Account of the total Value of the Imports into, and of the Exports from Bombay, in the official years 1816-17, 1826-27, and 1836-37. 1,86,53,246 5,99.05,978 Total Rupees · Subordinate Ports. Panwell and Concant Surat Guzerat Total Rupees. 2,55,30,479 3,25,167 21,192 3,46,359 54,94,473 24,19,037 79,13,510 55,33,682 49,89,236 1,05,22,918 23,76,202 7,26,503 31,02,705 22,62,011 3,89,414 26,51,426 15,09,845 7,30,615 22,41,460) 40,85,915 3,42,785 44,28,710 73,47,696 39,24,626 1,12,72,322 81,30,010 17,31,811 98,61,821 67,87,193 10,90,480 1,51,24,533 74,51,662 1,51,04,181 67,33,077 * At this period called Goa and the Concan. Rps. Buoy and Anchorage Dues.-All Ships and Vessels or Boats not receiving Pilots From 10 to 20 tons From 30 to 60 tons 300 per Ann. Square rigged vessels of all Above 50 to 300 tons. 300 to 400 400 to 500 600 do. 10 0 0 do. 500 to 600 55 0 0 - 80 0 0 6000- 85 0 0 65 0 0 95 0 0 90 0 0 1100 to 1200 100 0 0 -105 0 0 -110 0 0 --115 0 0 95 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 <-125 0 0 - 1200 and upwards →→ Foreign ships of war are to pay, in addition to the above rate, rupees 15 per 100 tons per annum. rupees 40. Light-house Dues.--All ships and vessels down to 20 tons, at N. B. There are no port charges of any sort at Bombay other than the above. - 21-2 -21-2 The sale or purchase of diamonds, pearls, and jewellery of all descriptions -21-2. The sale or purchase of treasure or bullion, exclusive of 1 per cent, on receipt of the proceeds Per cent. 1-2 General Rates of Commission in Bombay.-On the sale or purchase | Surrendering, or depositing in the treasury, Company's seeu- rity of all descriptions 2 -2 -5 Procuring freight 5 Guaranteeing bills, bonds, or debts in general, by endorsement 1-2 Shipping goods of every description Shipping treasure, bullion, and jewellery Ships' disbursements when no commission has been charged on freight or cargo Effecting insurances Settling insurance losses, whether partial or total; also on procuring return of premium, exclusive of commission on receipt of cash Del credere or guaranteeing the responsibility of persons to whom goods are sold, on the amount of sales The sale or purchase of cattle Collecting house rent Effecting remittances by bills of exchange (not being the proceeds of goods) Taking up interest bills from the Company (exclusive of 1 per cent. on remitting) Sale or purchase of public or private bills of exchange. Exchanging Companies' securities of all descriptions, or investing money therein, and on transferring government paper from one constituent to another [BOSTON. The number of arrivals at Boston, during the year 1838, was 1313; during the year 1839, was 1553. Increase 240. The following Table exhibits the amount of salt, coal, grain, and potatoes, brought to this port during the past eleven years : Attending the delivery of contract goods to the Company or - 1 Goods consigned, and afterwards withdrawn, on invoice cost 2 1-2 - 1 Receipt of payment (at the option of the agent) of all monies - 21-2 - 21-2 In the above is included the salt and coal re-shipped for debenture. There was exported from Boston during the year 1840, 24,500 standard bushels of salt, and 95,259 bushels of coal.-Am. Ed.] CALCUTTA. (See Table on the next page.) COINS. [Statement of Deposits and Coinage at the Mint of the United States and its Branches, in the Year 138,500 904,000 1,851,500 183,412 1,040,747 50 5,948,272 1,949,136 3,128,661 31,286 61 6,869 78,290 173,901 . 2,401,600 227,160 385,240 982,290 2,025,401 257,665 1,332,395 00 8,349,872 2,176,296 3,128,661 31,286 61 11,736,198 3,529,977 61 Statement of Deposits and Coinage at the Mint of the United States and its Branches, in the Year Dollars. 9,260,345 3,021,170 11 41,640 162,767 50 32,613 128,880 00 2,401,600 227,160 00 176,766 1,025,232 1,033,070 203,579 1,207,437 4,386,805 1,028,603 2,462,700 24,627 7,053,084 2,260.667 124,726 121,858. 31,628 127,055 26,429 123,310 2,835 162,094 666,676 56,600 217,500 3,390,300 698,100 31,528 127.055 26,428 123,310 3,446,900 915,600 426,185 1,187,326 1,699,746 318,435 1,675,302 7,777,105 1,726,703 2,462,700 24,627 10,558,240 3,426 632 Am. Ed.] An Account showing the Total Amount of the Import and Export Trade of Calcutta in 1836-37 and 1837-38; showing also the Amount of the Trade with each country, and the proportion per cent. which the Trade with each Country bears to the total Amount of the Trade. (Bell's Review of the Commerce of Bengal for 1836-37 and 1837-38.) Statement of the Consumption, Exportation, &c. of the different Sorts of Cotton Wool, in and from Return of the Number of Emigrants from the United Kingdom in 1839, specifying the Colonies and Countries for which they cleared out, and the Numbers that cleared out for each.-Parl. Paper, No. 113. Sess. 1840.) [The reader will find in vol. i. p. 42., a statement of the value of the fish exported annually from the United States, from 1790 to 1838, inclusive. The value of the fish imported during the year ending on the 30th of September, 1839, was, of dried or smoked fish, $24,303; of salmon (pickled), $73,768; of mackerel (pickled), $60,374, and of all other pickled fish, $71,489. 99 3 U 2 Of the fish imported, the quantity which was re-exported amounted in value to only $9,034. The product of our own fisheries which was exported to foreign countries, chiefly to the West Indis Islands, during the same year, amounted in value, of dried or smoked fish, to $709,218, and of pickledfish, to $141,320. The registered and enrolled tonnage of the United States employed r the whale fishery Tons. amounted to The enrolled and licensed tonnage employed in the cod fishery In the mackerel fishery In the whale fishery That of vessels licensed under 20 tons employed in the cod fishery 131,845 65,167 35,983 439 7,091 The fisheries of the United States are carried on from the ports of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York; especially from those of Massachusetts. Its citizens own nearly three fourths of the whole tonnage employed in this branch of American industry. The greater comparative importance of the Massachusetts fisheries has led to more exact inquiries concerning them than have been directed hitherto to the subject of the fisheries elsewhere. And we subjoin the following interesting extracts from a report of Dr. D. H. Storer, submitted to the legislature of that state. Although, as fresh fish, mackerel are sold in the markets along our whole coast for several months in the year, and are considered by all excellent food, (from 6 to 8,000 barrels being sold annually in' Boston market alone,) their great value to this people, arises from the means of employment afforded to an immense number, by the process of salting and packing. Those packed in 1836 were furnished by the following towns: At the prices these fish were worth in November, 1836, the value of the year's fishing amounts to $1,261,012. The whole number of barrels of mackerel inspected in Massachusetts for the last five years is as follows:-1832, 224.000 barrels; 1833, 225,000; 1834, 253,000; 1835, 197,000; 1836, 180,616. Although it would seem from the above table, that a smaller quantity of mackerel had been packed in 1836, than the several years immediately preceding it, yet it cannot be inferred from this circumstance, that fewer vessels were engaged, or that the business was considered less important than before. In some years, immense shoals of these fishes are readily met with, and the vessels return in a few weeks, with full cargoes; while the same localities may be visited at other seasons, and the efforts of the fisherman prove fruitless, and his fare meagre indeed. So peculiar are the habits of this genus, that oftentimes weeks may pass, the fishing smacks be surrounded by millions sporting upon the surface of the ocean, and scarce one allow itself to be taken, while again the success of a few days will relieve the disappointments of nearly a season. Thus, a fisherman informs me, that the last season, (1837,) having been to the bay of Chaleur, and taken but few fish, the vessel to which he belonged was returning home, when, off Cape Cod, the fish were so numerous and voracious, that the crew, consisting of ten men, captured in two hours nearly 30 barrels of them. At this time about 200 smacks were together, and they were all equally successful, some of them taking 40 barrels of fish. After being carefully inspected, these fish find a ready market in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, and New Orleans, and from this last port, they are sent over the entire western country. The inferior quality are shipped to the West India islands. I have not been able to learn with accuracy the number of vessels engaged exclusively in this fishery; in many towns, the same vessels are used at different seasons of the year for cod as well as the mackerel fishery. I have ascertained, however, that there were 202 vessels employed in this fishery in 1836, in the county of Barnstable, and that of this number 98 belonged to Provincetown, which were valued at $147,000..... The family Salmonides includes several genera of fishes, which for delicacy and richness are not surpassed. Previous to the separation of Maine from this state, large quantities of the Salmo salar― salmon-were packed: thus, in the year 1818, 2,381 barrels were inspected. Since that time none have been inspected. The building of dams and manufacturing establishments, by preventing the fishes from going up the rivers to deposit their spawn, has almost entirely annihilated them in this commonwealth. About 17 years since, two wagons, each bringing from 30 to 40 fine salmon from the Merrimack river, supplied the Boston market every week during the season of the fish-now, the few specimens taken are looked upon as rarities, and our market is enriched by the fishery of the Kennebec.. The Osmerus viridescens-Smelt-which is a universal favourite, is taken in great numbers in the spring and autuinn, and through a great portion of the winter. In Watertown alone, 750,000 dozen are taken annually in scoop-nets from the first of March to the first of June-and sent to Boston market. The family Clupea, are among our most valuable fishes. The Clupea vernalis—alewife-is taken in immense quantities still, in several parts of the state, although in several places where they have heretofore been most abundant, the various encroachments of man have sensibly diminished them. A larger quantity of alewives is packed, than of any other species of this family. In 1832, 1730 barrels were inspected; 1833, 2,266; 1834, 4,320; 1835, 5,600; 1836, 5,000. At Watertown, the average quantity of alewives for the last 10 years is 700 barrels. They are first pickled, then salted and barrelled, and sent to the West India islands. They sell from $1.50 to $2.00 per barrel. At Taunton, which for years was so celebrated for its fishery, the alewives are gradually lessening. There are two or more dams across the Taunton "Great River," so called, which impedes their progress very much; and on the "Little River," where many dams and factories have been erected; and where, twenty years ago, thousands were taken, not one is to be seen. Twenty-five years since they were taken in such abundance, that they sold for 20 cents per hundred, and a great business was carried on by barrelling and shipping them to the West India market. The Clupea harengus(?)—common herring (?)—is in some seasons taken in great numbers. The quantities of herring picked and inspected according to tables kept at the General Inspection office for the last five years, are as follow: 1832, 52 bbls. 1833, 36; 1834, 518; 1835, 968; 1836, 77. That a small quantity only of the herring taken, are packed, is obvious, from the fact, that in 1836, 500 bbls. were taken at Falmouth; 400 bbls. at Duxbury, and 3000 at Martha's Vineyard. Upon some portions of our coast herring have been limited in quantity for the few last years, during |