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nch, Prussian, Bremen, or some other European ship, barque, or brig, as the case may be. Out of 119 vessels up for foreign ports, exclusive of the regular European steamship lines, which are all under a foreign flag, we find only 18 that are advertised as American vessels, the rest all foreign. As the navigation laws close the coasting trade to foreign vessels, of course the protection of a neutral flag cannot be used, and therefore we find no "neutral flag" advertised. Of twelve vessels cleared for foreign ports on the 10th, only one carried the U. S. flag. Before the war much more than half of all the foreign trade of the United States was done in American bottoms and under the U. S. flag.--Now, apparently not one-sixth of the vessels trading to New York sail under that flag. One or two things is evident. Either the Northern merchants have lost the carrying trade, or they have nearly all taken to sailing under false colors, to deceive Messrs. Semmes, Maffitt, Maury & Co.