The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-10 00:00:00

THE FISHERIES.

FOWEY.—The drift boats in this nei;:,l3bourltood continue
Eferirallivoef the scans have shot they
rral firte salmon have been taken this
hundred to two or three
thousandhtoasb.eritnagkei
taken
each.nfi
(n,
teb
gl pilchards,
week by Mr. Lowry's s an, 'ou sold at 8,1. per lb.
VERyA N',—Several sAlus shot in Gerrans bay, on Mon-
day last, but the catch: s ixere. very about three to
four bearing mauns to a sean. .1.13 e drivers at Portico have
done scarcely anything for tae last few .l.ys ; but on
Tuesday night one of the Purtloe senus shot in Gerrans
bay, and took up about sixteen hogsheads of fine pilchards.
Sr. IvEs.—Several small shoals of playing fill have been ,
seen from the hills during the week, but too far off for the
scans. The mackerel boats that have been fishing two or
three leagues from the land report that they have seen large
quantities of pilchards passing up the Channel.
LooE. —The drift boats are taking from five to ten thousand
fine pilchards each every night ; but nothing has been done
yet by the seeps. The Polperro drift boats have similar
catches to the Looe boats.
CIIARLESTOWN.-110 drift boats continue to take some
small cotches of fine fish, which have been sold for ls. bd. per
hundred.— West Briton.
PlErtaING FISHING, BEttwicK, SEr-r. s.—Since our la3t
our boats have been at sea every night and have only got a few
crans to add to their former bad fishing. This morning they
are all clean, and there is now little prospect of any more till
the moonlight, when they are going to make another trial; but
many of the half.dealsmen will have to go a harvesting. The
take for this season is only about a third of that of last year and
about a fourth of an average year. The bo..ts upon an average
have not above forty crans each, and the fishermen are very
much cast down. Prices have been during the week from 13s.
to 17a. per cram
EYESIOUTIL —Our fishing for the past week has been very
light. There were some good shots in the early part:of the
week ; but these not at all general. The average IT the week
has been from two to three crans ; prices 13s. to 17s, per cran.
T i
The average up to this date for the season is 119 crans. A
good number of our boats have left for the south, in consequence
of a report of a good fishing at Craster and Boulmer.
Non Tit SUNDERLAND.—Our fishing in the latter end of
last week was very good, some boats had from twenty to thirty
crans. On Monday and Tuesday this week, it was more
general, the highest boat hal between thirty and forty crans,
but on Wednesdny and Thursday the fishing had fallen greatly
off, the highest boat having only twelve trans. Prices ten to
twelve shillings per cran.
))UNBAR.—The herring fishing at this station is now nearly
closet!, after a very successful season. The strange boats are
daily returning.—Berwick Advertiser.

THE POTATOE CROP.—The moot alarming ac-
counts are given of the state of the potatoe crops in thisneighbour-
hood, Wisbech. We cannot gather a single account where the dis.
ease, which appears in other parts of the country to have attacked the
crop, has nut made its appearance. The stem which a fortnight
or three weeks since bore the most promising prospect, is c,ery
bcred was one of
where withering. The commencement of the attack is generally
dated here from Tuesday, the 19th ult , which it will be remern.
t
appears with a bluish speck on the potatoe, which rapidly extends
through the root, the
through hgeraasvieessitartaionpseanlemdoyssteery
yesterday
known. It first
y which had been
formed about the time above.named, and the stench was intolerable,
crnisequentiy all the potatoes spoiled. It has given a check to the
purchasers who were sending such quantities from hence, as we
learn that a cargo last week when it arrived in the north was half
of it rotten.—Cambridge Chronicle.
CitysTALLisArmx c TO THE
MANUFACTIIREt:S :OF OPTICAL iNo4I- ;..!: I:bell-lien, who
has obtained, Sty a solution of slicic acid eller, a compott.i.i
wh,cli he calls silicic ether, fur her tii.tt by the evnpccatlon
of that substance in a moist a•mospheze a plate of sex Is depwaid,
/perfectly translucid, and quite free from double refraction, a cir.
cumstance which must give it a great value I" tho construction of
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