The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-29 00:00:00

'THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1866,

This Day.

Election of Lord Mayor—This Day.

IRELAND.

The annual assembling of the livery, for the pur-
pose of electing a citizen to fill the office of Lord
Mayor for the ensuing year, took place to-day in
the Guildhall.

The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs having
attended Divine Service, at St. Michael's, Bassishaw,
proceeded in procession to the Guildhall. After the
usual proclamation had been made,
The Common Sergeant, in the absence of the
Recorder, come forward and told the liverymen they
were assembled that day, according to ancient usage,
to elect a fit and proper person to fill the office of
Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, and, in order that
the choice of-the limy might be made impartial,
the Lord Mayor and Aldermen would retire while
the election took place.
A LIVERYMAN said, before the aldermen retired,
he should like to ask Alderman Gabriel, in the event
of his being elected, whether he would support the
charter and uphold all the rights and privileges of
the livery ? He thought that vas a question that
ought to be answered by every alderman before
they were elected to fill the important office of Lord
Mayor for the City of London..
Mr. Alderman GABRIEL said he had no hesitation
in answering the question. No person venerated
more highly than he did, or could do more than he
would to uphold all those charters which conferred
liberty and privileges on the livery of London.
(Cheers.)

Mr. Sheriff WATERLow called upon the Common
Crier to read the rest of the names of those alder-
men who had not yet passed the chair, and a show
of hands was tdten as each name was announced. For
Alderman Gabriel nearly every person present held
up his hand, and for the others but one or two hands
were displayed. The Sheriff then announced that
the election had fallen upon Alderman Gabriel and
Alderman Allen, and the names of these two gentle-
men were then forwardeil to the Court of Aldermen.

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After an absence of about a quarter of an hour,
the Lord Mayor and aldermen returned to the
Guildhall, and announced that the election had
fallen on Alderman Gabriel.

The Lord Mayor elect then returned thanks, and
said he should do all in his power to uphold the dig-
nity and hospitality of the office.
Mr. C. REED moved a vote of thanks to the Lord
Mayor, after which the proceedings terminated.

fore an object of great importance to o;e—ishe;
to render the passage between the lakes practicable.
During the famine an attempt was made to run a canal be-
tween them, but it failed, and by using thispartially Messrs.
Ashworth attempted to construct a pass for the salmon.

But though this answered in the winter, when the water
was high, the pass was all but dry in the summer, and
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some other means had to be attempted. At length, by
groat labour and perseverance, and by cutting through
much of the robk, Messrs. Ashworth have contrived, after

au expenditure of between £2,000 and £3,000 to make a
now pass some 50 yards in length into that part of the
canal which can be made serviceable, and thus the diffi-

culty has at length been overcome. This great under-
taking will have the effect of throwing open to the salmon
a district of between 30 and 40 miles square, which abounds
in fine breeding streams never yet tenanted by salmon ;
and the result inn few years will probably bo to make
Messrs. Ashworth's fishery the most prolific in the world.

And well do they deserve such a reward. It is by steady
perseverance in works like this that Ireland may hope to
raise herself from poverty and discontent ; and it is to be
hoped that these brilliant examples of what can bo done in
salmon breeding will not be lost upon ourselves.—Pall
Mall Gazette.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Mlles Opened. Receipts,

Railways.

, ..,,,........- -A...---- ...,
1888. 1865. 1866 1865
£
Belfast and N. Counties 994 991 2,316 2.204
Belfast and Comity Down 4O 19 682 714
Blyth and Tyne 3B .16 2,701 2.496
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter 1314 1211 7,703 7.581
Caledonian, Scottish Central 561 561 31,320 31.337
C. ribrian
C..,..: .ermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 3ti 497 443
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 47, 48i
Cork, Blackrock, & rassage 6l 61 186 243
Cork and Youghal
-
Cornwall 651 651 1,893 1.889
Deeside .. 17 17 361 311
Do Extension
Dublin & Delfast J unction.... 63 63 1,553 1.7 2
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,85: 2.015
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO6 106 3,002 2,6'9
Forth and Clyde J unction
Furness, &c B5 85 4,,,,21 4,464
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 422 10i 4 ,325 31,378
Great North of Scotland 212 241 3,1.8 2,9,..4
Gt. Northn. & IVes tn. (Irel.) B4l 711 1,15 6 0
qt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) l,Ol 181 11.891 14,2;3
Great Western 1262 12804 77,1457 76.712
highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,833 2,082
Isle of Wight
Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 403 45,820 43,871
Limerick and Ennis...,
Limerick and Foynes 264 264 275 298
Llauelly 464 441 654 8 9
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 272 25,470 25,153
London, Chatham, & Dover; j 1354 134 j 12,612 13,182
all 3letropolitan Extension 1 124 12 j 2,124 2.6:0
Do. Kent toast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Londonderry and Coleraine 361 464 569 368
Slan.,Shetlieid,& Lineolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 94 91 1,778 1,822
11ary-port and Carlisle 2B 28 1,482 i,512
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 6/71 53,151 50,531
Midland Gt. Wes tn. of Irind 2604 2604 5,073 5 655
lloninouthsh. Rail. & Canal 4l 44 2.6 5 2,8.5
North British, Edin., Pertn
and Dundee
ST-Eastern and Stock. & Dar! 12074 11714 77,55 73,917
North London ll 9 4.717 3 541
North Staffordshire 258 258 8,710 8.311
Pembroke and Tenby 274 111 277 170
ithymney 221 194 1,121 3,038
Scottish North-Eastern 143 138 - -
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1.156 1,120
South Devon
South-Eastern 319 315 28,560 3 '1.21
Taff Vale 63 61 6,. 53 6,1 5
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 81 .478 555
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,83) 1,671
11"haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 645 640
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

lAustrian B2B 828 46.307 41,281
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eas tern J unction
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 306 68.'4 3,069
Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 189 8,547 8,700
Dutch Rhenish lOB2 1082 6,140 7.683
Eastorn of France 1665 1551 8 ,345 841,192
Eastern Bengal ••• llO 119 1,762 2,048
East Indian - -
Grand Trunk of Canada 1:377 1377 26,194 28.684
Great Central of Belgium., 285 285 6 611 7,27
Great Indian Peninsula 701,1 590 11,905 15,023
Great Luxembourg 134 134 5,9 .8 604
Great Southern of India ...„ 79 7 857 e 72
Great Western of Canada 34,i 3.5 12,815 16.294
Madras.
Madrid, Saragossa &A licant
Northern of Canada ... - -
Northern of France., .....
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 2006 20 6 157,511 146,1(4
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1818 86,874 80,528
Recife and San Francisco. &c 776 774 8 2 474
Scala...
Do. Punjab, &a 253 27,3 1,63 1.61
South Austrian, &c 1798 1646 78.391 58,759
Do, Piedmont lines 656 619 16,116 22,4v0
Southern of France 960 823 40,405 31,868
Victoria
Welland 25 25 461 1.76
West &N- IVn. of France .. 1155 1016 C 6,9 8 65,6;9

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.
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The market market opens very steady. Sales probably
15,000 or 20,000 bales.

SINGULAR SUICIDE.—On the 9th of September a
married woman, a German, residing in New York, poisoned
herself, led to do so by continued depression of spirits,
superinduced by bad health. Before committing suicide she
made up a set of mourning dresses for her mother and
children, put crape round her, husband's hat, and prepared
and laid out her burial clothes.

SALMON BR
If Ireland is behindJ7son737ranches of industry, in
one at least she is before us, viz., in the cultivation of her
salmon fisheries. No people have fought so hard or so
successfully to rescue their salmon fisheries from the de-
struction that threatened them from the employment of
impassable weirs and nets, which, by obstructing the pas-
sage of the salmon to their spawning beds, would soon have
made their rivers barren altogether. That the more en-
lightened part of the Irish community, backed in their
efforts by the poor fishermen themselves, have succeeded
in removing these fatal obstructions to a large extent is
solely due to a strict unity and a sturdy perseverance ;
and if all Irish difficulties were dealt with as this has been,
there would soon be little talk of injustice to Ireland. Bu t
the Irish have gone far beyond this, and by the ingenuity.
perseverance, and judicious speculation of various owners
of fisheries, they have carried • out some of the most
striking works fur the, enouragement of salmon breeding
to be seen, not only in the kingdom, but iu the world.
Whoa M. Crumes made his tour of inspection of our
salmon fisheries on behalf of the French Government
some years since, the work which he thought most worthy
of notice was the formation of the salmon ladders on the
CaUoonoy River near Sligo. Here there are three falls, ono
of which is about 301 t. in depth, and over these no salmon
could possibly pass, the consequence being that two fine
rivers and a chain of largo and important lakes remained
entirely unproductive. The later Mr. Cooper, of Markree
Castle, Sligo, however, conceived a plan for making these
fine waters a noble salmon fishery ; and, having obtained
an act of Parliament to the possession of that which
might result from his skill and labour, he set to work to
render the falls passable to the salmon. Two simple lad-
ders were applied to the smaller falls without difficulty--
the highest, however, required much care and labour; and
after many failures he contrived, by means of a double
ladder or a flight of stairs with a resting pond in the
middle, to render the fall practicable to salmon ; then by
stocking the river above with breeding fish he in a very
few years became the owner of a fine salmon fishery worth
many thousands of pounds a year.
Some time afterwards, Mr. Boswell came into possession
of a group of small lakes near the sea coast in Connemara,
not far from Clifden. At a place called Doohullah, asmall
obstructed passage permitted the overflow of those lakes
to find its way to the sea. Mr. Boswell, by advice of Mr.
Ffennell (the present inspector of salmon fisheries for
England, who at that time was inspector for Ireland),
cleared out this passage and made it a practicable stream
to the sea. He next connected several of the lakes by cut-
ting channels between them so as to combine them together
' into one fishery. He then stocked the head waters with the
ova of the salmon trout, a fish in value only second to the
salmon ; and in due time had the satisfaction of finding
himself the proprietor of an astonishingly prolific salmon
trout fishery, in which it had boon no uncommon thing for
ono boat to take 1 cwt. of fish to a couple of rods in the day.
The fishery then passed into the hands of the present pro-
prietors, who conceived the desire to convert it into a
salmon fishery, and, under the care of Mr. Romsbottom, of
Clitheroe, whose son is so successfully conductingthe great
experiments in Australia, they contrived to stock the head
waters with a large quantity of salmon ova. It was thought
for some time that the experiment had failed, but at length
the happy day arrived when a fine shoal of grilse ran into
the lakes and took up their abode there, and since that time
the fishery has flourished and increased in value. Many
important and perploxing points in the history of the sai-
mon were solved in the course of this experiment.
About the same time Messrs. Ashworth bought the far-
famed Galway fishery. Its fortunes were at a very low
ebb when they bought it, but by opening the weir to the
passage of salmon and by judicious preservation of the tri-
butary breeding streams, Messrs. Ashworth increased the
production of the river to an anormous extent. It is now
one of the most valuable in Ireland; and perhaps no more
striking sight can be seen in its way than to stand on the
bridge at Galway and net the salmon lying in shoals below.
The water is extremely clear, the channel rocky, and the
salmon within a space of 100 yards or so may be seen of all
sizes, from 61b. weight up to 101 b. or 201 b., in shoals to the
number of from 300 to 500; a most astonishing sight, and
worth a journey thither to behold. The upper water of the
Galway fishery consists of a large lake, Lough Corrib, but
there are few breeding streams running into it, and there-.
fore the produce of the fishery is to some extent limited.
Situate at the head of Lough Corrib is another large lake,
Lough Mark, which sends its water into Lough Corrib
by a semi-underground passage, impracticable to fish.
Many fine breeding streams fall into Lough Mark and
other small lakes connected with it. It was there