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a more expensive form of government expedient, neither can be supported at the expense of the fisheries.*

This great branch of trade is of too much import- ance to the interests of England to be overlooked. Its value will appear, from the following statement, of more consequence than it is generally understood

to be :—

The imports of provisions to Newfoundland, taking the average of the last three years, have been bread stufls from foreign parts, principally from

Hamburg, - - 67,812 cwts.

From British dominions, two-

thirds of which from Great Britain, — - - ' 25,712

ths. 93,524, at 16s. L.74«,819 0 0

Flown—From foreign states di- rect, - - - 19,075

British dominions, half of

which foreign, trans-shipped from England, - 18,477

Barrels, 37,552, at 28s. 52,573 0 0

Pork—Foreign, - - 11,908 British,—nearly 5-6ths from Great Britain and Ireland, 10,686

Barrels, 22,594, at 655. 73,430 0 0

Carry forward, 1,200,822 0 0

* Note A.