The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, JAN. 30.—Transactions are very active,
and the market is firm.
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Loan as
41 per Cent. ...... 90 80 Bank Shares 3230
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~.7. It&l'an Loan
3 per Cent ......... 68 r 0 End
of month 43 55
Three o'clock. —,.lBle6m,7..karmkeext
130
End of mouth— 175 Spanish Threes
Credit Fonder _1390 Home Debt 341
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End of m0uth...1300 Deferred
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I.lAmwAYs.
Account,
Orleans ..... ,
... 8781
Northern ........ , ....... . ...................... 1160
Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 8861
Southern..... ................................. 5381
Western ....................................... 565
Eastern ............ .. ........................
Sardinian .................................... 371
Austrian ....................................... 5161
Lombard ..... , .......................... 3G04
North of Spain ..........................
Saragossa ..................................
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Roman— , ...................................... 451

TILE SALMON SEASON.—To-day <February 1) the
annual fence time, during which it is illegal to take salmon
in England, closes, and the season would opm to-morrow,
the 2d, but as the day falls this year on a Sunday, and a
weekly close time is established by the new Fishery Laws,
from Saturday at noon to 'Monday morning fishing, will not
actually commence until 6 o'clock on Monday morning. In
one or two fishery districts established under the Salmon
Fishery Act, 1865, the annual fence time has been pro -
longed, and fishing for salmon will not take place for a fort-
night to come, whereas in some Irish rivers fishing com-
menced a fortnight ago. Tho prospects of the ensuing
season are considered favourable. Some
palpable results
may now be fairly looked for from the working of the Sal-
mon Acts 1861 and 1865. There can be no doubt from the
nature of
the reports from different parts of the country
that there is a material increase of salmon in our rivers.
On the Severn fishery district, which embraces a length
of no less than 668 miles of river,' the largest district
yet formed under the new law, there has been for two
o. r three winters a
remarkable increase of spawn-
mg fish. This year the salmon showed themselves on
the spawning beds in November. The chief rush of fish
lip the rivers was in the following month, and these having
deposited their ova leave been sen falling back towards
the sea, there to recruit themselves, to return to the fresh
water again in the summer as seasonable fish. Some high
freshes in the middle of January materially assisted the
progress of the exhausted " kelts" (as the spawned fish are
called) seawards, and these were met on their way by
another run of gravid-salmon, which at the end of the
close season had not yet all performed their natural func-
tions. But, although there are still a good many
unsea-
sonable kelts in the rivers, there have also been a fair
sprinkling of fresh run fish, which will bo available for the
fishmonger next Monday.
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