AN ACCOUNT of the EXPORTS of the Principal Articles of BRITISH and IRISH PRODUCE and MANUFACTURES, in the year, 1818, compared with the Exports of the preceding Year.

Note.-The Amounts exhibited for the year 1847 will be found to differ to some extent from those made up in February, 1848, in consequence of corrections made since that period.

ACCOUNT of all CATTLE, SHEEP, and SWINE, Imported into Great Britain from Ireland, in the Years 1847 and 1848.

ACCOUNT of the NUMBER and TONNAGE of VESSELS, distinguishing the Countries to which they belonged, which entered Inwards and cleared Outwards, in the year 1848, compared with the Entries and Clearances of the preceding Year, exclusively of Vessels in Ballast.

Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.

United Kingdom

and its Depen-18,771 4,238,956 18,149 4,020,415 15,535 3,205,794 15,783 3,553,777

i

dencies

-330 80,420 277 76,108 169 42,600 190 52,777 518 68,355 357 51,956 381 46.091 356 48,811 1,316 208,192 1,063 179,044 568 64,538 599 83,565 1,701 123,107 1,924 142,169 1,626 125,620 1,548 119,232 1,351 276,563 555 120,986 878 158,064 444 92,667

1,765 174,019 1,165 107,561 1,687 165,614 1,121 122,909
694 58,445 966 76,000 745 72,754 877 87,488
241 34,2416 274 38,322 278 41,689 325 51,750
49,623 1,779 108,362 2,428 204,813 2,572 238,637
28,202 103 14,672 142 19,475 105 14,352
8,466 84 7,858 39 4,277
40 4,443
89,604 105 29,749
195 44,956 102 24,963

856

220

82

369

Other States in America, Africa, or Asia

20 5,004 10 2,718

7 2,086

4

999

Total

29,561 6,091,052 27,786 5,579,461 25,564 4,7 19,241 24,893 5,051,237

ACCOUNT of the NUMBER and TONNAGE of VESSELS which entered Inwards and cleared Outwards with Cargoes, at the several Ports of the UNITED KINGDOM, during the year 1848, compared with the Entries and Clearances of the preceding Year.

Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.

Britain and
Ireland

8,085 1,296,610 9,109 1,470,309 17,935 2,074,387 18,941 2,153,054

Other Coast

ing Vessels 134,440 10,923,186 131,332 11,053,563 140,987 11,218,238 136,804 11,162,295

Total

142,525 12,219,796 140,441 12,523,872 158,922 13,265,625 155,745 13,315,349

The NUMBER and TONNAGE of VESSELS that entered and cleared from and to the COLONIES in the year 1818 (including their repeated voyages), were as follows:-Inwards, to Ports in England, in British Sailing Vessels, 4,405; Tonnage, 1,277,491. To Ports in Scotland: Vessels, 494; Tonnage, 163,894. To Ports in Ireland: Vessels, 463; Tonnage, 138,596. To the Isle of Man and Channel Islands: Vessels, 27; Tonnage, 4,201; Steamers, 329; Tonnage, 65,392. Total of British Shipping, inwards, 5,718; Tonnage, 1,649,574: Foreign, 75 Vessels; Tonnage, 9,008.

Outwards, from Ports in England, in British Sailing Vessels, 4,311; Tonnage, 1,277,161. From Ports in Scotland: Vessels, 519; Tonnage, 170,629. From Ports in Ireland: Vessels, 362; Tonnage, 101,868. From the Channel Islands: Vessels, 50; Tonnage, 6,844; Steamers, 358; Tonnage, 79,119. Total of British Shipping outwards, 5,600; Tonnage, 1,635,621. Foreign: 77 Vessels; Tonnage, 17,625.

The NUMBER of SAILING VESSELS built and registered in the year 1848 was 733, with a Tonnage of 107,218; and 114 STEAMERS, with a Tonnage of 15,334. In the same year 501 Sailing Vessels and 13 Steamers, belonging to the United Kingdom, were wrecked, of a Tonnage amounting in the whole to 96,920.

VESSELS not Coasters, belonging to all Nations, trading Inwards and Outwards, during 1848, with the PORT of LIVERPOOL, distinguishing Sailing Vessels from Steamers, and Trading Steamers from Mail Steamers.

The Amount of TOLLS received for LIGHTHOUSES by the TRINITY HOUSE CORPORATION in the year 1847 was 198,2117; for Buors and BEACONS, 17,2617. The commission on the collection of the tolls was 7,1557. ; charge of maintenance of Lighthouses, 92,4237.; charges of Buoys and Beacons, 9,9287.; with 15,5197. for general purposes. The net surplus, 90,5717., has been applied to the "Charitable and other uses, purposes, and intents, for which the said Corporation has been established and maintained." There are in addition eleven lighthouses which have been purchased, on which a debt was due, Dec. 31, 1846, of 871,8177. the gross income from these has been 117,3687.; the charges and collection leave a surplus of 104,2257., which has been applied to the payment of interest on, and the reduction of the debt, which on Dec. 31, 1847, was 795,7487.

ACCOUNT showing the Imports into the United Kingdom of the total quantities of SUGAR, MOLASSES, RUM, COFFEE, and Cocoa, in the years 1847

and 1848.

An ACCOUNT of the number of Proof Gallons of RUM; also, of BRANDY,
GENEVA, and other FOREIGN, COLONIAL, or JERSEY SPIRITS Imported;
of the Quantities retained for Home Consumption, Exported, Shipped as
Stores, and used by the Navy, for the year ended Jan. 5, 1849.

AN ACCOUNT of the Number of Gallons of FOREIGN WINE imported, of the Quantities upon which Duty has been paid for Home Consumption, and the quantities exported; also the Quantities retained for Home Consumption, after deducting the Amount exported subsequently to the Payment of Duty, for the year ended Jan. 5, 1849.