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London, England, 1869-05-07 00:00:00

Ne-sr, em----
nainelr, lest I be construed as throwing off On "Ivff'
Lincoln what his friends think should be properlf
borne by me alone. If in the original terms I had:
as I certainly meant, included the proclamations 0'
the President, they would have covered the slaved
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 Ih°'
" terms" would have taken the usual course of sPi
proval, modification, or absolute disapproval) 31.1,
been returned to me, like hundreds of other otlicla'
acts, without the newspaper clamour and unplea-
sant controversies so unkindly and unpleasantly
thrust upon me at the time." —.5 pringficld 17 (Pub'

OUR SALMON FISHERIES.

Ten years ago we looked to Sco',land, to Ireland:
or to the Rhine to supply our tables with fresh
Salmon. The yield of our English and Weis:
rivers bad become so small as to be of little
or no account in the annual supply required for
our markets. Moreover, the small crop of fish
still gathered out of our home waters was Year
by year rapidly diminishing. Several rivers
which once annually produced many tons weight
of fish had now ceased to produce a single salmon;
and it became evident that, if something were °et
done, and that speedily, salmon would at last
become totally exterminated from English waters'
Many persons argued that, no matter what 04
done, the English salmon fisheries would never,
again become of any importance in the national
economy. Navigation, mines, manufactoriagi
drainage, all our national industries, were dead
against the salmon. So it was said. Whilst A,
;
the same time it was argued that in their natural
constitutien English rivers were very inferior ti)
their neighbours in catland and Ireland. 11")°'
ever, our salmon, streams had some good friends
and true, who skilfully put forward the hope 13r
cheap food for the people, aroused the entba'
siasm of sportsmrn, and, above all, showed the
actual increase brought about in the yield °f
the salmon rivers in Ireland under judicious
management. We were told of one single diet
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 mike
most necessary oatlay in the Royal Commission °
1860, for the purpose of inquiring carefully jilt°
the state of the English and Welsh saltu°'l
fisheries, and then to present us with the Salute A
,i
:
Ar of 1861. That Act was carefully prepared IV
Mc. George Clive, M.P. for Hereford, under the
advice of the late Mr. Ffennell, whose long r,•ractielli
experience and singular success in reorganising lb:
Irish salmon fisheries enabled him to speak Wei
high authority. But Parliament was not prepar
at once to accept a thorough reform in the manage'
meat of our waters for the sake of their snlal
produce; and therefore the promoters of thj
Salmon Bill did not attempt too much, but reste
satisfied with a far less complete measure than
they had at first contemplated. Nevertheless'
they knew well that it was only necessarY ttl
prove the vast capabilities of our rivers in ortler,
,
to develope a source of wealth and food, whio
could be utilised without injuring the other itt;
dustries, popularly supposed to be irreconcilable
with salmon fisheries. The Act of 1861 also Pro;
vided that the inspectors appointed under /
should keep Parliament instructed concerning the
progress of the salmon fisheries, by presentiyg
slimily a report thereon. The eight report of lbil
series is now before us.
But, ere, we review the progress there recorthtl;
we must observe that two important acts 11°0
since passed for the further preServation of the
English salmon fisheries. In 1863 it was foutici"
practically impossible to prevent " unclean" 31),
" unseasonable" salmon from being extensivejlr
poached from English and Welsh rivers, Ns,
the purpose of exportation to foreign mArket
Parliament therefore passed an act enforcing 0
penalty, not exceeding £5, for every such s
entered for exportation. Before this Act came io
force salmon was poached in enormous qual:titie.ool
to be shipped to France and elsewhere, when )
an " unclean" state, that is, just before or
.after
spawning ; and it was poached still more e'tte,e
n/l-
-sively during the annual close time, when the
fish were crowding into the streams over the:r
nests. In 1865 another [let was parsed for ,lie
purpose of providing local machinery--the to°'''r
power, as it were—without which it was four,
impossible to put she psovisions of the new lad
into motion, so as to render it an active iustr
merit for the benefit of the fisheries. Under to
Act, salmon districts, voluntarily formed, We,
empowered to constitute local boards of couset 0
vators for the various rivers. These boards Or
required to assess licence duties on all implente
for the capture of salmon ; the funds thus e°
ected of course to be expended for the cultivatioo
and preservation of the salmon belonging t° tOO
district. In 1867 34 salmon districts bad heee
formed under this Act. These then are the thc,,
instalments we have already received from Pari 1000
men towards the restoration of English snittlio
rivers ; and the question is, -What have they d°
for us?
In the present report, the inspector tells us lotto;
that is satisfactory. An abstract of the returns °a
salmon sold at Billingsgate shows that there '0313,1
falling off in the quantity sent from English 300
Welsh rivers to that market, as compared with ,0
previous year, while`from the scotch rivers nl3/.06a
increase was received. In 1867, -of English
1211)18
Welsh salmon, 2,405 boxes, each containing 1 .
0
44
weight of fish were received at the market ; - ,
in 1868 only 1,724 boxes were received.----1
graph.

tie quotatian 01 gold at Paris IS about at Par,crosuf
the short exchange on London is 251. 171 c. per £1 ice Of
un comparing these rates with the English Mint Pr' tot
.E. 4 is. 101 d. per ounce ibr standard gold, it aPPes/41 14011
gold at the above price Is of abent the same value in
don and Paris.
6g
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills ote
days' sight was on the 3d inst. about 1091 per cent. At °visite°
there is no profit on the importation of gold from the
States.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]— Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Const l
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liver complaints in evesy sage, are only aggravated and I,Bi s
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rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable
Barry's health-restoring Revalenta. Arabica Food, as prociel,
thousands of cases which had bean considered hopeless, 9'1,00
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late
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all Grocers and Chemists.

QUICKE—On the sth lustat A hb ~ S o
]ington, Somerset, the wife of John Charles r•
of twin daughters. wife °I
RICHARDS - On the 4th inst, at Tottenham, the -
Basil Richards, Esq., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES. A WO'
BESTE—SMITH On the sth inst., at Upper Norcv°°"bllol3'
Beste, of Mansforn House, Dagnall-f)ark, to Alice vid•fr
third daughter of Henry Smith, Esq., of Beaufort
at Totle,l'llfili's
South Norwood.
POUND—WOODHOUSE— On the sth inAt.,
George Pound, Esq., of Odiham, ilhousel
T. \ oo.‘•
Lewin, eldest daughter of the late T.
Esq., of Basingstoke.

DEA77I7S. vt.Ne beatll
ENGLEHEART—On the Gth inst , at Park gouge, -,---1;
Park, Natill. B. loileart 'Esti ao-ed 79. ms
WHITIPC - On the sth inst..'at Birch Hall, Winu.n"`„-go 13
Thomas Edward Whitby, Esq., late Cap t. Sti '- - °
Guards, aged 46 -.....te

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