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GREAT DTUTAIN AND IRELAND.

The number of steamers employed alternately in home and foreign trade, during the years 1856 to 1869, amounted to: —

Partly Homo and

partly

Steam Vessels

Foreign Trade

Years

Number

Tons

Men

18.56

42

16,102

965

1857

66

20,859

1,200

1858

62

20,604

1,141

1859

59

21.123

1,202

1860

80

29,803

1.731

1861

72

24,924

1,255

1862

89

29,463

1,664

1863

90

33,547

1,693

1864

92

36,944

1,787

1865

111

43,225

2,005

1866

110

47,194

2,050

1867

125

50,201

2,249

1868

134

52,150

2,339

1869

164

73,964

3,048

The number and tonnage of registered sailing vessels engaged in the foreign trade alone, with the men employed — exclusive of masters — was as follows during the fourteen years 1856 to 1869 : —

Employed in the

Failing Vessels

Foreign Trade

Years

Number

Tons

Men

1856

8,059

2,942,674

110,718 |

1857

7.655

2,900,082

107,289 1

1858

7,999

3.029,226

109,090 j

1859

7,792

2,969,402

105,434

1860

6,876

2.804.610

'J7.024 !

1861

6,902

2,866,21S

96,880. j

1862

7,095

2,993,696

100.145

1863

7,360

3,246,526

106,100

1864

7,557

3,532,242

110,489

1865

7,384

3,629,023

110,501

1866

7,454

3,612,973

109,073

1867

7,467

3,641,662

107,364

1868

7,306

3,646,150

105.7111

1S69

6,9fi3

3,611,743

102,110