and Ireland, in the year 1850-was, in England, inwards, Sailing Vessels 101,361, tonnage 8,009,681; Steam Vessels 10,782, tonnage 2,313,664, outwards, Sailing Vessels 117,073, tonnage 9,124,135; Steam Vessels 10,447, tonnage 2,264,026. Scotland:-inwards, Sailing Vessels, 16,766, tonnage 1,042,971; Steam Vessels 4,467, tonnage 983,760: outwards, Sailing Vessels 17.322, tonnage 1,028,376; Steam Vessels 4,603, tonnage 1,018,634. Ireland:-inwards, Sailing Vessels 16,403, tonnage 1,191,243; Steam Vessels 4,340, tonnage 1,303,489: outwards, Sailing Vessels 7,360, tonnage 438,532; Steam Vessels 4,534, tonnage 1,338,732. Isle of Man-inwards, Sailing Vessels 1,337, tonnage 40,094; Steam Vessels 225, tonnage 35,448: outwards, Sailing Vessels 740, tonnage 19,621; Steam Vessels 172, tonnage 24,517. COLONIAL TRADE.-The Number and Tonnage of Vessels that entered and cleared from the various Ports of Great Britain and Ireland to the British Colonial Possessions, during the year 1850, was FOREIGN TRADE.- The Number and Tonnage of Vessels that entered and cleared from the various Ports of Great Britain and Ireland, from and to Foreign Ports, during the year 1850, was Of the Steam Vessels above-named, 4 entered inwards into Ireland, and 80 into Scotland; 83 cleared out from Scotland, and none from Ireland, IRELAND, IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Of many articles, duty free, no record is kept; and where a statement is made of such, it is from nonofficial documents collected by the Customs' officers at the various ports, &c. Of the following articles there were retained for home consumption in Ireland, 515,735 gallons of wine of all sorts; 7,621,549 gallons of spirits, of which 213,463 gallons were foreign, the rest of home manufacture; 4,604,083 lbs. of tobacco; 6,410,263 lbs. of tea; 745,958 lbs. of coffee; 455,307 cwts. of raw sugar, and 5,544 cwts. of foreign refined sugar; 254,233 bushels of flax-seed and linseed; 174 tons of unwrought iron; 64,612 loads of solid timber, and 57,667 loads of sawn or split timber. The EXPORTATIONS were-to foreign countries, 475 cwts. of bacon and hams; 1,354 barrels of beef and pork; 21,179 cwts. of butter; 4,517 quarters of oats; 33,474 gallons of Irish spirits; 262,751 yards of linen; and 2,2741. entered at value: 15,482 lbs. of linen yarn; 716,346 yards of cotton manufactures; and 7031, entered at value. To England there were sent 184,616 oxen, bulls and cows; 4,462 calves; 176,945 sheep: 109,170 swine; 168,726 quarters of wheat and wheat-flour; and 1,055,388 quarters of oats and oatmeal. NUMBER and TONNAGE of VESSELS, Entered Inwards and Cleared Outwards, in the year ended Jan. 5, 1851, compared with the entries and clearances in the preceding year; stated exclusively of vessels in Ballast. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. United Kingdom and its Depen-20,292 4,390,375 18,728 4,078,544 17,169 3,762,182 17,648 3,960,764 dencies 295 60,210 354 88,289 215 57,422 295 74,965 396 55,847 402 64,732 327 42,478 394 60,917 1,013 157,739 1,272 218,329 587 82,277 732 113,335 1,885 143,480 1,787 136,594 1,708 135,454 1,830 148,669 622 126,051 1,098 224,514 1,236 114,223 2,059 240,256 631 120,226 929 179,887 1,331 134,356 1,985 225,331 858 86,615 1,029 124,034 42,215 208 36,501 226,361 2,542 212,672 18,897 144 22,611 6,480 62 7,414 84,371 360 97,693 STEAM VESSELS.--On Jan. 1, 1851, there were 1,181 steam vessels on the register in the United Kingdom, of which the tonnage, exclusive of engine-room, was 167,398: of these vessels 170 were iron, and 31 were propelled by the screw. WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN, imported, exported, and retained for home consumption, in the years 1849 and 1850.-We have repeated that for wheat in 1849 (given in Companion to Almanac for 1851, at p. 153), as the present return is the corrected one, the previous one having to a small extent been over-entered. The meal in all cases is reckoned in quarters. 1849. Foreign. Colonial. Total Foreign. Colonial. Total. Wheat and Flour 4,643,869 158,606 4,802,475 5,421,873 170,721 5,592,594 Barley and Barley Meal. 1,381,074 Oats and Oatmeal 1,268,804 1,381,074 1,544,888 23,903 1,292,707 1,351,783 1,544,888 23,800 1,375,583 The aggregate quantities returned by the corn inspectors as sold in 1850 in the towns from which the averages are computed were, wheat, 4,688,246 quarters; barley, 2,235,271 quarters; oats, 866,082 quarters. The average prices for the year were, wheat, 40s. 3d. per quarter; barley, 23s. 5d. per quarter; oats, 16s. 5d. per quarter. Of the wheat imported, the largest quantities were from France, 1,145,405 quarters; Prussia, 835,650 quarters; Russia, 638,614 quarters; United States, 537,031 quarters: Sweden and Norway contributed 356 quarters; our East Indian possessions sent 689 quarters; our Australian settlements, 14,584 quarters; and British North America, 80,394 quarters. The wheat and wheat-flour exported from France in 1849 was 574,960 quarters of wheat, 1,842,623 cwts. of flour; in 1850 it was 795,333 quarters of wheat, and 3,072,923 cwts. of flour. Three cwts. of flour is nearly equivalent to a quarter of wheat. WHEAT AND OATS, IRELAND.-The highest yearly average price of wheat in Ireland during the seven years from May 1, 1839, to May 1, 1851, was in 1839, when it was 39s. 8d. per barrel; the lowest in 1849-50, when it was 21s. 9d. The highest price of oats was in 1846-7, when they were 18s. 7d. per barrel; the lowest in 1843-44, when they were 9s. 9d. per barrel. The average price of wheat for the seven years has been 30s. 9d. per barrel; the average price of oats for the same period, 12s. 6d. per barrel. WHEAT.--Quantities of WHEAT and FLOUR imported from France into Great Britain and Ireland during each of the following years:— PROVISIONS IMPORTED.--The quantity of GRAIN, MEAL OF FLOUR and LIVE STOCK imported into the United Kingdom was as follows (the meal or flour is reduced to its equivalent in quarters): PROVISIONS, IRELAND.-In the year 1849 there were imported into Ireland from foreign countries 2,115,129 quarters of grain, and 256,837 cwts. of meal and flour; from Great Britain there was imported 616,157 quarters of grain, and 212,679 cwts. of meal and flour. In 1850 there were imported from foreign countries 1,683,687 quarters of grain, and 220,107, cwts. of flour; from Great Britain, 508,859 quarters of grain, and 347,233 cwts. of flour. In every case the grain was chiefly wheat and Indian corn, and the meal wheat-meal or Indian corn-meal. In the same years Ireland exported to Great Britain, in 1849, 844,504 quarters of grain; 1,176,920 cwts. of meal and flour; 201,811 oxen, bulls and cows; 9,831 calves; 241,061 sheep and lambs; and 68,053 swine: in 1850, 751,146 quarters of grain; 1,055,241 cwts. of meal and flour; 184,616 oxen, bulls and cows; 4,462 calves; 176,945 sheep and lambs; and 109,170 swine. BEEF, PORK, AND BACON.-Of these, in 1850, there were imported 135,414 cwts. of beef, salted or fresh; 211,254 cwts. of pork, salted or fresh; and 336,322 cwts. of bacon. BUTTER.-330,579 cwts. of butter were imported in 1850, of which 319,854 cwts. were admitted for home consumption. CHEESE. In the year ending Jan. 5, 1851, there were imported 268,911 cwts. of cheese from foreign European countries; 78,707 cwts. from the United States of America; and 184 cwts. from British Colonial Possessions; total, 347,802 cwts. Of this quantity, 4,301 cwts. were re-exported. PRICES OF BEEF AND MUTTON.-The prices paid at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1850 were, for both half-years ending Lady-day and Michaelmas, 2s. 8d. per stone for beef, and 3s. 4d. per stone for mutton. SUGAR, MOLASSES, RUM, COFFEE, and COCOA, imported into the United Kingdom from British Possessions in the years 1849 and 1850. |