GREAT BRIT 



:;77 



bole HlUnb0r Of TWieil in c":nmi--iion 88 

 >-iilin , mi.T-i. In February, 



were atloat of navnl vessels of nil 

 la and 'j-j mil steatden and all 

 :wv propellers) building, makmg in 

 id building 171, of which only one- 

 h ill' were in Ciiinini-i-ioii. Of these, 33 now 

 1 4 building wero armor-plated, of 

 ! l'i of iron :ui'l 7 of wood were third 

 iider b'Miig of smaller tonnage, 

 ilicr :H fourth or sixth rates, sloops, 

 gunboaK or floating batteries; 436 of the 

 and no new sailing-ves- 

 sels \\x-re buildiM.tr; while of those already built 

 the 88 wore mortar-vessels and floats, 

 and 7 were the old-fashioned frigates, 1 a ship- 

 ot'-the-line, and 1 a sloop-of-war. Of the ar- 

 mor-clad ships, G were of 6,000 tons or more, 

 10 of 4,000 tons and upward, 4 of 8,700 

 and upward, and the remainder of 

 various sizes, from 2,900 tons down. The 

 three largest ships in the navy, the Min- 

 otaur, Aginconrt, and Northumberland, are 

 driven bv engines of 1,350 horse-power. These 

 ships <v>Vt about 425,000 = $2,057,000 each, 

 here arc 37,015 seamen, 7,418 boys, and 16,- 

 inarines, employed in the fleet, making an 

 ivir it of 60,833 ; and 2,950 seamen and 450 

 1 4,300 officers and men ashore, 

 of the i-oa^-giiard, making a total of 77,700. 



The estimate:! expenditures for all purposes 

 in t!ie Admiralty, for the year 1867-'68, was 

 10,926,253 = $53,028,264.52, of which 9,- 

 067,758, = $43,887,948.72, was for the effective 

 service; i! 1,4">2. 519, = $7,030,190.96, was for 

 pensions, allowances, and half-pay ; and 405,- 

 976, = $1,964,923.84, was for the conveyance 

 of army troops. 



III. COMMERCE An> TRADE. 1. Imports and 



Exports. The total imports into the United 



!;>m from all quarters amounted to 295,- 



23 = 1,428,788,439.32, of which 72,206,- 



838, = $349,481,095.92, were from the British 



possessions, and 222,997,715, = $1,079,307,- 



343.40, from foreign countries. The exports 



of horn ; produce from the United Kingdom 



.'.-ere 188,827,785 = $913,926,- 



i, ofwhich53, 702,661, =$259,920,87'.'. _' !. 



were exported to the British possessions, and 



133,125,124, = $654,005.600.16, to foreign 



The exports to the United Stai 

 1866 reached the unprecedented sum of 28,- 

 484,146 = $137,863,266.64, while the importa- 

 tion from the United States amounted to 46," 

 858,284 : ^-N.765,054.56. 

 The total amount of cotton imported into 

 :>ited Kingdom in 1866 was 1,377,129,- 

 '.' ;;t; Ibs., of which only 520,057,440 Ibs. came 

 :Vo:n tho United States; 615,302,240 Ibs. from 

 ilie British Hist Indies; 118,260,800 Ibs. from 

 Kgypt; r>s,:,22, 196 Ibs. from Brazil; 11,599,280 

 Venezuela and New Grenada; from 

 the Bahamas the British West Indies, and Mex- 

 .:*28,67ti Ibs., making the entire amount 

 lV.>!ii North and Smith America and the West 

 Indies, except tho United States, 84,450,452 Ibs.; 



11. !'n i, 752 Ibs. came from tho Mediterranean, 



! in II... from China, 40,0:;2 Ibs. from Ja- 

 pan, and -J I, list. SMI II,,. irmn all oth.-r roiintrfofl. 



The export of inaiiufactiired cotton good* of 

 all kinds amounted to 74,565,426 = $860,896, 

 f.f.l.^l. laekin-r u lit ths more than $14,000,000 

 of being sntlicient to pay for the raw cotton 

 imported. 



2. >V// //////// 7. Tho number and tonnage of 

 r.-d sailinir-vc^eN eiitraged in the home 

 trade in 1866, with tho men employed thereon, 

 exclusive of masters, was 11,212 vessels, of a 

 tonnage of 818,909 tons, and employing 37,440 

 men. There were the same year, employed in 

 the same trade, 612 steam-vessels, with an ag- 

 givgati! tonnage of 147,194 tons, manned by 

 '.i,iin."i men. The sailing-vessels ,>artJy in tho 

 homo and partly in the foreign trade, the same 

 year, numbered l,546j of 278,167 tons, and 

 employing 10,055 men. The steamers in tho 

 same trade were 110, their tonnage 47,194, and 

 they employed 2,050 men. In the foreign 

 trade there were 7,454 sailing-vessels, of 3,612,- 

 973 tons aggregate, and employing 109,073 

 men ; and 784 steamers, of 553,425 tons, em- 

 ploying 28,748 men. The total number of ves- 

 sels of all kinds employed'in British commerce, 

 home and foreign or mixed, was 23,374, with 

 an aggregate tonnage of 5,778,223 tons, and 

 employing 208,476 men. 



IV. EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS. The condi- 

 tion of the United Kingdom in regard to the 

 education of the masses, though not satisfactory, 

 is improving. In Great Britain (England, Scot- 

 land, and Wales), twenty-five years ago, 32.7 

 per cent, of the men, and 48.8 per cent, of the 

 women, who were married that year, were 

 unable to write their names in signing the mar- 

 riage register ; now the percentage of each sex 

 who cannot do so is only 23 of every 100. 

 The national schools are gradually working 

 their way into popularity, and each year 

 shows an increase in the number of schools 

 and pupils. In 1866 the number of these 

 schools inspected in England and Wales was 

 7,134; the number of children who could be 

 accommodated, 1,510,721 ; the number actually 

 in attendance, 919,922, or not over one-fifth of 

 the number o children of school age. In 

 Scotland there were 1,619 primary schools in- 

 spected (exclusive of Roman Catholic schools), 

 having accommodations for 213,487, but having 

 in attendance only 1(12. 1:53, or about one-fourth 

 of the children of school age. In Ireland there 

 were 910,073 children on the rolls of the na- 

 tional schools, but only 316,225 in average ac- 

 tual attendance, or a little more than a fourth 

 of the children of school age. There are, of 

 course, in addition to these, parochial, denomina- 

 tional, private, and endowed schools, in which a 

 considerable portion of the population, mainly of 

 the middle and higher classes, receive education. 

 The Parliamentary appropriation for the year 

 ending March 81, 1866, for public education in 

 Great Britain ( not including Ireland), was 

 622,730 = $3,014,018.20 ; in the year ending 



