The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct. 6.—Two o'clock.—The market still
continues dull, and quotations show a slight decline.
French Threes are lower by 21c., to 68f. 80c. Ita-
lian Fives are dealt in at a decline of 25c., the actual
quotation being 55f. 45c. Mobilier Shares are if.
25c. lower, to 636 f. 25c. Credit Foncier, Comptoir
d'Escompte, and Paris Gas Shares remain unvaried.
Hardly anything is doing in Railway Shares, which
show in some cases an insignificant decline.
Three o'clock.—The unsatisfactory state of the
market continues, and some securities have further
declined. The close is as follows :
Bank Shares 3615
Italian Loan 55 60
Do. end month 53 30
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds

4} per Cents 97
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 70
Do. owl month 6B 75
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foneier —
Do. end month 1355 .

Spanish Threes —
Home Debt -
Deferred
-
rh.103.

RAIL'

For Account.

Orleans
Northern 1163 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 895
Southern 572 50
Western —
Eastern 543 75

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4OB 75
North of Spain lO7 50
Saragossa,
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman

THE SALMON FISHERIES SPECIAL COMMISSION.---
On Friday the Special Commissioners for inquiring
into the fixed engines on the river Ribble, all the week
delivered their judgment in two or three important cases
that had been reserved. There were altogether 15 claims
for fixed nets in the estuary of the Ribble. Two or three
of them were quickly disposed of. The claim of Colonel
Clifton to exclusive rights of fishing in the Lytham was
undefended, as far as related to salmon fishing, and the
Chief Commissioner (Mr. Paterson) adjudged that all fixed
engines used in any part of the parish or township of Ly-
tham were illegal. A claim of Sir T. G. Hesketh, M.P., to
stake-nets on his property on Hesketh Sands was also an-
nulled by the commissioners. The claim of the trustees
of the late Mr. C. Scarisbrick to a large fishery near the
same sands in the manor of North Meoly, led to much
legal argument. There was a manorial right claimed under
a supposed grant by William the Conqueror, andconfirmed
by an inquisition under the seal of the Admiralty in the
reign of Henry VIIL, of which both the original document
and a translation were produced in court. The manor was
in later years divided, and the claimants possessed that part
of the manor in which the nets were placed. The parol
evidence went to show that all the tenants of the
Scarisbrick family--which were stated to be some 10,000
in number—were allowed for a nominal acknowledgment
of id. per head to fish in the waters of the manor, and
they placed their nets as they could arrange among them-
selves. The fishermen joined their nets together, and it
was shown that as much as 1,400 yards of netting was
used in 1861, one of the years in which proof of user is re-
quired by the Act of 1865. The commissioners decided
that the Charter conveyed a several fishery, but did
not authorise fixed engines, and they condemned all the
nets. Another important case arose out of a claim by Mr.
Rawsterne, lord of the manor of Hutton, to three " balks"
of stake nets of 400 yards each and one varying from 50 to
90 yards, in the estuary of the Ribble. This fishery
originally belonged to the Abbey of Cockersand, and when
the monastery was broken up by Henry VIII., that monarch
sold it to ono Laurence RAwstorne, an ancestor of the
claimant and bearing the same Christian name. It had
been in the possession of that family from that date down
to the present. Evidence of user was given, and the claim
was opposed on the ground that the stakes were dangerous
to navigation. Witnesses proved that boats had been
upset by getting hampered with the nets and foundered by
striking on the stakes, and that lives had been lost and
endangered thereby. The Chief Commissioner, in deliver-
ing judgment, said that although it might be reasonably
presumed that the lords of Hutton enjoyed a several
fishery, created before Magna Charts, extending to the
mid stream of the river, there was no reasonable evidence
that any grant of the Crown over authorised the use of
fixed nets. They were therefore of opinion that the proof
of use during living memory was not of itself sufficient to
overcome the presumptions drawn from the titles them-
selves, and they wore driven to the conclusion that no
grants to use balks were ever made by the Crown prior to
Magna Charta and the ancient statutes preceding. On
these grounds they decided that all the stake nets in
the Ribble in the manor of Hutton were illegal, and must
be removed. There was a third decision in respect-of
stake nets on the Longton fisheries. This was a similar
case to the last, and the nets were declared illegal; thus
abolishing the whole of the almons stake nets in the Ribble
estuary,