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namely, lest I be construed as throwing off on
Lincoln what his friends think should be pro Perl
borne by me alone. If in the original terms I ha'
as I certainly meant, included the proclamations ,
the President, they would have covered the slavery
question, and all the real State questions which
caused the war ; and had not Mr. Lincoln been as:
sassinated at that very moment I believe tb°b°
" terms" would have taken the usual course of alici
proval, modification, or absolute disapproval, 90
been returned to me, like hundreds of other otliciai
acts, without the newspaper clamour and unplea:
sant controversies so unkindly and unpleagant::
thrust upon me at the time."—Springfield
liectn.

OUR SALMON FISHERIES.

Ten years ago we looked to Scotland, to Irel3l
or to the Rhine to supply our tables with f"h
Salmon. The yield of our English and \Vell
rivers had become so small as to be of little
ta
or no account in the annual supply required 1,
our markets. Moreover, the small crop of s,f
still gathered out of our home waters was Ye 4
;
by year rapidly diminishing. Several ri.rgeht
which once annually produced many tons 'wet .
of fish had now ceased to produce a single salal°l3o;
and it became evident that, if something were
done, and that speedily, salmon would at 13st
become totally exterminated from English waters;
Many persons argued that, no matter what wet
done, the Englisli salmon fisheries would Devi
again become of any importance in the nation'
economy. Navigation, mines, manufactoriAa
drainage, all our national industries, were dent
against the salmon. So it was said. Wnilst
the same time it was argued that in their natilr,'o
constitutien Et4glish rivers were very inferior
their neighbours in Scatland and Ireland. 11°sr:
ever, our salmon streams bad some good frin,l
and true, who skilfully put forward the hope °
cheap food for the people, aroused the entil;
siasin of sportsmrn, and, above all, showed t'
actual increase brought about in the Yield nf
the salmon rivers in Ireland under judici°"
management. We were told of one single tils•
trict's being so restored as to produce between
£30,000 and £40,000 worth of fish in one year,
Government was thus induced, first, to noke
most necessary outlay in the Royal Commissioa °to
1860, for the purpose of inquiring carefully iu
the state of the English and Welsh salal°
fisheries, and then to present us with the Sall3l°o
beAot of 1861. That Act was carefully prepared,
Me. George Clive, M.P. for Hereford, wider '3l
advice of the late Mr. Flennell, whose long.practiebe
experience and singular success in reorganising t.O
Irish salmon fisheries enabled him to speak wiej
high authority. But Parliament w.is not prepare
at once to accept a thorough reform in the inatiAge,
ment of our waters for the sake of their sal'lle'
produce; and therefore the promoters of the
Salmon Bill did not attempt too much, but rests
satisfied with a far less complete measure ,
they had at first contemplated. Nevertheles;' t
they knew well that it was only necessary r
prove the vast capabilities of our rivers in orJe
to develope a source of wealth and food, w°!-
could be utilised without injuring the other 1:1;
dustries, popularly supposed to be irreconeil
0,
with salmon fisheries. The Act of 1861 also. Frit
vided that the inspectors appointed under
be
should keep Parliament instructed concerning t
progress of the salmon fisheries, by presentib3
anually a report thereon. The eight report of t
series is now before us.
But, ere, we review the progress there record'y.tle
we must observe that two important acts 113110
since passed for the further preservation of t d
English salmon fisheries. In 1863 it was f°lll3
an
practically impossible to prevent unclean"
unseasonable" salmon from being extensively
poached from English and Welsh rivers, for
the purpose of exportation to foreign niArke
Parliament therefore passed an act enforcing
penalty, not exceeding £5, for every such 511130
1
entered for exportation. Before this Act came m
')0 ,
force 'inen was poached in enormous qualltit'cs i 0
to be shipped to France and elsewhere, when
an " unclean " state, that is, just before or a'
spawning ; and it was poached still more e/ttetva'
sively during the annual close tilw, whet!
fish were crowding into the streams over thee
nests. In 1865 another Bet was parsed for tb
,e
purpose of providing local machinery—the ril°'l3icJ
power, as it were—without which it was f°tllos
impossible to put she psovisions of the new ti,
into motion, so as to render it an active it'st
ment for the benefit of the fisheries. lioder the
e
o
Act, salmon districts, voluntarily formed, "er
empowered to constitute local boards of olisga
vators for the various rivers. These boards 11-
0
0
required to assess licence duties on all implenct 01,
for the capture of salmon ; the funds thus 100
ected of course to be expended for the cultivat
, t
and preservation of the salmon belonging ‘"000
district. In 1867 31 salmon districts bad 1; reo
formed under this Act. These then are the
pabrlia
i. ,
instalments we have already received from - 0
men towards the restoration of English sal ape
rivers ; and the question is, What have they

for us?
In the present report, the inspector tells us 1330 f
that is satisfactory. An abstract of the returri's
salmon sold at Billingsgate shows that there W313c1
falling off in the quantity sent from English the
Welsh rivers to that market, as compared witih rge
previous year, while from the scotch rivers a ocl
increase was received. In 1867, of English ;01,
Welsh salmon, 2,405 boxes, each containing 1100
weight of fish were received at the market ; Wrreie,
in 1863 only 1,724 boxes were received.-""
graph.

tiPY
.'be quotation of gold at Paris is about at P „404
toe short exchange on London is 2M. 171 a. per £1
ri 6tec 01
,e
; na comparing these rates with the English P
£.3 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it apPe'rzi you
gold at the above price is of about the same value
don and Paris. t6°
The course of exchange at New York on London for Or arote
days' sight was on the 3d inst. about 1091 per cent. At tlit°joite4
there is no profit on the importation of gold from the
States.
4404
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BII?TILN. IV!'
QUICKE—On the sth inst., at Ashbrittlo Rectnll;oiel'et
lington, Somerset, the wifo of John Charles P.
of twin daughthe .wife _of
RICHARDS On 4th inst., at Tottenham, the
Basil Richards, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES. 1 Crc°'
li,_,.
ESTE--SMITH On the sth inst., at Upper Nor,"°ii;1101
Beste, of Mansforn House, Darnall-park, to Alice Yid*
third daughter of Henry Srnitl, Esq., of Beauf°rt
South Norwood. tnbait
FOUND—WOODHOUSE— On the sth inst., at 11°—ii n'''
George Pound, Esq., of Odiharn, tiaras, to Idi.onuse,
woo P
Lewin, eldest daughter of the late T. T•
Esq., of Basingstoke.

DF;ATI7S. , k Oiltil
ENGLETIEAIte On the 6th lust , at Park Ilouse,B1;“.11
Park, Natld. B. Engloheart;Esq. aged 79. . ,i ,sao'
WHITBY —On the sth iest.. at Birch Hall, `Vin ',,,,.00
Th6mas Edward Whitby, Esq., late Capt. 3d Dr"
Gutirds, aged 46. -....ei

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