The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-14
THE WHALE FISHERY FOR 1858.
The Whalemens Shipptng List of January IL

hhe '"oteWc"S q cHpptHy Ltst Oh january IL,
says:
The results of the last years Whale Fishery, as
nearly as the same can be ascertaned will be found
In our columns to-day; and as we fatter ourselves
with close approximation to accuracy. As COM
pared with former years it has been generally un-
productive and in many disastrous, and there
has been consequent dminuton of the number
OF vessels and tonnage employed in the fleet
amounting to S,O33 tons as compared with the pre-
vlous year. Prices for Sperm oil have ruled lower
than in any year since 1850. There have been but
lew losses at seattle Rajah of this port, and the
Columbus of New London being the only ones re-
ported OF the Worth West Fleet.
The whole number of vessels now employed in
the hole Fishery from ports in the Unied States
is SCI ships and barks, 10 briggs, As schooners in
cludng 1885, tons against 5S7 ships and barks IS
brgs and 49 schooners, including 2O3,l4s tons, in
the previous year. 143 ships were in the North
Pacific fishery during the year 1857; in 1856 there
were ITS, and in 1855 2l7 ships.
The importation of Sperm Oil during the year in
barrels are ,94l; Whale 1872, ,223, and $40, 600
pounds of Whalebone.
The average prices of Sperm Oil during the year
is III cents per gallon; and for Whale Oil "a
cents. Whalebone, Polar, 941@ cents; North West,
80 cents.
Exports, Sperm, 1886 barrels; Whale, ls, SOB:
Whalebone, l,O49466 pounds The exports of
Whaebone in 1857 was ,s49, ,26s lbs., and in 1885,
1874, 600.
Stock now on hand 7,l76 barrels Sperm; 50 1915
w hale; and 100000 pounds Neutrality-suspicious.
39,307 barrels Sperm; 81, 1913 barrels Whale; and
2s5,5OO pounds Whalebone on the first of January,
1858.
The prospects for the coming year are far from
fatterng, but upon the whole perhaps not less en-
couraging than at the commencement of the year
that has now passed. There WILL from present ap-
pearances, be further diminution of vessels EN-
ployed in the fleet and with diminished compe-
ttlon the business may again regain a healthy
state Other fields of enterprise now opened and
opening present better opportunities for investment
than are now offered in the Whale Fishery
Mr.. BRIGHT ON EGYPTIAN GoDs.-The great re-
former OF England, Mr.. John Bright in his speeches.
goes directly to the point. In a recent address at
Glasgow, after berating the arisocratc families for
their misconduct in the Foreign Office he made the
following comparison:
"lt Is shocking thing to observe the evils which
nations live under, and the submissive spirit with
which they yield to them. | have often compared,
in my own mind, the people of England with the
people of Egypt, and the Foreign Office of this
| country to the temples of the Egyptians TLaugh.
ter. | am told by those who pass up and down the
Nile that you perceive on its banks temples with
| stately statues and massive and lofty columns
statues, each one of which would have appeared tc
have exhausted quarry in its production. You
have further vast chambers, and gloomy, tortuous
passages; and some innermost recess, some holy o
holes, In which, when you arrive at it, you fine
some loathsome reptile which nation reverenced
and revered, and bowed itself down to worship In
our Foreign Office have no massively- construct
ed columns; we have no statues, but we have
we lind some miserable intrigue, in the defence o.
whch your fleets are traversng every ocean, youl
armies are perishing in every Cline and the precious
blood of our country's children is squandered ant
regarded as valueless."
VEsUvIus.-The Naples correspondent of th,
| London Daily Ne,os writes: "With regard to Vesu
vius, its activity is increasing daily, and there
| every probability of an eruption, or some othe
catastrophe. On visiting Rosina, and conversin.
with the guides, they gave me many interesting
details, all proving that the mountain must presen
very splendid spectacle, and threatens grea
explosion. The report which l have received to
| day from the guides runs thus: Last night, a
half-past eight O'Clock, smoke assembled from tn
crater OF 1855. There was a great noise, and
number OF orihces were laid open. At the foot o
the Hermitage the lava has covered over severa
houses and continues to destroy the country in thu
neighborhoods, where twelve currents were per
ceptible. On Monday last twenty two current
were perceptible Two craters have been measur
ed, and it has been discovered that one has deptl
OF 600 feet, and the other $40 feet. There ar,
others OF greater and less depth. There are tw,
which,, being empty underneath, are two danger
Gus to be measured. They split in the circum
ference, and have various hssures In the pas
month there was bed of fire full mile long,"
Charles Spofford, of Saugus, Mass, one day re
Gently, between the hours of in the morning an,
in the evening" heeled thirty pairs of ladies' boots
Mr.. Franklin Rhodes, in the same shop, made tel
pairs OF ladies' hesied boots in the same time