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 COMMERCE ANT) INDUSTRY,

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The number of steamers employed in the foreign trade during the same period amounted to : — ■

Employed in the Foreign Trade

Steam Vessels

Years

Number

Tons

Hen

1856

492

247,337

17,087

1857

445

268,023

17,291

1858

42S

257,861

17,821

1859

462

277,527

18.719

1860

447

277,437

17.958

1861

477

313,465

18,729

1862

510

328,310

19,260

1863

574

371,201

22.288

1864

727

456,241

27.835

1865

756

523,698

28,860

1866

784

553,425

28,748

1867

834

608,232

31.411

1868

862

619,199

31,568

1869

S10

644,080

30,207

A summary of the total shipping of the United Kingdom, sailing and steam, during the fourteen years 1856 to 1869 is shown in the following table : —

Number of

Tears

Vessels

Tons

Men

1856

19.270

4.156.077

173,918

1857

19,328

4,211,482

176,387

1858

20, 071

4,325,242

177,832

1859

19,570

4,269,109

172,506

1860

20,019

4.251,739

171.592

1861

20,285

4,359,695

171,957

1862

20,092

4,473.294

173,863

1863

20,877

4,795,279

184,727

1864

21.513

5,208,468

19o,756

1865

21.626

5.408,451

197,643

1866

21,718

5,452,862

196.371

1867

21,777

5.493,708

196,340

1868

22,250

5,516,434

197,502

1869

21,881

5,557,303

195,490

The above numbers include vessels of the Channel Islands, but not those of the British possessions.

The total tonnage of British and foreign vessels, both sailing and steam, which entered and cleared at ports of the United Kingdom, either with cargoes or in ballast, during the fourteen years 1856-69, is shown in the subjoined table : —