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CHEAT r.MTAIN AND IliETAXD.

Years

British

Foreign

Total

tons

tons

tons

1856

12.945,771

S.643.278

21,589,049

1857

13,694.107

9,484,685

23,178,792

1858

12,891,405

9,118,576

22,309,981

1859

13,311,843

9,592,416

22,904,259

1860

13,914,923

10,774,369

24,689,292

1861

15,420,532

11,175,109

26,595,641

1862

15,946,860

0,588,579

26,535,439

1863

17,019,392

9,719,341

26,738.733

1864

18.201,675

9,002,834

27,204,509

1865

19,358,955

19,538,137

28,897,092

1866

21,255,726

10,006,724

31,262,450

1867

22,370,070

10,386,042

32,756,112

1868

22,660,424

11,020,555

33,680,979

1869

23,789,167

11,121,114

34,910,281

The number and tonnage of vessels built and first registered in the United Kingdom, in each of the years 1856-69, "was as

follows : —

Years

Sailing Vessels

Steamers

Number

Tons

Number

Tons

1856

921

187,005 i

229

57,573

1857

1,050

197,554

228

52,918

1858

847

154,930 1

153

53,150

1859

789

147,967 1

150

38,003

1860

818

158.172

198

53,796

1861

774

129,970 !

201

70,869

1862

827

164,001 :

221

77.338

1863

881

253,036

279

107,951

1864

867

272,499

374

159,374

1865

922

235,555

382

179,649 1

1866

969

207,678

354

133,511

1867

915

185,771

295

97,219 j

1868

879

300,477

232

79,096 1

1869

731

245,373

281

123,203

It appears from a parliamentary return, issued in 1870, that in the year preceding the total number of seamen employed on board British ships, registered in the United Kingdom, was 202,477. Included in this number were 4,975 apprentices, and 20,203 foreigners, the rest, 177,239, being British seamen. Two years before the number of foreign seamen on board British ships was 21,950, so that there was a decrease in the employment of foreigners within the quinquennial period.