350 



GKEAT BRITAIN. 



GREAT EASTERN. 



tons burthen, to be fully plated, and were ex- Rusgia hern } Cwt - 4 



pectedto attain a speed of 14 knots an hour; g wc d en (ports within the Baltic) 70 



none of them are yet completed. The second (ports without the Baltic) g,824 



class, of which the Warrior, Achilles, and the Pmssia 515 



Black Prince are completed, are partially plated, Hanover 92 



and have a speed of 14 knots. The third class gjJR '.'. . '.'.'. !!!!!!!"!! '.'.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'.'. ! ! ! ! l'5 



are 4,060 tons burthen, with a speed of 12 knots. Holland 8,307 



They are fully plated. The fourth class are Belgium 4,270 



3 668 tons, fully plated, and will have a speed France (ports without the Mediterranean).. . . 8,393 



of n.46 knots. The fifth class were begun as p ^<f$ f. m . * " 0) ;!!!!;;!!:!!!!!;; ,21 



wooden line-of-battle ships, but are to be fully ,< * Azores 2^950 



plated. Their tonnage is 4,045 tons. Two of Spain (ports within the Mediterranean) 295 



them have engines of 1,000 horse-power, and Italy Sicily 1,288 



are expected to make 12.41 knots an hour ; the IHyria, Croatia, and Dalmatia 



other two have engines of 800 horse-power, and greec'e. '. '. '. 1 ". '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '.!!!'.! '. '. '. !!!!!!!!!!!! '415 



will have a speed of 11 knots. Turkish dominions European Turkey 



The Raihcays of Great Britain. The fol- Natolia, or Asia Minor 



lowing statistics of British railways give some Syria and Palestine . 



idea of the magnitude of the railway interest ^ **^f%S!SS&]i\ ' 



The number of miles of rail track is, m round Western Coast of Africa (not particularly 



numbers, 10,000; the number of employees designated) 1,389 



100,000 ; the capital invested, $1,750,000,000 ; St. Helena 819 



the annual revenue, $140,000,000. The nurn- British possessions in South Africa- 



ber of locomotives is 6,000 ; of passenger cars, gaL>f Good H P e 6 > 



15,000; of freight cars and trucks, 180,000. Mauritius!.'..'!!... 7,288 



The number of miles run in 1861, 195,000,000; India (British possessions) Bombay 8,081,777 



the number of cattle and other animals con- Madras 175,682 



veyed, 12,600,000 ; the amount of freight, 90,- " f f^re 



000,000 tons, for the carriage of which $75,- Ceylon ...!'.'..!'.'.'.! '. '. '.!'.'.'.!'.'.'. 36,633 



000,000 was paid. India French possessions 703 



Factory Statistics of Great Britain and Ire- Philippine and Ladrone Islands 12 



land. In 1861, there were in the United King- New South Wales 9 



dom 6,378 factories, containing 36 450,000 spin- fcgSnd Cape' BrVton. !!!!'. :'.'.: :'.!!! l|8? 



dies, and 490,866 power looms, which required Bermudas 90 



the services of 230,564 hand-loom weavers. Bahamas and Turk's Islands 7 



The whole number of hands employed in these St. Christopher 



factories was 775,534, of whom 308,273 were M t y-St 486 



males, and 407,201 females ; an average of 121 Barbadoes. ......!.!!!.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 352 



hands to each factory. The aggregate power Grenada. ..!.!!!!!!.'!!!.'!!!.'.!!!!!..! 671 



required for driving the machinery was 404,- Tobago 



633 horse-power. In England and Wales there Trinidad ... V 



were 5,652 factories, employing 642,607 hands ; c^T." . .! S .T. ..'::!!.\'!!:.\'.\':!!!! 6 



in Ireland, 158 factories, employing 37,872 per- p or to Rico'.'. ..!...!...!'.'.'.!..!!.'.!!.!.!!!! 108 



sons ; in Scotland, 568 factories, with 95,055 St. Thomas 1 



operatives. Lancashire is the great manufac- Dutch Guiana. ....... . 



turing hive of England, having 2,144 fac- Hayti and the Domimcan Republic ...... 4,88G 



rr> nftr HV\O ji j n/tn *ni United States of America on the Atlantic 



tones, 22,067,703 spindles, and 363,531 power- Northern States 570,531 



looms. Southern States 6,746,438 



Newspaper Statistics of the British Isles. At New Granada ports in the Atlantic 1,385 



the close of the year 1861, there were published P eru :- ist'sTa 



in the United Kingdom 1,165 newspapers a s^rfth^A^T&i'eCoifed^tioa::":' 81 



little more than double the number published T , . d d rf h cwtg n^pTS 



in 1851. Of these, 845 were issued in Eng- 

 land; 33 in Wales; 139 in Scotland; 134 in GREAT EASTERN", STEAMER. This steam- 

 Ireland ; 14 in the islands of the British Seas, er was built at London and launched in the year 

 In England there were 43 daily papers ; 1 in 1859. She is estimated at 20,000 tons burthen, 

 Wales; 9 in Scotland ; 16 in Ireland; and 2 in and is propelled by paddles on her sides and a 

 the British Islands. Beside these, there are 516 screw at her stern. Her hull is made of iron ; 

 magazines and reviews, of which 213 are of a her masts are iron cylinders, and her main 

 decidedly religious character. shrouds are composed of iron wire. Her 



Importation of Cotton in 1861. The following length is 680 feet, and the breadth of beam 82$ 



table gives the entire importation of cotton into feet. 



the United Kingdom during the year 1861, dis- This great ship, after leaving the Mersey, 



tinguishing the countries from which it was England, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of 



imported. The whole quantity was equivalent Tuesday the 10th of September, bound to New 



to 2,809,277 American bales : York, proceeded all well until the afternoon of 



