The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCAANdif.—This Eve.iing

Amsterdam Short. 11 18/ 11 10
Ditto 3 Months. 12 4 12 1
Rotterdam
Antwerp —2 Z 25 40
Brussels — 25 35 25 40
Hamburg — 13 91 13 10
Paris
Ditto 3 Months. 25 80 25 35
Marseilles
Frankforl on the Maine —120 k
Vienub. — 12 42} 12 Su
Trieste —1242 i 50
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Potersburgn
Berlin
Nladrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
NIB=
Genoa
Naplos
Palermo
11.essina
Lisbon
Oporto ..

31f 32
6 26i 6 27
48f
48i 48f
29 4t 29 7u
29 45 29 70
2942 `2970
29 45 29 70
29 45 29 70
29 45 29 70
511 51}
511 51fr

SALMON FISHERY IN THE FAR WEST .

And now all the traps are sot, and the -watchers
anxiously look out for the appearance of the first salmon.
Their sharp eyes full soon detect the silve'y fish, and
the welcome tidings of the salmon's arrival spread with
telegraphic rapidity. The revels are at once abandoned,
and we now see stalwart savages standing on every
available point of rock armed with formidable three-
pointed barbed spars; their eager eyes are pouring into
the bubbling waters, on the look out for salmon. Once
descried, the salmon's chance of escape is small indeed ;
the unerring spear is deeply buried in its flesh, the
barbed points hold on with the tenacity of fish-hooks, and
the victim is dragged out of the water to flap and flounder
itself to death, surrounded by the delighted throng. The
capture of the first salmon is the signal for a general re-
joicing; the "medicine men" go through the most weird
and absurd incantations to please, as they think, the
" Great Spirit," and thus induce him to send an abundant
supply of fish, and, what to these impostors is of far
greater import, to convince the assembled tribes that their
medicine-making has been pre-eminently successful. The
men and women dance and shriek, and give vent to yells,
war-whoops, and other uncanny sounds in sheer mad-
ness of delight. As a general rule, the first sal-
inoa is presented to the Hudson's Bay Company's
chief trader, and twice in my life I have partaken
of the " first salmon," and I can bear truthful
testimony that its quality was equal to the best salmon
the United Kingdom produces. The fishery business
now commences in right good earnest. The salmon day
after day arrive in numbers not to be computed, and I am
not in the slightest degree overstating the truth by saying
that, when tho "run" is at its best it would be almost an
impossibility to throw a stone into the eddies underneath
the falls without striking a salmon. I have stood upon
the rocks, by the side of the " salmon baskets," and tried
in vain to count the number of salmon that were
leaping clear out of the water at ono and the same
time. And it is at such times as these that we wit-
ness the extraordinary success of the redskins' basket
system of fishing. The poor salmon, in their untiring

efforts to master the falls, and thus get into the mountain
streams to deposit their eggs, far too frequently for their
own safety jump short of the height they desire to achieve,
and then are instantly washed back iuto the wide-mouthed
baskets. Often and often I have seen six, and sometimes
as many as eight. salmon caged at a time ; and, start-
ling asihe statement may sound to persons in this coun-
iry, I have myself known over three hundred salmon
lauded from one basket betwixt sun-up and sun-down.
these fish vary in wei;ht from 201 b. to 751b.—Land
and Water.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 18e8.

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln Spring
I harrow 2O Derby Spring

MARCH.
Liverpool Spring M.... 3 Margate
Chelmsford Spting M. 10 Epsom Spring Meeting
Shrewsbury Spring ... 10 Croiton Park
West Drayton l2 Northampton
Warwick Spring

APRIL.
Northampton (continued) 1 Knighton
Bromley 6 Abergavenny ., ...
, • •
Aldershot
Durham

liendou .

Thirsk - 7_

Newcastle Spring
Newmarket Craven

Curragh April
Newmarket Ist Spring

Newmarket Ist Spring
(continued)
Chester
Winchester
York Spring
Doncaster Spring

Salisbury
Bath
Croydon lat Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Summer
Ascot Summer 9
Windsor Summer
Newton

IHampton .......
l3ibury Club
Curragh Juno
Stockbridge
I Alexandra Park
LY.

Alexandra Park (con.) 1
Chelmsford
Worcester Summer ... 2
Carlisle
Newmarket July 7
Rending
Oldham l6

Liverpool
Stamford
Huntingdon
Nottingham July
Southampton
Goodwood

AUG

Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer 7
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor

York August
Oxford
Scarborough
Derby Summer
Canterbury
Weymouth
Lichfield

Egham lB Tunbridge
Hastings
SEPTEMBER.

Warwick September 1
Abingdon 3
Leicester
Doncaster September 8
Richmond
Kelso l5
Hampton Autumn l5

no3al Caledonian Hunt
and Ayr (continued)... 1
Bedford 1
1
Bromley
Newmarket 2d October b
NOW
Shrewsbury Autumn
Leamington and War

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21
27
31

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Hendon l7
Monmouth .
Newmarket Ist October 22
West Drayton 29
Royal Caledonian Rant
and Ayr BO