The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

SHIPPING.

Return-, have been published relative to the shippieg
registered dating the year ending December 31, 1850.
In .F.n-land the number of sailing-vessels registered
was as follow.: -Under 50 tons 6,675, tonnage 202,424;
above 50 tons 11,718, tonnage 2,410,160. In Scotland
1,278 sailing-vessels under 50 tons were registered,
amounting in tonnage to 38,531; and above 50 tons 2,154,
equal to a total tonnage of 452,864. In Ireland the
numbers were 1,057 under 50 tons, tonnage 29,570;
above 50 tons 1,098, tonnage 204,183. In the Isle of Man
the sailing•vessels registered were, under 50 tons 315,
tonnage 7,471; above 50 tons 37, tonnage 2,815. In
Guernsey under 50 tons 31, tonnage 949; above 50
tons 110, tonnage 15,547. In Jersey, under 50 tons 158,
tonnage 3.881; above 50 tons 188, tonnage 28,396. The
steam-vessels registered were-in England 470 under
50 tons, total burden 11,423; above 50 tons 425, total
burden 97,283; in Scotland 38 under 50 tons, total bur-
den 1,064; above 50 tons 131; total burden 29,763; in
Ireland 12 under 50 tons, total burden 398; above 50
tons 102, total burden 27,281; in the Isle of Man and
the Channel Islands 7 steamers above 50 tons were re-
gistered, amounting in tonnage to 1,130.
The number of vessels that entered and cleared coast-
wise, including their repeated voyages, is thus enume-
rated :-Inwans-Its England 101,361 sailing-vessels,
tonnage 8,009,681, and 10,782 steamers, tonnage
2,313,664; in Scotland, 16,766 sailing-vessels, ton-
nage 1,042,971, and 4,467 steamers, tonnage 983,760;
in Ireland, 16,403 sailing-vessels, tonnage 1,191,243,
steamers,sailing
tonnage 1,303.489 ; in the
and
de
of4,M34anl,337vessels, tonnage 40,094, and
225 steamers?, tonnage 35,448. Outwards-In England
117,073 sailing, and 10,447 steam-vessels, tonnage
9,124,135, and 2,264,026. In Scotland 17,322 sailing
a70d18,64,603
Instleraetlna-nvreb , tonnage 1,028,376 and
1
7,360 sailing and 4,534 steam-
vessels, tonnage 438,532 and 1,338,732. In the Me of
Man 740 sailing and 172 steam-vessels, tonnage 19,621
and 24,517.
The movement of sailing vessels engaged the colonial
trades
es in :._England, 4,264 British
v
inward,asas follows
nage, 1,258,478,
esl our
entered ports was
outwardsa,ii 3,9.12 d 214
foreign, tonnage 72,178; cleared
British, tonnage 1,135,734; and 233 foreign,
tox-
nage 73,233; Scotland entered inwards, 514 British
and 8 foreign,: tonnage 178,574 and 3,778; cleared
outwards, 508 British, 12 foreign, tonnage 171,626
and 3,029; Ireland entered inwards 318 British and
15 foreign, tonnage 90,012 and 6,129; cleared outwards
248 British and 57 foreign, tonnage 68,626 and 16,082;
Isle of Man and Channel Islands entered 30 British ves-
sels and no foreign, tonnage 4,004; cleared 73 British,
tonnage 9,482. The total number of steam-vessels en-
gaged in the colonial trade, entered inwards at our ports,
was 399, tonnage 73,249, and of those cleared outwards
369, tonnage 72,267, all being British vessels.
The number of sailing-vessels engaged in foreign trade
which entered inwards and cleared outwards at our
ports (including repeated voyages) is as follows;--
England entered inwards 10,811 British vessels and
11,244 foreign, tonnage 1,868,088 and 1,767,567;
cleared outwards 11,076 British and 13,159 foreign,
tonnage 2,110,924 and 2,041,295; Scotland entered
1,510 British and 1,834 foreign, tonnage 223,278
and 185,578; cleared 1,738 British and 1,799
foreign, tonnage 282,752 and 195,793; Ireland entered
1,016 British and 871 foreign, tonnage 155,000 and
169,288; cleared 433 British and 704 foreign, tonnage
96,497 and 130,588; Isle of Man and Channel Islands
entered 1,148 British and 330 foreign, tonnage 43,529
and 24,720; cleared 1,230 British and 278 foreign, ton-
nage 40,260 and 19,709. The steam-vessels entered
and cleared at our ports to and from foreign ports
were :-Inwards, 3,877 British, and 959 foreign; tonnage,
853,520 and 204,759; outwards, 3,705 British, and 936
foreign; tonnage, 803,919 and 202,133. These numbers
exchn-k. the Lie of Man and the Channel Islands. The
first receive no steamers engaged in foreign trade, and
for the latter the numbers are 194 British and 9 foreign
entered, tonnage 18,430 and 639; cleared 195 British, 5
foreign, tonnage 18,593 and 355.
The number of sailing vessels built and registered
during 1850 was 610 timber, tonnage 117,033 and 11 iron,
tonnage 2,078; and of steam-vessels 18 timber, tonnage
3,862; and 50 iron, tonnage 10,722. There were sold
and transferred 2.261 sailing and 95 steam-vessels,
amounting in tonnage respectively to 351,012 and 15,148.
The number of British vessels wrecked was 692, tonnage
127,188, four of which were steamers, whose total
burden amounted to 1,462; and there were broken
up 119 sailing-vessels, amounting in burden to 4,850 tons,
and 10 steamers, the tonnage of which equalled 946.
The number of colonial-built vessels registe' ad in the
ports of the United Kingdom was 33, amounting in
burden to 19,382. The colonies furnishing them were
Newfoundland, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
and Prince Edward's Island. There were also 57 foreign-
built vessels registered in our ports, amounting in ton-
nage to 10,499.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Rotarn of
Traffic for the week ending April 6:—
Passengers, parcels, Ecc. ... £23,813 16 10
Merchandise ... 18,`29117 3
Cattle ... ... 901 17 9

Total ... ... ... £43,027 11 10
Corresponding week last year 44,019 13 8

Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the
traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North
Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and
Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor-
tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North
Staffordshire Company.
NORTH STAFFOIIDSHIIIN RAILWAY. (Miles open, 112.)-.•
Return of traffic for the week ending April 8
Railway and canal ... £4,813 0 0 •
Corresponding week last year ... 4,401 0 0
Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts available
under the agreement with the London and North-Western
Railway Company.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—'Traffic for week ending April 6 ....C15,154 9 3
Corresponding week in last, year, (224
miles open) .. ...£11,827 19 11
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY....TraffiC for the
week ending April 6:—

MAIN LINE.

Passengers ...
Parcels, IL C. and D. ...
Goods, cattle, &c.
Mails

... £904 14 5
... 58 7 7

... ... 468 10 2
111111 0116, 575 0 0

Total .. ... ... £2,006 12 2
MOLD.

Passengers ... .£3318 2
Parcels, H. C. and D. 1 19 2
Goods, cattle, &c. ... 70 11 10

Total ...

... £lO6 9 2

STEAM-BOATS.

Passengers ... Rll3 8 10
Parcel, H. C. and. D. 14 0 7

Total ... ... £127 9 5
LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY. —Al3lOllllt of revenue
for the week ending April 6:—
PaFrengzrs Z 896 9 1
Goods ••• •• ••• ••• 21 10 0

Total ... ••• £917 19 1
Corresponding week last year 802 1 4

N:tFterrntiOoFn to the duties
BEN-
TUN. —E tTA
litr. Y.-LANn
Benton, Twill]
oEsAeTaR:
id—uoßit:
of the free-list office has won for him the a i approb t. on of all
who have known him there, takes his be •
neht to-morrow
night, when, no doubt, the attendance f
o his friends
will prove that they duly appreciate the civility
atten-
tion which they have always
experienced at his hands.
VACANCY AT THE NATIONAL G
situation of housekeeper to this ILLERY.—The
i
vacant, by the sudden decease of Anstitution has become
rs. Braybrooke, the late
occupant. I
Industry nod economy will get rich while sagacity
and intrigue are laying their pl
OMNIBUS Sans.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
RENANTe PROVIDENT SOCIETY.-0a
Tuesday night a crowded
friends of this institu • meeting of the memlsers and
Robert Grosvenor in institution was held at Exeter Hall, Lord
from his Lordship on the echair. After a few observations
objects of the meeting, the secre-
tary read the report, which stated that the society was
formed by Mr. Sculley, by whose
perseverance, although
it had only been established two years, the funds amountedto nine hundred pounds. 'h T ere were several noblemen
and gentlemen contributors to the funds,
as well as omni-
bus -*
proNietors, and it had so far increased
tion that Prince Albert, through his secretary, Colonel
Phipps, and only last Monday week, forwarded to Mr.
Sculley a cheque on Messrs, Coutts for 25/. in aid of
the society. At the conclusion of the report, gis Lordship
said he had on being requested to preside considered the
matter, and from inquiries made had come to the deter-
mination to consent, believing that no other class of
men had been so much maligned, • were so hardly
worked, and were better worthy of suPPort. There were
no less than 3,001) omnibuses runtang, employing about
11,000 men, and Sir Charles Wood, who no doubt would be
a subscriber to the funds of the society, in his budget,stated
carriage
that there was paid to the revenue as hackney '
duty
for the number of omnibuses he had named, no less sum
a
than 400,0001. Besides this, wages Were to be paid,
vehicles
and horses bought and fed, groomed, and shod, together with
numberless incidental expenses, which no less
a sum than
2,000,000/. a year, paid by the public for om •
could meet. He highlY approvedrebus
of the society,which travelling,
he
should henceforward himself support, and endeavour
to make
his friends do likewise- Mr. n
, —Wen, Me Joseph
several other gentlemen navin _
g addressed the Payne, and
urged the notice of the society upon the meeting, and
public, the Rev. Dr.
Ainslie moved the adoption of the report, which was carried
unanimously,• and several resolutions
objects in view of pass " Metro
, poll
.. in furtherance of the
tan Omnibus Servants Be-
nefit Society" wereed.
Chairman, who having fhanks were voted to the Noble
meeting separated. acknowledged the compliment, the
AN APOLOGY WHICH WAS SADLY NEEDED.—The
present
Ministry
being a good e is, as every one knows, a long way from
Ministry • but still it is the best of its kind, for
it Inuit be confessed ib'et
hopes it will yet go further—it fiatrils it has gone—and we have
has proved itself in every
re-
spect, e A n Out-and-Out M. • inistry. Punch.
Irin -
EWLEtt, VICTUALLERS, &C.—Prom a return
printed by order of the House of Commons, it appears that
in England the numle.r of brewers is 2,281, and of victuallers
59,676. 35,e08 persons are licensed to sell beer to be drunk
en the premises, and 3,350 are licensed to sell beer not to be
drunk on the premises. 25,851 victuallers brew their own
beer; 12,497, who brew their own beer, are licensed to sell it
i if drunk on the premises ; and 951 persons are allowed to
I sell beer not to be drunk on the premises. The amount of
follows:
malt consumed by each eless is, in bushels, as
Brewers, 17,800,683; victuallers, :,154,519; persons licensed
to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, 2,854,249; and
persons licensed to :ell beer not to be drunk on the premises.
341,875. In Scotland there are 151 brewers, and 14,971
victuallers, 178 of whom brew their own beer. The brewers
consume 831,981 bushels of malt, ad the victuallers con.
some 118,024 eukliele. There are 95 brewers in Ireland, who
consume 1,164,702 bushels of malt, and there are 13,793
victuallers.
As EDITORIAL DILEMMA.—An editor in the
western part of Michigan is in a fix. He dunned a subscriber
for his subscription, which he refused to pay, and threat
ened to flog the editor if he stopped the paper.--N York
etc
Courier.