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The number of steam vessels employed in the home trade during each of the fourteen years, from 1856 to 1869, was as follows : —

Home Trade

Steam Vessels

Tears

Number

Tons

Jrcn

1856

317

07.616

4,786

1857

388

92.4S1

6,462

1858

372

90,739

6,215

1859

374

90.867

6,377

1860

402

92,254

6,416

1861

448

102,795

7,024

1862

434

104,020

6,892

1863

456

107,003

7,095

1864

510

125,808

7,858

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552

134,776

8,189

1866

612

147,194

9.005

1867

657

154,244

9,451

186S

729

153,265

9,755

1869

751

161.984

10,049

The number of sailing vessels engaged partly in the home and partly in the foreign trade — the expression ' home trade ' signifying the coasts of the United Kingdom, or ' ports between the limits of the river Elbe and Brest' — was, in each of the fourteen years, from 1856 to I860:—

Partly Home and

partly

Sailing Vessels

Foreign Trade

Yi ari

Number

Tons

Men

1856

970

162,488

6,483

• 1857

1,098

162,112

7,007

185S

897

138,699

5.594

1859

848

132,768

5,229

1860

1,366

226,556

8.700

1861

1,326

219,522

8,443

1862

1,483

246,479

9,388

1863

1,720

284.413

10.831

1864

1,624

268,125

10,039

1865

1,663

282,295

10,457

1866

1.546

278.167

10.055

1867

1,196

199.846

7.339

186S

1,432

240.921

8,688

1869

1,617

288,849

10,265