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COMMERCE. 



43. Fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador. — The Ameri- 

 cans send about 2000 fishing vessels to Labrador alone. Allow 

 that each vessel takes away 1000 quintals of fish, = 2,000,000 

 quintals = 100,000 tons; each vessel carries from 12 to 15 

 men, = 25,000 to 30,000 men ; the number of seamen required 

 afterwards to carry this fish to the various markets in the two 

 hemispheres is very considerable. They carry on the fishery 

 extensively at other parts here. — The French employ many 

 thousand men in this fishery at Newfoundland ; and a propor- 

 tion of seamen to carry part of their fish to markets. — The 

 British : The resident fishermen of Newfoundland are not equal 

 in number to the American fishermen who come to the neigh- 

 bourhood to fish. About 4000 British seamen are employed to 

 carry the 60,000 tons offish to market. — W. E. Cormack, Esq. 



List of Patents sealed in England from 4ith February to 8th 

 May 1826. 



1826, 

 Feb. 4. To R. Rigg, Bowstead Hall, Cumberland, for " a new Condensing 

 Apparatus, to be used with the apparatus now employed for ma- 

 king Vinegar." 

 7- To J. C. Gamble, Dublin, chemist, for " an Apparatus for the Con- 

 centration and Crystallisation of Aluminous and other Saline and 

 Crystallisable Solutions, part of which apparatus may be applied 

 to the general purposes of evaporation^ distillation, inspissation, 

 and desiccation, and especially to the generation of Steam." 



To W. Mayhew, Union Street, Southwark, and W. White, 

 Cheapside, hat-manufacturers, for " an Improvement in the ma- 

 nufacture of Hats." 



To H. Evans, harbour-master of the port of Holyhead, North 

 Wales, for " a method of rendering Ships and other Vessels, whe- 

 ther sailing or propelled by steam, more safe in cases of danger 

 by leakage, bilgeing, or letting in water, than as at present con- 

 structed." 



To B. Cook, Birmingham, brass-founder, for " Improvements in 

 making Files of various descriptions." 

 11. To W. Warren, Crown Street, Finsbury Square, for " Improve- 

 ments in the process of extracting from the Peruvian Bark me- 

 dicinal substances or properties, known by the name of Quinine 

 and Cinchonine, and preparing the various salts to which these 

 substances may serve as a basis." 



