The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-24 00:00:00

THE HERRING TRADE.

WICK, DEC. 10.—No recent improvement has taken
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curers. Answers to the memorials forywhaarvdsedbeteon the
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Board of Trade and the Foreign-office,
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ceived. They do not hold out any flattering hope of et
speedy realisation of the wishes contained in the memo •
rills. Assurances are given, however, that Government
will put forth every effort to obtain a revision of the
foreign duties. It is from this alone that any hope can
be entertained of a revival of the herring trade, which is
now in a more distressed condition than at any previous
period in its eventful history. We learn that there has
recently been a heavy fishing on the English coast, and
the London markets has consequently been daily glutted
with fresh fish. This has bad a sensible effect on the
red herring market.
THE HERRING FISHERY AND FISHERMEIT.—A cor-
respondent of the John 0' Groat Journal calls attention
to " a most crying evil in the herring trade"—the sys-
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i t'y caught, and not upon the price agreed
upon. For instance, let us suppose that a crew fishes
20 ans is, to curer, the
120 crans, and another only 2cr 0, and both receives
on 9/. of
bounty; the price of the
bounty alone, 95., while the men that fishes 120 erans
Taking
costs the curer only is. 6d. into the calculation
the agreed upon price of the herrings during the past
year (125,), the man that
per eran, and the one that catches 120 crans is paid
fishes 20 crans receives 21s.
with 13s. 6d.! Is not this a blindfold way of going to
work, by men who receive credit for being an intelli-
gent
class? Why, if perquisites are to be given at all,
let them be given in proportion to success, otherwise you
offer a premium to indolence and sloth. Let Is. or
Is. 6d., or even more, if the fish-curers choose, be given
for each cran ca_ught, as bounty, and then you secure
to the most industrious fisherman the reward of his
industry."

A difference has arisen between the Archbishop of
Rouen and the committee for distributing the contribu-
tions for the relief of the sufferers from the great disaster
tit Monville and Malaunay. The collections made in the
churches within the diocese amount to 10,400 fr. The
Archbishop and an Ecclesiastical Committee named by
him, considering that the living victims have been suffi-
ciently relieved, and that nothing has been done for those
who lost their lives in the disaster, have decided that a
portion of the 10,400 fr. shall be employed in establishing
annual masses for the repose of the souls of the dead, and
the rest towards the relief of the living, to be distributed
by the cures of the two parishes. The general commit-
tee has objected to this apportionment, affirming that the
assertion of nothing having been done for the dead was
erroneous, considerable sums having been dis-
bursed in funeral charges and services. As the Areh-
bishop persists in founding the masses, and the General
Committee in the opposite conclusion, the question is
referred to the Minister of the Interior.—Galignani.
THE GUN TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 20.—After
careful inquiry there is no reason to believe the extrava-
gant statements which have been made with respect to
the purchase of fire arms in this town for illegal pur-
poses in Ireland. The sale of arms (fire-locks and low-
ling-pieces) is little increased considering the season of
the year and other legitimate causes of demand.