The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-12 00:00:00

PILCHARD FISHERY.

II Before the rising of the moon on Thursday evening last, two
scans, belonging to Mevagissey, shot upon some brimming fish,
and were supposed to have enclosed 100 maunds of pilchards.
Next morning, to their great disappointment, they found the en-
closure to consist of from 40 to 50,000 mackarel. The circum-
stance; however, gave riseto a hope, that a large body of pilchards
were not far off; particularly as some fine fish were taken by
the driving boats on Friday morning. The expectations of a
successful season have been nearly destroyed. The weather of
last week has been very unfavourable, and very few fish have
yet made their appearance in the North Channel. At St. Ives
alone, there are ninety scans, which for the last six years have
occasioned to their owners a heavy loss. A letter from Mara-
zion, of the 4th Sept, says, there were about. thirty scans afloat
in the Mount's Bay, which, up to that. time, had not caught
more than 350 hogsheads, but that the drift boats had been
more than usually successful, having taken on an average from
18 to 20 hogsheads each.—( Western Luminary.)
The unfavourable weather has caused the seams at Looe to be
housed : they have taken but 60 hogsheads of pilchards this
season.—( Cornwall Chronicle

We congratulate the public -on the prospect
there is now of the long projected scheme of
forming a. communication between the British
and Bristol Channels, by means of a canal from
Beer Harbour to Bridgewater being at length
carried into effect. An actual survey is now in
progress, with a view to an application to Par-
liament in the ensuing Session. This impor-
tant communication will be effected at a very
moderate expence, compared with all former
calculations, on the plan which has been adopted
at the Bude Canal ; and that this plan will fully
answer all the expectations entertained of it, there
can no longer remain a doubt, since an engineer
of great experience, appointed mutually by the
Bude Canal Company, and their engineer and
contractor, has very recently made a general sur-
vey of that work, and pronounced his decided
approbation both on the plan and execution of
the work.—( West of England Journal.)
The famous Lord RODNEY dining at Carlton
House, congratulated the Prince of WALES
(now the KING), on seeing a plate of British-
cured herrings at table. " Your Royal Highness,"
said the noble veteran, does infinite good to the
British Navy, in encouraging this example
of English luxury : every table will follow
the fashion; and if the number of fashionable
tables is considered, the result may be, in time,
an addition of twenty thousand of the hardiest
seamen to our navy—of seamen raised and em-
ployed in that branch of fishing, which has
raised Holland to her maritime, force." "My
Lord," replied the PRINCE, "'you do me
more justice than I deserve ; these her-
rings, I am sorry to say, were not cured by Bri-
tish hands ; I understand your reasoning—it is
just, it is that of Lord Rodney upon his own
element. Henceforward I shall order a plate of
British-cured herrings, to be purchased at any
expence, and appear a standing dish at my ta-
ble ; we shall call it a Rodney. Under that de-
signation, what true patriot will not follow my
example ?" _ _

THE LATE BOXING MATCH.—The patrons of York are
good again to match their man, and they truly say he slept
auring the fight. That fact is certain, and we repeat, upon our
informant's knowledge, that he is not unmanned by defeat in
combat. The energies of the body were delayed by ttultifica..
tion on the head. Flowers, the west country blacksmith, fights
this with Weston, a provincial farmer. Weston has trode his
round, and covered it well.