The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-23

nience, and was the cause Of much uncasinehs 70
government. The works on all the buildings In
lprogress In that city and its environs had been ne
cessarily suspended. The government had, m con-
sequence, given permission--t antamount TO an or
der-to all the carpenters serving as soldiers IN the
regiments in garrison In the capital and its vicinity
to work at their trade. The comblnators so lar
from being induced 10 resume their labors ny inns
ORDER only resolved TO observe increased caution,
to avoid coming under the law against communal
!. ton.
The history of this affair is curious. In the year
1888 the wages to be paid to journeymen carpen-
tiers al francs per day. were fixed, with their own
consent, by the project of police, for period ol
twelve years. That time being expired, they de-
mand that their wages be increased to hve francs
Interim created a fund Of 2s0000 francs, they can
afford for long while to remain idle. The other
operatives who depend upon the cooperation Of
carpenters such masons, brickayers, painters
smiths, pasierers, &c.--and who are not IN the
strike, are, we are informed, in the utmost distress
To these facts may be attributed, consequently, the
increasing demands on the savings banks observa-
bic from the last returns"
The 'Union of St. Germane- en-Laye" states
that, Following the example of their fellow.rades-
men in Paris, the carpenters employed IN the con-
sruction of bridge at Pecq for the atmospheric
railroad have struck for increase of wages, or
dimnuton of the hours of work The laborers en-
wise refused to continue their employment, unless
their wages were increased"
We are enabled, through the kindness Of the edi-
tor, to take from the Athenaum the following inter-
esting abstract of paper contributed by Mr.. X.
Valpy, and read to the statistical section by Mr. G
r. Porter,-League.
"'on the trade and navigation of Norway being
the abstract of report made to the government by
J. b. Grove, esq.,, consul general for Norway The
chief exports are wood fish and minerals The
wood consists of deals cut in twelve feet lengths and
balks either round square. Propretors of forests
are under no restrictions to telling; they general
y cut down the trees in autumn or winter and con-
vey them to river to be hoa,ed down the stream.
The reproduction of the timber is believed to be
equal to the consumption. Formerly, England was
| the chief market for Norwegian produce, and had
in return the almost exclusive trade in manufactures
but since the establishment of discriminating duties
in favor of Canadian timber the English trade has fall
len of, and the consumption of English manufactures
greatly decreased. Hamburg and the German States
have become markets for Norwegian produce, and
the manufactures of Germany have superseded those
Of England. The annual average quantities Of tim
Der exported in the seven years from 1895 to l94l,
6l6, 769 loads of so cubic feet which, with fire.
wood, hoops, and other less valuable timber may
be deemed worth 9435,000. The fisheries rank
next in Importance to the forest, and afford the chief
occupation to Norwegian industry. The exports
consist of sockfsh, round and split, cip-hsh, salt
|
sters. Stock-fsh is chiefly exported to the Catholic
countries Of southern Europe. The exports nuctu-
ate from the varying nature of the fishing trade but
in l84l they were, stock-fsh l4,l96 tons, clp-fsh
1856 tons, behring's COS 066 barrels, codroes 90
2l7 barrels liver and shark oils 4l,7l5 barrels and
$50 272 Holsters. Salmon for several years has
ceased 10 be article of export. The disappear
of this fish is attributed to the swarms Of sharks
which have recently taken possession Of the banks
off the coast. These were first observed in l84l,
and in lS42 eight vessels were fitted out for the new
| fishery, and captured no less than ~ 600 sharks,
without any apparent dminution of the supply.
The quantity of oil obtained was about 600 bar
rels The mineral trade is not Of much importance;
but there is something curious in the fur trade,
| principally carried on with Russia The greater
part of the skins sold by the Norweglans are OBJ
tanned from the Hamburg merchants, who buy them
in London from the Hudsons Bay Company; the
Norwegians convey them to Finmark, from whence
they taken to Moscow, and sold to the caravan
traders for the purpose of being bartercd with the
Chinese for tea at Kiachta! The Norwegian ship
ping is on the increase, principally owing to the
laws which require Of vessels to give proof
Of their knowledge and skill by undergoing strict
| examination"
THE CONDITION OF THE CROPS IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM AND IRELAND.
HARvEsT PROSPECTS AND THE CORN rRADE-ENc-
| LAND-Thus far, nothing has occurred to mar our
prospects the fu,ure and the reports respecting
the appearance of the different grain crops of
much more favorable character than was the case in
the early part of the month--.Mmk Lane Express.
| THE WEATHER AND THE cRoPs.-The reports of
the various provincial papers all bear testimony to
the rapid improvement which has taken place in the
state of the crops since the fine weather has in
afording every prospect, under Providence, OF an
abundant harvest Worcester Chronicle.
STATE OF THE CROPS IN IRELANp-The accounts
of the state of the crops in all parts of the country
are cheering, and warrant US in anticipating the
| richest harvest for many years.
Standard Correspondent.
The CROPS IN BELoIUM.-We arc now enabled to
assert that the severity of The winter and the cold
rains that prevailed in May have not produced the
injurious effects that were SO much feared.
Brussels Gazette
The SUGAR DODGE AGAiN--MoRB NEWS LoRp
SANDoN.-Therc seems no end to the complication
Of absurdity and sefcontradiction in which we
have entangled ourselves by the hypocrisies Of the
| new fiscal morality, that wears shve.grown cotton,
drinks slave-grown coffee, and smokes sIave-grown
tobacco, but SIMULTANEOUSLY declines having any,
thing to do with sleve-grown sugar-except buying,
selling, and getting gain by it, One slave holding
or slave-trudng nation starts up after another, with
clause in it's hands to mock
the purblind philanthropy '6f section of the British
public, and pour contempt on the simulated scrupu-
osy of the British ministry and legisature. First it
Venezuela; them the United States and now it is
Span--that is, Cuba and Porto Rco-actually slave
holding and slave trading Cuba and Porto Rico!-is-
lands which, together, produced last year more than
ninetenths OF the quantity of sugar that imported
from all our possessions, in East and West-caim
to have share in sweetening the tea of people
who are SO Mortified at the bare thought of doing
anything with slavery sugar (making little money
by it always excepted) that they have started new
principle Of fiscal law for the express purpose of
keeping it at distance.
The nature and grounds Of this claim, which, an
appears from Sir Robert Peel's statement in the
House Of Commons, has been formally advanced by
the Spanish minister, already sufficiently known
TO the public BY treaties now in force between Great
Britain and Span (that Of Utrecht in particular, }
and whose validity we have ourselves recognised so
lately as the year 1887, by demanding and accepting
advantages under them, Spain is Of our ''mosi
favored" nations. Our commercial relations with
that country are precisely the same with those in
which we stand towards Venezuela and the United
States. We must--unless the ingenuity Of our d.
plomatsts should save the credit and consistency OF
our fiscal morasts, by discovering some unexpected
legal hitch--take the goods and merchandise" OF