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rings extends from Dunbar to 

 Holy Island. 



We hear from the Isle of Mann, 

 that great quantities of herrings 

 have been lately taken there, and 

 that there is a prospect of a fu- 

 ture good fishing this season. 

 On the nights of Tuesday and 

 Wednesday se'nnight, the boats 

 on the Peele-town side weie un- 

 usually successful. The fleet is 

 said to have consisted of nearly 

 300 boats, each of which took 

 from 1 y to .50 maze ! 



Perth. — In the midst of much 

 distress, \nider wliich the labour- 

 ing classes of the community 

 stiniggle with a degree of patience 

 in every view both wise and laud- 

 able, we have pleasure in stating, 

 that the rivers which intersect 

 our country, and the ocean which 

 surrounds it, never poured forth 

 their bounty more abundantly. 

 Fish of all kinds Is cheap. Sal- 

 mon, in particular, has been 

 selling here for some time past 

 from three-pence halfpenny to 

 four-pence halfpenny per pound, 

 or less than half the price which 

 the same article has cost, in the 

 cheapest time of the season, for 

 the last 30 years. 



Dundee. — All our whalers have 

 now returned from the Northern 

 Seas : and, in the aggregate, the 

 season has been propitious to 

 their toil. The individual success 

 of each vessel having been no- 

 ticed in the announcements of 

 arri\al, we shall here state the 

 general result of the whole — 76 

 fish, estimated at about 979 tons 

 of oil; which, supposing the 

 avenige price to be 251. per ton, 

 would amount to '24,4751. The 

 success of our whale-fisheries is 

 at all times an interesting con- 



sideration : it is remarkably so at 

 present, when the manufactures 

 and trade of the town are re- 

 duced to so low an ebb. 



How much soever the regular 

 commerce of the coiuitry is im- 

 ])aired by the present pressure, 

 there is no question that the 

 smuggling trade continues in ex- 

 treme vivacity. This extraordi- 

 nary traffic appears to be con- 

 ducted with a publicity that could 

 scarcely be credited but on the 

 testimony of one's own sight. 

 The smugglers, or, as they are 

 styled from the manner of con- 

 veying the whisky, Flaskers, 

 go in large bands on the high 

 roads in open day, and laugh at 

 the traveller who, in his looks, 

 expresses wonder at contraven- 

 tions of the law so undisguised, 

 and yet so undetected. On Mon- 

 day night, for instance, a gang 

 of 24, with the order of so many 

 soldiers, and under the directions 

 of a leatler who frequently called 

 on those lagging behind " to 

 keep up," marched through 

 Springbank and the neighbour- 

 ing hamlets to Cowcaddens, (in 

 the suburbs of Glasgow), where, 

 in the face of numbers of persons, 

 some of whom bawled out "^ suc- 

 cess to smuggling," they entered 

 a house and deposited their laden 

 fiasks, until the shades of night 

 ^vould enable them to penetrate 

 in safety to their resetters in 

 Glasgow. We are informed, that 

 the places of distillation are nearly 

 as notorious to the inhabitants in 

 their vicinity as the methods of 

 conveyance; and whoever of the 

 neighbours choose to make a visit 

 to the })opular distillers are re- 

 galed with undiluted spirit, 

 wherewith to drink confusion to 

 the Excise. Smuggled whisky, 



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