Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-07-02

seal dO...............I.I 40 63,i36
Skins... .......i39,Io5 - IL 500 6
Salmon HeTrings
f"rs, &c...-...... ...................u.27, 400
Total ENpous....... ,6O9 $50 IL d
Rnt in addition, let us consider what other
advantages than simply tic above, arose TO the
natIsn from this trade. From The same source
we have information of no less than Cos YES
sells, amounting 10 1888 tons, navigated by
5,l3i seamen, heiug engaged in its foreign
trade 1873 fishermen were actually employ
ed In catching the fish, and considerably
greater numbers were occupied on shore in
curing IL.
BY this statement il appears, a balance of
upwards of halt a million Sterling remaining
In the hands of the Newfoundland adventa-
rers, who as before mentioned, where then
wholly British, after paying the mother coun-
Try upwards of feSO, 900 for its produce and
manufactures, and f20, 900 for the produce of
the Colonies. This places the fishery IN no We
~ despiCable point of view and perhaps ought
10 have obtained tor il some little more atten-
:ion than II appears To have received At
one time indeed the British Ministry were so
grossly ignorant OF the Island and trade i'm
question, that il is said Lord North who was
then in the Cabinet, gravely asked what des.
cilption OF timber grew on The banks of New.
foundland" and still it would appear the mist
OF negligence and Indifference, that has so
long obscursd the trade 10 that settlement, is
not wholly dISsIpated, as only very few days
have elapsed since, ia our Court ofS-N, in am
action relating TO the trade of that Island
where sum ESQ 900 for property situated
there was sued for, the presiding Judge, with
uplHteG hands, and eyes, in amazemeut de-
clared he never until that moment thought or
knew" the whole Island WAS worth SO much ~
However il can hardly be believed, that the
government, nowadays are so totally unin-
formed of the value aud importance of this
settlement, when IL is well known that docu-
menis, from the Custom House, similar to the
above, are regularly transmitted every season.
Montreal Herald.
VERY LATE FROM THE HAVANA.
CHARLEsToN, June 23.-Per schr Comet,
we this day received from our Correspondent
In tile Havana, papers of that city t. the 10th
instant, which contain nothing interesting
and the following letter, dated
. HdUana. 10th june 1919.
Ii was reported to-day, that a decree of
the Court had been pa sed on the cases of the
brig Patriot. and ship Benjamin, now under
seizure IN this port, as follows all the pro-
perty tonnd on board, not cleared through the
Custom House, to be cOnfscated, aud 800 per
cent damages for specie found on board the
Patriot bad between 20 aud IS 900 dollars
The Benjamin 100 dollars, or thereabouts
THESE sums multiplied by three, make up a
iarse amount. The case OF the James Coulter
IS not yet decided, but the above cases will be
IA precedent for the latter (; this decision, how
ever. must be ratified by the Fiscal "a Supe-
rlor CohTt) before II Can take effect, aud il is
whisppred that The Decree will be done avay
confiscaling merely the property found or
board not cleared.
by The arrival of the mail from St.( ia.
90, we have received the following statement
ct The market up to the 30th ut.
Mess beefIS a S2j prime 10 pork, mess.
% rice z flour 10 a IL fish (Cod) u;
scale fish D !; candles, mould, Is sperm. 5G cts |
pes Id. lard SIS 81 bntter rs "a 26 cheese
20 hams 25 4; boards 20 shocks and healing |
! each soap, Am. IL plci, Z; tar s. az;
riiaret wine, cask, Is 40 Catalonia 30 per
pipe.
EFports-While sugar $40 a II brown a9; !
muscoVado6 IL molasses IL per hid |
plenty and purchasers; coffee ~, declining
hides rs each; honey 30 per hhd.
" Our own market continues without much |
-four, Phil IL ~ New Orleans
IL - rice d I-2 "a Z.
There is uOthiug pOliticalstirring. The tunes |
are gloomy eDOugh--black vonht, seizures aud |
losses, Is depicted IN every cOuuien9bce--it |
see this season through | shall live for ever
II. >. The fever RACES With great violence !
aud cases very fatal Mr.. Joseph Cory, Of |
New York, died yesterday, days illness.
he following arrivals have taken place |
place since the Catharnes sailed
JHHe li.-Am. brig Margaret, Hall Phila- |
telplId, dry goods and ptOyiSions-l2lh, brig !
Rob 81, Gooch, Boston, provisions aud boards; |
schI Mary Ann, Crstt, hUIcstop, rice, dry |
goods, &C.-I3th, sChr. Hebe, Harrison, Phi |
adelphid, provisions, produce, aud dry |
goods brig john * Aun RObilsOn, CadiZ, |
- ne. oil. soap, aud olives; brig Harmony, |
Cersneli. Loud"n, ballast-iitli, sloDp Anu, |
----, ChGrIcsiya Ticc--ljth. ship Hope, Low |
Rio GrsDde, jcrhed beet French schr. Belle |
itbrela wine AVID rum. Sdiied-Itui. English |
rUg Riga, Foster, POrtsmOnOi An. schr |
iris, Gardner, OibraItar-t2th, sluOp Gold |
iuutress, Drown. New OfieaiiS-Iltb. b ~
DBrien. New York ; brig Catherine, W CliynaU,
Charleston, (arIVcd)
PRESSIRE Or TIE TINES.
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