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 : —
