The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

SHIPPING STATISTICS.

According to thestatistics of vessels entered inwards,
the port of London shows an increase of 95 vessels, with
52,210 tonnage, the difference between 609 vessels with
304,412 tonnage in 1851, and 704 vessels with 356,622
tonnage in 1852. The return for Liverpool exhibits a
decrease of 63 vessels with 27,425 tonnage, the number
for 1851 being 366 vessels with 136,494 tonnage, and for
1852 203 vessels with 109,069 tonnage. Bristol and
Hull present an increase of 22 vessels with 9,083 ton-
nage, the difference between 8 vessels with 3,530 ton-
nage in 1851, and 30 vessels with 11,613 tonnage in
1852. The decrease in the return for the Clyde is 14
vessels with 4,777 tonnage, the number in 1851 having
been 60 vessels with 22,635 tonnage, and in 1852 46
vessels with 17,835 tonnage. The total result of the
return of vessels entered inwards exhibits an increase of
vessels with 28,091 tonnage, the difference between 943
vessels with 467,071 tonnage in 1851, and 983 vessels
with 495,162 -tonnage in 1852. The chief increase has
been in the arrival of vessels from Calcutta, Mauritius,
China, and New South Wales.
The return of vessels cleared outwards shows an in-
crease in the case of the port of London .of 94 vessels
with 66,630 tonnage, the difference between 548 vessels
with 276,230 tonnage in 1851, and 642 vessels with
342,560 tonnage in 1852. Liverpool presents an in-
crease of 66 vessels with 61,714 tonnage, the number in
1851 having been 310 vessels with 165,842 tonnage, and
in 1852 376 vessels with 227,556 tonnage. Bristol and
Hull exhibit a decrease of three vessels with 1,265 ton-
nage, the difference between six vessels with 3,259 ton-
nage, and three vessels with 1,994 tonnage. In the
case of the Clyde there is a decrease of two vessels, with
an increase of 2,596 tonnage, the figures for 1851 being
87 vessels with 38,818 tonnage, and for 1852 85 vessels
with 41,414 tonnage. The total increase represented by
the return of ships cleared outwards is 155 vessels, with
129,375 tonnage, the difference between 951 vessels with
484,149 tonnage in 1851, and 1,106 vessels with 613,524
tonnage in 1852. The great increase, as was to have
been anticipated, arises in the case of vessels that have
sailed for New South Wales since the emigration which
has set in during the last six months ; but the departures
for China, Java, and Sumatra, also show an increase.
The decrease, on the other hand, has been in the clear-
ances of vessels for Calcutta, Bombay, Singapore, and
Mauritius.

Too BAD REALM—Printers have the character of
making errors in printing and then querying them for
the purpose of displaying their sagacity. Not being in
the craft, we cannot say if this is a fact or a fable, but
certainly they do occasionally commit extraordinary out-
rages on plain writing and common sense. Neither do
they seem to care on whom the errors fall. Majesty
herself is not exempt from them. In this journal our
railway king was like to come in for it once. We had
written " Mr. Hudson goes down to Newby-park to-
to-day with a clean sheet," meaning that he had closed
his speculative accounts. "Sheet," the blundering or
wicked compositor had rendered shirt, thereby saying
that Mr. Hudson went to Newby with a clean "shirt,"
as if it was a rarity for him to wear one.—Herapath,.
THE FLOODS IN PARIS.—The Seine has risen, in con-
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