FOREIGN TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN. AN Account of the VALUE, as calculated at the Official Rates, of all IMPORTS into, and of all EXPORTS from, GREAT BRITAIN, during each of the three Years ending the 5th January 1827; stated exclusive of the Trade with Ireland. TRADE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. AN Account of the VALUE of all IMPORTS into, and of all EXPORTS from, the United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, during each of the three Years ending the 5th January 1827 (calculated at the Official Rates of Valuation and stated exclusive of the Trade between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally). TRADE OF IRELAND. An Account of the Value of all IMPORTS into, and of all EXPORTS from IRELAND, during each of the three Years ending the 5th January 1827 (stated exclusive of the Trade with GREAT BRITAIN). NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. NEW VESSELS BUILT.-An Account of the Number of VESSELS, with the Amount of their TONNAGE, that were built and registered in the several Ports of the BRITISH EMPIRE, in the Years ending the 5th January, 1825, 1826, and 1827, respectively. VESSELS REGISTERED.-An Account of the Number of VESSELS, with the Amount of their TONNAGE, and the Number of MEN and Boys usually employed in Navigating the same, that belonged to the several Ports of the BRITISH EMPIRE, on the 30th of September, in the Years 1824, 1825, and 31st of December, 1826, respectively. On 30th Sept. 1824. On 30th Sept. 1825. On 31st Dec. 1826. Vessels. Tons. Men. Vessels. Tons. Men. Vessels. Tons. Men. United Kingdom ...... 20,803 2,321,953 149,742 20,087 2,298,836 146,703 20,469 2,382,069 149,894 Isles Guernsey, Jersey, & Man 477 26,361 3,806 508 28,505 3,773 499 British Plantations 3,496 211,273 15,089 3,579 214,875 15,059 3,657 29.392 3,665 TOTAL 24,776 2.559,587 168 673 24,174 2,542,216 165,535 24,625 2,635,644 167,636 LIST OF GENERAL ACTS Passed in the FIRST Session of the EIGHTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-7 Geo. IV. 1827. 1. AN Act for applying a sum of money for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. II. An Act for raising the sum of ten millions, by exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. III. An Act to confirm an order in council for allowing the importation of foreign oats, oatmeal, rye, pease, and beans; to indemnify all persons who have advised or acted in execution of the same; and to permit the importation of such articles until the fifteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. IV. An Act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. V. An Act for the regulating of his Majesty's royal marine forces while on shore. VI. An Act for granting to his Majesty rates of postage on the conveyance of letters and packets to and from Saint Domingo and Cuba, VII. An Act for continuing to his Majesty for one year certain duties on personal estates, offices, and pensions in England, and also certain duties on sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. VIII. An Act for more conveniently paying the pensions of widows of officers of the royal marines. IX. An Act to repeal an Act of the twenty-eighth year of his late Majesty, for the better regulation of the manufacture of ounce thread. X. An Act to enable his Majesty to make further provision for their royal highnesses the duke and duchess of Clarence. XI. An Act to continue, until the twenty-fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, an Act of the fifty-fourth year of his late Majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. XII. An Act to amend an Act of the first year of his present Majesty, for the advance of money for carrying on public works in Ireland. XIII," An Act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively. XIV. An Act for fixing, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight, the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers. XV. An Act for declaring the law in relation to bills of exchange and promissory notes becoming payable on Good Friday or Christmas Day. XVI. An Act for applying certain sums of money for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. XVII. An Act to extend the provisions of an Act made in the fifty-seventh year of king George the Third, for regulating the costs of certain dis tresses. XVIII. An Act to prohibit the setting of spring-guns, man-traps, and other engines calculated to destroy human life, or inflict grievous bodily harm. XIX. An Act to repeal an Act of the sixth year of his present Majesty, for regulating vessels carrying passengers to foreign parts. XX. An Act to regulate the prosecution of fraudulent bankrupts in Scotland. XXI. An Act to amend the laws re lating to the duties of postage in Great Britain and Ireland, |