British ships in French and Spanish ports. policy would fully justify retaliation, more especially in the case of France and Spain; but the results exhibited in the appended Return[1] show that the trade transferable, by any such measure, from foreign to British ships was comparatively so small, as neither to operate as an inducement to the countries in question to relax their present system, nor to afford any material addition to British shipping. Another Return,[2] also, showing the total amount of British tonnage
- ↑ Table showing the total amount of French and Spanish tonnage
which entered and cleared in the United Kingdom in the indirect trade,
viz., trade with other countries than France and Spain respectively in
each year, from 1853 to 1857 inclusive:—
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| Entered. | Cleared. | Total.
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France 1853 | 23,554 | 85,052 | 108,606
" 1854 | 23,284 | 122,763 | 146,047
" 1855 | 24,094 | 55,164 | 79,258
" 1856 | 21,618 | 79,288 | 100,906
" 1857 | 36,401 | 125,775 | 162,176
| | |
Spain 1853 | 11,606 | 20,085 | 31,691
" 1854 | 18,681 | 14,068 | 32,749
" 1855 | 6,180 | 8,883 | 15,063
" 1856 | 8,200 | 4,810 | 13,010
" 1857 | 12,720 | 10,373 | 23,093
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| Entered. | Cleared. | Total.
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France 1853 | 35,160 | 23,367 | 58,527
" 1854 | 33,955 | 47,709 | 81,664
" 1855 | 104,147 | 127,630 | 231,777
" 1856 | 198,842 | 152,919 | 351,761
" 1857 | 66,845 | 46,383 | 113,228
| | |
Spain 1853 | 24,967 | 109,591 | 134,558
" 1854 | 67,051 | 123,373 | 190,424
" 1855 | 91,416 | 105,166 | 196,582
" 1856 | 52,030 | 102,663 | 154,693
" 1857 | | |
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