text:  Bales of manufactured goods assume the appearance of sacks of potatoes and onions--nay those useful products of the soil are sometimes even supposed to be contained in wooden cases and casks carefully hooped and nailed; "and huge canvass bales are likewise cleared and reported to be indubitably filled with the said potatoes the softness of the packages to the touch arising probably from the fact of their being boiled!" At times however by a rare chance an incorruptible custom-house is discovered; and for that or some other reason it is deemed advisable to resort to the old and certainly more sporting plan of running the cargoes which is accomplished in a most systematic and comfortable manner