----------------------------------++---------------------------------- EMPLOYED IN THE HOME TRADE. || EMPLOYED IN THE FOREIGN TRADE. ----------+-----------+-----------++----------+-----------+----------- Years. | Vessels. | Tons. || Years. | Vessels. | Tons. ----------+-----------+-----------++----------+-----------+----------- 1849 | 9,610 | 719,815 || 1849 | 6,694 | 2,089,037 1850 | 9,150 | 721,153 || 1850 | 7,235 | 2,188,420 1851 | 9,266 | 764,461 || 1851 | 7,411 | 2,348,892 1852 | 9,134 | 768,409 || 1852 | 7,580 | 2,449,364 1853 | 8,851 | 774,813 || 1853 | 8,357 | 2,791,224 1854 | 8,778 | 748,714 || 1854 | 7,418 | 2,759,120 1855 | 8,590 | 748,543 || 1855 | 7,957 | 3,018,951 1856 | 9,707 | 787,476 || 1856 | 8,551 | 3,190,011 1857 | 10,064 | 860,406 || 1857 | 8,100 | 3,168,105 ----------+-----------+-----------++----------+-----------+----------- EMPLOYED PARTLY IN THE HOME AND || TOTAL NUMBER EMPLOYED. PARTLY IN THE FOREIGN TRADE. || ----------+-----------+-----------++----------+-----------+----------- 1849 | 1,917 | 287,490 || 1849 | 18,221 | 3,096,342 1850 | 1,507 | 227,639 || 1850 | 17,892 | 3,137,212 1851 | 1,507 | 247,582 || 1851 | 18,184 | 3,360,935 1852 | 1,105 | 163,111 || 1852 | 17,819 | 3,380,884 1853 | 998 | 164,050 || 1853 | 18,206 | 3,730,087 1854 | 1,211 | 221,259 || 1854 | 17,407 | 3,729,093 1855 | 1,281 | 222,676 || 1855 | 17,828 | 3,990,170 1856 | 1,012 | 178,590 || 1856 | 19,270 | 4,156,077 1857 | 1,164 | 182,971 || 1857 | 19,328 | 4,211,482 ----------+-----------+-----------++----------+-----------+----------- [190] Tonnage entered and cleared with cargoes and in ballast at ports of the UNITED KINGDOM, in 1857 and 1858 respectively. -------+------------+-----------+------------ | British. | Foreign. | Total. -------+------------+-----------+------------ 1857 | 13,691,107 | 9,484,685 | 23,178,792 1858 | 12,891,405 | 9,418,576 | 22,309,981 -------+------------+-----------+------------ Number and tonnage of SAILING and STEAM VESSELS built and registered in the United Kingdom, in 1857 and 1858. +------+----------+----------+ | | Vessels. | Tonnage. | +------+----------+----------+ | 1857 | 1278 | 250,472 | | 1858 | 1000 | 208,080 | +------+----------+----------+ [191] Total tonnage of BRITISH VESSELS entered and cleared with cargoes (_including repeated voyages_) in the months of December 1858, and January 1859, as compared with corresponding months of 1856-7-8.