The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-12-02
TIKI PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER =.
French Exposition of Fishery.


The present Emperor Of France is famous for
originating gigantic schemes OF one kind or
another and u talismanic maze has, thus far,
served 10 throw around every enterprise OF his,
Ct least in the eyes Of his subjects, some eclat,
whether merited or not. At one time II is a
foreign colonization scheme or a plan for ter
ritorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT at another the arts
of peace are gloriied but always he seems am
bilious of initiating or forwarding benefcent
enterprises for the good of his people, and at the
anne time keeping in view the strengthening of
his position and the adding Of lustre to the name
of NAPOLEON.
The latest project Of the kind we have seen
is Swallowed forth in a circular, kindly furnished
US by Mons. Desnoyers, Commissioner and Con-
sui of France at this port. and issued, with per-
mission of the French Government, by a Sci
entifc Society of Arcachon,'' for the purpose
of inaugurating an g Exposition of Fishery and
AGRICULTURE (the culture of everything useful
in water,) at the Basin d'Arcachon, to be
opened in July, 1866, and to last not less than
one nor more than three months.
Arcachon is selected because Of the perfection
the science of pisciculture has attained there,
also for its agreeableness and its favorable loca-
lIOn LOT communicating VIII ~ pAlIS u iAohSC
by sen or rail. The celebrated Basin of Area
chon is situated on the sea, q little south of
west from Bordeaux, not at the mouth OF the
Garonne, but among a labyrinth OF inlets at
the embouchure of the little river Legre, and is
connected with Bordeaux by rail, and from
there with all southern France by rail as far as
Toulon, and with northern France by the same
means through Angouleme, POitiers, Tours,
Orleans and Paris. Arcachon has no equal IN
natural means Of producing fish. Besides the
open sea and bays, it possesses salt and fresh
water ponds, lakes, rivers and streamlets in
bewildering multitude.
The object of the Exhibition is to collect and
arrange for use every species of information
connected with fishery and agriculture, and to
claim, at the " Exposition Universelle, - to be
held in Paris in the summer of 1867, Il special
department for it there as one of the great in
dustries of France and the world. The circular
states that nothing of the kind ever yet gained
entrance at the World Exhibitions, save some
fsh-nets and lines ut London in 1862. The
circular states that, as yet, we know compar-
! atively nothing in regard to the resources of the
sea and inland waters as means of human sub
sistence, and much less in regard to cultivating
and obtaining that wealth.
The science of agriculture comprises within
its province every species of useful substances
obtained from water, such rs fish, shell, oil,
minerals, manure, corals, frogs, imu, aqua
| fora, &c, &c. Doubtless all lovers of fish and
Emu here will await eagerly the results of the
| iab0rs at Arcachon.
There is to be an &" Exhibition of Instruments
of Fishery" at Bergen. Norway, 1T the same
time, as was formerly done in Holland, and with
which Societies this of Arcachon is connected
The Fishery part OF the Exhibition comprises
every imaginable article connected with obtain
ing tho wealth of the deep, from a thing uln-bob
and boat model 70 q steam whaler and equip
ments, all of which are earnestly solicited, and
will probably be there; and it will pay q
| shrewd Yankee whalenan to make the exhibi-
ton a visit, as well as the cod and mGckerel
men, who doubtless will be represented. The
| general regulations, comprising forty articles
and Il table of twenty classes, are too lengthy
for insertion in our columns, but it is TO be
hoped the Government organ will insert them
since, by its obstinate persistence against en-
numbering it's columns with advertisements, 1t
has abundance of space that cannot be better
occupied. However, any one desiring informa.
ton, can obtain it, no doubt, from the Commits
sioner of France at this Court.
The "Ancient Agricultural Inspector and
Imperial Commissioners at the London Exhibi-
| tion,'' Paul Lacoin, is Director, to whom ad.
dress at Arcachon, Department Gironde.