The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

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Coons of Wag. Strength of Wlad. etas of the Weather.
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The returns front the following places did not reach this
odic' in time for publication yesterday; they therefore
indicate the st►te of the weather on Saturday morning at
nine o'clock.

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IRISH FAIRS.-At the fair of Rathkeale last week,
I fat cows rated frem 71. to 10/. 10s. ; mulch cows, 61. to
81. 10s.; two years old, 41. 10s. to 61. 10s. ; yearlings, 31. to
51. ; weanling calves, 11. 101. to 21. ss. ; fat sheep, 30s. to
425. ; lambs, from 15e. to 235. ; bacon pigs, at 38s. a cwt. ;
store pigs, 181. to 40s. At the fair of Newcastle, fat cows,
from 61. 10s. to 81. 10e. ; mulch cows, 51. 10s. to 71. 7s. ; two
year old, 41. to 51. ss. ; yearlings, 21. 10s. to 41. ; sheep, 245.
to 32e. ; lambs, I4s. to 205.; bacon pigs, 38s. to 40s. a cwt. ;
store pigs, 11. to 11. 15s.
HOPS IN HEREFORDSHIRE.-It is expected hops
hops will this year reach as high on the duty as one-flfth
of the whole collection. There is so great an improvement
in them, that the proprietors of the plantations here are
quite in spirits. Last year's extraordinary growth realising
26,6711. ss. M. out of 426,1941. th. old.,:the duty here is
expected to reach over twenty thousand this year. The
Hereford people must bestir themselves and establish a
good hop market, for it is scarcely fair that our growth
should be known chiefly to the trade as Worcester hops, solely
ois account of their being token to that market for sale. It
is generally thought, without railway communication, to
be impracticable to establish a good market here ; this will
be obviated, as the coming year will witness the completion
of the Shrewsbury and Hereford, the Gloucester, Boss, and
Hereford, and the Newport, Abergavenny, and Ilereford
lines, when, it is expected, there will be established a hop
market in this city, and the distant merchants will purchase
of the growers.
LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.-Tho usual
monthly meeting of the council of this chamber was yester-
day held at the rooms in Exchange-buildings, T. B.
Horsfall, Esq., President, in the chair. The following
communications were brought under the notice of the
council :-1. From the committee on the Sound dues. 2.
From the committee on customs regulations. 3. From the
deputation to the dock committee as to the establishment of
a baggage depot. 4. From the Postmaster-General and the
Board of Trade, on the ocean penny postage. 5. From the
Law Society on commercial tribunals ; and 6. On the mode
of delivering letters at the Post-office. We understand that
it is intended to exclude the representatives of the press
from the monthly meetings of the council, which will here
after partake of the character of private committees, and
publicity will be given only at the half-yearly meetings.
SALMON FISHERY IN THE THAMES (Vol. tv., p.
87.)-Those of your readers who know that I am connected
with Billingsgate market would look to me for the reply to
It. J. it query. I must therefore inform them that only
thirty or forty years back salmon were taken in rather
large quantities in the Thames; but since the introduction
of steam-boats and the increase of traffic, the fish have
gradually, I might say suddenly, disappeared, for during
the last twenty years very few salmon indeed have been
taken, and those that found their way to market have realised
high prices ; not that Thames salmon was ever esteemed
for its flavour, but only for its extreme rarity of late years.
The hindrance to salmon taking the Thames is the steam-
boat and other traffic, which, agitating the water, frightens
them (they being a very timid fish), and stirs up the mud,
which chokes them ; fur there is no doubt that ever after
a salmon enters a river, it lives by suction. It is possible
that one or two salmon a season even make up our river
now, for becoming frightened, and rushing on having back
and head nearly out of water, and the tide with them, they
would get a long way in a night, and possibly reach clear
. water above bridge with life, but in a very weak state. I
believe that, under the most favourable circumstances,
salmon would not again frequent the Thames in any large
quantities, it being too southern ; and there is no doubt but
that the fish have been fast decreasing of late years, for
some of the best rivers in the north are now without sal-
mon.-Notes and Queries.

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