29,831 tons. The remaining 51 vessels, of the burden of 7,477 tons, were employed in voyages between St. John and the United States. The number and tonnage of new ships built and fitted out at the part of St. John in the year 1850 and 1851 are as follows: Of the new ships built at St. John in 1851, fourteen, measuring 10,332 tons, were for owners in the United Kingdom, and twenty-one others, of the burden of 11,398 tons, were sold and transferred to other ports during the year. This amounts to 21,730 tons of shipping exported from St. John during the past year, estimated at $800,000, which does not appear in the export returns. A great improvement in the model and finish of New Brunswick built ships has taken place within a few years, and their value has thereby been greatly augmented in the English market. Larch timber, better known by its local names of hackmatac or tamarack, is now chiefly used in the construction of the New Brunswick ships; and this wood has been so greatly approved, that in 1850 the committee of underwriters at Lloyd's decided to admit hackmatac vessels to the red star class for six years. This year the same committee has further resolved to admit these vessels to the seven-years class. The resolution runs thus: "Hackmatac, tamarack, juniper, and larch, of good quality, free from sap, and not grain-cut, will be allowed in the construction of ships in the seven-years class, for the following parts: Floors; first, second, and third foot-hooks and top timbers; stem and stern post; transoms, knight-heads, hawse-timbers, apron, and dead-wood." On The number of vessels belonging to the port of St. John on the 31st day of December, 1850, was 535, of the burden of 99,490 tons. the 31st day of December, 1851, the number was 518, of the burden of 94,810 tons; the decrease is attributed to a number of old vessels being sold during 1851. The population of St. John being under 30,000 souls, the proportion of tonnage to population is unusually large. An account of the numbers, tonnage, and men, of vessels that entered inward and cleared outward at the port of St. Andrews and its out-bays in 1850. The total amount of shipping owned at the port of Miramichi on the 31st day of December, 1851, was 98 vessels-7,466 tons. During 1851, the number of new vessels built on the gulf coast of New Brunswick was twenty-one, measuring 11,879 tons; of these four were over 1,000 tons each, and five were over 700 tons each. The vessels which entered inward and cleared outward at Miramichi during the years 1850 and 1851, were as follows: The total value of imports and exports at Miramichi in 1851 is thus stated: Imports, $347,990; exports, $411,700. Of the imports at Miramichi in 1851, goods and merchandise from the United States, of similar descriptions to those imported at St. John, were received to the extent of $47,435. The exports to the United States in 1851 were as follows: In the year 1850, five American ships, of the burden of 2,273 tons, took cargoes of timber and deals from Miramichi to London; and in 1851, six American ships, of the burden of 2,954 tons, also took cargoes to the United Kingdom from this port, under the provisions of the British navigation laws. At the port of Dalhousie the value of imports in 1851 was $128,570; of exports, $152,015. There were 28,202 tons of pine timber exported to the United Kingdom in 1851. The shipping returns at this port are as follows: Inward, 108 vessels-21,774 tons; outward, 102 vessels23,666 tons. At Bathurst the value of imports in 1851 was $77,850; of exports, $115,090. Shipping, inward, 89 vessels-14,065 tons; outward, 79 vessels-15,991 tons. At Richibucto the value of imports in 1851 was $109,000, and the value of exports $133,155. Shipping, inward, 106 vessels-16,786 tons; outward, 105 vessels-18,305 tons. Among the vessels at Richibucto in 1851 were the following vessels not British: |