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THE MERcANTIL MARINE OF ENGLAND FRANCE, AND THE UNITED STATEs-An in- teresting pamphlet has just appeared from the pen of Mir Bayley, Surveyor to Lloyd's, rela- tive to the mercantile marine of Great Bri- tain, the United States, and France. These statements, compiled from official records, may be relied on, and they furnish striking view of the rapid advance which America has madein maritime advancement. A sum- mary of the most striking facts in the pamph- let VIC annex, referring those interested in the elaborate tabular statistics which t con- tains, to the work itself The records of American shipping are necessarily less com plete than those of England. The total num- Der of British vessels built and registered in Europe and the colonies, in 1902, was 2.lSl. measuring according to the then mode 137,- 800 tons. In 1842, the number was l.4SI ships of 207, 500 tons In 1903 (there is no retuan for lS02,) the total number of vessels belonging to the British empire was 20,S92, the tonnage ?, ,167,863; in 1842, the ships were 30, 1S5, with 3,6l9,850 toms

 The ratio of increase in America is much greater than this; but the returns specify the tonnage only. The amount in 1790 was 478,377 tons, which in 1884 had grown to 1,758, SOY tons. In 1921 the total tonnage of British vessels entered in American ports was 76,900 tons this had increased in 1884 240, ,709 tons, the American tonnage having also risen from 271 800 in the first period 10 431, 100 tons in the last, The carrying trade detween France and the United States is now lost to England, which in 1921 had 27,300 tons in that traffic; in the following year it decreased to 24,400 tons. and las since virtually ceased. The French tonnage

 in the American trade was 4,70O in 1921, and rose until 1894, when it reached 35,l00; but during the same period, the American arose from 1000 to IF, 2,600 tons. Tine to- tai tonnge belonging to France was 694,-