412
SHANGHAI.
The total Shipping, entrances and clearances, for the year were-
Steamers
failing Vessels
3,869 941
4,810
Tonnage Tonnage
...
...
***
3,679,731 237,444
3,917,178
Of which 155 steamers and 26 sailing vessels entered, and 295 steamers and 78 sailing vessels cleared in ballast. The total carrying trade was divided amongst the different flags as under :—
British
Steamers.
2,321
American
German...
471
Tonnage. Sailing. Tonnage. Total. Tonnage, 2,212,017 147 73,612 2.468 2,285,629
482,237 106 52,761 577
Duties. Tls. 2,602,697
534,998
165,893
""
329
220,318
77
15,377
406
235,695
99,084
Japanese
231
187,988
46
20,877
280
208, 65
+
French
28
66,251
28
66,251
184,676 186 811
Other Countries. 23 15,736 83
16,857
106
32,593
34,813
Chinese...
463
495,187 482
57,960
945.
553,147
110,727
On Opium
...
..
"
857,899
The total Customs Revenue for the year was Haikwan Tls. 4,242,601, consisting of
Import Duties, exclusive of Opium
Export Duties
do.
Coast Trade Duties do.
On O; iom, Import, Export, aud Coast Trade
Tonnage Dues
Transit Dues...
...
...
...
*
...
Tls. 2,268,479
703,796
207,011
857,899
151,162
54,254
Hk. Tls. 4,242,601
Of the Imports at all the Treaty ports from foreign countries sixty-six and a half per cent. passed through Shanghai, and of the Exports forty-two and a half per cent., besides most of the coasting trade; more than half of the whole trade thus belonging to "the commercial metropolis of China."