A FRENCH FISHING EXPEDITION

THE French are so little given to distant commercial expeditions, especially to such as are of a maritime character, that there is ground for surprise in the fact that a large number of their fishermen annually betake themselves to the confines of the Arctic Ocean for the purpose of engaging in the cod-fishery. It seems but natural to a people like ourselves that English ships and English traders should be found wherever there is occupation for them. As a matter of fact, they are everywhere to be met with.