The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

PILCHARD FISHERY.

MOUNT'S BAY.—During the past week, the drift
boats have taken nightly about a hogshead of fine
pilchards. The seams have not been shot.
ST. IVES.—During the week six reins have shot,
and have taken about 850 hogsheads of pilchards,
which are landed and the nets taken up. Several
other shoals have been seen from the hills, and from
the quantity seen by the driving boats there is every
appearance of a prosperous season. Some of the
drift boats have brought in a number of very fine
mackarel, which sold at 15s. per six score.
ST. AGNES.—On Tuesday night, the " Towan"
sean enclosed a large shoal, but the fish tore the net,
and got off again.
PERRAN PORTll.—lmmense quantities of pilchards
have been seen off this place and St. Agnes, and, on
Thursday, the 22d inst., the Farmers' sean shot,
and drew safely on shore 500 hogsheads. On Monday
last, there were three scans shot—the Union
taking about 700 hogsheads, the Miners' about
500, and the Farmers' about 400. The greater
part has been sold out fresh, at 2s. the basket, con-
taining nearly 300 fish. Should the present fine
weather continue, there is every reason to hope for
more catches, as the fish still continue in the bay.—
West Briton.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION RE-
QUIRE THIRTY MILLION POUNDS
FROM THE COUNTRY AS COMPENSA-
TION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In the Lancet of last Saturday, the 31st of
August, at page 712, you will find a letter from
one G. J. Perry, claiming compensation from
Parliament to the tune of 30,000,0001., because
Sir James Graham has not thought fit so far to
interfere with the medical liberty of the subject as to
put down the sale of patent medicines. This demand
of Mr. Perry's is a pretty good proof of how the
wind blows. How far it accords with what we are
told by doctors, viz , that they have no interest in the
matter, and that it is solely for the public good that
they desire the suppression of patent medicines, we
leave the public to decide. Mr. Perry cites, as a
precedent for the claim, the 20,000,0001. paid to the
proprietors of slaves. What a splendid analogy !
(Issued by Morison, Moat, and Co., of the British
College of Health, New-road, London, for and on be-
half of the body of Hygeists, who contend that since
all diseases proceed from one cause—viz., an impurity
of the blood—they should be treated by the Vegetable
Universal Medicine, which being a compound of in-
nocuous ingredients, can be used by all persons, with-
out the assistance of any doctor.)
P.S. Doctors had better, on the meeting of Parlia-
ment, obtain a law to prevent people eating and
drinking what they please without their advice.

Loss OF VALUABLE HORSES. - The steam-ship
Queen of Scotland, Captain Cape, arrived on Wednes-
day, after a rough voyage to and from Hamburgh. Her
cargo home included seventeen baskets plums and four-
teen head of cattle, three of which had to be slaughtered
on board. Of the valuable cargo of horses which she
took out, on Saturday week, we are sorry to state that
she lost ten, in the severe storm of the following day,
120 miles from the Humber. Four belonged to Mr.
Strauss, of Vienna, four to Mr. Bamberg, and two to
Mr. Furstenberg. Mr. Strauss's loss included two very
large and valuable dark brown mares ; a bay mare with
a long star, which was purchased at a high figure, and
another splendid hunting mare. He has also two other
horses remaining at Hamburgh, which were so much
injured, as not to be able to travel for a month. Mr.
Furstenberg's lot consisted of two fine bay mares, out of
a lot of eight, and the remainder will not be able to
leave Hamburgh for a fortnight. Mr. Bamberg, out of
fourteen horses, besides losing four, had four others
much mutilated and severely injured. We are assured
that the whole of these heavy losses may be attributed
to the overloading of the ship, to meet the wishes of the
owners of the horses, who had repeatedly crossed the
German Ocean with valuable studs. A delay of three
or four days would have saved some hundreds of pounds.
Of Mr. Strauss's lot of thirty-one, in the Queen of
Scotland, on her passage to Hamburgh, not one cost less
than 1001., and for several 150/. and 1701. were paid.—
Hu II Advertiser.

THE METROPOLITAN PARLIAMENTARY REVISIONS. '
—We understand that Mr. T. J. Arnold has been ap-
pointed by Lord Denman the revising barrister of the
lists of electors for the City of London, and has appointed
to hold his first Court in the Court of Common Pleas, ,
Guildhall, on Monday, the 16th inst. The proceedings
of the first day's sitting will be occupied in receiving
from the Secondaries the lists of the livery, and from the
overseers the lists of the 101. householders. After this
formal proceeding the discussion of the different claims
and objections will be proceeded with in the order which,
at its earliest sitting, will, no doubt, be appointed by the
Court. In the letter of appointment issued by Lord
Denman, in his capacity of Lord Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench, the names of Mr. Lancelot Shadwell,
son of the Vice Chancellor of England, and Mr. D. C.
Moylan, are associated, and it is presumed that one of
those Learned Gentlemen will take the revision of the
county of Middlesex, and the other that of the boroughs
of Finsbury, Marylebonc, and the Tower Hamlets. As
yet, however, no definitive arrangement has been made.
CHEAP RAILWAY TRAINS.—NORTH UNION.—A
writer in the Preston Chronicle says=" One of the nu-
merous proofs of mismanagement urged by the Railway
Record against the North Union Company, was the ab-
sence on that line of cheap trips. We have had, since the
articles appeared, a cheap trip to Liverpool—thanks, not
to the North Union Company, but to a small knot of
teetotallers in the town—and far more persons wanted
to go than could be accommodated. Of course you would
say, the Company would take advantage of this feeling,
and have another trip immediately. Nothing of the sort!
Persons go by hundreds and thousands to Fleetwood and
Blackpool, and they may continue to go there for any
possible chance there is of the North Union Company
favouring them with a trip to Liverpool." He is of opi-
nion that if a cheap train to Liverpool were advertised,
in connexion with a cheap. steam excursion, for about
three or four days, to Menai-bridge, Beaumaris, Carnar-
von, and other enchanting spots in North Wales, hun-
dreds would gladly embrace the offer. We think so too.
Railway Record.
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY TRAlNS.—Sunday
morning being the last day for the cheap excursions to
Brighton and back, the terminus at London-bridge was
literally besieged by nearly 3,000 people. At seven
o'clock, they commenced sending them off in batches.
The first lot consisted of 700 people, who were conveyed
in 25 carriages, propelled by three engines; immediately
after, another, consisting of 20 carriages, containing MO;
and at eight o'clock, a monster train of 40 carriages,
containing 1,000, left the terminus for Brighton, where
they arrived in two hours. The latter train was pro-
pelled by six powerful engines. The whole of them
returned home by ten o'clock at night in two monster
trains without encountering any accident.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SHERIIORNE.—About eight
o'clock on Wednesday night the extensive coach factory
of Mr. Hill, on Green-hill, was discovered to be in
flames. In less than an hour the factory, with all its
contents, was entirely consumed. The dwelling-house
was next consumed, and a house on the opposite side,
tenanted by Mr. Bustard, a Wesleyan minister, was very
much damaged, as were also several tenements in the
rear of the factory, belonging to poor families. A por-
tion of the furniture was removed to the houses opposite.
—Slierborne Journal.