Lioyn's New Universal Register has reached Shanghai, and a very handsome volume it is. We gave a description of from reviews some weeks ago, and the copy which Mr, Waymouth, the Seoretary to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, has oont us fally bears out all the commendati that it has received. To compile, as is done in this book, a list of every sea-goi vessel in the world of over 100 tons, including yachts and mon-of-war, was task from which even the indefatigable servants of Lloyds might have been expected to shrink; but the work has been douse and, apparently, with great success, Going through the book, we find first, lists of the committee, the surveyors, and the subscribers to Lloyds Registe etatietios of the mercanti the world, from which we ga' the British pire owns 11,165,092 tons of shipping, and the rest of the world 10,342,764 tons: then comes the key to the abbrevii 8, in several languages, than the register of sailing. vessels, This gives us the vessel's preaont and former name or names, Ler official namber, her unmbor in the book, the registry in which she is classed, her rig and the material of which she is built, her flag, hor not tonnage and dimensions, where, when and by whom she was buill, the date when he was last metalled, the names of her owners or managers, and her port of registry, All the stoamera in the world, of over 100 tons, follow; and to the particulars given for sailing vessels are added the number of decks, the number and size of the deck-louses, the number of bulk. heads and details of water-ballast, the 8 of the engines and their to the lately arrived Oder for instance, we find that she is a screw brig with three decke, carrying the German flag and registered at Bremen, of 1,892 tons grosse, or 3,158 gross, 851.1 feet long, 89.7 feet broad, and 14.7 feet deep, built at Greonook by Caird & Ao. i 1874, with engines, by the same buildors, having two cylinders, 62 and 104 inches in diameter with 54 inches stroke and of 600 nominal horsepower, and and that she belongs to the Norddentecher Lloyd. Then comes list of the signal leteers assigned to the ships of the world in alpha. he tical order, so that when we see that 8 vessel has been spoken showing the letters WD BH, we may know that it la the Sdblomsten of Grimstad, of 683 tone. A complete list of chungas of name follows, and then an index to vessels having compound names, so that if we are in doubt about the Cbristjan name of a vessel which is named plier an individual we can trace her out by her surname. The next of steamers arranged according; tionality and net tonnage, beg' with the Great Eastern of 13,844 tons, and ending with the Ingrid of 100 tons. The list of ship owners and managers, with the names and ni tonnages of their vessels, follows. This is followed by an entirely new feature, list of the shipbuilders of Great Britain, showing the vessels still in existence which they have built. We are apt to think that we can tell uff cerily on the fingers of both hands the large shipbuilders of Great Britain and Ireland, but this list shews that the shipbuilding resources of the British Isles are very wuch more extended than is popularly believed. The next sections contains a list of the Dry Docks, Floating Dvcks, Pontoons, Patent Slipways, &c., at all ports in the world, with fall particulars (s0 far as ascertained) of their length, breadth, depth of water, &e., &e. In Shanghai, for instance, we find details of the Old Dock, Pootang Duck, Lower Dock, New Dock and Yard Dock, the dook at the Kiangnan Arsenal being omitted, though the Government docks at Whampoa are inserted. The next are two very usefal section ug a8 they do the name and postal address and telegraphic address of mercantile and nmauufacturing and shipbuilding and shipping flems all over the world, arranged in the first in the alphabetical order of the firm names, and in the second in the same order of the telegraphic addcessor. A very interesting section follows, a complete list of the war-vessels of the world, gi close, with the usual particulars as to their build and dimensions, their conl-opacity and speed, and complete details of their armament, Fall details of the great organisation known as Lloyds', with a list of agents, and extencts from the instructions under which they work, close this volume. To people actually engaged in shipping business, it must be invaluable, but it is full of interest to everybody who travels, and even to everybody who reads newspapers. In conversation on ordinary matters, questions are constantly yoming up, and being made the subject of dispute, which a reference to thig book would answer at once; to an Englishman it must always be wel come, as a solid proof, if be require of the greatness of his country. There is matter in it for a hundred articles all we have done in thia short notice is to indicate what is to be found within its covers by the seeker after facts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.