The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-05 00:00:00

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BEE.

Shrewsbury
Leamington Hunt l9

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,This Day

Oa ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRANEsExp, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, April s.—Ann and William and Charles—both
from Guernsey; Baron Oay, steamer, from Antwerp;
Heron, steamer, from Rotterdam; Cadiz, steamer, from
Cadiz.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed— Mary Seymour, from London, for Malta.
Sailed—Sapphire, Egmont, and Electric.
The Cassellaus remains, waiting for fresh mate.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertainei up
to this date, are in round figures as under:—

1866. 1865.
... £69,392 £63,782

Great Western ...

North Western ...
South Western ...

... 112,477 104,312
... 25,587 19,780

Brighton ...
Midland ...

... 24:673 16,241
... 53,270 45,923

South Eastern ...

... 26;163. 19;446

Great Northern ...

86,289 3b,249

Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter ...

46,670 37,143
_6,555 6,467

North Eastern ...

~. 71,358 61,732

Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ... 21,234 17,250
Great Eastern 36,175 31,263
London, Chatham, and Dover ... ... 10,820 6,907
These returns, when compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, are in most in-
stances of a very favourable character. On the
Great Western there is an increase of £5,610, on
the North-Western of £8,165, on the South-Western
of £5,797, on the Brighton of £8,429, on the
Midland of £7,547, on the South-Eastern of £6,717,
on the Great Northern of £1,149, on the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire of £9,527, on the Bristol and
Exeter of £BB, on the North-Eastern of £9,626,
on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £3,984,
on the Great Eastern of £4,912, and on the London,
Chatham, and Dover of £3,913.
The Directors of the St. John d'El Rey Mining
Company (Limited) have received per Douro the
following report, dated Morro Velho, 28th Feb.,
1866. Produce 2nd division of February, 9 days,
13,861 oitavas ; yield, 9,l43,oitavas per ton.
At a meeting of the Phosphate of Lime Com-
pany, held yesterday afternoon, the report which
was adopted recommended a dividend of 8 per
cent. out of the gross profits of £7,665 for the
year. A sum of £2,500 is placed to a reserved
fund, and £2,970 carried forward to next account.
TnE SHANNON, &c.—The past week (although
perhaps the precursor of a successful future for the
salmon angler) has been singularly unproduc-
tive. In the earlier part a dire east wind prevailed,
and on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, it blew a
whole gale from the north-west, accompanied by
torrents of rain, which has flooded all our rivers,
and at the very best time, for one flood during the
weekly close of 48 hours, (when nets and weirs are
forced to stop work), is of more advantage to the
upper waters than if it came during any other part
of the week. With the weather as it is now—
everything that could be desired—and the rivers
well stocked, the angler should not have cause to
grumble. I send you a paragraph from the Cork
Constitution, in order to draw public attention to
the fact of unclean salmon being exposed for sale
in the market of the Cork fishing district. In the
last report of the Commissioners the state of the
river Lee was alluded to, and subsequently an in-
dignation meeting of the Local Board was held to
complain of the manner in which the Commis-
sioners animadverted upon their shortcomings,
though, at the same time, it was unanimously ad-
mitted that the river was in a deplorable condition,
Now, assuredly, permitting unclean fish to 'be cap-
tured and sold in the public manner described will
not tend to improve matters, and I would draw the
attention of anglers and others interested in the
better preservation of our rivers to the provisions
of the Act (5 and 6 Vic., c. 106, s. 47) which makes
it " unlawful to catch at any time foul or unsea-
sonable fish, though in the open season," and pro-
vides a penalty of £2 :

" On Wednesday a countryman brought into the Grand
Parade fish market three salmon. Two of them were
about seven or eight pounds weight each, but the third
weighed 32 pounds by the Corporation. scales. It was quite
black and unprepossessinglooking,and to many who saw it
it was a subject of regret that the fish was not allowed to
reach the sea to which it was going: The man sold it for
4d. a pound. He had caught it; and the two others in
the Lee on Tuesday."—Cork Constitution.
majority
the
Government EMIGRATION
emigration
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air LIVERPOOL.—The
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hofel;lll.litityeedaDrStates 30 ships,
have completed their returns for the last month and
;urtihneg March
quarter. Ttie figures show a large inpascrseaenseg,ears;coofmwpahroemd
285 Scotch, 5,572 Irish, and 2 192
Queenslandlandish'
wtohfietrhtehtneheileecoredrrig,,erusanpondirdittnhisapeet;
10,845 steerage
flOwhoin 45 Cla
of Scotch7lBB steerageshcabin and
steerage passengearns,do3
were English, 34
Scotch, 126 Irish, and 10 foreigners. To ' •
s62wh2, 7i foreigners.i
opt9hs6 i3vw6i
te hr e e
twocabin
cabininno g
Victoria one
passengers, whom
38114 cabin and 12,156 steerage. Of foreigners,l
shot
ships " there sailed to the linited*States 11, with 578 pa-
ssengers wereislaking
a English,total
;to New Brunswick with six
South Wales one, with six one,
87 , passengers; South America six,
with passengers ; West Indies two, with nine pas-
sengers ; and Africa one, with 30 passengers, making
a
total of 716.—During the March citarter just ended there
sailed, " under the act," to the United States 72 ships,
with 892 cabin, and 18,923 steerage passengers ; to New
South Wales, one ship, three cabin, and 358 steerage pas-
sengers ; to Queensland, three ships, 17 cabin, and 1,416
steerage passengers ; to Victoria, five ships, with 46 cabin,
and 1,114 steerage; total, 982 cabin, and 21,811 steerage
passengers Of short ships there sailed to the United
States 35, with 860 cabin, and 764 steerage ; to New
Brunswick, one ship, six cabin ; New South Wales, one
ship, four cabin, and two steerage ; Victoria, two ships, 16
cabin, and '2B steerage ; West Indies, six ships, 33 cabin ;
South America, 13 ships, 120 cabin, and 63 steerage ;
Africa, three ships, 79 cabin ; East India, one ship, six
cabin ; Hongkong, one ship, three cabin ; total, 1,127 cabin
and 857 steerage ; making a total for the quarter of 24,177,
which, when compared with the same quarter of last year,
shows an increase of 10,261. In order to meet the contin-
gencies of the emigration from Liverpool and Ireland,
Messrs. M'lver are making arrangements to place upon the
passenger line between Liverpool, Queenstown, and New
York seven extra steamers.