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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER s AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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ROCHESTER, APRIL 21,1855. 
European Diplomacy. 
Tub “ four points” before the Conference at 
Vienna are exciting a great deal of speculation 
in and out of diplomatic circles. 
The first, as agreed upon, is the abolition of 
the exclusive Protectorate of Russia over the 
Principalities—the five Powers uniting in a 
guarantee to their inhabitants of the privi¬ 
leges conceded to them by the Sultan. 
The second is the “ free navigation of the 
Danube.' ’ This is also ratified. 
On the third the parties have not as yet 
agreed, and there appears to he great difficul¬ 
ty, if not impossibility, in arranging the dif¬ 
ferences. The plenipotentiaries have suspen¬ 
ded negotiations and sent home for instruc¬ 
tions. As stated by the Allies, the point is 
“ The Revision of the Treaty of July 13, 1841, 
the object of which revision should be more 
completely to attach the existence of the Ot¬ 
toman Empire to the European balance of 
power, and to put an end to the preponder¬ 
ance of Russia in the Black Sea.” To all 
which Russia is willing to accede, provided 
what they call “putting an end to the pre¬ 
ponderance of Russia in the Black Sea’ ’ shall 
not infringe ‘ 1 upon the rights of sovereignty 
of the Czar or his own territory.” This point 
involves the destruction or maintenance of 
the fortifications at Sebastopol, Odessa, &c., 
or the erection of others by the Allies. 
The fourth point as proposed by the Allies 
is in effect that Russia shall renounce all pre¬ 
tensions to exercise an official protectorate 
over the Christian (Greek) subjects of the Sul¬ 
tan, on the score of former treaties. As pro¬ 
posed by Russia, it abandons tho exclusive 
protectorate, hut insists on a joint one. 
Tub Weather. —For a week past we have 
experienced fine spring weather, and vegeta¬ 
tion begins to exhibit signs of returning life. 
On Friday night and Saturday morning there 
was a copious rain, -which melted away the 
last traces of winter in this vicinity, (except 
what is seen daily in the iceman’s cart peram¬ 
bulating our streets,) and gave an earnest of 
the good time coming. Tho early part of this 
week has been delightful, with a bright warm 
sun over head, and dry, clean walks under 
foot. Even the little patch of sky visible 
through the dusty window of the sanctum 
looks 
‘‘Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue.” 
If there is so much to attract in the amount 
specified, our readers in the country can judge 
from experience the superiority of a prospect 
bounded on all sides only by the horizon. 
Ecclesiastical Controversy.— The Church 
Tenure bill, which has recently become the 
law of this State, forbidding the vesting of 
church property in persons, and vesting it in 
the society, has caused a good deal of stir in 
certain quarters. Bishops Hughes and Timon, 
of the Roman Catholic church, have publish¬ 
ed long letters, directly or indirectly called 
out by the bill. The trustees of St. Louis 
church in Buffalo have answered the latter 
gentleman, and, in the opinion of those at 
least outside of that denomination, have 
pretty effectually silenced his ecclesiastical 
cannon. Perhaps if we spelled it canon, it 
would be pronounced a bull ex cathedra. 
The Next Congress. 
All the Free States have had their elections 
for the next Congicss, and in every one of 
them except California, the majority, in some 
shape or other, is in opposition to the Admin¬ 
istration. In all the Eastern States except 
Maine (which sends one Administration mem¬ 
ber,) and in Ohio and Delaware, there is not 
an Administration Congressman elected. New 
Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, Iowa, 
Florida, and Missouri, send one Administra¬ 
tion member each—all the rest opposition. 
New York sends 29 opposition to four Admin¬ 
istration, Pennsylvania 21 to 4, Ohio 21 to 0. 
Some other Slave States, however, will 
probably tell a different story, as South Caro¬ 
lina has elected six Administration, Arkansas 
two, Florida one, and no opposition. 
Elections have yet to be held in Alabama, 
Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, 
Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas 
and Virginia, which send in all 73 members. 
Allowing the Administration every member 
yet to be elected, a contingency not at all 
probable, they would still be in a minority in 
the next Congress by 25. In the last Congress 
the Administration were in majority by 47 
members. So much for political mutations. 
Railroad Convention. —A meeting of the 
Presidents, Directors and Superintendents of 
nearly all the Northern line of Railroads con¬ 
necting the cities of New York and Boston 
with those on the Mississippi and Missouri 
Rivers, was held at Albany, April 11. The 
meeting was quite largely attended, and was 
organized by the appointment of Erastus 
Corning, President of the Central Railroad, 
as Chairman, and E. B. Phillips, of the Toledo 
Railroad, as Secretary. Nearly every Railroad 
in the North and Northwestern States were 
represented. The object of the meeting was 
to fix a tariff on freight and passengers, the 
time of departure and running of trains, so as 
to accommodate as far as possible, the several 
lines of Railroad connecting the seaport towns 
with the Western waters. 
The first matter was not decided, hut is to 
be again considered, at an adjourned meeting. 
$. i f e I q If ij e c o Ir 5. 
Lumber in Minnesota. —The Minnesota pa¬ 
pers say new lumber enterprises, and larger 
ones than ever before, will be carried forward 
the present year. The St. Paul Times gives an 
account of an extensive mill, now being put 
up at Stillwater by Messrs. Staples & Co.— 
There is to be a gang of thirty saws, besides 
shingle, clapboard and lath machines, all driv¬ 
en by the same engine. They have expended 
$120,000 in the erection of the mill, and the 
purchase of pine lands; employ 187 men, 50 
yoke of oxen, and 16 span of horses in the 
pineries, and intend to manufacture from six¬ 
teen to seventeen million feet of lumber before 
the close of navigation. 
Profitable Speculation. —England is about 
to borrow two million pounds sterling, or near 
five million dollars, at five per cent., and loan 
it again to Sardinia at four per cent. This is 
one of the indirect ways of bribing the petty 
Sovereigns of Europe to barter away the flesh 
and blood of their subjects for gold. Sardinia 
sends 10,000 men to fight the battles of the 
allies in the Crimea, and of course must be 
paid for it. England went into the German 
market for fighting men dining our own revo¬ 
lution, in a more direct way, and came out 
second best at that. 
Emancipation Frustrated. —Gen. Bledsoe, 
of Eatonton, Ga., by his will emancipated his 
slaves, one hundred in number, with a provis¬ 
ion for their settlement and maintenance in 
the State of Indiana or Illinois. The execu¬ 
tor, in attempting to fulfill the conditions, is 
met by a law which forbids the coming in or 
settlement of free blacks upon their soil. The 
result is, that the heirs-at-law now come for¬ 
ward and claim the slaves, on the ground that 
it is impossible to fulfill the conditions of the 
will. The case goes up to the Supreme Court 
of Georgia for adjudication. 
An Omen. —A grand event has just occurred 
at Moscow. The large bell of the tower of 
Ivan Velik, in the Kremlin, fell to the ground 
at the moment when the ceremony of swear¬ 
ing fidelity to the Emperor was going on, and 
by its fall crushed nearly one hundred per¬ 
sons. For a people so superstitious as the 
Russians this disaster has appeared a most 
sinister omen, and the letter which gives an 
account of the event states that the effect on 
the public mind has been that of great con¬ 
sternation. 
The Caloric Ship. —The Calorie ship Erics- 
sm has proved a failure, and the vessel has 
been turned into a steamer. The unfortunate 
projector sunk both his own and his wife’s 
fortunes in the enterprise, and his failure adds 
one more to the number of those whose genius 
for invention has proved their ruin. The 
Scientific American always said the experiment 
would [be unsuccessful, and was somewhat 
persecuted by the sanguine friends of tho 
under taking for such a prediction. 
A New Dogma. —Father Walworth, son of 
the venerable Ex-Chancellor, a priest of the 
Roman ^Catholic Church, lately preached la¬ 
bored sermon, in which he essays to prove that 
the place of punishment for the finally impen¬ 
itent, is in the centre of the earth, and places 
a literal construction upon the language of the 
Bible as to the mode of punishment and its 
physical pains. The New York Evening Post 
publishes the sermon at length. 
The MaY'Fltweb, and Miscellaneous Writings. By Har¬ 
riet Bikcher »-towk, author of “ Uncle 'Jom’s Cabin,” 
“ St nny Memories of Foreign lands,” &c. Boston : 
Phillips, Sampson & Co. 
This handsome volume gives a portrait of 
Mrs. Stowe, and contains a variety of sketches 
and tales—earlier and later productions of the 
author—some among them great favorites of 
ours, years ago. Several essays and poems are 
added ; the whole making a book likely to 
quicken the moral sense of its readers. Sold 
at Dewey’s. 
School Arithmetic, Analytical and Practical. By Charles 
Davies. L. L. I)., author of a full course of Mathematics. 
Revised edition. New York : A. S. Barnes & Co. 
Tins is a very valuable and scientific work, 
by one of our best and most celebrated educa¬ 
tional authors. The great feature of the book, 
and one which will commend itself to the in¬ 
telligent teacher, is the lucid manner in which 
the processes are analyzed and explained, thus 
enabling the pupil to understand the all- 
important why, as well as the how, a thing is 
done. The former lies at the root of all liberal 
science, for if a person works only by rule, he 
is a mere machine. 
Analysis or the English Sentence, Designed for advanced 
classes In English Grammar. By A. S. Welch, a. M.. 
Principal of the Michigan Normal School. New York : 
A. S. Barnes & Co. 
Thi 3 treateis is designed to follow Clark’s 
Grammar, and the object is to contribute some¬ 
thing to the philosophical study of our lan¬ 
guage, so as to rob it of the dry, repulsive 
nature of the pursuit, and enable the pupil to 
acquire the science of language better than 
has heretofore been possible to mere English 
students. The author has brought out a good 
work, and the volume is a valuable addition 
to our catalogue of text books on Grammar. 
Chinese Plow at the State Agricultural 
Rooms. —The Albany Journal of the 7th, says: 
“ Mr. Johnson received this morning from S. 
Wells Williams, D. D., Canton, a Chinese 
plow, complete. A similar plow, Mr. Wil¬ 
liams writes, is in use in Japan. It is a curiosi¬ 
ty worth seeing, and our farmers will be sur¬ 
prised to see such a rude implement used for 
turning up the soil.” 
Declines to Sentence. —Judge Watson is 
holding a Criminal Court in Troy. During 
the sitting of the Court, the District Attorney 
moved the sentence of Mrs. Robinson, the con 
demned murderess. Judge Watson declined 
passing sentence, upon the ground previously 
established by Judge Wright, that as the 
prisoner was tried by Judge Harris, he alone 
should pass sentence upon her. 
Adjournment of the Legislature. —’The Leg¬ 
islature finally adjourned on Saturday, after a 
session of one hundred and three days. Three 
days, after the pay ceased, was sufficient to 
finish the business, or rather that which could 
not be finished in that time was passed over. 
We will publish next week a brief synopsis of 
themost important and interesting bills passed 
during the session. 
Sudden Death. —The Albany Evening Journal 
says, Miss Neely, from South Carolina, a 
student at the Troy Female Seminary, was 
found dead in her bed on Friday morning of 
last week. Thursday evening she retired to 
bed in apparently her usual health. The de¬ 
ceased was about sixteen years of age, and her 
death, it is supposed, was produced by disease 
of the heart. 
One Acre Farms. 
Distinction Without Difference.— Some one 
of our cotemporaries makes the following good 
hit at the expense of the British Admirals :— 
“The difference between two Admirals who 
have not achieved much distinction of any 
kind, appears to be, that Napier was expected 
to do something, and didn’t do it; and Dun- 
das was expected to do nothing, and did it.” 
Depot Burned. —The old depot of the New 
York and Erie Railroad at Jersey City, was 
burned on the 14th. Fourteen cars were de¬ 
stroyed, two of which were loaded with goods. 
The building was of little value, and the whole 
loss amounts to $20,000 or $30,000. 
Port of Genesee.— The business on Lake 
Ontario, since the Reciprocity act, has increased 
to such an extent that those at the Port of 
Genesee who have warehouses cannot dispose 
of the freight as fast as received from Canada 
and elsewhere. Mr. J. Eaton, of Charlotte, 
had advices yesterday of the shipment of 2.000 
barrel of beef and pork, from Detroit, con¬ 
signed to him, to be sent by Railroad to New 
York. Charlotte is looking up.— Democrat, 
April 16th. 
New York Oyster Trade. —A committee of 
oystermen appeared before the Board of Health 
of New York on Thursday week, and testified 
relative to the healthiness of oysters in the 
summer months. It was also testified that no 
less than 10,000 persons and two hundred ves¬ 
sels are engaged in the business of transplant¬ 
ing from Virginia, and that a capital of $5,- 
000,000 must be invested in the oyster trade 
in that city, on a moderate calculation. 
The Indians of California have been in a 
starving condition the past winter; their 
chief resorts for food—fish, game, acorns, etc. 
—being cut off by the encroachments of the 
whites. 
Kossuth announces by advertisement, that 
he has formed a permanent engagement with 
the London Atlas, a weekly print, and solicits 
subscriptions for that paper. 
The New Orleans Bulletin of the 19th ult., 
complains that on the last night of the session 
of the Louisiana Legislature, all the members 
were under the dominion of King Alcohol. 
The Courier Sf Enquirer copies the article go- j 
ing the rounds in regard to the sale of a build¬ 
ing lot in London, and contrasts the prices 
there with those in New York. We select a 
a few examples. Thus : 
The lot corner of William street and Ex¬ 
change Place, 80 feet deep, and on an average 
34 feet 4£ inches wide, containing 2,760 super¬ 
ficial feet, was sold to the Bank of the State 
of New York for $80,000, and $100,000 have 
since been offered for it. At the latter valua¬ 
tion per acre, it amounts to $4,578,261, or 
about £826,087. The lot on the lower corner 
of Broadway and Wall street, 30 feet by 40, 
containing 1,200 square feet, is held and may 
be sold for $100,000. This is at the rate of 
$3,630,000 an acre, or about £750,000. The 
lot corner of Nassau and Wall streets, on 
which the Express (newspaper) buildings 
stand, is 25 feet by 90, and is held at $125,000, 
or $2,420,000, equal to £500,000, per acre.— 
I he lot on Nassau street, adjoining the lot on 
which Messrs. Duncan, Sherman & Co. have 
commenced their new Banking House, is con¬ 
sidered abundantly worth $i20,000, hut is 
held at $150,000. At the former figure, it 
being but 50 feet by 80, and containing 4,000 
square feet, is held at the rate of $1,306,800 
How Much Coal Makes a Ton. —The Phila¬ 
delphia Ledger, April 10th, says : 
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recent¬ 
ly decided that according to the laws of that 
State, a ton weight consisted of 2,000 lbs., 
and that a greater number of pounds could 
not he legally exacted in purchasing a ton of 
coal, notwithstanding the custom of giving 
2,210 in one part of the State, and 2,258 in 
another. The United States District Court 
jesterday decided in a suit in Admiralty that 
the legal weight of a ton of coal is 2,240 lbs., 
and that the coal dealers have no more right 
to give less than grocers would have to give, 
less than sixteen ounces to the pound. As 
the Constitution of the United States gives to 
Congress the power to “fix the standard of 
weights and measures,” we suppose that the 
act of 1834, passed by the Assembly in Penn¬ 
sylvania, must yield to the higher authority, 
and all the laws of this State, prescribing the 
size of the yard measure, the cubic contents 
of a bushel and of a gallon, are null and void 
where they differ from the United States 
standard. 
Destruction of an Iron Bridge. —The beau 
tiful cast iron bridge across the Avon river at 
Bristol, England, was accidentally destroyed 
a few weeks since, by the violent collision of 
a coal barge which was descending the river. 
The biidge was a noble structure, consisting 
of a single arch, with a span of 160 feet, and 
was built in the year 1809. On the 20th ult. 
a propeller coal barge of about two hundred 
tons, while descending the river under a full 
head of steam, and upon a very high ebb tide, 
struck one of the abutments witli such force 
that the bridge fell instantly with a tremen 
dous crash, and sank to the bottom of the 
river. A number of persons were crossing it 
at the time, and several are known to have 
been drowned. Three or four men swam to 
the bank and were rescued. 
•Jfctog Slipping 
Early Vegetables at the South.— The 
Charleston Cornier of Monday week says:— 
“The rain we mentioned as falling when we 
went to press on Friday morning, continued 
with little intermission until nearly noon on 
Saturday. Yesterday was a beautiful day, and 
the gardens in the vicinity of the city, which 
bad been suffering from drouth, will shortly 
yield a profusion of vegetables for our market. 
We saw on Saturday, on one gentleman’s, 
farm over fifty bushels of very fiue peas that 
will be ready to he picked in a day or two.” 
Cheap Nobility. —“Dick Tinto,” the cor¬ 
respondent of the New York Times, writing 
from Florence, says: 
“American parents, wishing their daugh¬ 
ters to make ambitious (!) matches, do not 
disdain alliances with Fiesolan grandees. An 
Italian made illustrious at Fiesole, will marry 
a Yankee girl for one hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars down. This is the current rate, I am 
told, in these latter days, when republicanism 
is fell, and nobility is riz.” 
Mails in Russia.— Sebastopol is distant from 
St. Petersburg about 1,392 miles, (2080 versts.) 
Couriers convey the mails (on four-wheeled 
carts, drawn by three horses, and driven at a 
rapid pact ) to Moscow, about 920 miles (1426 
versts,) from whence they go by railway to the 
capital. From five days to a week is occupied 
in the entire journey ; so that the Czar has his 
dispatches three or four days earlier than either 
of their crowned opponents, unless it be the 
Sultan, can possibly obtain theirs. 
A Fearful Leap. —An Irishman took an 
express train on the Boston and Maine Rail¬ 
road, at Haverhill, intending to steal a ride to 
a point near Bradford. When about half a 
mile from Bradford, while the train was under 
full headway, he jumped off. He landed on 
his feet, bounced by actual measurement eight 
feet, and slid on his back some 25 feet farther. 
He was stunned for a time, hut experienced 
no permanent injury.— Andover Advertiser. 
Navigation of the St. Lawrence River.— 
A correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial, 
from Ogdensburgli, of April 22d, says: “The 
ice on the St. Lawrence is mostly on the move, 
the channel being open as far as Wells’ Island. 
A few more mild days will clear it from among 
the Thousand Islands, when we can once more 
safely rely on free navigation. The Compa¬ 
ny’s boats at this place are nearly ready to 
take their places on the line.” 
Robbery at Canandaigua. —W. C. Hanford, 
merchant at Honeoye Falls, started East on 
Tuesday of last week, accompanied by Mrs. 
Barrett, his mother-in-law, and on arriving 
at Canandaigua, was robbed of a small carpet 
bag or valise, containing, among other things 
of less value, a package of bank bills amount¬ 
ing to about $300.— Union. 
Clearing the Crystal Palace. — Collector 
Redtield has given notice that all the articles 
imoorted for exhibition in the Crystal Palace 
which are not withdrawn before the 1st of 
June will he sold at public auction as con¬ 
demned goods. 
Gov. Pollock has signed the new liquor law 
of Pennsylvania. 
The repairs and superintendence of the Ca¬ 
nals cost last year over $1,200,000. 
Rev. F. T. Gray, who died at Boston recent¬ 
ly, had his life insured for $40,000. 
Four cardinals’ hats have been vacated by 
death since the beginning of the year. 
Bayard Taylor is said to have cleared $6,- 
000 by his lectures during the late lecture 
season. 
The Empress of the French is likely to bo a 
guest at Buckingham Palace shortly after 
Easter. 
The Legislature of Maine have passed a law 
denying to State Courts the right of naturali¬ 
zation. 
England has imported 30,543,533 pounds of 
tobacco in 1854, from which she received a rev¬ 
enue of $4,643,478. 
Since the year 1850, there have been two 
hundred letters patent issued for inventions 
by Canadian citizens. 
Miss Elizabeth Pratt, of Boston, who died 
recently, bequeathed $20,000 to the Massa¬ 
chusetts General Hospital. 
D. C. McCallum, Superintendent of the New 
York and Erie Railroad, is lying dangerously 
ill at his residence in Owego. 
The N. Y. Mirror learns from the best au¬ 
thority that Putnam’s Monthly is paying a 
profit of about $6,000 a year. 
Fourteen inches of snow fell at Burlington, 
Vt., April 11th; and the next day the ice on 
the lake commenced breaking up. 
Advices from Iowa give the intelligence 
that the prohibitory law has been ratified by 
a popular majority of about 5,000. 
. The receipts of the American Board of Mis¬ 
sions for the month of February were $29,569. 
Total up to March 1st, $154,334.48. 
i he first run of shad have made their ap¬ 
pearance in the Connecticut river, and were 
sold in Hartford for 75 cents apiece. 
i he Journal of Commerce says that the 
net profits of the Grisi and Mario engagement 
in this country, amount to $18,000. 
The Gallapagos is declared by Prof. Horsford, 
of Harvard College, to contain more ammonia 
than the best Peruvian specimens. 
A new Methodist Episcopal Church was ded¬ 
icated a few weeks since, by Bishop Ames, 
near the famous battle ground of Tippecanoe. 
One hundred and seventy-eight students 
graduated from the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, on Saturday last. 
TnE Prussian correspondence states that the 
number of Russian deserters now in the Grand 
Duchy of Posen, amount to more than 13,000. 
At Paris they have signs which read thus : 
“Aux Americains specialize de Pumpkin Pie.' ’ Tho 
pie, a Yankee says, is in real Connecticut style. 
The new statue in bronze of Joan of Arc, 
and the newly repaired Hotel de Ville at 
Orleans are to be inaugurated on the 18th of 
May. 
The Athenaeum states that Mr. H. Reeve, 
translator of De Tocquelle’s book on America, 
has been appointed editor of the Edinburgh 
Review. 
The colored population of Philadelphia 
numbers at present 30,000 persons, possessing 
an aggregate of $2,688,693 in real and person¬ 
al estate. 
The steamers Hansa and Germania, which 
cost a Bremen company $165,000, have been 
sold bv them to the British Government for 
$480,000. 
A bas relief, in white marble, representing 
Esculapius attending a patient, has been dis¬ 
covered at Cyzica, in Asia Minor, and brought 
to the Lovre. 
An association is to be established in Toronto, 
for the purpose of inducing emigrants from 
Ireland to settle in Canada in preference to the 
United States. 
The naturalist, Ch. de Meyer, known to the 
scientific World by his travels among the Altai 
Mountains ami in the region of the Caucasus, 
died ou the 28th ult. 
One of the last acts of the Emperor Nicholas 
was to present a diamond ring to a writer 
named Rotchoff, for a pamphlet entitled “The 
Truth about England.” 
Dr. J. R. Kane, a son of Judge Kane, of 
Philadelphia, is to go out as surgeon in one of 
the ships about to be despatched in search of 
his adventurous brother. 
About sixty-five thousand bales of cotton, 
valued at over three millions of dollars, have 
been destroyed by fire in this country, within 
the last three months. 
Tiie Philadelphia Gazette estimates that 
not less than a thousand students have gradu¬ 
ated from the various Medical Colleges in that 
city, since the year came in. 
On the 31st of January there were 5,686 con¬ 
victs under sentence of transportation in con¬ 
finement in England, and 2,369 convicts were 
at large with tickets of leave. 
Tiir Emperor is absolutely “ possessed ” by 
the idea of taking Sevastopol, and is incessant¬ 
ly studying the means, surrounded by charts, 
plans and other accessories. 
The coal mountains in Pennsylvania, which 
have been on fire since 1837, will probably soon 
be extinguished, as the fire is approaching a 
point which can he submerged. 
There is a very general complaint in Louis¬ 
iana of the prospects of the sugar crop. Heavy 
frosts, cold weather, and the absence of rain, 
have seriously injured the cane. 
Observations with a microscope have shown 
that the shell of an oyster is a world occupied 
by innumerable small animals, compared to 
which the oyster itself is a colossus. 
An agent of the Indiana Central R. R. and 
Express Company, named Gregg, is said to 
have stepped out, carrying with him some ten 
thousand dollars of tho corporate fund. 
The Police Gazette of St. Petersburgh gives 
an account of a largo wolf, perfectly mad, 
which ran through the streets of the Russian 
capital, and bit 28 men and 6 women. 
The number of persons belonging to Scot¬ 
land alone, employed in the tiny fisheries, is 
71,000. Nearly half a million, in that single 
kingdom, earn a livelihood by the fisheries. 
