The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

HERRING FISHERY.

ANSTRUTHER, AUGUST n.—The herring fishing
during the past eight days has continued moderate and
fluctuating in the extreme. Our hest fished boats have
bad from seven to nine barrels, but many only a few
baskets. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last,
there were few sold to the curers, except by those
boats which are engaged. On Thursday one of our
curers sold at the high price of 31s. per cran from an
; engaged boat, On Friday there were a nutnbirr of
boats from Dunbar, which sold to curers at 13s. 6d. to
155.; cadgers 2s. to 3s. higher. On Sato fay do
were several boats from Dunbar—highest boat, thirty
crans—early in the day prices 12s. 6d., .3nci as the day
advanced they gradually rose to 135. 6(1. Yesterday
our highest boats five trans, and many imiy one or two.
Last night a number of our boats went to Dunbar,
but the night was extremely unfavourabla. Several
floats had from five to fourteen trans, prices 13s. 6d.
to 14s. The greatest proportion of our herrings this
week have been from Dunbar, the wins having' been
particularly favourable to that voyage- A number of
cargoes have been shipped off to the diff,rent ma,-kets.
Our general average is now sixteen crans.—
Herald.

THURSO, AUGUST B.—The fishing westward has
been most abundant, many boats having upwards of 40
cans per night. One boat at Skerra has delivered
120 craus this week, and sevcfal about 100 each. This
week the sacranhatt was ii,lo S;.rithy, which pro.-
vented the Kirktomy and Arty.adaie bouts going out,
much to the prejudice of In,' fi•hcrtnen and cur,•.rs,.
Surely it was ill-judged to fix the solemnity so late in
the season. One curer here, who has eleven boats at
Port Sierra, had no less than 286 crans from them on
Thursday morning last. In short, this week's fishing
westward has been highly successful and productive.—
Inverness Courier.
BERWICK, AUGUST U.—Our rring fishing the
early part of the week was very partial ; some beats
bad a few crane, but the greater part scarcely any.
Monday, fishing from I to 5 crans ; Tuesday, from 2!
to 12 ; Wednesday, only two boats were successful in,
catching about 10 crans. The otner boats went to
North Sunderland, where the fishing was excellent;
some of our boats returning yesterday (Thursday), with
Irons 20 to 40 crane. As the calm weather must pre-
vent the boats coming home from such a distance, and
returning to the fishing ground. that night. would our
curers get two or three steam-tuns from Shields, and
bring it) or 12 well-fished boats up and down each day,
stopping at Holy Island or Sundcr;aad all the night to
be ready next morning, we think it might be a good
plan for both fishermen and curers. This morning some
few boats have got here with a good shot of fish. One
boat, however, we are sorry to say, has returned with-
out her nets, which were cut away.

LOUIS PIIILIPPE.—A correspondent who writes
from the City calla our attention to a paragraph which has
goorra tnhse
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tot fi e tdh e papers,
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who Duke of
rode
Beggarman and gained the Goodwood cup, and asks whe-
ther there is not a great disproportion between this annuity.
and that granted by Louis Philippe, 50U francs a year, to
an old servant, an Englishman, who saved his life when
Duke of Orleans. No doubt there is; hut then is the first
statement correct? It is not likely. The following is the
account of the manner in which the English servant saved
the life of the present King of the French :—" The Due
d'Orleans and another nobleman were riding in a curricle;
the reins broke, and the honeF, being English and nearly
thorough-bred, of course immediately "bolted." Adams,
the servant alluded to, immediately clapped the rowels
into his horse, and with as much tact as Robinson on Beg-
garrnan, and the courage and strength of a lion, thdtigh a
little man, stopped the horses on the brnk of a tremendous
pr?,eipice, where no power on earth could have saved their
lives. ILs residence is 13. Great Ctirlisle-street, Church-
street, Paddington, from whose own I;ps the truth may be
learned."

MUSICAL MOVEMENTS.—SeveraI parties ate
going- to the provinces immediately. Liszt, with Mdlle.
de Varney; Miss L. Bass: no, N. MI6, Lavenu, and John
Parry, will commence at Chichester on Monday ; then
proceed to Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Southamp •
ton, Sali,bory, and so on to Plymouth ; then re-
turn to Exeter, Taunton, Bath, Cheltenham, Lea.
minErten, Coventry, Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham.
Lincoln, Cambritige, No,wicti, Ipstyteli, Coletr.stcr, &c.
Grisi, with her cousin Ernesta. Br zzi. T3mburini, sad
B ,nedict, commence on the same dtty at Worcester, then
Cheltenham, Bath, &e. Persiani, with Ruhini, Negri
and. Pozzi,witl tollow shortly. 13Iagrove, with Miss Bird.
' and others, will go t-_, the pooh of England.
Lord Ffrench, and one of his brothers, the Ro-
man Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, the well-known Dr
,11„)/isallueff,53g7rut., Sir M. Dillon Bellow
prelates, Sir Val Blake
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' Bart.., Mr. J. H. T,lbt,t, .iI.P . and a few others of rank
and position, have publicli d.ecr,re...i. their adhesion *.o M
i O'Connell's present pit.ri of Repeal agitation. These i.
chide nearly all the mlics of persons of influence w
bavc as vet joirwd Ow lion. Gentlemiln
THE HARVEST IN ENGLAWD --W: ha••
examined with much care and some anxiety the accout:tr
' which appear in our provincial Contemporaries received LAI
Saturday and yesterday. in reference to the state a.'
prospect of the crops. As yet no mischief seems to bay
been done subiequently to the very tine and forsuna
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