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Some account of the
PORT OF LONDON

and of the rise and progress of the
commercial Navy of Great Britain. 1834

SOURCE: The Saturday Magazine, No. 117. Supplement, April, 1834

An idea has gone abroad, that the commerce with other parts of the world, has, for some years, been leaving London for Liverpool. This idea is wholly fallacious; for, although the trade of Liverpool is augmenting much more rapidly than that of the metropolis, yet the trade of the latter has been gradually increasing for many years, as will be seen by the subjoined return of the amount of British and Foreign tonnage, that has entered the respective ports in the years 1821 and 1831 :—

   
LONDON
 
Liverpool
 
British
Foreign
British
Foreign
1821
585,994
89,073
242,322
149,151
1831
780,988
269,159
413,928
265,037

The coasting tonnage of London is more than double the extent of the foreign: in 1826, it consisted of 20,439 vessels, of the aggregate burden of 2,441,776 tons; a large portion of this amount arises from the coal-trade; no less than 2,139,078 tons of that important necessary of life having been imported into the Thames in 1832.

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