The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-02 00:00:00

PILCHARD FISHERY.

(From the Cornwall Advertiser.)
NEWQUAY.—On Tuesday morning last, the driving
boats at this place brought, in about 1,000 fine pilchards.
Several shoals were seen by them off Prrran Bay ; but
the fish were shy to take the nets. We are still in
hopes, says our Correspondent, of having a catch of the
early fish, as they pass up Channel ; but nothing has
yet been seen approaching the bay.
MOUNT'S BAY.—We regret that up to the time we
write, no fish has been taken by the scans here ; and no
intelligence has reached us that any have been secured
at any other place along the coast. The driving boats
continue to bring in a few.
GoitAN HAVEN.—The drift boats belonging to this
place and Mevagissey have brought in fine catches since
Sunday, amounting to from 500 to 6,000 _or 7,000 in a
boat. Two scans shot at Mevagissey, on Monday, one
of which took 8 maunds, and the other 12 maunds,
which fetched 15s. per maund.

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RECEIPTS FOR TIIE EPIDEMIC.—The fol-
lowing
are recommended for the disease now prevalent .1
amongst cattle :-10 oz. Glauber's salts, 6 oz. of sulphur, 1
2 oz. of nitre, to be given in a drink for a full grown
beast, for the complaint now prevalent amongst cattle. J
To dress the tongue-4 oz. of blue vitriol, dissolved in a
pint of vinegar, for a wash, to be rubbed about the roots of
the tongue.
BRILLIANT STAG-HUNT.—On Monday last,
the Brecon hounds, while out in search of an otter, near
Acercarnlais, came upon one of the stags which had
escaped from the Park, and a chase immediately ensued,
which lasted two hours and twenty minutes without a
check; the stag being ultimately killed near Devynnock,
having made a circuit of nearly twenty-five miles of
country. The same pack, on Thursday last, killed another
otter in the river Llynoi, near Talgrath, after a continued
hunt of five hours' duration.—Silurian.
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EXCUSE OF A FAUX PAs.--PrOCee(llngs were
recently taken by the proprietor of an hotel at Romait,
vine, named Bonardet, against his wife, for adultery.
palliation
Romainville, it should be stated, is celebrated as the.
resort of lovers ; and the billing and cooing of
guests of this description who visited the hotel of
seeAsid7onveither side. A
her husband were, it appeared, too much for the
lively imagination of Madame Bonardet. The
pi-Lay but frail Frenchwoman had been detected
in a crim. con. with a young man residing in the Rue
Rochcchouart. "What have you to allege in
of your offence ?" said the President of the Court, " you
have been detected in a criminal conversation with a
young man not your husband." "It is perfectly true,,,
replied the ' fair impenitent,' " and what could you ex-
pect ? During the whole time since my husband con-
ceived the unlucky idea of taking an hotel, I have
seen nothing but lovers. They began to arrive at four in
the morning, and the hotel was not free from them till the
last thing at night. M. Bonardet should have known
that all this would turn my head ; and, with regard to
my being found in the chamber of the young man, that
2 Saturday
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proves nothing but that my principles would not allow
me to dishonour my husband in his own house."—Gazett
des Tribunaux.
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barn within half-a-mile was much injured, but a person
working at the other end of the barn luckily escaped un-
hurt. In the parish of North Hill, and not far from Tre-
bartha, six bullocks, the property of three persons in that
parish, were killed on the spot. They Were g ly.n
i in the
line which the electric fluid must have taken, not grazing
together, but in the respective fields of the owners.— Corn-
wall Advertiser.
THE CAUSE OF FIRES ON RAILWAYS. It
was stated at the meeting of the Great Western Railway
shareholders at Bristol, on Thursday, that
the probable
cause of the recent fires on that line was the hot ashes
being thrown up by the wheel from the ash.box on to the
tarpaulin, which was set in a flame, and from its combus-
tible nature, when once on fire, rather assisted than pre-
vented the destruction of the property which it covered.
On this discovery the wheels
of the engines for the con-
veyance of goods were plated, thus affording a preventive
of a recurrence of fire from the same cause.
SUICIDE BY A CLERGYNIAN.—On Saturday
afternoon, the 15th instant, the Rev. Mr. Southcombe, cu.
rate of St. Wenn, near St. Columb, was discovered in his
bed-room quite dead, with his throat cut. He had for
some time before showed evident signs of derangement,
and had been very irregular in his conduct. An inquest
was held on the body on the following Monday, before
Joseph Hamley, Esq., and a verdict of Insanity was re.
I turned.... West Briton.