diminish the productiveness of a river. The Tweed has 

 suffered as severely as any river during the last five years, 

 and yet the catch of salmon in 1882 (8,808) was more than 

 double what it was in 1879 (3,472). 



I have been favoured this morning by Messrs. Forbes, 

 Stuart & Co., of Lower Thames Street, with the following 

 returns, which show that, disease notwithstanding, the 

 supply of salmon from the rivers of the United Kingdom 

 to London, in the month of June just past, was far in excess 

 of that in the same months in the five preceding years. 



ARRIVAL OF SALMON IN LONDON IN JUNE FOR THE LAST 

 5 YEARS IN BOXES. 



Such are the most important phenomena presented by 

 salmon disease in this country. Naturally its rise and pro- 

 gress have excited considerable alarm, and the usual 

 swarm of empirics have propounded their dogmas about the 

 causes and their specifics for the cure of the disease. 



Nothing is more curious than the readiness of people 

 who dare not undertake to mend a meat-jack because they 

 know nothing about machinery, to give decided opinions 



