The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, in Mr. Frere's Court, held in Corn-
miace-room No. 16, the further consideration of
the Limerick and North Kerry Junction Railway
was adjourned until the 24th inst. There was no
appearance in the case of the Liverpool and Birken-
head (Ferry Junction), nor of the Ross and Mon-
mouth and Forest of Dean Railway Bills.

In Mr. Palgrave's Court, in Committee-room No.
17, the standing orders were dechred to have been
complied with in the cases of the Ardmore Har-
bour, the Mersey Railway, and the Newport and
Usk Railway Bills. The Vale of Crickhowell
Railway Bill was postponed until the 27th inst.
The consideration of the Metropolitan Street Tram-
ways Bill was further adjourned until Friday next.
The Afon Valley Railway Bill was postponed until
the 27th inst.

FIVE 11UNDRED TONS OF COAL ON FIRE.

During Wednesday night and Thursday morning
several fires took place in various pars of the me-
tropolitan district, but the following was the most
serious of the whole :—Late at night smoke was seen
issuing from the extensive coal wharf of Messrs.
Naylor, situate at the water side, two doors
from the India Arms Tavern, Rotherhithe. It being
apparent that a fire had broken out in some part
of the steam lift, an alarm was promptly given,
and the powerful steam-float, moored near the wails
of the bank, was immediately taken st'll nearer, and
the steam being " well up" the hose was stretched
out so that the powerful machine could be set
to work in a minute shou'd its services be
require 1. The firemen, however, upon entering
the place, found that the flames were raging
amongst 500 tons of coals, and that the engine-
house and machinery were placed in great jeopardy.
Telegraph messages were therefore despatched to the
different stations of the Metropolitan Brigade, and
in a space of time almost increenly brief there were
nearly a dozen land steamers by Shand and Mason,
as well as several manual-power ones on the spot,
and the London Salvage Corps under the command
of Mr. Swanton, the superintendent of that body.
The large float and several land steamers were at
once set to work, and rsme hundred tons weight of
water were scattered over the fire, but for some
considerable time the only good that could
be accomplished was the preventing of the
fire extending to the adjoining wharves. After
some hours hard working, however, the
brigade succeeded in allaying all fears of any fur-
ther extension of mischief, hut the fire could not be
entirely extinguished until an advanced hour in the
morning, and not before a serious amount of pro-
perty had been seriously burned. Owing to the
extent of premises the business will not be retarded
by the disaster. The origin of the fire is at present
enveloped in obscurity.

PRODUCTIVENESS OF SALMON.—FINN MACOOL
AND THE Krsa OF FPS. —Sir George Simpson relates, in
his "Journey Round the World," that in the Columbian
River he found salmon so plentiful that as Dimly as a
thousand had been caught in a day in a single basket, some
weighing upwards of 401bs. In a stream in
f ndwdifa
Arch-
angel, salmon were so abundant that i,t, wasp u , cult
to row the canoe through them. In La erouse s Voy-
ages," "Erman's Travels in Siberia," Lewis and Clark's
"Travels up the Missouri," and many other works, accounts
are found of the prodigious quantities of salmon in ccun-
tries not More favourably circumstanced for the propaga-
tion than Ireland. When it is considered what bas been
elsewhere accomplished by artificial culture and preserva-
tion, it will hardly be thought too much to assume that, if
in addition to what recent legislation has done for the in-
land fisheries of Ireland other means were adopted for the
better enabling the salmon to reach spawning grounds and
insure its protection at the proper season, fully four times
the present capture would be the result, and with it a pro-
portionate increase of employment. The amount of salmon
in the Irish rivers in ancient times, according to authentic
accounts, could not have been short of what it is predicted
they might again be made to produce. " St. Patrick found
the pagan Irish fishing in every part of the island. The
famous warrior, Finn MaCool, met his death by the blow
of a gaff from a fisherman of the Boyne. The Brehon laws
relating to ' Mur Bhreatha,' or sea decisions, show the care
taken by the Irish lawgivers for the preservation of the
rights of each clan to fish in their own rivers. The
Spaniards gave O'Donnell, chief of Tyrconnell, the sobri-
quet of ' King of Fish,' from the enormous quantity he sent
to Spain in exchange for wine. So largely did Sherris sack
continue to be imported into Ireland in return for fish,
that an act was passed in the time of Henry VIII. for the
punishment of boatmen tapping casks of wine when con-
veying them up the rivers."—" The Sea Fisheries of Ire-
-4114" by I, 4, Make, ar, (Ms.)

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name it was afterwards found was Annie Casey, and he
was.pulled by her into a house in the yard. The door was
then locked or fastened so as to prevent him from getting
out. Almost before be knew where he - was, Casey
commenced a violent assault upon him by striking
him on the head with a . poker, and in this she
was assisted by another woman, who appeared to be
the landlady of the house. He of course endea-
voured to defend himself as well as he could, but, being
an o:d man, he was at length overpowered, and was
struck insensible to the ground. A police-constable, named
Thomas Cooke, and Andrews, another constable, hearing
Sykes's cries for assistance, ran into the yard, but were
unable to obtain admittance to the house in consequence
of the door being fastened. and it was only on their
threatening to break it open that the door was unlatched.
They then found Mr. Sykes 13 ing insensible on the floor:.
which was almost covered with blood, and blood was
trickling down his face from several wounds on his head.
Both women were in the room, and the girl Casey told
the officers that she had struck Sykes on the head, and that
she would have killed him if they bad not come in. They
at first refused to go to the police station, but on War_
rant-officer Jackson coming to the assistance of the con-
stables, they were removed to the station in a cab.
On recovering consciousness Mr. Sykes walked to the
police-office, when he discovered that he had been robbed
of £4, and that a diamond ring worth about £2O had been
taken from one of his fingers. Detective Carswell after-
wards visited the house, and found the ring on the floor,
but failed to trace the money, and Detective Wheatlff,
who :u'oscquently made a search, was alike unsuccessrul."
Casey's companion gave her name as Catherine Waring
She lives with the occuaer_ of the house, a man
named Waring Glover, who is•Aklawker of nuts ; and
Dt tective Carswell subsequently Apprehended him on sus-
picion of being concerned in the outrage. Casey is a
young woman, 22 years of age, living in Paradise-street,
and she has only very recently come out of prison. Her
statement as to the commencement of the assault differs
very materially from that of Mr. Sykes, and she denies
that she pulled him into the house.

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