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GREAT RTHTAIN AND IRELAND.
J orl ■■
1868
186!) Increase
Decrease
London
Liverpool
Other Ports of England
Scotland
Ireland
Total . Decrease
€ £ 10.694,494 10,484,555 3,079,566 3,158,300 3 3 1 7.186 ! 3,413,027 3,436,308 ' 3,073,045 2,135,953 2,095,276
78,734 65,841
£
209.939
363,263 40,677
613.879 469,304
22,693,507 22,224,203
144,575
It will be seen that the amount of customs receipts collected in London in each of the years 1868 and 1869 was more than that of all the other ports of Great Britain taken together, and five times that of the whole of Ireland. Besides London and Liverpool, there is only one port in England, Bristol, the customs receipts of which average a million a-year, and one more, Hull, where they are above a quarter of a million, while in Scotland the two ports of Glasgow and. Greenock, and in Ireland the one port of Dublin, absorb the main share of the receipts. It appears from the customs returns of the last thirty years, that there is an ever-increasing tendency of concentration of trade within a few great centres of commerce and industry.
2. Shipping.
The number and tonnage of registered sailing vessels of the United Kingdom engaged in the home trade, with the men employed thereon —exclusive of masters — was as follows from 1856 till 1869 : —
Homo Trade
Sailing Vessels
Men
Years
Xnmber
Tons
1856
9.390
719,860
33,879
1857
9,676
767,925
37.138
185S
10,313
788,113
37.971
1859
Ki,035
777,422
35,545
1860
10.S48
821,079
39,163
1861
11.060
832,771
39.626
1862
10,481
771,326
36,514
1863
1D.677
752,589
36.720
1864
11.003
789,108
37.748 |
1865
. 11,160
795,434
37.631
1866
11,212
813.909
37,440
1867
- 11.198
839,523
38,526
1868
11,787
804,749
39,448
1S69
11.570
776,683
39,4S1
