The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

HERRING FISHING.

I DUNBAR, August 24.—This morning about 100
boats came in. On Saturday and to-day fewer
boats came in than on any other day of the week.
The fishing on both days was very good—all the
boats having quantities rising to 20 crane per boat,
and all of good quality, there being no spents. The
fishing is close off the harbour both to the east
and west. From the position of the shoal now
on the coast, there is every likelihood of the fish
ing yet reaching an average. Yesterday, a boat
entered the harbour with a large shot, which was
sold and delivered to one' of the Irish vessels now
in the harbour. Prices are steady at from 1&.
to 20s. per cran.

ANSTRUTIIER, Aug. 22.—The week ending to-
day, which is usually considered the best fishing
week in the season, has turned out very u;isuccess-
fully here, only about 3,060 crans having been
landed. Up to this date, we have not been so
short-fished for a number of years back ; and as
compared with this date last year, there is a fall.
ing off of more than 7,000 crans. Everything
promised well for this week, the weather and tides
being very favourable, but the catch each day was
very partial, and not general among all the boats.
Prices have ranged during the week from los. to
245. per cran; the medium price being 17s. The
quality has also been a good deal mixed with spent
fish, which is not reckoned a good sign at this
period of the fishing.

WICK, SATURDAY, AUG. 22.

We have still a poor account to give of the her-
ring fishing in this district. The week has added
abcut 24 crans to the previous average, but there
was only 23 crans for the first four weeks, making
now at the had of the fifth week of the fishing 47
crane. A full fishing is not now looked for, but
with moderate weather it is yet quite possible to
get up to the average of the past five years—viz ,
84 crane. Even that would entail not a little
hardship and loss to many fishermen, but may
prove more acceptable to curers than a larger
catch. There are now only two weeks of
the season to run, unless crews are induced
to prolong the time a week. The past few
seasons have proved that a greater body of
fish was on these shores after the sth September
than during the previous seven weeks; and thohld
the time of the fishing be extended, there is no
reason that we can see eehy four or five thousand
men, many of them deeply in debt, should run home
just when the fishing is only in a manner beginning.
We know that the hired hands are the great bug-
bear ; but curers, by, calling a meeting of their body,
and passing resolutions not to pay off hands before
the 12th, the matter could be carried out with
profit more particularly to the fishermen them-
selves, including the hired hands, as these must be
allowed a week's pay extra. This week, as gene-
rally throughout the previous part of the sea-
son, the fish got were mostly in large hauls,
of 20 to 70 crans, while more than half
the fleet were generally clean. Both at a great
effing and near to land has this been the case, and it
is likely to continue during the season. A few
boats have caught upwards of 200 crane, while
many are under 10 crans, and several have not 5.
The fishing at Orkney, so heavy last week, has
this week taken off, and curers have get time to
put their fish in order, many having had to rouse in
bulk for want of barrels. Lybster and Helms-
dale are nearly keeping pace. Neither are up to
an average fishing, but both are ahead of Wick.
At Fraeerburg and Peterhead the fishing has
this week been interrupted by stormy weather,
and the average at these stations is about the
same as that given in our paper of Thursday
—viz,, Fraserburgh, 56 crans, and Peterhead, 39
The stations in the Banff district have also been
equally unsuccessful from a like cause. Further
up ithe Firth, however, at Lossiemouth, Burg.
head, and Hopeman, this week's fishing has added
about 20 crane to their former average, which is
now 80, 73, and 100 crane respectively. We have
accounts this morning that at Lybster there is a
good fishing, but at Dunbeath Helmsdale very
little. Markets.—Sales are still languid, not-
withstanding the scanty fishing. It is evi-
dent that Continental markets are not in a satis-
factory state. Prices here and on the other
side of the Firth continue at 245. for full-crown
brands, and 20s. for spents, without any indication
of an advance. A few barrels are being branded
daily, end shipments are being made, mostly to
Stettin, the Elbe, and a few to Ireland. Those yet
caught have been mostly sold by early contracts,
and few consignments by curers are made. In
Danizic there is still a large catch of last year's
catch unsold. The sales of Lewis fish are turning
out unsatisfactory, aid scarcely a single curer at
Stornoway this season will escape a loss, though some
few small parcels of fine quality brought a high
figure, It is a poor business that pays neither em-
ployer nor employed. Few fishermen have made
anything of it this year from their scanty catch.
The herring trade seems to be in such a state that
it would be better if the fish, like the grouse, were
to have a jubilee year, and fishing operations were
to cease and determine for 12 months, till all the
old stock was eaten off.—John o'Groat Journal
Herring Circular_

A "SENSATION" NEWSPAPER.—The Debats of
Sunday says:—" It appears that the telegraph has
determined to send us regularly with all the gravity in the
world summaries of articles published by an eccentric New
York paper called the Herald. We consider it our duty,
therefore, to warn our readers that the Herald is what is
called on the other side of the Atlantic a ' sensation jour-
nal,' an expreasion that may be rendered into French by
the following periphrasis—a journal which acquires a
great reputation by the fertile imagination and the fancy it
displays in publishing news, which facts do not always con-
firm, under some
pompous heading, such as Latest Intel-
ligence.' .' Important Occurrence. This kind of Journal
is doubtless not peculiar to America, but it flourishes and is
developed in an exceptional manner in the land of Barnum.
Moreover the Herald is neither an official nor even an
oficieux journal. Its assertions are not only unworthy of
credit, but they do not deserve the slightest attention of any
kind whatever."

CONVICTION FOR HAYMAKING ON SUNDAY.—At
the Atherton petty sessions, on Monday, Peter
Cleworth, farmer, of Leigh, and thirteen others were con-
victed of making hay on the Sunday. The case had been
adjourned for a month, to enable the magistrates to con-
sider the state of the law on the subject. The Chairman
of the Bench (Mr. Silvester), told Cleworth that the magi-
strates had considered the case, and bad decided that
the defendants were guilty of a desecration of the
Lord's-day and a penalty of Ss. and costs would be inflicted.
--Mr. Cleworth : I don't intend topaY• lam advised that
your decision is not legal.--Ur. Silvester ; You are very
foolish, for a distress warrant will be gjrted against your
goods, and you have no "Pea appeal.—Charles Bennett, a
collier who had assisted
the defendant, was also fined Ss.
,
and costs, " aiding and abettmg.,' He and several
others were told that
if they would pay the costs (6s. 6d.)
no conviction would be recorded against them. They,
however, refused, protesting againEh ,
paying anything for
saving produce from injury. It is understood that distress
warrants will be issued against those defendants who are
householders, and the others will be confined in the stocks.
CAUTION TO FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTS.—At the
South Lancashire Assizes, yesterday, Samuel Nasb,
a baker and flour dealer, who became a bankrupt at
Liverpool in March last, was indicted before Mr. Jus-
tice Blackburn, for having fraudulently concealed a pr.-
tion of his estate, with intent to diminish the amount avail-
able for division. amongst his crditors. The bankrupt's
debts at the time of his failure amounted to £613, and ex•
ceeded by £522 the value of the assets disclosed upon the
face of the balance-sheet. He submitted a considerable
deficiency, and when the errors in his accounts .were cor-
rected that deficiency was increased to £350. It was proved
that in the month of February the bankrupt was the
owner, or reputed owner, of 150 shares in a building society
that he had drawn out a sum of £195, which was due upon
those shares, and that the money thus received by him had
never been accounted for to the assignees as part of his
state. The prisoner was found guilty, but as the statute
did not allow a sentence of hard labour, he was ordered to
be imprisoned merely for 20 months.
The MS. of Mr. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
is now copied out and ready for the press.
Another edition at Admiral Smyth's book, " The
Cycle of Celestial Objects," is in preparation.
The rules and regulations laid down by the War
Dcpartment for the prevention of accidents by the
bursting of cast iron ordnance, have been attended
with such satisfactory results, that since their issue
from the War-cflice on the let of April,-1861, not a
single case has been reported at the Ordnaru esta-
blishment, Chatham.

SEC IN I EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocri.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day,
0- --
STOCKTON RACES—THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
liARDWICKE STAKES.

A.ppenine
Syren
Wee Aggie _ 3

Six ran.

EGHAM RACES—Tars DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
A TOWN PLATE.

Don't Come Late
Dute of Cambridge
3
Queen Elizab:.th

Thirteen ran.

LONDON GAZETTE---Yesterday.

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BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUGUST 25.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary
of State tor Foreign Affairs, a translation of a Spanish
Royal Decree forwarded by her Majesty'A Charge
d'Affaires at Aiadrid, opening the port of San Vicente do
Ja Barquere, in the province of Santander, for the direct
importation from abroad, of mineral and vegetable coal,
wood, fire brick, and blonde or sulphur of zinc.

commercial i
of co
The following are the onKlyltba-UnfrlupSts.
portance in the Gazette m.
Thomas Huggan, engineer, Dublin
Frcdk. Taylor, bill broker, Greenwich
Abraham Oeal, baker, Deptford
James P. Martin, clerk, Peckham
George Kerrison, grocer, Norwich
Nehemiah Sharp, yeoman, Widely, Hants
James Naylor; shoemaker, Carlisle
John Pr, pper, provision dealer, Wakefield
Charles Bailey, fruiterer, Leicester
Wm. Wilkinson, printer, Salford
Abraham Gledhill, cutler, Sheffield
Wm. Hunter, draper, Preston
John Orton, butcher, Chelmsford
Henry Clark, doctor of medicine, Strand ,
Wiliam Wakefield, grocer, Gloucester
Edward Falvey, coal merchant, Paddington
Elijah Maidrneut, baker, Camberwell
Joseph C. itossiter, dealer and chaptven, Moorgate-street
James Hill Oheatle, brushmaker, Birmingham
James Woodgates, coffeemill maker, Birmingham
Thomas Blackinore. shoemaker, Aller, Someractrthire

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James M'Gibbon, grocer, Glasgow
James M•Lay, jun., rope manufacturer, Glasgow
Wm. M'Lean, auctioneer, Dundee