18 Sratistics of Van Diemen’s Land. 
and Trades in operation within the Colony in 1849. There 
are 60 different pursuits enumerated in all; and the numbers 
engaged in each are specified in the respective districts in 
which they are carried on. Among the trades that now 
make their first appearance, may be mentioned a bone-dust 
manufactory, a glue and size-maker, a gold-beater, a cloth 
manufactory, two salt works, two starch manufactories, and 
two pianoforte-makers. 
This progress in domestic industry cannot but be viewed 
with the deepest interest ; and, in connection especially with 
the command of the superior coal she now possesses, there 
can be no doubt that Van Diemen’s Land is destined to take 
as high a place in the scale of nations as a manufacturing 
country, as she must inevitably do as an agricultural one 
from her soil and climate and geographical position.* 
Among the trades which show an increase to their num- 
bers upon the year, are blacksmiths 39, butchers 14, cabinet- 
makers 28, candle-makers 6, cooperages 8, corn and ship 
chandlers 4, engineers 3, fellmongers 11, furriers 2, grocers 
27, ironmongers 6, painters and glaziers 28, shoemakers 96, 
tailors 20. 
Among those trades which, on the contrary, have decreased 
in number, are general dealers 67, mast and block-makers 2, 
mills 5, pastrycooks 2, sail-maker 1, saw-mill 1, shipwrights 
and boat-builders 16, tanners 2, and wine merchants 4. 
Tables 83 and 84 are details of the Post-office Depart- 
ment for 1849. There are 51 Post-offices within the Colony, 
employing 74 persons, and operating over 637 miles of roads. 
There were sent from Hobart Town 195,106 letters, and 
222,267 newspapers ; and there were received there 152,776 
letters. Compared with 1848, there is a slight decrease of 
* The contributions from this Colony to the Grand Industrial Exhibition 
of 1851 afford strong grounds in support of this remark. 
