708 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Schooners. Tons. 



Bunker Hill 101 



Landseer !)!) 



Isaac Rich 92 



Ontario 91 



New England 86 



Frank A. Smith 77 



Wm. E. MacDonald 98 



Moro Castle 89 



Bonanza 137 



Jennie A. Stubbs 198 



Lizzie and Nnmari 94 



Crest of the Wave 71 



Moses Knowlton 111 



Maud and Effle 85 



Fred. P. Fye 85 



Mary M 102 



Maud B. Wetherell 108 



Cunard 75 



Charles C. Warren 109 



Bellerophon 86 



Total 26 vessels. 



Vessels employed during season of 1878 and 1879 in Newfoundland fisheries. 



Schooners. Tons. 



John S. McQuinn 82 



Falcon 72 



New England 86 



Rattler 83 



Wildfire 109 



Bunker Hill 101 



Isaac Rich 92 



Centennial 116 



Total 8 vessels. 



Witness my hand and seal this 10th day of January, A. D. 1879. 

 [SEAL.] F. J. BABSON, Collector. 



Sir E. Thornton to Earl Granville. 



[Extract.] 



WASHINGTON, May % 1880. 



(Eeceived June 5.) 



During a conversation which I had with Mr. Evarts at the State 

 Department on the 20th instant I spoke to him about the Fortune 

 Bay affair, and expressed some surprise at the step which the Presi- 

 dent and he had recommended to Congress, to the effect that the 

 import duties upon fish and fish-oil, the produce of the British prov- 

 inces, should be re-imposed as they existed before the Treaty of 

 Washington. I stated that it appeared to me that this was an un- 

 friendly step, and, if carried out by Congress, would render an agree- 

 ment upon the question at issue much more difficult than it would 

 otherwise have been. Previously to the transmission of the Presi- 

 dent's message, I should have had great hopes that an arrangement 

 might have been arrived at ; but, when it was attempted to put upon 

 Her Majesty's Government a pressure to which, under similar cir- 

 cumstances, the United States' Government would have certainly 

 objected, it did not seem as if the latter was desirous of finding a 

 solution of the question. 



