The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-06 00:00:00

HERRING TRADE.

Wicx, AUGUST 29.—The herring fishing in
this district has been a good deal interrupted this
week by the inclemency of the weather, which is
the more to be regretted, as there appeared to be a
body of excellent fish on the coast. There were some
very heavy shots each day, ranging from thirty- seven
to fifty crans, but a great many boats were poorly
fished. Oa \Vednesday several curers were very
heavily fished, and had late and disagreeable work
in salting. lied the boats got to sea that
night and the remainder of the week, of
which at present there is not much pros-
pect, the fishing, it is believed, would have been
a full average one. There is every probability now
of its turning out a short fishing, as little good is Ex-
pected to be done after this week,: which, with many
crews, will be the winding up for the season. The
average for the season is crans, being about 44
crans per boat under the same date last ycar. Price
of cured fish is slightly on the rise, though most pur-
chases during the week have been made at last
week's quotation of 15s. for full crown brands. We
have heard some rumours of 15s. 3d. to 15s. 6d. having
been paid for small parcels, but the standard price
may still be put down at 15s. Spent fish continues
at 11 se per barrel. At the above prices a good deal
of business has been done. Price of green fish during
the week has ruled at Bs. to Bs. 6d. per cran for full
fish, and 4s. to 53. for spent. —John o' Groat Journal.
LYBSTEU, AUG. 28.—The weather has been very
boisterous for the past week, and all our boats did
not get regularly to sea. Notwithstanding, some
boats have been well fished. The total average for
the season is exactly 122} crans per boat, though
some reports would have it higher. Three vessels
have sailed this week with cargoes for Stettin, and
other three, vessels are waiting to be loaded for vas
rious ports. No sales since last report. Prices look-
ing rather up:—.Mid.
HELMSDALF, AUG. 28.—We have got on well
week, and bid fair for an average
111 crans is the average for the
year'ssdeuarsi)or fishing.ng. the past
List
year the average was
120 craw, and
the number of boats exceeded, by 29, that of this year.
To-day a few Ross shire boats ran here and sold their
herrings at 7s. Gd. and Bs. per cran.
BURGIIEAD, AUG. 26.—The fishing here still con-
tinues pretty good.

THE MURDERER BENNISON.
In reference to the case of William Bennison, who
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ascertainedi s second w glee,
following facts relative to the death of his first wife,
Mary M'Mullan. After leaving Ireland with her,
Bennison brought her to Airdrie, where they
remained in lodgings for a week. She com-
plained of having been sea-sick on the voyage,
but otherwise looked in good health. For two
days before her death she laboured under inces-
sant vomiting and purging, accompanied by exces-
sive thirst. No medical man was called, Bennison
alleging that his circumstances could not afford it,
and afterwards, on a fellow-lodger offering to pay the
expenses, that he had already advised with a doctor,
who had told him to give her a little wine or anything
she could take. Her death surprised the other in-
mates of the house, and excited suspicions which were
only allayed by Bennison's great pretensions to piety.
She was buried the day after her death by the aid
of funds collected from a few persons of his own
religious persuasion ; and the day after the funeral
he left, taking her clothes with him, and was heard
Avesßtiigbaleti, little room
of no more in Airdrie till after his trial appeared in
the newspapers, and attracted the attention of a
fellow-lodger, who wrote a letter which led to in-
own'hichTbileelocnigrecduntlostiihnecre: leave
bearing her name,
to doubt as to what was the fa.e of Mary M'Mullan.
is in possession of a person in Airdrie, so
that there is no doubt of her and his
identity. The grave she was buried in is
known to a nearness; and had it been necessary to
carry out the investigation,
it is perfectly possible
that even the lapse of eleven years would not have
prevented the cause of death from being ascertained
with sufficient precision for the ends of
justice—the
presence of arsenic being supposed capable of detec-
tion, even in the mouldering remains of the body, or
in the earth of the grave, after the lapse of a very
considerable period.—Scotsman.

Self-will will break t.ho world in two to malce a
stool to sit upon.— Eliza. Cook's ✓ournal.
THE MURDER OF THE COUNTESS OF GORLITZ.—
J,ean StaufF, who had been condemned toperpetual impri-
_s_onment for having assassinated the Countess of Goerlitz,. at
Darmstadt, has just confessed his crime in the prison of
i
aging
her by the throat ::;:d Ltr,:ing
Marienschlop. Ile declared that be had entered the room
cf the Countess to announce to her that he was going out,
ashen, finding no one in the room, he was tempted by the
artvm" r r.o.l,erv.
o.ing th..• a!: ti
placed the body in a chair, and, putting round it a quantity
of combustible articles, set fire to them.
bd her. li.e afterwards