or, as they call it, on "half their hand," being fully found by the planter, in every thing necessary to prosecute the fishery during the season. This is also the case, in some instances, with the fishermen engaged for carrying on the shore fishery of Newfoundland.

The following return of the vessels equipped for the seal fishery, from the port of St. John only, and the number of seals taken by them. during the last ten years, will give some idea of the extent and value of this branch of business in Newfoundland:

The whole outfit for the seal fishery from the island of Newfoundland in the spring of the year 1851, amounted to 323 vessels, with an aggregate of 29,545 tons, manned by 11,377 men.

The average take of seals in the whole of Newfoundland during the last seven years, is estimated at 500,000 per annum.

The following is a comparative statement of the quantity and value of the staple articles of produce exported from the island of Newfoundland in the years 1849 and 1850:

The total value of the imports and exports of Newfoundland, in the years 1849, 1850, and 1851, was as follows:

The extent of the foreign commerce of this colony is manifested by the statements which follow, showing the numbers, tonnage, and men of the vessels which entered and cleared at Newfoundland in the years 1850 and 1851.

The following comparative statement shows the total shipping of Newfoundland inward and outward in 1849, 1850, and 1851:

Entered.....
Cleared

1,156 132,388 8,060 1,220 138,228 8,331 1,222 137,465 8,012 1,074 126,643 7,901 1,087 108,795 7,868 1,034 141,578 7,356

The ships built in Newfoundland during the period of four years, from 1846 to 1850 inclusive, are as follows:

The population of Newfoundland, by the last census, in 1845, was 96,295 souls. On the 1st of January, 1852, the population was estimated at 125,000, of whom 30,000 were engaged directly in the fisheries. In 1845 the number of fishing boats, &c., was as follows:

The value of the annual produce of the colony of Newfoundland has thus been stated, on an average of four years, ending in 1849, by the British colonial authorities:

Game-venison, partridges, and wild fowl.

40,000

Timber, boards, house-stuff, staves, hoops, &c.

250,000

The average value of property engaged in the fisheries, during the

6,352,020

same period, is thus stated:

341 vessels, engaged in the seal fishery

$1,023,000

80 vessels, engaged in coasting and cod-fishery.

80,000

TRADE BETWEEN NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.

The following statement furnishes a full account of the quantity and value of the staple products of Newfoundland, exported from that colony to the United States in the years 1849, 1850, and 1851:

The whole of the foregoing articles were exported from Newfoundland to the United States in British vessels only, no other vessels whatsoever being employed in their transport.

The character and extent of the imports into Newfoundland from the United States is shown thus:

Return of the quantity, value, rate, and amount of duty paid on principal articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, imported into the colony of Newfoundland, during the year ending 5th January, 1852.