GREY RIVER.

West Coast Times, Issue 298, 6 September 1866, Page 2

GREY RIVER.

High Water This Day.— 6. sl a.m.; 7.1G p.m.

SHIPPING RETUENS FOR 1865.

(fboj* Mitchell's maritime begisteb,

JUNE 23.^

Mr Ingham, for soveral years past', has obtain^, through the House of Commons, a whole series of statistics relating to the snipping of the United Kingdom. The usual annual table has just been issued. It gives the tonnage of sailing and steam vessels for each separate Port of tho United Kingdom on the register at the end of 1865, with the entries inwards" and outwards, the vessels wrecked or built, the number of colonial vessels registered at each of the Ports of the United Kingdom, with a considerable amount of other information appertaining to British Shipping. The tables are too voluminous to give entire, but a summary of their contents niny be found interesting. v London stands highest on the list in point of ships, but Liverpool has the greatest tonnage. The sailing vessels registered in the Port of London were 25G3, of 855,575 tons ; and the steam vessels numbered 724, of 302,909 tons— total, 3287 ships, oi 1,158,484 tons. At Liverpool there were 2,641 sailing vessels, of 1,381,651 tons ; and 398 steam ves°sels, of 186,313 tons— total, 3039 ships, of 1,567,964 tons. To the colonies, the sailing vessels entered imnards were — For England, 4281 British vessels, of 1,979,223 ; foreign, 426 vessels, of 243,301 tons. For Scotland, 431 British vessels, of 227,960 tons ; and 26 foreign, of 12,678 tons. For Ireland, 254 British vessels, of 116,904 tons ; and 14 foreign, of 6720. Isle of Man, 8 British vessels, of 2164 tons. Channel Islands, 57 British vessels, of 7852 tona. The steam vessels inwards for the United Kingdom were — British, 712 in, number, of 276,397 tons ; and 2 foreigners, of 509 tons. The movements outwards by sailing vessels were — For England, 3883 British vessels, of 1,914,553 tons ; ant) 328 foreign, of 155,585 tons. For Scotland, 513 British vessels, of 303,206 tona; and 23 foreign, of 9396 tons. For Ireland, 142 British, of 73,235 tons, and 11 foreign, of 5697 tona. Isle of Man, 1 British vessel, of 202 tons ; and for the Channel Isles, 57 British vessels, of 7852 tons. The total steam vessels outwards for the United Kingdom were — 76 British vessels, of 328,472 tons; and 2 foreign, of 1032 tona. Iv the foreign trade' the entries inwards for England were— l4,26l British sailing vessels, of 2,798,469 ; hiU foreign, 17,849 vessels of 3,193,709. For Scotland, 1770 British vessels, of 324,14 V ; and 3109 foreign, of 420,381 tons. For Ireland, 602 British vessels, of 134,781 tons : and 890 foreign, of 234,276 tons. Isle of Man, 9 British vessels, of 1003 tons ; and 27 foreign, of 3343 tons. Channel Islands, 1094 "British vessel*, of 54,566 tons; and" 33§ foreign, of 25,202 tons. Outwards tho foreign trade entries were — 14,735. British sailing vessels, of 3,221,508 tons; foreign, 19,196 vessels, of 3,610,160 tons. Scotland, £106 British vessels, of 375,056 tons ; and 3514 foreign, of 475,695 tons. Ireland, 86 British vessels, of 25,498 tons ; and 112 foreign, of 33,114 tons. Isle of Man, 4 British vessels, of 636 tons ; and 22 foreign, of 2687 tons. Channel Islands, 1087 British vessels, of 37,758 tona ; and 333 foreign, of 20,894 tons. Tho entries of nteain vessels engaged in the Foreign Trade of the United Kingdom were — 9675 British vessels inwards, of 3,765,553 tons; and 1792 foreign, of 582,880 tona. "' Outwards tho entries were

—81)51 Brifiuh vessel*, of 3,1945% tons ; and 1610 foreign, of 553,00 A tons. For the Chau-in-1 Islands, inwards, 319 British vessels, of '39,186 tons, and 65 foreign, of 2994 tons ; outwards. 347 British vessels, of 38,463 tons ;' mid 65 foreign, of 2994 tons. These entries of vessels in coasting, colonial, and foreign trades show two important fuels — first, thnt foreign tonnage hus largely increaiod: and, secondly, that steam vessels have superseded sailing vessels to a very considorablo extent. 'As regards the volume of business done, the port of London stands at the head of all the others. The entrios of British aud foreign steam and sailing ves«elti inwards for London were 26,533 vessels of 6,711,522 tons ; and outwards, 16,128 vessels, of 3,749,673 tons— total, 42,661 vessels, of 10,461,195. Liverpool, whoso aggregate tonnage of British vessels is more than that cf London, had 12,607 entries of all classes inwards, of 4,224,447 tons; and outwards, 12,285 vessels, of 4,010,705 tons— total, 24,892 vessels, of 8.235,152 tone. The number of vessels built in the United Kingdom, and registered as British ships, during 1865, were as follows : — Sailing vessels, 806, of 150,500 tons, of timber ; and 116, of 85,055 tons, of iron. Steam vessels, 38 of timber, of 2267 tons ; and 344 of iron, of 177,382 tons. In the British possessions — 988 timber-built filing vessels of 211,821 tons ; 24 timber steam vessels, of 3025 tpns ; rtnd 7 of iron, of 464 tons. Total for United Kingdom and British Possessions,, 1794 timberbuilt sailing vessels, of 362,321 Ions ; and 116 iron vessels, of 85,055 tons. Of steam vessels, 62 timber-built,of 5292 tons : and 351 iron, of 177,846 tons. ( Tlie vessels registered in the United Kingdom in 1865 as now ships, were — Sailing vessels, 916 of timber, of 203,217 tons; audil!6 of iron, of 85,055 tons. Steam vessels, 39 of timber, of 2977 tons, and 346 of iron, of 178,667 tons— total, 1417 vessels, of 470,016 tons. The average increase of British tonnage is about 100,000 tons per annum. To keep up, therefore, the requisite tonnage, there must be a certain number of vessels built yearly, to supply the place of those lost or broken up, in addition to the yearly augmentation of 100,000 tons. The vessels wrecked belonging to the United Kingdom last year are said to be 571, of 157,026, tons. ' This we believe to be considerably below the mark. ThoBU broken up wore 69 in number, of 18,402 tons. The vessels sold and transferred were 1437, of 335,845 tons. Of the new vessels registered at port* in the United Kingdom in 1865, Canada contributed 11 Vessels, of 9134 tons ; New Brunswick, 12 vessels, of 10,646 tons ; Nova Scotia and Cape .Breton, 4 vessels, of 699 tons ; and Prince Edward Island, 1 vessel, of 141 tons. Of foreign built; vessels there were also registered 85 vessels, of 34,282 tons. Whilst, therefore, the colonios supplied us with 28 vessels, of 20,530 tous register, foreign countries/ con T tributed- above three times that number of vessels, and 13,752 tons more. Taking repeated entries at the Custom House, our trade with France employs, apparently, the greatest number of vessels and. tonnage ; next to France, the British North American colonies; and thirdly, the United States. The shorter the voyage, the fewer ships are required to carry on a trade. If we were to take the actual number of vessels employed during a year, aud give a single entry to each, the French -trade would be found to engage a smaller number of vessels than is taken up in muny of the distant countries. But the trade between England and Franco i* the most valuable. In ten yeara the imports and exports, added together, from and to France, rose from twenty millions sterling to fifty millions, and the trade is likely to extend with tho increase of wealth and population. Next to Franco comes British India, and then the colonies and United States.