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

HERRING FISHING.

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 18s.
to 20s. per cran.

ANSTRUTHER, Aug. 22.—The week ending to-
day, which is usually considered the beat fishing
week in the season, has turned out very unauccess:.
fully here, only about 3,000 crans having been
landed. Up to this date, we have not beer) 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 crane. 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 weak from 15s. to
245. per crap ; the medium price being 17s. The
quality has also been a good deal mixed with spent
fish, which is not reckoned a good siga 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 crane to the previous average, but there
was only 23 trans for the first four weeks, making
now at the e-ad of the fifth week of the fishing 47
crane. A full fishing is not now looked for, bat
with moderate weather it is yet quite possible to
get up to the average of the past five years—viz.,
81 crane. Even that would entail not a little
hardship and loss to many fishermen, but may
prove more acceptable to curers than d 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 should
the time of the fishing be extended, there is no
reason that we can see why 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 crane, while more than half
the fleet were generally clean. Both at a great
offing 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 crane, and several have not 5.
The fishing at Orkney, so heavy last week, has
this week taken off, and curers have got 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 Fraserburg 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 crane, and Peterhead, 39
The stations in the Banff district have also been
equally unsuccessful from a like cause. Further
up (the 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 and 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 fall-crown
brands, and 20s. for spents, without any indication
of an advance. A few barrels are being branded
daily, and shipments are being made, mostly to
Stettic, the Elbe, and a few to Ireland. Those yet
caught have been mostly sold ty early contracts,
and few consignments by curers are made. In
Dantzic there is still a large catch of last year's
catch unsold. The sales of Lewis fish are turning
out unsatisfactory, and 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 Dads 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 expression 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
offleicux 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 had 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 to pay-
I am advised that
your decision is not legal.—Mr. Silvester: You are very
foolish, for a distress warrant will be granted against your
goods, and you have no appeal.—Charles Bennett, a
collier, who had assisted the defendant, was also fined ss.
and costs, "aiding and abetting." 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 against 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 Nash,
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 par-
tion of his estate, with intent to diminish the amount avail-
able for division amongst his crditors. The bankrnpt'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. 110 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 tho 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.
EFFECT OF TTIE LIGHTNING AT DEPTFORD.—LASt
evening, about half-past 6, the Catholic Church in High-
street, Deptford, was struck by lightning and the cross
carried away, much brickwork in the interior damaged, and
several windows broken. The electric fluid spread to the
adjoining houses; and Mr. J. Lenten Pulling, solicitor,
who happened to have a dinner-knife at the time in his
hand, received a slight sherd-, Fortunately, however, no
further damage was acne, though much alarm was caused
in the AOghbeuthoed,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Days

STOCKTON RACES-THIS DAY.;

LAMBTON PLATE.

Prince Arthur
Saragossa 2
Lamedon

Seven ran.
JUVENILE STAKES.

Harvest Mel!
Theobalda
Prescription

Eleven ran.
SELLING PLATE.

Sledmere
Blond in
2
Wisdom
3

Five ran.
UNITED HUNTERS' STAKES.
Lady Bird
Miss Taft
2
Ace of Trumps
Five ran.

EGHAM RACES—TiIIs DAY.
SCURRY HANDICAP.

Fletton 1
Reindeer
Devotee
Six ran.
' MAGNA CHARTA STAKES.

Cadiz
2
Queen Fastrada