182 NEWFOUNDLAND . 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 stuffs from foreign parts, principally from Hamburg, - - 67,812 cwts. From British dominions, two- thirds of which from Great Britain, - ' 25,712 Cwts. 93,524, at 16s. L .74,819 0 0 Flour.—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 65s. 73,430 0 0 Carry forward, L .200,822 0 0 Note A.