TABLE, No. 16. TRADE OF EAST INDIES-(2. FLAGS). TONNAGE of SHIPPING Entered and Cleared in BRITISH INDIA, distinguishing BRITISH, AMERICAN, and FRENCH Ships, from 1837 to 1881. Madras, and Bombay only. The following represent the trade of British India. Engaged in foreign trade only. + Eleven months only. Engaged in coasting trade only. Including tonnage of foreign shipping engaged in the coasting trade to the amount of 210,727 in 1867, 188,491 in 1868, 230,080 in 1869, 209,406 in 1870, 192,794 in 1871, 183,192 in 1872, 390,809 in 1873, 326,615 in 1874, 349,338 in 1875, 363,376 in 1876, 536,077 in 1877, 500,116 in 1878, 335,515 in 1879, and 277,732 in 1880. ¶ The enormous increase of late years in the Coasting Trade is attributed to previous returns not having usually included the intercourse between Ports in the same Presidency. **The figures for the Coasting Trade in the year 1881 are as yet incomplete. NUMBER and TONNAGE of SHIPS that Cleared under the PASSENGERS ACTS from the UNITED KINGDOM to Ports out of Europe, from 1853 to 1881, distinguishing BRITISH from FOREIGN SHIPS, and showing the Number of PASSENGERS Carried by them respectively, and the COUNTRIES to which they Proceeded. TABLE, No. 18. APPRENTICES. NUMBER OF APPRENTICES' INDENTURES Enrolled, and the Number Cancelled in each Year, from 1845 to 1881. * A circular was sent in 1878 with a view to ascertain the number of apprentices actually employed. The result shows that 1,616 apprentices, not accounted for under the "Cancellations, Deaths, and Expirations" heading, have deserted; the probability is that the bulk of the indentures of these apprentices may be regarded as practically, though not legally, cancelled. The large increase in the number of cancellations, &c., may also be attributed to the issue of the above-mentioned circular. TABLE, No. 19. SEAMEN'S WAGE S. RATES of WAGES (per Month) of ABLE SEAMEN in various Trades, in the Ports of Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Note.—The above rates of wages have been obtained from the books kept by the Superintendents of Mercantile Marine at the several ports mentioned (except in the case of Liverpool where no record is kept, and where the Superintendent makes his report from the knowledge of the deputies engaged in shipping crews). In reply to special inquiries as to the recent practice of the superintendents in preparing the information, it is stated that the "average rates of wages have been taken at Glasgow and South Shields, and the rates that have prevailed, with but little fluctuation, at London, Liverpool, Bristol, and North Shields. As a rule it is noticed that there are few fluctuations in the prevailing rates in the years 1875, 1876, and 1877; where there have been fluctuations, the extreme highest rates and the extreme lowest rates have been stated. |