The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-21 00:00:00

time. The total number of salmon and grilse caught
by the party with the rod this season has been fifty-
nine, of which 15 were killed by Sir John, 25 by Mr.
Wilkinson, and 20 by Major Richards The Ness
Angling Club mustered in considerable strength on
their range of pools during the day, but with no better
success. In the evening the nets were got out, and
casts were made in the various pools. Nine salmon
and grilse and twenty-one fine trout were taken, and
the finer fish were voted by acclamation in compli-
mentary presents to the president and other members
of the club, who, though taking much interest in it,
had not themselves fished the river, or whose success
had not been great. After sweeping the river, the
members assembled on the island, and beside a roar-
ing fire, with music, with refreshments, with dancing,
and with fireworks, duly closed the season. Mr. D.
A. Nicol is the king of the club this season, having
captured the largest number of fish. The season,
however, has been singularly bad.
The gentlemen now assembling from all parts of
the north for the great meeting of this week, report
that the fishings everywhere have been very bud—
the fish appear to h tve deserted the once favourite
streams.

Mr. Legh, at Flowerdale, who is much attached to
sea sports, has had some excellent sea-fishing in Gair-
loch in the evenings after returning from the moors,
on which the grouse are scarce. On one evening
lately he caught 96 flat fish, 18 cods and codling., 24
haddocks, and 4 gurnets ; and on another evening 52
flat fish, 19 haddocks, 9 codlings, &c.
A c,rrespondent, who has charge of some of the
best fishing rivers of the north, supplies the follow-
ing remark on the season now over :
" The poorest season within remembrance is now
closed ; and it would have been better for salmon-
fishers in general had they quietly paid their rents
and given the whole rivers in Scotland (and I may
say England and Ireland) a jubilee; for the whole
fisheries have been a loss of more than the rents of
the season, and to have given them a jubilee would
therefore have been a saving, of so much to the
tenants. We have heard various causes suggested
for the scarcity of the salmon last season. Some
attribute it to-the high or low state of the rivers
—some to the number of seals and porpoises
that have this season haunted the mouths of firths
and estuaries ; even some supposed that from
the low state of the rivers, and the difficulty
the fish had iu getting into them, that most of
them were killed or injured by sea-lice. We are
aware that the size of rivers at various seasons has
the effect of encouraging or discouraging salmon in
their progress to the rivers, and that numbers of them
are destroyed in firths and estuaries by seals and por-
poises, but it is as yet unproved whether or not the
sea-lice give the salmon the least disturbance. At all
events, the whole of these suggestions are nothing
new. They are of yearly occurrence, either at one
season or another ; and yet during all these inflic-
tions we have seen very good salmon seasons. But
we have a memorable and a certain reason to give
that accounts for the scarcity of the grilses in parti-
cular last season, and that is, the effects of the tre-
mendous floods in January, 1849. These floods hap-
pened just at the close of the spawning season, and
before the spawning beds had settled into a solid
state, and the result was, that almost all the
spawn of that season was carried away,
and scattered throughout the rivers, or thrown
ashore on the dry land, to such a degree that we
could not expect to have a good fishing this season.
It is well known that the spawn of the winter 1848-
49 would have bean the salmon fry in the rivers in
summer 1849, and the smolts and grilses of 1850 ;
therefore, we must, conclude to a certainty, that these
floods, and these alone, have been the ruin of the sal-
mon fishing in 1850.
" Since the spate on the 19th of August, the
angling has been fair on the northern rivers. On
Inver and Kirkaig, one, two, and three salmon have
fallen to the share of each rod per day. The famed
Laxford has not done so well. Shin has given four
or five a day. Ephemera' was the most successful
angler, having killed eight salmon and three grilse in
one day. Brora has also afforded some sport. Dr.
Bell proved king there, having killed five in one day ;
but as the spawning appears to be early this season,
part of the fish killed lately have been very foul, and
full of spawn."

NOTES FROM THE FORESTS.—Mr. Pryor, Strath-
vaich, has lately shot a stag. Mr. Jones, Auchintoul,
has sent in one head. A head has also been received
from Coignafearn, the stag having been shot by 11.
Elwes, Esq. Prom .N9var a head has been sent in,
the stag brought down by Sir George Palmer. Mr.
'Mackenzie has sent two stags and one hind's head,
two stags and two hinds having been shot by a party
of gentlemen at Ord. 'Another stag was shot on that
occasion by Captain Baring, but be escaped just as
the Captain was laying hold of him. Several other
stags were seen in the woods besides those killed.
Lord Malmesbury and Lord Edward Thynne, on
the Bth, brought down each a fine stag, and Lord
Edward has since killed a noble stag having nine
points 2} feet long, and the same betwixt the antlers.
Lord Canning killed a stag, a hind, and a roe, in
one day.

At Achnacarry there has been little sport at grouse-
shooting, owing to disease among the birds and the
late frosts in May, which carried off numbers. On
the 6th Lord Milmesbury and Lard Eddisbury killed,
on Auchnssaul hill, 22f brace of grouse and two
snipe=. Mr. thrris, in Ulenkiag, on the same day,
killed 6 brace and 8 snipes, and on the 10th 9 brace
of partridges, 3 ducks, 2 snipes, 9 ptarmigan, &c.

LORD BROUGEIAIII.
(From the Kendal Mercury.)
On Monday afternoon, one of the richest scenes
ever wi'nessed in the northern counties, took place
about three o'clock, in the shape of a desperate
struggle in the river Eatuont, near St. Ninian's
Church, and not far from the Giant's Caves, in the
parishes of Brougham and Edenhall, between eight
or ten members or friends of the Egmont and
Eden Angling Association, and about an equal
number of netters, supposed to be in the employ of
Lord Brougham. Here we must remark that the
aforesaid angling association was formed about
eighteen months ago. Its object is to prevent the
wholesale destruction of trout by illegal netting in
the aforesaid rivers; it is supported principally
by gentlemen resident in the neighbourhood—keen
anglers—and watchers are regularly employed to
carry out its objects. The society found little diffi-
culty in dealing with the poor fellows who were in the
habit of making a living by netting ; these, if unable
to pay the fine, were unceremoniously banded over to
the tender mercies of the governor of Carlisle gaol; but
in the course of the last and present autumn, the so-
ciety began to fear that they would have to contend
with another invader of their prerogatives—that
invader no less a personage than Lord Brougham
and Vaux, ex-Chancellor of England. If men
employed by Lord Brougham, or who said they were
employed by him, were allowed to fish for his Lord-
ship with an illegal net, then, of course, every other
person—no matter how poor—had an equal right to
'do the same, provided he could secure the sanction of
the 'landowners. Consequently the society must
either tackle Lord Brougham or become a nullity.
The former course was resolved upon , and about
nine o'clock on Monday morning eight or ten men
belonging to the society, with two of Sir George
Musgrave's gamekeepers, secreted themselves in
some furze bushes, on the Cumberland side of the
river Egmont, near the caves of Isis Perlis, which
are remarkable for their distinctness of echo. Shortly
after three Lord Brougham's men, amongst
whom was old John Robson, the Vulcan of Earnont-
bridge, proceeded down the other side of the river to
have a draw ; and after them came two carriages, con-
taing Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Douro, Mr.
William Brougham, Lady Brougham, Lady Mallet,
Mrs. William Brougham and children. The car-
riages drew up and his Lordship and party de-
scended and took their stand on the bank of the river.
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ambush for upwards of six hours, ran down the
Cumberland bank of the river. "Wh2?t, business have
you here ?" said one of them, addressing the netters.
" Fishing for Lord 13r liatm—fishing for Lord
Brougham," said old Joehugthoibson. The netters
were then ordered to cease
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mandate which they
quit the river immediately,
entirely disregarded. Toestruggle themilocotraho-
menu-el, by one of the watchers
water and seizing the cord which sjuupmppoiretegd t
an insult which old John repaid by giving
rattle un ler the ear. Another of the watchers itelhen3
jumped in and seized the net; but old John, who had
his wits about him, very promptly cut the cord, and
the party on the Brougham (Westmoreland) bank of
the river were putting the net out as fast as possible,
when Dick Jameson sprang over the heads
of the other two watchers and seized it.
A regular rush was then made into the
water—Jackson Mounsey malting
n g a splashree
co like
the launching of a vessel—and the s
menced. We shall here give John de Penrith's ver-
sionpm-
of the story ; and here we must remark that
John always claims for himself the sole credit of
every great and important capture; for being bailiff
of the waters, he can bear no rival near him. Well,
says "I went up to his Lordship, with the Act
of Parliament in my baud, and I said, my Lord, .I
suppose because you are a Lord, you think that you
have,a right to fish in these rivers ; but, my Lord, you
are wrong; I will show you that the mesh of your
net is illegal, and if you will study the Solway Act,
as I have done, you will find that what I say is correct,
and I would not like to lead your Lordship into
an error." " What," said my lord, "do you
come here to lay down the law to me ? Get away
you filth ! " Such is John's story. In the mean-
time Dick Jameson had hold of the net in the middle
of the river. Dick was a trump card ; for, although
a stentorian voice from the opposite bank was
sounded iu savage accents, and in A tone of ferociou