History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 3 (of 4)

by W. S. Lindsay

		Entered.	Cleared.	Total.
France	1853	35,160	23,367	58,527
”	1854	33,955	47,709	81,664
”	1855	104,147	127,630	231,777
”	1856	198,842	152,919	351,761
”	1857	66,845	46,383	113,228
Spain	1853	24,967	109,591	134,558
”	1854	67,051	123,373	190,424
”	1855	91,416	105,166	196,582
”	1856	52,030	102,663	154,693
”	1857	..	..	..

[182] Act 18 and 19 Vict., chap. vii.

[183]

Coasting Trade of the United Kingdom, 1857.

Nationality of Vessels.	Entered.				Cleared.
	Sailing Vessels.		Steam Vessels.		Sailing Vessels.		Steam Vessels.
	Vessels.	Tons.	Vessels.	Tons.	Vessels.	Tons.	Vessels.	Tons.
Russian	4	1,603	..	..	5	1,729	..	..
Swedish	22	3,755	..	..	22	3,630	..	..
Norwegian	27	5,580	..	..	26	5,426	..	..
Danish	85	9,633	..	..	85	9,692	..	..
Prussian	50	9,953	..	..	44	9,043	..	..
Mecklenburg-Schwerin	17	3,600	..	..	19	4,400	..	..
Hanoverian	30	2,176	..	..	36	2,448	..	..
Oldenburg and Knyphausen	4	330	..	..	4	451	..	..
Hamburg	6	694	..	..	5	689	1	250
Bremen	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Lubeck	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Dutch	47	4,535	2	336	40	4,143	..	..
Belgian	4	593	..	..	3	337	5	840
French	4	507	..	..	9	854	..	..
Spanish	3	572	..	..	2	401	..	..
Portuguese	..	..	..	..	1	95	..	..
Sardinian	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuscan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Papal	2	381	..	..	..	..	..	..
Two Sicilies	3	615	..	..	5	1,080	..	..
Austrian	1	387	..	..	4	1,002	..	..
Greek	1	312	..	..	2	532	..	..
America, U.S.	7	4,797	..	..	12	5,883	..	..
	317	50,023	2	336	324	51,835	6	1090
	Vessels, 319. Tons, 50,359.				Vessels, 330. Tons, 52,925.

The Entrances and Clearances of British ships in the same year amounted to upwards of 80,000,000 tons!!

[184] I have great doubt whether the Board of Trade was justified in making this statement. The Royal Decree of 10th December, 1852, refers to a Law 9th July, 1841, which I have before me; but, when the differential tonnage duty was abolished, the Gibraltar merchants presented addresses thanking the authorities for the restoration of the flag. The ports between the Garonne and the Bidassoa are, surely, not under similar geographical conditions as either the ports or voyage between the Hudson and the Columbia.

[185] I really do not see it in that light. British ships would, indeed, have a shorter voyage from England to California, but they would still be precluded from going from New York to California viâ the Canal or passage at the Isthmus. The restriction would continue and would prove even more vexatious, as might be shown in a variety of ways.

[186] I deny this altogether. I cannot admit that a ship taking a cargo from Cronstadt to Odessa, thus making almost the circumnavigation of Europe, could be justly deemed to be making a Coasting voyage, however much Russian municipal law might declare it to be so.

[187] Table showing the total amount of tonnage of British and Foreign Vessels respectively, with cargoes and in ballast, entered and cleared in the United Kingdom in each year, from 1842 to 1857 inclusive.