THE FISHERIES.

The following table exhibits the United States tonnage employed in
the fisheries, and the import and export of fish into and from the United
States, for a series of years. The table shows the importance of the in-
terests at stake upon the decision of the fish controversy. It is the
mackerel fishermen who are more particularly interested in the recent
policy of the British government:

Number of vessels and tonnage belonging to the following countries, 1852.

The shipping and tonnage entered inwards, and cleared outwards, from
the following countries:

EXPORTS OF BREAD-STUFFS AND PROVISIONS FROM NEW YORK.

The exports from New York of flour, wheat, corn, beef, pork, and
lard, from 1st January to 31st December, 1852 and 1851, were as follows:

The Chicago Democrat has a very full statement of the business of that
city for the past season. We gather from it the following figures, showing
the amount of the articles specified sent east by lake and railroad:

Of the following articles the comparison with last year is not given:

Comparative statement of beef cattle sold in the New York market during the years 1851 and 1852.

These figures show, at a glance, the immense increase in the consumption of cattle in this city. The difference in favor of 1852 is as follows:

Increase over 1851.-Beeves, 16,231; cows and calves, 282; sheep and lambs, 58,900.

If we adopt $39 as an average price for beef cattle on the hoof, we arrive at a tolerably reliable estimate of the probable value of the most lucrative branch of the immense and growing trade. According to this showing, then, the sales of the year closing realized four million ninetyeight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, which is an increase of $313,011 over the sales of 1851. There is an equally substantial increase seen in the sales and value of the other descriptions of cattle, as evidenced by the comparison below:

According to these figures, the total value of the cattle trade for the

year is as follows:

If we include the sales of which, as above stated, no reliable estimate can be procured, it is probable that the value of the year's business would swell to six millions of dollars.

There is one branch of the cattle trade of this city not here taken into account the traffic in hogs-in which there is a large amount of capital annually invested; but the places of sale are so numerous, and the sta tistics of trade so imperfect and unreliable, that we have not taken it into regular account. Many thousands are sold weekly, the supplies coming chiefly from New Jersey, Western New York, and Ohio.-Cou. rier and Enquirer.

Statement of all the property which came to the Hudson river on the canals in the years 1851 and 1852, with the quantity and estimated value of each article in Albany and Troy.