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GREAT RTHTAIN AND IRELAND.

J orl ■■

1868

186!) Increase

Decrease

London

Liverpool

Other Ports of England

Scotland

Ireland

Total. Decrease

€ £ 10.694,494 10,484,555 3,079,566 3,158,300 3 3 1 7.186 ! 3,413,027 3,436,308 ' 3,073,045 2,135,953 2,095,276

78,734 65,841

£

209.939

363,263 40,677

613.879 469,304

22,693,507 22,224,203

144,575

It will be seen that the amount of customs receipts collected in London in each of the years 1868 and 1869 was more than that of all the other ports of Great Britain taken together, and five times that of the whole of Ireland. Besides London and Liverpool, there is only one port in England, Bristol, the customs receipts of which average a million a-year, and one more, Hull, where they are above a quarter of a million, while in Scotland the two ports of Glasgow and. Greenock, and in Ireland the one port of Dublin, absorb the main share of the receipts. It appears from the customs returns of the last thirty years, that there is an ever-increasing tendency of concentration of trade within a few great centres of commerce and industry.

2. Shipping.

The number and tonnage of registered sailing vessels of the United Kingdom engaged in the home trade, with the men employed thereon —exclusive of masters — was as follows from 1856 till 1869 : —

Homo Trade

Sailing Vessels

Men

Years

Xnmber

Tons

1856

9.390

719,860

33,879

1857

9,676

767,925

37.138

185S

10,313

788,113

37.971

1859

Ki,035

777,422

35,545

1860

10.S48

821,079

39,163

1861

11.060

832,771

39.626

1862

10,481

771,326

36,514

1863

1D.677

752,589

36.720

1864

11.003

789,108

37.748 |

1865

. 11,160

795,434

37.631

1866

11,212

813.909

37,440

1867


 * 11.198

839,523

38,526

1868

11,787

804,749

39,448

1S69

11.570

776,683

39,4S1