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 93 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: |