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prices are seminally Idabel, bat there hoe been little bow-
saw dime. Seed Oils are lifer, and dell of male.
TALLOW in the mai kat is held MOMS Shady at 37a. per cwt.
and fur arrival late In the present year 38s has Iwo* paid.
FBl/IT. A public ask was brought forward on Wedaes.
day; the Currents sold at abetst the former prices, of the other
articles only a small part was cold.
RTJIMCD SUOMIL-10.11 11110ipe have bees is demand et
our last quotations, and they are now more scarce, and few
could bit obtained ; other sorts have bees inure dell, and
prices are rather lower.
EAST INDIA PRODUCE.
COTT•S.—There has bees rather more inquiry since oar
hat for most descriptions, and a fair geniality has been sold
at NU prices ; of 380 hags of Demerara offered by sorties.
250 were sold, the remainder being held for higher prices.
The sales of the week are in bond. 450 hare Partiamboco,
middling 1041 , fair to good fair 101.1. to Ibid., good to Sae
10fil. to Ild. ; 30 Bahia, good fair 10d.; 230 Demerara. or.
dreary to midribs' sad. to Sid., fair to good fair 9d. to
Goa Ibid. • 100 Sakai, ordinary to middling foirl. to *
fair to good fair 61.1. aid. ; 900 Bengal, ordinary to mid:
dliag bp. to bp., fair to good fair bid. to bid, good 11j.
per lb. Total 1,730 bog*.
SlLL—Bengal Silk has brought an advance of b to
grimness per bale on the priers attire late ask.
Ina liabrßen ra falsmatpMpriesof tbo sok 11/4
to 941. per lb. whence ha* beets paid for %vitas.
Taa.—Bobs and consume Coogoo have been dell of mks.
the former at a reduction of Id. per lb., and the latter al a re-
duction of id. per lb.; good Cosigoti commands the prices
paid at the sale, and Twankay td. to sld. per lb. advance.
Paelserfpl, Tuesday, August 20,1812, Four o'Cluelk.
Connie.—There was only a trifling drmaad to-day, sed
the pubic sale brought forward went off heavily, though is
some instances le. Gd. per cwt. higher thau last week. Or.
divary St. Domingo I. casks was taken in at 104 a. 141. per
per cwt.•. the brat quality is sossioal at 1375. per ewt.
The 8. P. Ibuckia market was 11111111 t Grill to-day, eves fee
brown qualities, and although the sales did mot exceed 800
casks, the prices of last week were folly paid.

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received in and discharged from those places dualism
Inc week, are correctly stated ; those returned bp
the sitting, sod placed in the Gavernmeot ganef.
•re only received on Fridays, and they are taken as
charge only WI that dry; but i rertmvsla of
the convicts from one gang to another, from tile
town to the barrack, from Paritmatta to Sydney, oe
from Grose Farm and the carter's barrack to the
barrack in Hyde Park, take place is the middle of
the week, and as the service may require; and the
correctness of the charge made for their rations is
altogether in the hands of an emslcipated clerk to
the deputy-superintendent Gstidli, who keeps the
weekly account of the increase igid decrease that
takes place in each week. Men who are discharged
from the hospital, after the commencement of the
victualliag week, would remain without rations
uotil the Friday, unless this mode of keeping the
accounts were adopted, or ■ more frequent issue
from the store were practicable. At the other sta-
tions in New South Wales 'the rule is invariably
obaerved, of receiviog coavicta on the victualling
meeons. fridnyeossly ; by the former practice ill
the'Sydney hospital the convicts were retained there
after they were convalescent. and untl the Friday
in each week; at present they are discharged *beli-
ever they ate found convalescent, ■nd without re-
ference to the commencement or the termination of
the victualling week, an arrangement that is bene-
ficial to the hospital, but that creates the nesesaii,
of giving • more extensive control over the inners •
to the deputy-superintendent of the barrack. The
weekly returns that are kept at the convict barrack
contain the names of every convict, the gang, the
date when and from whom received, aud,
the increase and decrease that takes place in est*
week ; and entries are made of all the returns i*
honks kept in the office of the principal eoperib-
tendetat. at the lumber-yard in Sydney. The prin-
cipal superintendent and the chief engineer are the
only persons who hold ally check, either upon the
correctness or these weekly return., or of the requi-
sitions that are made by the deputy superintendeOt
to the commissatiat officer of the number of rations.
The correctness of the weekly returns made lot
different overreers. of the number and name
upon their several lists, can only be checked sad
observed by their occasional and unexpected visits
to the gangs. and muster of them. tilagn of their
gangs, it has been seen, are employed at some die.
lance from Sydney, and it is admitted by the chief
engineer and the principal superintendent, that the
efficacy of their own control consists more in the
information that they receive of the connivance of
the overseers in the absence of the convicts tinder
them, than in the regularity of their visits to them ;
this evil, which is inseparable from • 'witty of
works, and increases with it, induced me at all times
to recommend to the chief engineer, as much as
possible, to concentrate his operations in one spdle;
and to bring them as near as possible to the cope
barrack. 11 was partly with this view that I
mended Governor Macquarrie to convert the eira - -
house in Hyde Park into a church, to onpetfitt
bedding of the wall round the convict garden, abil
that I at last galle a reluctant consent to the cows^
struction of ■ new gaol in the immediate oeighboarf‘'
hood of Hyde Mirk, instead of adhering to the Oak'
of building it upon an elevated situation in anothft
and more distant part of the town, upon the site of
nil old battery, now dismantled, and called Fort
Philip.
The nature of the control exercited over this
branch of expenditure at Hobart Town, is marked
by the same spirit of vigilance and method that hos
already been observed to exist in that settlement.
The changes that take place in the receipt or dins
charge of the Government convicts during the week.
are all rioted by the acting engineer, Major Bell ; and.
■ list of the convicts so changed is signed by hinrr
and transmitted to the Lieutenant-Governor, who
also affixes his signature to it. and it is then an au-
thority to the officer in thecornmissariat department'
to issue the rations.

A detailed estimate of the weekly expense of the
maintenance, clothing, and employment of a convict.
in the work of Government, in New Seath Wales,
and without including that which is incorred for
superintendence, police, and medical attendance, iv
to be found in the Appendix. Acco►ding to ther
peke and scale of the rations of the year ISt% the
annual expense is foetid to a►ooot►t to the mu of
461. 17s. 4d. and in the year 1020, to the sum of
241. 14s.

The estimate =deaf the proportionate ♦slue that
the labour of s convict, working for Government.
bears to that of a free labo►uer working for himself,
is differently stated by the priacipal aupe►istetsdent
of convict* and the chief engineer; the falser tannic
it at two-thirds less, sad the letter at one-thirdoshicts
is also the calculation made by Major Bell, the act.
ing engineer at Hobart Town.

The avenge rate of the earniogs of mechanics St
Government employ at Sydney, is 'toted is 6 returtn
made by the plinetpal soperioteodeitt of convicts ;
but it is made with reference to the calculation of
the value of the labour of a convict, made by the
chief cud acting engineer. From my own obser-
ration of the mouser in whieb.the coevicto worked
at all the stations, I should tie much more dispose./
to adopt the cailculotion of the principal sopertn- •
tendeut than that of the chief or acting engineer:
sod this ob•ervatton was c•onfirm►d by the opium'sc
of most of the ittrsone who were couvenant with the
nature of convict labour in New South Wales. Tile,
expense to which the employment of convicts in thrr.
Government works has ted, will be better espientot
whet, 1 coin, to take s review of the &Aire's' work,.
that have been car►ied on during the last ten row
in the colony, and in Van DM,/ 411.19 Land. Br-
fore I enter upon that subject, I think it necessity
to make some ob•ervations uproot the mode at dais,-
buting and employiug the female convicts. On refer-
ence to the Appendix, it appear►, that out of 1,541
that have urrived in New South Wake, frens that
13th January 1814 to the 12th September le2o.
530 have been seat to employment is the factory sr
Plimsolls, 12 to the different heepitah as nurser,
and 390 to Vas Dieisan's Laud; the 1.0116:14,11f,