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&vases' tithe Library, and another is transmitted as de-
;Nowa ; the remaining tarn print" out of the furr arc thus
instantly dooLled in rice, or the London print...4;l4r cannot
be reitnbursed, but at this highly-advauml price they find
no purchaser, and the foreign trade of the Louden print-
seller is thus as effectually put en end to as if tl:v importa-
tion into France of English engraving% %I.: re prohibited by
positive law. And this, after the 10;erality of the English
Gm/Eminent has, in effect, taken off the duty from French
engravings imported into this country !
" Well, hut," says the Eiuik, very gravely, " this for-
mality on-c satisfied, it nut repeated when other copies
are sent."

This we can readily believe, as we suspect there is no
London primseller, whose property has been once subjected
to this from/ay, that will put it in the power of the
French Government to repeat it. It si Worn happens that
more than four or six of a very experr,ive print are sent on
the first consignment, and until it is known whether the
public approbation is likely to ensure such a sale as may
warrant a speculation to a further extent ; but this extor-
tionate demand being made upon the few thus experiment-
al 4 consigned, the increased price which it becomes neces-
sary to fix upon them, in order to indemnify the London
dealer, prevents their finding a purchaser, and the Paris
agent has no alternative but to keep them on his hands,
or return them to London as unsaleable, after which the
sending othr c,pirs vrould be an act of imemity.
The ri gular duty imposed in France on English prints
is about ciettera per cent., while no duty, or a merely no-
minal one, is exacted on French prints imported into this
country. Now we have here an additional indirect duty
of 33 per cent., which is enormous ! What would be said,
if, in addition to the high duty on French wines, two pipes
out of every four of every sort itnpurtvol wvre demanded at
our Custom Ilouse,on their being landed at the port of 'hirer
or of London ? What would the merchants at Paris or
Bordeaux say, on being told, in answer to their com-
plaint of so monstrous an exaction being made, that by a
law of the 25th March and of the Ist May, env per ()revery
sort of French wine imported was Ith:ged at the disposal of
Mr. CANNING'S butler, in the cellar of the Foreign Secre-
tary ; ■nd that another pipe, on which the authorization
was inscribed, served as a sample to Mr. Pest., pour co
tithe /'essay, as Minister of the home deplrtment !!
The plain truth is, that the French Government are
anxious to preclude the engravers of this country from any
chance of successful competition with those of France; and
they therefore resort to this expedient as one means, 61111
an effectual one it is, of shutting them out from all oppor-
tunity of extending it. They look, we know, with an evil
eye on Mr. Aattowsurrn, who has lately gone from this
country, and whose establishment in Paris, they fear, is
calculattsl to extend this branch of commerce, by exhibit-
ing publicly the most distinguished and select specimens
of the English school of Art. Nothing can be more ill-
founded than any apprehensions from this source, nor more
illiberal than the expedient resorted to to counteract it. It
must, if persisted in, become, in its consequences, much
more injurious to the artist of France, than it can possibly
be to the artist of this country, as it must of necessity lead
to the imposing, as soon as Parliament meets, a duty on
all French engravings, equivalent to that which is now
exacted, directly and indirectly, upon the same articles ex-
ported from England.

The boxer Hudson, it appears, is likely to survive the
dreadful shock his frame sustained in the late fight at
Warwick. If lie had died, we should have hoped that all
the parties, as far as they could have been identified, who
were present, sitting and abetting his death, would have
been immediately secured, in order that they might have
been put upon their trial for in seantlabus and audacious
an outrage upon the public peace and the laws and charac-
ter of the country. These brutal exhibitions ought to be
suppressed. Like the gladiatorial combats of the Romans,
they tend only to debase ..*.e populace, and degrade those
above them to the same level of infamy and vice. It was
to have been expected that the proofs lately given of
the fraud and dishonesty of the abandoned fellows con-
nected with the prize-ring would have had the effect of
putting an end to a practice, which, under the pretence
of inspiring courage, in fact only fosters cruelty. But what
an atrocious libel is it on the bravery of Englishmen, to
represent such means as necessary to rouse them to the de-
fence of their country ! The science and slung of boxing
are the growth of yesterday ; but to what date can we refer
when Englishmen dared not meet, or could not conquer
their foes?

We rather siotreet that the fools atul rogues who support
pris.Agliting, have not attended to the alteration which
ban been made in the power of the Judges to purdah for
manslaughter. That ollimce is now punishable with any
severity, short of death ; and if some of the pugilists should
be killed in their mercenary tights, we think that the guilty
parties will t seape more easily than they deserve, if they be
not made zo share the fate of Comma/ft.

Yesterday was the settling day in the British Stock
Market ;on the whole it turned out a Bull account. The
scarcity of money caused by the demand to pay differencLs
produced a decline in price towards the middle of the day,
from which, however. the Funds recovered towards the
close of the Market, and finally exceeded any quotation
that has been made for some days past, having reached 96.
Further than settling. but little business was done in the
Market. Mexican Bonds also fell front their opening
price, partly, of course, from the cause already stab el, and
partly owing to a large sale effected by a Gentleman who is
known to lie extensively connected with these securities,
hut in they course of the day they gradually improved, and
at the close of the Market reached 66 1-Bth. The arrival
of the Jamaica packet, which there is every reason to ex-
pect in the early part of next week, will, in all probability,
either confirm or contradict ;he late important intelligence
tome South America, and then a derided rise or fall of all
these funds must take place. The Canada Shares, in con-
sequence of the rumour of Tuesday, width we combated
yestaday morning, had fallen from $ to 4i premium, but
in the course of the day they recovered, and at the close
were from ; to 14 prem.
. .

We never vet linew a settling day on the Stock Exchange
to pass over without its corresponding jobbing hoax. SAII/e-
-times these trieloi are well got up, and have essay appear-
ance of verisi kkk ; at others, a confusion of dates and
places whews, to all those who take the trouble to think for
themselves, the fallacy of the statement. We never, how-
ever, met with a more glaring absurdity than what was
attempted to be palmed on the King's liege subjects yes-
t. It was confidently stated that by edifices from
It. the army in the Romanic territory had mutinied,
refused to ronain there, and marched bark to Calcutta
in a body. We have several good reasons fur doubting this
report—first, all the Sepov battalions on this service were
volunteers, and as they had hitherto been successful, there
was but little chance of their being discontented ; secondly,
we have published the very latest intelligence from Bengal,
whi is makes no mention of any such matter; and thirdly
and lastly, which indeed imperscdes the other two, the
thing i. totally impossible. as, besides marching through the
Juntletininils, all impassable %tranipy jengle, intersected by
a meshwork of streams too deep to lie forded at any time,
touch Ic s in the rains, they must hay:. marched across the
hlegua, which, in the month of June, is so broad that the
ono side cannot be seen from the other: by sea they
coned not go. as the transports had gone' or More men. So
much for people making statics about a country, of the geo-
graphy of which they are entirely ignorant.

THE BRITISH. PRESS.

FRENCH PAPERS.
Irwin the Maile, datenVeclnesday, Nov. 241
(BY EXPRESS.)
MADRID Nov 18.

The Ring and all the Royal Family are still at the Escurial.
Yesterday a funeral serrice for the repose of the anul ut his Ma-
lear Louis :(VIII. was celebrated in the Royal Church of st.
sidore.

The King. unwilling that any of the sere ices which were rendered
hint during the reign of crime should remain unrecompensed, and
impatient to testify his royal grafitude to such of hi• fAithful sub-
jects as have combated the perfidious enemies of the altar and the
throne orders, that every indiviilual who thinks he hue title to his
favours, shall present within a month the claim he thinks he can
make. A Royal Ordinance onlers the Camara to make a strict search
after persons who, enjoying ecclesiastical benefices, still continue
to wear the secular baba. Ilia Majesty decrees, that in this matter,
the Canons of the Council of 'rent be taken as a rule.
The Minister of War has transmitted to the Director-l/eneral of
the Artillery the orders of his Majesty, that she number of work.
men shall be increased in all the manufactories of arms, and espe.
peci:lly in those at Oviedo and Corunna.
General Don Juan Downie (Sir John Downie) has been men.
tinned with particular praise in the Aladrill Gazelle, for having
displayed extraordinary zeal and activity in the organisation of the
royal volunteers of the province of Andalusia.

BITCH 99999 OCT. 17.

The Court of the Prince, which Is the house that hat. the least to
fear from the plague of any in Wallachia, manifests very serious
alarms. The Ilospodar Chats takes the greatest precautions. lie
has notified to the Boyars. that those among them who may
wish to return to the country with their families are at liberty to
do an.

OCT. 19.—Only two new eases are spoken of. one of them doubt.
ful. Achmet Aga, eimionander of the Turks, has placed four
sentinel, at the door of the metropolitan.
Oc T. 29.-I)ne or two new Mal at vaguely spoken of.
1/c T. 21--No case.
OCT. 22 and 23.—N0 cave.

PARIS, Nov. 23.

The Emperor of Russia arrived at his palace of Zarvkojeselii, in
the evening of the 4th of November. His Imperial %lnjesy is in
excellent health. The hereditary Prince of Saxe kl'eitnar and the
Grand Hotline; Maria. his consort, arrived with their children at
Hatsehina the same day ; the Empress Maria went to the third
stage to meet her daughter. The Empress Elizabeth, who has been
ill of a cold and fever is better to-day, and seems to 1):: r..coir..retl.
rogue:lt Fun ins.—l'Anis, Nov. 23.—rive per Cent. Consols,
Iolf. httc. 55c. link.; Ntapnlitan Hoods, in pounds met,
ling, 0Ii.; Royal Spanish Loan, 544 ; Rank Stuck, 1903 ; end
of the month was, at three o'clock, 1011. 70c.
(The Moiritrar of Tuesday, Nov. 23, has no official article.)
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 2.

The Crown Prince is no longer Viceroy of Norway. Thin reso-
lution, which has excited some sensation, has been published in
the following terms:—
•' Our lively solicitude for the two kingdoms, whose progressive
prosperity depends on their recipnical administration, has inducd
us to reCili to um fair diler son, his Royal 114thness the Frown
Prince. In order to give him the facility to familiarise himself
here at Stockholm with the course of affairs, both Swedish and Nor.
wegian, we have most graciously resolved that the nomination of
his Royal Highness as Vin•my of Norway shall cease to have
effect at the end of this month. We testify to our very dear son
our royal satisfaction for the zeal and aciiviry with which, during
his functions as Vitemy, he has attended to the welfare of our Nor-
wegian people."
(From the Conslitutionwel of Tuesday.]
A few days ago an incident occurred (and which, indeed, is hut
one of many), %hewing in .hat manner the gurodiatoi of the rublie
authority act, for the prei,cration of order and the maintenai:ce of
the laws:—

M. 111. lived in a house, the garden of whieli adjoins that of M.
Tranchet, the Ifireetor.Denend of the !Notice of the Kingdom. line
day the gardener of NI. M., while engaged in toruttiug score trees
hanging over the party wall, let his knife fall into the garden of
M. Franchet. Pe did not ennsiler that he was etornoning any
crime in going into the garden to recover it ; but he was taken up
as a thief, and, in spite of all his onnestations. the gems-crimes
carried him away to prison. 31. 111., apprised of this utphortunate
mistake, hastened to M. Tranchet, aid was informed that he could
not be seen; he, however, insisted, and at length M. Tranelpet
made his appearance, eseeedingly irritated that any one should dare
! to come to him to demand satisfaction for an evidcnt piece of
injustice. 31. M. stated, that he had not intended himself to
ask any favour, but that an innocent man had been taken by
his orders, and carried before. the :'refecture of Police, and he was
doing him a service in allotting him an oppnrtur.ity of repairitog the
injustice of which he had been guilty.
The eouference which was going on was not anitel to the taste
! of M. Franchet ; and In order to put a stop to it, he had recourse
to In, old argument, that is, to the gem-cranium, who are with him
at all times ; he called to them, and desired them to conduct M.
M. also to the l'refeeture of Police, where lie would lind hOs
gardener. M. M. made some efforts to avoid this abuse of
justice and authority, but he was at length compelled to yivltt
gensoarannes Ipave their reasons for the most implicit obe-
thence, and he was in the end conducted to prison, where he re-
mained with the gardener until the next day.
1 ediately that he was at liberty, he waiteti on one of his
friends, who was a nloP•istrate, and inquired of him if he could
have no redress against 11. Feenehet. From the advice that he ye.
eeivecl he was determined to promecute hint for his abuse of power.
M. M. did more. he employed 31essrs.fitilehani and Itilleencl,
who drew up a memoir, vault he had ready to present, when the
ti was supprevied, anti the memoir withdrawn. iVe are
Ignorantscon of the motives which have induced N. AI. to waive the
prosecution of so scandalms an affair ; but we can easily persuade
ourselves that he has yielded either to fear Of menaces. HOW Cart
Wel/111/Me a man who reasons with nothing but genpuerartnes, and
uses no other argument than a dungeon. nod who thus interprets
the loyal words of tits Monarch—" Do not go beyond the laws?"
The monster Leger is new on his trial at Versailles ; the charges
against hint are mbhety, far, murder, aid the secreting the body
of his victim. The detniis 01 his crime are so revolting to human
nature, that it is impoasible to 'publish them. The trial was con.
ducted with cloned doors. Ni' preset were Minified into the
Court but the advocates and the editors of the journals.

From the E.toi/c, dated Tuesday.)
The Prussian Government has addressed to the differee.t
'emitted some authentic information respecting the spirit of the
Accra society known by the 113111 C of lint why's:whet. This dorm.
nient, which is entitled to the greatest attention may be regarded
as a succ,net reespitula.ion of the inquiries which have been carry-
ing on since 11119, and which are still in proftress. It continua the
general opinion that the :4ecret associations of the students do not in
themselves contain anything that is dangerous, but they are ex-
tremely reprehensible in two points of view: firAt, because /Revolu-
tionists may avail the iitselves, as they leave done, of these asrocia-
tions, to propagate their institrtetionary doctrines, and to promote
their practical acconinlishn:ent ; and secondly, because ,teCTN asso-
ciations having been prolnaited, individuals who continue to. belong
to them are guilty of a viiilmion of the law..
Prince klaxlnitlian of S.lionv, fether of the Queen of S'nin, was
expected on the 211th at Raronve. The next 413 y the Pri%ce was to
enter the Peninsula ; the french troops were to seemnpany hint to
Iliergos. The province of Into was to name four deputies to com-
pliment his Royal llightiess.

The Allgen:eine Zeilus:c contains an article which con-
fidently represents that a new arrangetnen: will be made
with the Southern States of tfe-many, to introduce a sys-
tem favourable to an entire freedom of Foreign trade. It
was reported that the Prussian Tariff which was esta-
blished for three years, will he greatly modified at the end
of this year when the term expires.
The preliminary conferences relative to the Treaty of
Commerce between Switzerland and Wirtemberg, began
at Zurich on the Bth of November. The new commercial
route of the Rentardin, it is suppos:tl, will become of great
importance when the relations expected to grow out of the
treaty shall be established.
It has already been stated, that some of the Continental
Powers have reciprocally abolish :41 the impost called Drat
de Deem-line, payable on the tronsfer of property from one
country to the heirs, or rather claimants, in another coun-
try. This relic of barbarous legislation is rapidly disap-
pearing; and we tied that, iu consillience of the Russian
Ukase of the I nth of June, t WZI, decreeing the abolition in
regard to all commies whit...it admitted the principle of re-
ciprocity, official Its:lentil as hare here exchanged between
the Rusin I:averment •Ind our Minister at St. Peters-
burgh, establishing the fact of that abolition as between
Russia and Great Itrits u,

The body of Gret•l. troops disciplined in the Ettropean
.manner at Nauplion, have made progress, and are
daily increasing in u umbers. On the of August they
were first clothed iit the Ifellenie uniform, anal passed M
gravel review in the presence of several foreigners of dis-
tinction, who ear.ressed astonishment at their proficiency in
the short t. • ettey had been embodied, and at the accuracy
anal quickness of their evolutions.
Letters of 'die knn ult. from liaaliatty, state that the
Rtmgapore Light infantry were ler orders for imme-
diate cuthariaation, to join Colonel Richards, at Kolliahar,
in the nei ghbourhood of which plaice the Runnette had
stockaded themselves iu atone force.—Coleefiu John Buil,
June 12.

Extra et of a letter from Lima, dated June 11:—\o
alterati,m has taken Owe in the state of this country since
my ha. The army of liolivar is said to have strength-
ened itself somewhat, and to have moved in a direction
towards Upper Peru ; his friends have all confidence in his
ste.cesa, hut some others, who have seen the !We Of affairs
tunler the other Government, and have observed their
operations for the last two years, think ditf'erently. It
'would seem that the Royal army must have received crders
from the Viceroy not to risk a battle yet awhile ; probably
not until it be known whether a Spanish tiaval force is
coming into those seas et not.

LI7'I,7RATUR

A VIEW OF Tfl E PRESENT STATE OF TILE SALMON
A:41) CHANNEL FISHERIES•
Br J. Cools fan, Exu.—Longman and Co.

We have here a subject of the utmost importance
brought under the public consideration, by a writer every
way competent to awaken that attention to it which it
most urgently calls for. and which, after the view which
is here given of the tkplorahle system of depredation
under which the salmon fisheries arc conducted through-
out all the rims in Great Britain, in which that toast
valuable fish is found, cannot fail to lead to that legida-
live remedy which these flagrant alums have so long mid
so loudly called for. The Report of the Committee of the
House on the Slitlloll Fisheries of the United Kingdom was

published at the close of the last Session ; but as we
shortly intend to of upon it separately, we shall do
nu more at present than advert to it, and proceed to remark
on the authentic and glaring facts which arc laid b, fore the
public in the volume before us. 'rinse facia have never
yet been hrou,Ait within the knowledge of the great body
of the people, or Parliament could not have let the subject
sleep. Connected as it is with the political economy of the
country, it would, in this view alone, have forced its way
to the attention of the I,,gialature, and have obtained, long
before this, a practical and efficient reniedy.
" The followleg pages (says Mr. Cornish) are written by one
who has not only long witnessed the scenes of abuse which they
expose, hut who, if he did not first kindle the flame that is now
blazing from ore end of the kingdom to the other, has enntributetl,
hr believes, to light it. lie has, ilevertheless, no ether motile in
having so done, and in publishing a true state of the case. than
that sonic rood may arise out of it to the community. Units
cannot be elfectel to the extent of procurittg a new law, at least it
may be partly ,ursine(, by putting the old ones in force, as far as
they are practicable. Soil, leeislative authority without executive
power, is like a highly-finishes lock without a kcy, for want of
which it can neither be opened nor shut, or applied to any practical
advantape."
The most inveterate and destructive of all the different
modes of warfare is that carried on by the "salmon weirs,"
which, instead of restricting the capture of the salmon to
that season to which it ought to be exclusively confined,
extends it with a mercenary and unmerciful scitisliw as, that
threatens the utter extinction of the species, so far rs tits
rivers of Great (Niacin are concerned in their preservation.
The salmon is both a salt and fresh water fish, and cannot
live unlesa it has access to both. Obedient to the instinct
of their nature, they have the sea at the spawning season, and
sz•ek the fresh-water rivers for the purpose of depositing their
roc. The young, ditts generated, betake themselves to the
sea. and, in their turn, in the bridling season, return again to
the rivers. Now, it is quite clear that '• if the old fish enn,t4 go
up Me firers to breed, nn young fry can come (lowa the rivers
to min r the sea, and Mere grow to odulls; there can con-
sequently be no inereas:, and if no increase, there must be
ultimate el furnsi ruffian." The abundant supply of human
subsistence, which is cut cif by means Or the unsparingde-
vastation tnoltr which the minion is daily .11 hourly ills-
appearing, is manifest; and instead of aifitriling a cheap
and nutritive food in every part of the kingdom, this fish
is thus raised by its scarcity to a vice which puts it almost
beyond the reach t v,n of the middling tai tem F.
There is one of the habits of the salmon on which it is recce
very to a lea words, as bearing upon the present subject, in seller
to show arid to establish the detrimentai elli:et of impenetrable
barriers arms. rivers, tither by weirs or otherwise. !It. Turner
s:”4• alien it so happens that their passage is efrectually ob-
,t,ilred. they soon gm* leen and sickly, and in a year or two pine
away and die.' We all know the irresistible instinctive purposes
of lola fish 13 get Or into the rivers; tin ir wonderful efforts show
it. We all know that it is only in the sand-beds of rive:a that the
tisli can spawn. If, therefore, they are thus thwarted in cimeply-
Mg with the dictates of instinct, which never misleads or deceives,
it is teoet reaatinettle, if rot conclusive to infer. that they do. as
Dr. T. says, • pine away aed the for a minion, as it, oblerv"l
before. being a,.11! and a fresh water fish, cannot live with.
out hewing aceres to both ; it' he is denied eitier, it is alike death
to him. It is alit known the: ere. it shed in ittyropitious sues.
thins, to sibieli the fish is entity:tiled by r.cces-ity whorl withheld
front those to which nature di nets leant, teronys ulna-tire. Itll
this should lie the case, why the egg estmot bra hatched in the sea,
or in the tide-way in t ivers, like the eggs of other fish, is a mys-
tery, like many other mysteries. which will ever remain undis-
covered ; nor should we he the wiser or the better if we could de-
• detin. The midoilletel Let, however, is, that unless the
fish eat. :dish) the re crssary high tip the sivirs, the
re awn cot'er tai notlii•.g. fleece fellow 11w piJmiriiitis effects of!
these obeitietiees, which, preren•ing ihr urn ii,ll from going up I
the rivers to spawn, lave them int., traps, :eget.. Pic!, ore eanght '
and killed. Ther are obe7itig a risistless necessity in hunting for
an aperture to eet tip the streams, and are thus/M. rd intothe.ltsh-
lois. The situation of the smut lisp shove the weirs is just as
bad ; they are hemmed in, and prevented from retiring to the aims
to recruit Haver streeeth and invigorate their slsteni, mild they leo:
almost the awe:ounce of tilt it spleen., snit ye, iv 4. In this
state they are quite WI atahle nod 111111.1kOics0;11c, and I have no
' doubt mould rt.iMAI any one obligal to taste them. These back
fish are not those which the *enters tictroy ; they kill the fish as
they Clinic from the sea to breed, not those sl,lc 1 ere rentre- I
ing to the %,•:1 alter breeding. It is, theretine, evident that
the minion fisheries can never preeer whilst OWw obstacle's,
irterferirg so much with the instinctive habits of the hell, are
allowed to -silt. I tin not mean to say that all WC1716 should, even
if they ntald, be swept away entirely, because they may be nation-
' ally advantageous in a contmeteial point of view, both for the
miller and the manufecturer ; but I do mean to say, Mut all weirs
should be so eonstrneted, and nothing is easier, that the fish in times
of flood may easily go up the rivers to breed ; and that, after they
hove bred., they may be able again to retina to the sea.
" I well remember seeing some years ago on the river TEte.V,
a weir which had elevated sakes at the foot, over or through which
it was impointible for a fish to paw, : the stake wee., placed there to
force them into a lock or trap by the side, which easily atlitsined
them, leo front which they could not escape; and, consequently,
the occupier of this device bad the purr nl nif.iiaw every fish von
this fine river, sizeable and tinsizeetle, seasimatire and unseason. '
able, the /teeth-Hier te2ae at the mercy of an inteicAted indkidno!.
On the !lens was a device scree hing like else former. I went
ten purpose to FCC it, and I have been informed that there arc
screed on the firer operatic: pretty ;nail,' in the some way. The
one I saw was contrived thus:—Phi mill-(rot occupied nearly the
whole stream ; of coarse all the retuniirg or, old fish entered. into ,
this ; they could pass no further than the mill; about ten or
twelve feet above the mill was a waste fender, am below this fender,
or between it and the natural stream, on a :Marti descent, was a
kind of wicker er basket work. The miller had only to draw his '
waste fender, and ereryfish Pilo-wing the stream must pass into this '
tray. lfe then stops the water by letting down the fender, and
eve, olfilh is wpm ery hind in lost ?Pt 111 Ith S.
It was prinful in see the milli:net ye ell.‘lo X-R On aqieh strewed
the rand-bonks of the DART in lice iide.roo low TOT •04- E R
about three years ago: the old dish could w.f ors Me weir, and
when the natural season arrived they were compelled to shed their
spawn :,11:re they e,nld. The whole pi u,.ed ao,oti,e; for, us those
seed-bed% were dry at low water, and the rand shifted with the tides
and the floods, the spawn was uncovered and lay so thick mein the
sortie-rt. that a man could not put hie tout on the sand without crush•
ing a littedre.l to teems at a time.
• At the period I allude to it was quite lamentable to see the tin- '
IVIIIIiP!• efforts of the salmon to get over T.-bli'as weir. I was an
eye-witness to it ; repeatedly beaten back, they tried again and
again, until they were quite etch:mend, and had scarcely strength
enoughl to posh their noses shove the scream of the water. IV/at
loss 1/it's obstrii.stion roust ',iodise( to Me ptibl;•• it is beyond any
known swan* of to I ;write. Hilt 1111111 the number of
old breeding fish that were ileiorovisi at the smite time by the spear
alone on the rivers. Avon and Ilarbourtie (the latter isuly a breach of
the Dart) it has been calculated that '269 3111.11.1uN *A11.11074
s purr...olrd erom 'din!! 10 H.,

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What a striking picture is this! What a soure:• of re-
lief in hard times, from the pressure of scarcity, is here with-
drawn from the manufacturing population ! Surely if any
abuse ever required to be checked by Icgish•Ave interference,
this does; the existing laws are insufficient, and the few
penal enactments which are applicable, and which might
enforced with et!;•ct, are either openly infringed, or
artfully evaded. It is high time that Parliament should
look at this subject steadily, aril consider it seriously.
Mr. Cornish evinces a thorough knowledge of the
enormities which he so forcibly expoies, and which it is
impossible for any of his readers to ri fleet upon, without
catching a portion of that just and generous warmth with
which he himself contemplates them.
in& hares and partridg.es are protected by the most
rigorous laws, and while poachers are pursued with a
severity alike repugnant to justice and revolting to hu-
manity, the salman fisheries' which might
counteract those causes which so frevently create a pre-
mature th iency of food, and which might be made a
source of incalculable relief to that distress so frequently
oreasi )))) ed by low wages, are utterly dinTgannxl, and the
flagrant malpractices which prevail in them are wholly
overlooked, although so destructive to the species, that it is
almost surprising that there should be a single salmon in
existence.

" Mont animals," as this animated writer very justly remarks.
" whether ftw the profit or the psstitite of mankimi, are allowri
smile seasonable testing time Int increase; hut the salmon, much
more valuable than !tans,, pheasants, or partritNes, is nut allowed
on; nicinc:in's rest, not even ft* procreation. The cruelty of such
condom is only equalled by its impulicv.
" It is thall drat the $41.11611$ IVlSlltatts. as far as tks coy.
re,a der pwGlie, ur, isu.npieirly useless —so match so, that Arse Is 11,1 d.
W 24 a Sal WA it' r j against the tw t:rs tf .fiSlSCriet th, aqieWat Vie