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The number of steam vessels employed in the home trade during each of the fourteen years, from 1856 to 1869, was as follows : —
Home Trade
Steam Vessels
Tears
Number
Tons
Jrcn
1856
317
07.616
4,786
1857
388
92.4S1
6,462
1858
372
90,739
6,215
1859
374
90.867
6,377
1860
402
92,254
6,416
1861
448
102,795
7,024
1862
434
104,020
6,892
1863
456
107,003
7,095
1864
510
125,808
7,858
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552
134,776
8,189
1866
612
147,194
9.005
1867
657
154,244
9,451
186S
729
153,265
9,755
1869
751
161.984
10,049
The number of sailing vessels engaged partly in the home and partly in the foreign trade — the expression ' home trade ' signifying the coasts of the United Kingdom, or ' ports between the limits of the river Elbe and Brest' — was, in each of the fourteen years, from 1856 to I860:—
Partly Home and
partly
Sailing Vessels
Foreign Trade
Yi ari
Number
Tons
Men
1856
970
162,488
6,483
• 1857
1,098
162,112
7,007
185S
897
138,699
5.594
1859
848
132,768
5,229
1860
1,366
226,556
8.700
1861
1,326
219,522
8,443
1862
1,483
246,479
9,388
1863
1,720
284.413
10.831
1864
1,624
268,125
10,039
1865
1,663
282,295
10,457
1866
1.546
278.167
10.055
1867
1,196
199.846
7.339
186S
1,432
240.921
8,688
1869
1,617
288,849
10,265
