Steamboat Inspection

Snporvixing Inupoctor üencral Jame A. Dumont, of tlie Btoiinior-itispoction service, in his animal report shows tliat the total numberof live.f lost froni varrcns causes rturing tho flscaj year omled Juneft ', LXÏS. wero : Froni (ixplosions, ','.■',; li'f, i; coJlisi.tii.s, 11 ; hhiih, wn.K,- ;iml Hi'iliing, 1(4; nccWeutáT drowniug, I8 miácelliuiúuua i'asnaltiOK, 4. Total, 212. Wliolo number of acrcitlt'iitH rosulting in Iohs of litV, 47. Of the total numbor of vosQOls iunjieotod, Í3ÍJ0 belong to tho Pacille coat, with a tonnage of 108,532; l.SJOto the Atlautic coant, with a tonnago of 406,757: SS'.I to tho Wostcrn rivera, witli a toimagfi oí' 18,;W-; S"T to the Northern lak?B. with a toimago of líSti.oTS, and Ö11 to thogiüf coant, with a tonnago of 68,831