Letters from Hull mention the receipt of advices of the
Greenland fishery by is vessel arrived there, having on board seven fish, 5,500 seals, and about 80 tuns of oil. The fishery appears to have been suc- cessful; several ships belonging to Peterhead are reported to have front 160 to 180 tuns of oil each.
The salmon fishing continues almost daily to improve ; and the season, we are glad to learn, promises to be, upon the whole, as satis- factory as has been experienced during the last few years.—Berwick Warder.
There is still a fair demand for some descriptions of yarn, princi- pally for the Russian market, bin at rather lower prices than heretofore.
For goods of all kinds there is but little inquiry ; the wonted dulness of the season hieing no doubt increase:I by the state of the cotton- market, which continues depressed and unsteady.-411imchester Guar- dian of Wednesday.
The Great Western left Bristol on Saturday last, for New York, with 118 passengers. Some idea may be formed of the advantages to
Bristol of this undertaking, by the fact that one of the clerks, who ha
been in the Bristol Customhouse about twenty. four years, declared that he never had such a figging day as on Wednesday, in entering for exportation by the Great Western pieces of goods, containing thou- sands noon thousands of yards of light clothing. Her cargo is esti- mated at 20.000/. value ; every nook and cranny where goods could be
stowed being filled. She is two or three feet deeper in the water than
she was on the last voyage out. She carries despatches for Lord Dur- ham; and there were 3.180 letters from the Post-office, and about 5,000 from that of the Great Western; also about 2,000 newspapers, and a great number of small parcels; besides which, the passengers' luggage was sufficient to freight a small steamer.
In some parts of the West of England, the growing wheat has been attacked by the ravages of is new enemy, in the shape of a minute green caterpillar or grub, which has, in many instances, fastened upon and wholly destroyed the ears of corn. Some of the damaged ears have been shown to us, which hear melancholy testimony to the truth of the complaint._ Salisbury Journal.
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