The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-27 00:00:00

HERRING FISHERY.

DUNBAR, AUGUST 25.—The fishing for the last two
days has been good ; bettor this morning than in any
morning during the season. From the number of
curers, and the season being far advanced, prices still
keep ; about 15s. a cran is generally given.
11ErtwicK, AUGUST 21.—Our herring fishing this
week has still been very light, and no general take of
herrings has taken place sincelour last. Although e. few
boats have got from twelve to twenty crans this week,
yet the greater part have not taken ten crans fur the
whole week.

HOLY ISLANDS, AUGUST 19.—The good appearances
from which we expected so much at the beginning of the
week have not been realised, the highest shot of her-
rings on Monday being eleven crans. On Tuesday the
fishing was general, but no great shot. This morning
there was a great filling off, the highest being three
crans, with the exception of one strange boat, which
had 24 crans. In consequence of the thick fog only
three boats are out to-night. _ _

NORTH SUNDERLAND; Auc. 20.—Since our last the
fishing has been progressing, but with little success,
and the quantity of fish taken is far short of last week.
Some few boats have fallen in with from two to twenty
crans, but upon the whole the fishing has not been
good. The fishermen say they expect the fish yet to
set in as the tide comes to hand. The Customhouse
officers have ordered all the French vessels to sea, and
will not allow them to cure their herrings in the har-
bour without paying one shilling on each barrel, be-
sides an additional penny for landing on each empty
barrel. The result will be that no Frenchmen will
enter the English ports to buy herrings, which will be
the means of greatly reducing the price in the English
market.

BUaGHEAD, AUG. 20.—The fishing at this station
has been very irregular since last report. On Friday
there was a good fishing ; average 9 crans. Saturday,
4 crans. Tuesday was almost a failure, and from the
appearance of the weather a very few boats ventured
out that night. This morning (Thursday) a few boats
only will go to the cran. There is still an excellent ap-
pearance of fish ; but the weather is too fine, and the
water too clear. _ _ .

WICK, AUG. 20.—Our fishing has not, this week,
been accompanied by that degree of success which
could be wished—still, however, no day has been an
entire blank. The average for the week is 14 crans, and
for the season, 72. Along the coast, as far as Helms-
dale, the fishing is much behind. That station now
averages about 65 crans, or 15 crans under 1845, and
five under 1844, which was a bad year. At the inter-
mediate stations, however, matters are more backward,
and the general average is very low indeed.—Caledonian
Mercury.

NOBLE C OND UCT.—C H ATRAM, AUGUST 24. —We

have much pleasure in recording the following humane act
of an officer of the Hound, in rescuing a fellow-creature from
drowning. This afternoon (Monday), about four o'clock, a
seaman on board her Majesty's ship Hound, fitting for sea at
Sheerness, accidentally fell overboard from the gangway into
the sea. 'The Commander, G. H. Wood, at the time was in

his cabin, and seeing the man struggling in the water,
sprang on deck, and, without taking off any of his uniform,
precipitated himself into the sea, and succeeded in saving the
life of the sailor ; but the gallant officer was much exhausted
when he was got on board, and the seaman's life was nearly

gone.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF P•RTER
AND ALE.—A patent has been taken out by Mr. Maugham,
for improveraenes in the manufacture of ale, porter and other

fermented liquors, which appears likely to become of some
importance. After the liquor has undergone the ordinary
process of fermentation, it is heated to such a temperature as
to stop further fermentation, say from 150 to 160 degrees,
and is then charged to any desired degree with carbonic acid
gas. By this mode of treatment, fermented liquors can
never become sour, as the various fermentation is checked
effectually by the heat, and in close vessels there is no oppor-
tunity for its subsequent removal.—Artizan.
THE OIL OF BITTER ALMONDS.—On the 10th inst.,
a youth named Robert Grant, residing at his father's in Whaf-
street, died suddenly from incautiously taking a dose of oil
of bitter almonds. Mr. Denton, surgeon, found in his stomach
a quantity fully sufficient to cause death. How the deceased
got hold of the poison was at first involved in some mystery ;
at length a bottle was found in the father's house, contain-
ing the oil of bitter almonds, a portion of which it was now
plain the deceased had drunk. The mother had never used,
and knew nothing of the nature of the liquid, except
that it was given to her by a lady as " something good
to put into puddings." On inquiry, it was found that this
lady had received this bottle from her daughter, now in
Manchester, who told the same tale, and said she found it in
a house in St. Peter's-lane; but none of them knew the
poisonous nature of the liquid. This house was formerly oc-
cupied by a chymist and druggist, as a drug warehouse,
and amongst the bottles was one containing the essential
oil of bitter almonds, which (when the drugs were looked
over after being removed) was missing. There was, there-
fore, no doubt that the bottle from which the deceased drank
was the identical one belonging to the chymist. An inquest
was held on deceased the same evening, and, after two ad-
journments, and the whole of the facts had been most pa-
tiently investigated, the jury returned the following verdict :
—" That the deceased died from the effects of essential oil of
bitter almonds, but whether taken by himself or adminis-
tered by any other person, there is no evidence. The jury
wish, however, to add, that there is no evidence before them
that any one about Robert Grant's (the father's) house, was
aware that the essential oil in question was of a poisonous
nature."—Leicester Mercury.
THE WEATHER.—THE CROPS.—Since our last we
have experienced much changeable weather, having had a
succession of rain, sunshine, wind, and sometimes a chill, and
at other times a sultry and heated atmosphere—in two or
three instances quite oppressive. But it is pleasing to know
that these changes hare not been productive of any
material injury to the crops generally, nor was harvest
labour considerably retarded. In the vicinity of mountain
dstricts there have been some floods, which have done
partial injuries, but to no very great extent, while on
the whole, farmers, as to the grain crops, have no reason
to complain, as the harvest, in that line; has been much
earlier, abundant, and propitious than in former years, for
some time past. The failure of the potato crop is the great
and general complaint. Where the potato has failed, turnip
sowing and cabbage planting should not be neglected or
delayed a moment, as they are at present the only available
substitute for that esculent, so long the genefal food of our
poor. There is one consolation, however, in mitigation of
the evils likely to result from the potato blight, which is,
that the present grain harvest promises to be more than an

average.— Ulster Gazette.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR FLOGGING IN THE ARMY.—We
areinformed by Sir Charles Napier that blistering was suc-
cessfully tried as a substitute tor flogging in two corps, and
he is not aware that this mode of punishment was adopted in
any other regiment. The commanding officer of one of the
regiments in question, then stationed in Guernsey, where
liquor is cheap, determined to put a stop to the crime of
drunkenness on duty, by an appeal to the honourable feel-
ings of the soldiers, and at the same time to make drunken-
ness as unpleasant as possible, but without the lash. He
gave out an order to say that he would not flog, but trust to
the soldier's self-respect for keeping sober on duty. Next
day a man was drunk and confined. The colonel, accom-
panied by the surgeon, went to the guard-house, and felt the
drunkard's pulse. He was declared to be in a fever. Nothing
could be more true. He was therefore put into a blanket,
and four soldiers bore him through the barracks. His
comrades all laughed at the care taken of him. On reaching
the hospital, the patient was put to bed and blistered between
the shoulders, fed on bread and water for a week, and then
discharged cured. He was then brought on the parade,
when the commanding officer congratulated him on his re-
covery from the fever, and sent him to rejoin his company,
where he was laughed at and jeered by his comrades during
the space of a week. Many others underwent the same
treatment; but the joke, though very amusing to the sober
soldiers, soon began to be none to the drunkards. There was
considerable pain and uneasiness—some bread, plenty of
water, but no pitying comrades—no commisseration—no
mercy. The experiment was completely successful. Not a
man of that regiment was flogged in Guernsey from the
time the men were treated with blisters ; and after a fort-
night there was no such thing as a man drunk for guard or
parade. Now this regiment has been in an infamous state.—
Military Miscellany, by Henry Maxwell, F.R.S.E.
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