Star.
London, England, 1829-08-28 00:00:00

BRITISH SHIPPING.

From Parliamentary Return, No. 1•Il, of th"
emnloyed in the Trade of the Unitel Kingioat, front
1514 to 1823. tS WA ans.
mum. •
Ship,. Tong.
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818
1819
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
OUTWARD.

ralttir3l.
Ships. 1 ot
5,986 599,987
5,314 746.915
3,116 379,465
3,596 445.011
6,938 762.457
4.215 1:43.684
3,472 447.611
3,261 396 956
3,389 469.151
4.069 582.946
3 653 759.441
6.968 956.132
5,789 694,116
6.046 711 8..i4
4,955 65.1,1,0

•alflsM.
Ships. Tons.
1814

Ships. Tuns.
4.622 602,941
4,701 751.377
2,579 .399.160
2,995 440.652
5.399 734,649
3,795 5.56,511
2,969 435.324
2,6'26 385.766
2.845 457,44'1
3.457 561.571
5.026 746,707
4,075 905,5:10
5,410 692,440
5,714 767,821
4,405 608,114

1815

1816

1917

1818

1819

18_'0

1 tli. 1

9,797 1,449,644

18::2

1823

9,666 1,546:976

1)424

1895

1828
1227
1228

LIVERPOOL.

DINNER TO Ain. HUSKISSON.

Thursday the Worshipful the Nlayur gave a slimier at the Ti.svr.
Hall to a party of gentkmen who were invited to meet Mr.
kisson. The evening passed ..ff with great eclat. Beattie% Mr.
Huskisson, there were tour chi r Members of Parliament
viz.—Messrs. Stauley, lieneage, Tenuyson, end Ewari.
speeches delivered on this occ.sion were numerous, interest ill;
impu tint.
Mr. Heartssos, ou his health being drunk, returned thanks 1.. 1
speech of considerable kerb. He had, he said, had the pleast re
of visiting the magnificent docks of the pot t ; and although he be-
lieved few, if any. persons were making great profits, he did 'nit
perceive any very striking outward signs of the distress under
which the merchants and ship-owners were suffering at the preset.:
period. The industrious classes seemed to be fully employed. The
dock duties were higher in A 1110,4111 than they had ever been at Var
same period in any former year. The receipts at the Custun.
house were also greater now than they had been at any pr. ceding
period. The poor's rates were lower than they had been in past
years of prosperity, and they afforded some criterion of the state
of the population. He would fain hope, therefore, that things wee,-
not so bad in this great commercial town as the representation.
the despondent would lead strangers to believe. Thr Right lint .
Gentleman stated, that having new more lei.nre than he had :dal -
merly bad, be should have it in his power to devote more of hi.
attention to the local interests of his constituents, whose weliar, t,.
should ever be his study to promote.
Mr. MiNTSON, M. P. in returning thanks for the hon'iur which
the company had conferred on bins by drinking his health, ob-
served, that he was the unfortunate author of the measure which
had led to Mr. Huskieson's retirement front the Ministry of the
Duke of Wellington.—(The proposition to transfer the right of
civilian from East Rettoed to iiirminghans.)—But he had vot the
least hesitation in saying that Mr. Huskiuon h.d acted, tau that
painful occasion, in the most patriotic and considerate manlier.—
Indeed, he could bear his testimony to the fact, that the Right
Hon. Gent. had always exerted his great talents to the utmost to
promote the interests of Liverpool.
Mr. Swam', M.P. spoke on three different occasions ; first,
when his grandfather, the Earl of Derby's health was drunk ; .e-
-condly, when his father, Lord Stanley's health was given ; and,
thirdly, when his own health, as Member for l'reston, was drunk.
In the course of his last speech, he hinted that the highest object sit
his ambition was to represent his native county in Parliament ;
an object which it was his intention to seek on the first fitting oc-
casion that offered itself.

Mr. Ewase, M. P. and Mr. Hinsmor, M.P. also addressed the
meeting on their healths being drunk.
Mr. Gummi& spoke at great length, and with considerable
ability, in returning thanks for the honour so distinguished a cons.
/any had done him in drinking his health. He delensleii Mr. Hus-
kisson's measures. If any of the evils which were said to baye
resulted from those measures had actually resulted from them, he
thought, connected as hr was with commerce and s►ipping, that
he must have been aware of theit existence. But be was satisfies,
that the distress under which the country now laboured had not
sprung from his Right Hon. Friend's measures. On the contrary,
he believed that it mainly arose from over-production and over-
trading Experience, indeed, as well as reflection, had convinced
him, that Mr. Huskisson's measures were not only wise, but, under
all the circumatinces of that period, highly politic. He had thought
it his duty to make this declaration, because be had, at one period.
been led to take an erroneous view of the measures of which their
distinguished representative was the author.
"The Corporation of bhepton " having been drunk,
The Ranosinas mse,and returned thanks, in a humorous speech,
on behalf of that body. The borough of Skepton, unlike the sill er
borough, was not troubled wah banks, except such as would pre.
vent even a steam-boat from approaching it. The Corporation of
Sbepton were more liberal than the Corporation of which the
worthy Chairman was the head; they neither charged dock nor
town dues on the merchandise brought into their jurisdiction. If
the Right Hon. Gentleman had paid the Corporation of which be
had the honour of being the Recorder, a visit, be could assure him,
that they would have exercised towards bins the usual hospitali.y
of that body.
Mr. Husicuson, in the course of a speech which be had occasion
to make, regretted that he could not do himself the honour of m-
ing a visit to the munificent and enlightened Corporation ut Shep-
ton. He was convinced, if he ever should have the pleasure of
being their guest, that they would present him with more good
things than he could well carry away—(A laugh).
So numerous and interesting were the speeches delivered ea th:s
occasion, the Mayor and his distinguished guests did not quit the
room until nearly half-past II o'clock. Some gentlemen remained
in the room a short time longer.

HA R V EST.—The weather, since our last publication,
has, with the exception of two days only, continued sn wet and
tempestuous as materially to interfere with the operations of the
harvest, and we greatly fear fur those crops which were unboused
at the commencement of this dreary weather, which gives the

season more the aspect of winter than of autumn. The accounts of
the harvest are gloomy from many parts of the country, and we
fear we may anticipate a period of extreme distress for the poor in
the coming winter.—Plystosias Pbpe►.
The Comet London coach was ups2t on Monday last.
near Epsom, and a lady who was on the outside had some ribs
broken ; the other passengers being precipttated into a ditch,
escaped with a good ducking only. The coachman had alighted
to take in a passenger, and the horses turning suddenly round. .
occasioned the accident.