The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-27 00:00:00

THE SALMON FISHERIES.

An important meeting, called by Lord Llanover,
was held at Abergavenny on Thursday afternoon
for the purpose of meeting the Government Inspec-
tors of Salmon Fisheries, and consulting with them
as to the best means of carrying out the new Salmon
Fisheries Act. The commissioners present were Mr.
Mr. Ffennell and Mr. Eden, and the chair was
taken by Lord Llanover. Mr. Ffennell addressed
the meeting at great length, and stated that at pre-
vious meetings of persons interested in salmon fish-
eries in England and Wales communications had
been made pointing out in what respect it was con-
sidered the new act required amendment, such as
licensing all nets and engines for taking fish, em-
powering conservators to pass along the banks of
rivers, and other deficiencies in the act, which it
was hoped Government would supply in an amended
bill. Having recently inspected the river Usk, he
spoke highly of the means which had been taken
in that river to improve the fisheries, and said that
of the three principal rivers which formed the
Bristol Channel the Usk stood first in respect of the
protection afforded to tha fish, the Severn next, and
the Wye third. This had been done almost entirely
by subscriptions raised among the residents on the
upper portions of the river, and Mr. Ffennell con-
sidered it unjust that while the tidal fisheries reaped
the greatest benefit from their exertions they contri-
buted comparatively little to them. This would be
equalised if all engines and nets were licensed. Lord
Llanover, after thanking the commissioners for their
attendance, said he had watched the bill with much
interest in its progress through Parliament, and he
considered that the bill, as first introduced into the
Legislature, was a much better bill than when it
came out. The original bill had been based on the
Irish Salmon Fisheries Bill, which had been so
valuable in improving the salmon fisheries of Ire-
land. His lordship pointed out in what respects he
considered the new English Bill deficient, and advo-
cated the licensing system, and the giving of con-
servators or watchers power to go on land by river
sides. No one, he added, could have looked upon
the act of last year as final ; it was exceedingly
crude, and was so framed that it was absolutely ne-
cessary there should be an amended act. His lord-
, ship suggested that the leading gentlemen who had
on the principal salmon streams taken a deep in-
terest in the question should meet together and join
in adopting such recommendations for an amended
act as they thought advisable. This course was
approved, and the proceedings terminated.

RIOTS IN NEWFOUNDLAND.—ST. JOIIN'S, Jan. 8.
—An extensive riot took place at Carbonear yesterday.
Some 12 or 14 persons were shot, but none killed outright.
Troops were sent from here at midnight to preserve order.
The rioters did not injure the telegraph wires. Jan. 9.—
The parties at Carbonear are kept down by the military.
The town is in a state of siege. Business is suspended.
There and at Harbour Grace both parties are largely rein-
forced, Hostilities will commence the moment the troops
are withdrawn. A magistrate was shot on Tuesday, but ric t
dangerously. The whole trouble grew out of a quarrel be-
tween the Catholics and the Protestants. Jan. 10.—The
excitement at Carbonear is intense and increasing. Severeal
stores were broken into last night, and arms and ammum.-
tion abstracted. Reinforcements are still arriving. !t
doubtful if the military will be able to prevent a collision
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On Saturday evening
the members for Sandwich,
Lord Clarence Paget (Secretary for the Admiralty)
and Mr. E. Knatchbull-Hugessen, addressed their
constituents in the Town-hall, Deal.
Lord CLAEENCE PAGET, after adverting to the
death of the late Prince Consort, and comparing
the state of this country with that of the rest of
Europe, proceeded to refer to the American ques-
tion, Having touched upon the affair of the Trent,
and commented upon the course Government had
pursued regarding it, he said we were, at the period
at which the seizure of the Trent became
known, entirely unprepared, as he might say, for
war; but the people of England had determined
to maintain their rights, and they had a Govern-
ment jealous of the national honour, and fully re-
solved to do their country justice. But no Govern-
ment could have done what had been done by the
present Government without being backed by the
unanimous opinion of the country, and they would
see how this had become manifest. (Hear, hear.)
The first thing necessary was to despatch a
vast body of troops to defend our loyal colony of
Canada ; but it was no easy job to sendfrom 10,000
to 11,000 men across the Atlantic in the middle of
winter. The Government knew the energetic
people they had to deal with, and that it would be
necessary not only to get our army across to Canada,
but to get there in the shortest space of time pos-
sible, Now, what happened? Every great ship-
ping company came to the Admiralty to offer their
vessels, neither stipulating or asking for anything.
" Here," said they, " are our steamers ; take what
you like, and pay us what you like." The railway
companies came forward saying, " Let us know
where ;you want to send :troops ; we will give up
our line to the conveyance of troops alone ;" and
all the authorities at the ports were as eager and
anxious for the success of the expedition as the Go-
vernment itself, Herein lay the strength of Eng-
land—the readiness of her people to co-operate
with the Government in the hour when their
rights were to be maintained. This was a strength
nothing could resist. (Cheers.) What followed
would form, he believed, an episode in the history
of the nation. Ten days after the Government ar-
rived at the decision to strengthen our army in
Canada, the first troops embarked, and at the end
of three weeks every soldier was on his way. And
it was not merely throwing a body of troops on
board ship with muskets on their backs ; the
whole paraphernalia of war had to be prepared,
waggons, ambulances, commissariat, horses, and
everything complete, and the army was ready to
go into a campaign immediately it stepped foot on
Canada. It was followed by the provisions and re-
lays required to follow up an army; so that the whole
organisation and equipment of the body of men sent
to Canada was completed in this country, and this,
he thought, was an episode that would not soon be
forgotten. It was also incumbent on the govern-
ment to reinforce our fleet, and they had seen by
the newspapers that it had been necessary to send
large reinforcements across the Atlantic. In the
course of three weeks the squadron on the coast of
North America had been more than doubled. The
reinforcements consisted of twelve heavy frigates,
and the frigates of the day were enormous ships,
larger than anything which existed in former days,
and were the perfect panoply of war. It was not
only requisite that we should reinforce largely from
other stations, but we likewise had to commission a
quantity of ships. He saw many naval officers and
seafaring men around him, and he asked them to
listen to this, and to remember that this was with-
out drawing at all on our reserve. All who watched
the movements of the navy knew that the difficulties
of manning a ship had been proverbial. A line-of-
battle ship had often been five or six months fitting
out, and he had seen reports of cases in which there
had been four, Eve, i:g s*motitha' delay .depop dent
'on aligning:lt pleasant eaVaih. tf,aughter.l'llat
this was what occurred. On the 2d November the
Phaeton was commissioned at Sheerness. She was
a magnificent 50 gun frigate, a line-of-battle ship
in disguise, and carried 500 or 600 men ; and she
left for Spithead on the 7th, five days afterwards,
fully manned, and ready to go across the Atlantic.
The Orlando, a still larger frigate, the largest in
the navy, was commissioned at Devonport on the
17th December, and on the 24th she sailed for Hali-
fax fully manned ; and the Shannon, which was
commissioned on the 17th January, was ready for
service on the 22d. He told them these facts, not
in a boastful spirit, but because he knew it would
please them to learn that this country was in a
state of preparation in the event of her being called
on at any time to arm herself. At this moment
we had three or four frigates' crews ready to go
on board to-morrow if wanted ; and to what was
it. due ? On this he must be suffered to moralise
a moment, especially as he saw a great mauy
of his friends, the boatmen of Deal, were present.
For a great many years considerable prejudice had
existed against the navy. The merchant seaman
had supposed that if he went on board a man-of-war
he was committing himself to a hell afloat, from
which the sooner he could escape the better. That
had been the opinion of sailors generally; but
things were changed now. In consequence of the
liberal policy by tip country and parliament a state
of things was being brought about which caused
the seamen to regard the navy as a boon instead of
a misery. The capability of effecting this reform
was owing to the liberality of the country and of
parliament. He could go to the House of Commons
and ask for anything for the seaman, and his worthy
colleague would corroborate what he said. There
was another thing being attempted, too—organisa-
tion. The navy of this country had never had
justice done it. The navy had wanted organisation
just as it was wanted in the army. He asked them
to remember the Crimean campaign, and the changes
it had brought about. Now we were able to send
10,000 or 11,000 men to any part of the world
equipped and ready for the field, and the same
organisation was manifest in the navy. He had
told them what had been done within the last
month, and he thought he was justified in saying
that the Government had done its duty to the coun-
try. He would also add, if he might be permitted,
that he thought the Admiralty had done its duty to
the country. (Hear, hear.) He could assure them
of one thing—that the Government and the Admi-
ralty looked to the country's good opinion, and it was
their earnest and highest desire to deserve it. He
now wished to say a little further, if possible, about
the American business. He had brought them
to the point of despatching our troops and reinforc-
ingd our squadron. In process of time the Unite
haaspeople who in
States happily saw fit to accede to our moderatebi
and just demands ; and another trait hononra e
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—with some very severe criticisms upon its conduct
in concealing a despatch which was written by Mr.
Seward to Mr. Adams, the American Minister in
government was Owl,.
London, in which despatch certain courteous terms
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were made use of and assurances given of the
friendly disposition of the American 'government.
They had been told at a great many meetings, and
by the press, that the government had acted un-
fairly to the commerce of this country in not mak•
jog public that despatch. They had been told that
if the government had published that despatch,
instead of commerce being paralysed and insurances
raised, and war risks, and he did not know what,
there would have been a return to the ordinary
course of traffic and trade, that the funds would
have risen, and public calm have been restored.
This sounded very plausible; but would anyone
who read that despatch carefully venture to say

SOUHAMPTON, JAN. 25.
The Confederate war steamer Nashville and the
Federal man-of-war Tuscarora are considered almost
to belong to our port, so long have they been here
and so long apparently are they likely to stay. The
Nashville is still in the dock and the Tuscarora Hee
just outside. A night or two ago a collision took
place at a beershop in French-street, between 15 of
the crew of the Nashville and two of the crew of the
Tuscarora. Some blows were struck and a pistol
was drawn, which fortunately missed fire, or life
would probably have been lost. The police were
called in, and to avoid being captured both Federals
and Confederates beat a precipitate retreat. At the
Southampton Club several officers belonging to both
ships have been introduced as visitors by different
members, and against the entries of several names
on the visitors book are to be seen " C.S.S. Nash-
ville" and " U.S.N. Tuscarora." The Tuscarora
is away from America for a two years' cruise, and
it is very evident that her mission is to look after
the Nashville and nothing else. It is continually
asked why does not the Nashville leave Southamp-
ton, by getting, it is said, her 24 hours' start of
the Tuscarora, for being much faster than the latter
she could not be overtaken. But the difficulty with
the Nashville is to get her 42 hours's start. She is
watched night and day by the Tuscarora, the
captain of which never leaves his ship ; any signs
of getting up steam on board the Nashville can im-
mediately be detected on board the Federal steamer,
and she is prepared to move and claim the priority
of starting. They both may keep on successively
moving and stopping in the neutral waters, and thus
edge out towards the sea, but nothing can prevent
the Tuscarora, if a good look-out is kept on board
of her, from hindering the Nashville getting the
start. Her Majesty's frigate Dauntless, which is
keeping watch over both ships, would not care if
the two were to leave simultaneously; all that she
would have to do in such a case would be to prevent
their fighting before they got fairly out to sea.
In the Army and Navy Gazette of the 18th it
was stated. thal theTusearorOn one of her trips out
Of Southampton IVate-r had anchored -off Osborne,
and that the commander in-chief of Portsmouth
had ordered her away. C.lptain Craven, the com-
mander of the Tuscarora, has written to the com-
mander--in-chief on the subject, and it appears that
one day the Semaphore man at Portsmouth reported
that the Tuscarora was anchored off her Majesty's
residence. The commander-in•chief immediately
-ordered his flag captain to desire Captain Craven
to remove his ship. In a very few minutes, how-
ever, after this, and before the flag captain left the
dockyard, the Semaphore man reported that he had
made a mistake, and that it was not the Tuscarora
that was anchored off Osborne, but her Majesty's
ship Vigilant. On the day when this happened the
Tuscarora did not leave Southampton Water.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.

THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER Miss
Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Mr. Santley, Mr. H DAUGHTER,
Mr. George. Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, H.
T,
Distin, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall,
and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
After which will be produced (written expressly by J. M.
Morton). a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Firobdigna,, a
Peep at Lilliput, and a Flyinz Visit to Laputa.
Mrs. (3uldver, Mr. F. Payne.
Gulliver, Mr. H. Payne;
principal danseuse. Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the
Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequinate sustained
by the eminent Pantommists, Messrs. 11. Payne, P. Payne,
11. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.
Commence at Seven.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JANUARY 26, 1862.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
45—highest since noon yesterday.
29—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.33; a rise of half an inch.
WIND—South-Westerly; light, with fine weather.
JAN. 27.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
41—Mghest since noon yesterday.
34—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.27 ; falling.
WlND—South-Westerly ; moderate, with fine cool
weather.