The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-03 00:00:00

THE FISHERIES.

HERRING TRADE.—Since our last, considerable quan-
tities of herrings have made their appearance on our coast,
and the fishing of them with the hook has been pretty suc-
cessful. On the coast of Latheron, the catch in this way
has been considerable. We understand, that a boat on
the West coast brought in from seven to nine crans about
u week ago. The fishermen continue to be very sanguine
as to this season proving an abundant fishing, appearances
continuing favourable, and white fish being plentiild. The
herrings have not yet attained their flavour, being in gene-
ral lean fish. The early fishing has commenced at Strom-
ne,s, but we have not heard with what degree of success.
We have b.:en informed by an acquaintance, that salt her-
nip have fallen considerably in price in Norway within
the last month, 7s. per barrel being the utmost that can
Le obtained fir them shipped free on hoard. We learn
from the same quarter, that a vessel lately arrived here
sailed on 'Wednesday last through a shoal of herrings ex-
tending to a naher of leagues in length. The herrings
sere very §ea di in size. Ue adds that the shoal was
exactly 3i6 oast of Wick bay. We observe by a
Berwick paper, that some herrings had also been caught at
Eyemouth.
On Tuesday the 16th instant, a boat went out from
Thurso with a few nets, and brought in better than half a
cran, which were dispatched to Leith on the 17th, per
steamer. On the 2.3 d five or six boats went out, and re-
turned with from four to ten crane per boat, all of which
were sent by the like conveyance; thus making from thirty
to forty barrels in all. The fish arc rather seperior in
round, and well formed. joint Itabertson, Esq , her•
ring-curer to his Majesty, being on the spot, immediately
purchased the take of one boat, being five crans, at 21s.
per cran. That enterprising gentleman, Mr. Methen of
Leith, presented a bounty of two p0i.141; to another boat,
in apeOrdaece with an lAvelliernent by which he pro-
mised to award that stun to the crew of the first boat
that brought in two crans of fish, over and above the price
•of the fish. This gentleman deserves well of the public for
his endeavours to excite the fisherman to exert himself
lin his vocation, by which, when success crown his labours,
he not only benefits himself, but gratifies his liberal donor.
NORWAY Cori-FISHING.---We have received the follow-
ing letter from Bergen, under date 21st April, t 837 ;—A
vessel having lately arrived from the fishing station, we are
enabled to communicate to you an account of the result of
the fishing in the Northlands this year. The catch has
not been so successful as last year, boisterous weather hav-
ing occasionally hindered the fishermen from venturing to
sea. It is, however, on the whole, considered to be a good
fishing, although the quantity may not be so large as last year.
The fish is particularly good, and uncommonly large and
fat, and if the drying season be attended with fine weather,
it will be of an excellent quality. Higher prices have been
paid at the fishing places than last year, on account of the
interruptions in the fishing occasioned by the weather,
which made the result very doubtful. The quantity cured
for klip-fish will, as usual, wind and weather permitting, ar-
rive here about the middle of June, and the new stock-fish
in the latter and of July, when shipments immediately com-
mence. With regard to prices, we should suppose that of
Hip-fists open about the same as last year, viz.:-131. per
ton, free on board ; all, of course, depending on the demand.
Stock-fish, of which about 2,500 tons still remain on hand
from last year, can at present be shipped at 71. 18s. per
ton, free on hoard, and if this parcel should not be dis-
posed of ere the new arrive, there can be no doubt that the
price will be still lower in the autumn,--John O'G roal
Journal.

The largest merchant vessel in Java, a ship about
1,000 tons burthen, was built by an Arab merchant, in a long
bit shallow river, which runs into the sea near Sourabaya.
As great expense is incurred by floating the timber in rafts
down the river, he determined to commence the work in the
forest itself, as he would thereby be enabled to select the best
trees for the purpose. He accordingly ascended the river,
accompanied by a sufficient number of workmen, conveying
the necessary materials, and commenced the undertaking about
80 miles from the sea. When the keel, and the floor timbers
were laid, and a few of the bottom planks nailed on, he
launched the embryo vessel, and floated her gently down the
rher to a place in which the water was deeper. Here the
building was continued, until it became necessary to seek a
deeper channel, and in this manner the work proceeded, the
vessel being floated further down the river whenever the water
was found to be too shallow for her to float, until at length she
was fairly launched, half finished, into the sea, and completed
in the harbour.—Earl's Eastern Seas.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Thursday a Coroner's in-
quest was taken before Mr. Payne, at St. John's Vestry-room,
Southwark, on the body of Sally Airner, aged seventy-one,
who stabbed herself with a knife in the throat. Charles Bean,
of No. 2, Goat-street, St. John's, about eight o'clock on
Tuesday morning, was informed that the deceased had made
away with herself. He went to No. 4, where she lived with
her husband, and proceeded into the attic. There he found
the deceased on her face, upon the floor, with her throat cut.
Near a trunk was a basin, which was full of blood, from which
it appeared that after having inflicted the wound, which was
done while sitting on the trunk, she held her head over the
basin, in which position she remained until exhausted by loss
of blood, when she fell. George Aimer, of No. 4, Goat-
street, in employ at a warehouse near Thames-street, occupied
the house. He slept with the deceased on the first floor. The
deceased had been'inSane many years. He had been married
to her twenty-seven years, and lived in the same house sixteen
years. She had everything she could wish to make her happy.
Verdict--" That the deceased destroyed herself in a state of
insanity ; and the Jury regret that some person was not ap-
pointed to watch over her."

A lively trade ha,s been stirring during the past fort-
night in the articles of lizards, cockroaches, centipedes, and
other verminous merchandize. The gentlemen of the corvette
La Bonite have made heavy purchases to increase their cabi-
net of varieties, and some of the natives have been busy diving
for shell fish, while others have employed themselves in hunting
scorpions, snails, and humming birds ; the birds, insects, fish,
bugs, and all, are to visit France, where they will in future
live together in harmony, for the benefit of science, in the
cabinets—not of the nation, but of the national museums.
When they get there, their stings will sting no longer ; they
will neither hum, bite, swim, nor creep. Good bye, dear
bugs • write us when you get to France: don't—oh I do
not--forget the Sandwich Island Gazette —Sandwich Island
Paper,

We are very sorry to learn that infant murder is
b..coming very common in this part of the country. The crime
is one of the deepest dye, and it is much to be regretted that
the system of our jurisprudence does not render a coroner's
inquest on the bodies discovered absolutely necessary. The
good effects of such a system have long been felt in England,
and surely life is as precious in this country as there. These
remarks have been suggested by information having been sent
us of the bodies of two infants having been found in the canal,
somewhere about Kittybrewster toll. bar. One of the bodies
seemed to be that of a new• born child ; the other about three
weeks old, and, horrifying to relate, the head had been cut off!
This child had been thrown into the mud i• one of the locks
when the water was out, and did not appear to have lain any
length of time. It is stated that early in the morning on
which it was found, a young woman was seen looking into the
lock ; and on one of the labourers, who happened to be near
her, inquiring if she knew anything of the child whose body
had been found, she made off. We understand that measures
were taken with a view to find out the perpetrator of the
diabolical deed, but hitherto they have been fruitless.—Aber-
deen Herald.

The fire at Haxon, announced in our last, spread
with such rapidity, notwithstanding there was a plentiful supply
of water and an engine from Amesbury quickly on the spot,
that the progress of the flames could not be arrested until
eight cottages, with great part of their furniture, and six
barns were consumed ; and it was only stayed at last by the
prompt exertions of some gentlemen unroofing the adjoining
houses. It was quite accidental, having originated in a brew-
house where the flue was out of repair.— 'Villa Gazette.
A serious accident occurred in Oxford-street Thurs-
day morning. As a gentleman named Tulmish was proceed-
ing out of town in his gig, accompanied by his lady, the plug
Suddenly burst out of a plug-hole, and the water rushed up to
a considerable height, which so frightened the horse that lie
set off at full speed. Mr. Tulmish, who was rather infirm,
became alarmed and jumped out, receiving a severe concussion
of the brain in his fall. The lady kept her scat, and, the horse
having been shortly stopped, she escaped without any injury.
The unfortunate gentleman was taken to the house of Mr.
Walton, a surgeon, in Oxford-street, where he was imme-
diately put to bed, and lies in a dangerous state.

Hay is now selling at Chichester at 8/. Bs. per ton ;
and straw, at Cheltenham, as high as 91. a ton.
If you wish to annoy an enemy, and he is timid or
nervous, detail to him recent dreadful cases of hydrophobia,
and the danger of the great number of dogs bsing suffered to
ramble at largo, and you will succeed to your utmost expecta-
tion.

•
A few days since a party of boys, having gone into
Lord Dynevor's park, in search of bucks' horns, on entering
the deer-shed they saw two bucks lying down, to all appear.
ance dead. One of the lads immediately leaped astride one
of them, taking hold of the horns, with the intention of sepa-
rating them ; but scarcely was he seated when the buck
(which had merely retired there to rest) started upon his feet,
and bounded from the shed, carrying the astounded youth,
with the greatest velocity, over hill and dale, for a distance of
nearly two miles, and having in its course crossed a pond of
considerable width before the lad fell from his scat. The boy
is 14 years old, and weighs 73 lbs.
The sudden melting of the snow, and heavy rains,
have steelled many rivers, which have overflowed their banks,
and bridges have been carried away, dikes broken through,
and in many places the causeways covered by the waters, so
that the communications were interrupted for two days. The
Dniester, the Ruth, the Bug, the San, the Roppa, and the
Wilorka, and particularly the Dunajec, which runs in the
centre of the Carpathian Mountains, and is joined in its course
by all, t4o PO!eF rivers, llavo gVerilQwe4 in many places,
gild done great damage. The dikes have given way, and whole
plait'; sown with wheat are laid under w4ter._ qermqn Pcfpq:
En a dlvtrorntlils shop wimiovit In Totte
road, there is a peck measure full of silver watches, with a note
to this effect—.• This imperial peck measure of watches, 132
in l? (amber, to be sold for 1050