60 373,657,725 64 1862 142,215,636 69 10,402,084 61V 152,877,961 71V 804,995,681 70 1868 ... . 177,254,415 70 17,869,358 86* 221,917,978 72^ 416,541,748 71 1864 229 506 499 69V 12,785,640 63 211,237,222 66 453,479,861 67% 1865 154,160,819 62^ 22,627,018 70# 219,369,873 675 896,157,710 65V 1866 802,505,719 68 7,458,845 50V 264,510,247 48 574,469,811 57 1867 277 469 510 66V 11,285,211 54} 207,882,457 47V, 496,087,178 56V 1868 242 580 659 65V 15 016,273 66V, 236,031,239 52 493,627,171 58 1869 295,117,682 67V 17,741,836 70V 185,884,264 44% 498,243,782 57 1870 293,990 006 63V 20,889,410 66V 209,972,491 42 524,801,907 58 1871 857 909 770 66 20 087,211 70V 285,580,775 50 678,527,756 59V 1872 418,515,829 ' 65^ 15,161,218 66V 270,418,674 49M 704,090,721 58* 1873 426,321,427 64V 18,972,099 67 313,129,963 48 758,428,489 56V 1874 395 133 622 66V 14,688,463 61V. 840,860,269 49 750,127,854 57 The fiscal years end on Sept. 30 prior to 1843, after which they end on June 30. The values given in the table are in gold, with the excep- tion of the domestic exports, which from 1862 are mostly in currency. The imports for the nine months ending March 31, 1875, were $275,154,929 ; exports, $246,399,551. The fol- lowing tables of imports and domestic exports for the year ending June 30, 1874, embrace the principal countries and articles : COUNTRIES. Imports from. Exports to. COUNTRIES. Imports from. Exports to. Argentine Republic $2,056,155 434.931 8,865,028 25,979.546 194,580 287,284 11,013,846 159,811 291,885 47,307,803 1,220,959 41.098,655 126,764,649 11,208,304 788,128 7,952 718,195 109,901 2,956,959 547,678 9,652,133 400,491 404,170 800,326 $1,809,841 966214 10,796,248 3,258,312 281,921 1,324,784 632,881 882,086 956,397 18,376,080 752,488 36,287,769 156,639,737 19,959,113 23,823,105 1,952,778 1,784,828 1,432.461 5,475,289 929,698 234,338 24,513 281,405 2,501,526 $428,805 1,848,880 5,421,740 2,048,885 83,644 5,508,043 2,032,789 1,290,588 3,255,284 692,640 451,959 890,183 177,871 8,782,364 57,029,687 2,427,498 8,870,410 201,944 861,545 150,861 7,676,026 2.404,662 4,838,241 678,641 $82,668 8,297,466 3,985,373 856,122 101,464 1,489,253 7,605,641 657,780 484,245 1,095,838 1,369,705 1,212,405 414,895 2,471,299 12,529,576 1,094,289 100,318 907,824 1,777,205 832,421 '647',112 1,921,854 463,892 Austria Hayti Belgium. Italv Brazil. Japan Central American states Liberia Chili. Mexico China Netherlands Denmark. . . . Dutch West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch East Indies France Peru French West Indies Portugal T> .,. -< Scotland Spain Cuba Gibraltar Dominion of Canada . Other Spanish possessions Newfoundland and Labrador British West Indies Turkey (Europe and Asia) Turkey (Africa) British Guiana British East Indies United States of Colombia Hong Kong British possessions in Africa British possessions in Australia. ..
 * These figures relate to the entire state, but not far from 95 per cent, of the values represented belong to this port.