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

SHIPPING.

Returns have been published relative to the shipping
registered during the year ending December 31, 1850.
In England the number of sailing-vessels registered
was as follows:-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 (Allan
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 thin enume-
rated :--Inwards--Ia 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,
and 4 340 steamers, tonnage 1,303,489 ; in the
Isle of Man 1,337 sailing vessels, tonnage 40,094,
117,073 ,aili and
225 steamers, tonnage 35,448. Outwaros-In al gland
Bailin und 10,447 steam-vessels, tonnage
9,124,135, and 2,264026. In Scotland 17,322 sailing
and 4,603 steans-vessels, tonnage 1,028,376 and
1,018,634. In Ireland 7,360 sailing and 4,534 steam-
vessels, tonnage 438,532 and 1,338,732. In the Isle of
Man 740 sailing and 172 steam-vessels, tonnage 19,621
and 24,517.
The movement of sailing vessels engaged the colonial
gland, 4,264 British
vtreasdseelisn oeunrteproerdts
ivinavisaarsdfoltleonwnsa:g-e,E7
,259,478, and 214
foreign, tonnage 72,171; cleared outwards, 3,912
British, tonnage 1,135,734; and 233 foreign, toa-
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 aad 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-vessel' 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 223,279
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 porta
were :-Inwards, 3,877 British, and 959 foreign; tonnage,
853,520 and 204,759; outwards, 3,705 British, and 936
foreign; tonnage, 103,919 and 202,133. These numbers
exclude the Isle 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,
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 registered 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-WI:STERN RAILWAY.—Retuni •f
Traffic for the week ending April 6 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ....£23,633 16 10
Merchandise ... ... 18,291 17 3
Cattle ... 901 17 9

Total ... Z 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 STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.— (Miles open, 112. )
Return of traffic tor the week ending April 8 :
Railway and canal ._ ....E4,813 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.

LANCASIIIIIE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 Miles
open.)—Traffic for week ending April 6 ....C15,154 9 3
Corresponding week in lag, year, (24
miles open) .. ...£11,827 19 11
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending April 6:—

MAIN LINE.

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

... .£904 14 5
... 58 7 7

... ... 468 10 2
... ... 575 0 0

Total

•-•
MOLD.

Passengers ... ...
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...
Goods, cattle, &c. ...

... £2,00G 12 2

Total

... £33 18 2
... 1 19 2
... 70 11 10

... £lO6 9 2

•••
STEAM-BOATS.

Passengers .
Parcels, H. C. and D.

••• £ll3 8 10

.£127 9 5
LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAT.—Amount of reTentle
for the week ending April 6:—
Passengers
Goods

14 0: 7

Total

... Z 696 9 1
21 10 0
••• •••

Total ... £917 'l9 1
Corresponding week last year SO2 1 4

TII>yATES•--BENEFIT
attention
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D—CANS
To. .the free-list office has won for him the approbation of all
who have known him there, takes his benefit to-morrow
- Benton,AN B
TwilhoEsAeTaEsEsid-2uEs
night, when, no doubt, the attendance of his friends
will prove that they duly appreciate the civility and atten-
tion which they have always experienced at his hands.
VACANCY AT THE NATIONAL GALLERT.—Th•
situation of housekeeper to this institution has become
vacant, by the sudden decease of Mrs. Braybrooke, the late
occupant.

Industry and economy will get rich while sagacity
and intrigue are laying their plans. —Eliza Cook's Jouraul.
OMNIBUS SERVANTS' PROVIDENT SOCIETT.—On
Tuesday night a crowded meeting of the members and
friends of this institution was held at Exeter Hall, Lord
Robert Grosvenor in the chair. After a few observations
from his Lordship on the 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 amounted
to nine hundred pounds. There were several noblemen
and gentlemen contributors to the funds, as
well
as
s7T.':
bus proprietors, and it had so far increased in public e
colonel
tion that Prince Albert, through his secretary,
A to Mr.
Phipps, and only last Monday week, forwarded
in aid of
Sculley a cheque on Messrs. Coutts for ~
ensidered the
said he had on being requested to preside the society. At the conclusion of the report 2; his Lordship
no
_e_ther class of
w the deter-
There
matter, and from inquiries made had come
ohis_budget,
satbaote:
mination to consent, believing that
,oginn doubt would be
men had been so much maligned,
worked, and were better worthy 0 .r,
_, employing
11,000 men, and Sir Charles Ivo°.
no less than 3,000 omnibuses_ _,,rculnewtri
venue as hackney carriage duty
su support. There so
hardly
that there was paid to the re
be
A subscriber to the funds of thwea
society,
were to be pnaoidlem, vehicles
and had named,
for the number of omnibuses
groomed,_t.acti. d shod, together with
than 400,000/. Besides tbiSv
no less a sum than
nanudmhboerrsleesssbionuegidhetnatanid fed, _
_,
paid by the public for omnibus travelling,
exPe"ll
h
ably approved of the society, which he
2,000,000/. a vearthPig
could meet. Ile - ' self
kewise. Mr. Owen, Mr. Joseph Payne, and
should henceforward Win suPPort, and endeavour to make
his friends do h
several other gentlemen having addressed the meeting, and
urged the notice of the society upon the public, the Rev. Pr.
Ainslie moved the adoption of the report, which was carried
0„17, and several resolutions in furtherance of the
nun
view of the " Metropolitan Omnibus Servants Be-
Iliiisc
t.is i a
net society" were passed. Thanks were voted to the Noble
Chairman, who having acknowledged the compliment, the
meeting separated.

AN APOLOGY WHICH WAS SADLY NEBDED.—The
is, as every
g a good Ministry ; but still
it must be
present Ministry oneit kisnothwes,besa
tloonigitws
kaiyndf,rofon;
being
confessed thratti: as far as it has gone—and we have
hopes it will ve
" A n Out-and-Out
further
-OutelliTniit
has
_proved itself in every re-
spect,stry."—Puneb.
BREWERS, VICTUALLERS, SCC.—Froul a return
irintieldba3n'otrh de nerooobiftlieer o llt brewersouse'ofczz, it appears that
n Printed
England
and of victuallers
59,676. 35,808 persons are licensed to sell beer to be drunk
on the premises, and 3,350 are licensed to sell beer not to be
drunk on the premises. :23,851 victuallers brew their own
beer ; 12,497, who brew their own beer, are licensed to sell it
if drunk on the premises; and 951 persons are allowed to
sell beer not to be drunk on the premises. The amount of
malt consumed by 6401 class is, in bushels, as follows :
Brewers, 17,800,683; victuallers, 7,154,519; persons licensed
to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, 2,884,249; and
persons licensed to cell beer not to be drunk on the premise
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, and the victuallers con-
sume 118,024 bushels. There are 95 brewers in Ireland, who
consume 1,164,702 bushels of malt, and there are 13,793
victuallers.
AN EDITORIAL DILEMMA.—An editor in the
western part of Michigaa is in a fix. He dunned a subscriber
for his subscription, which he refused to pay, and threat-
ened to flog the editor if be stopped the Asper.—Au
Corigt York