IIIO OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



An Oyster Fishery Company is but formed of Men, 

 not Alchemical automatons, each with the exhaustless 

 purse of Fortunatus ; and men, however wealthy they may 

 be, are not iron-nerved enough, after one such failure (as 

 those mentioned) to venture on a second. 



Who can blame them ? Indeed, they were, and are 

 worthy of all praise for their British Pluck in pinning their 

 faith upon the Legal Charter of their Financial Ruin ; and 

 whatever over-sanguine, or, say even, avaricious expecta- 

 tions of gain they had built their airy castles upon at the 

 outset of their speculation, we cannot but respect them for 

 their bravely-suffering and money-squandering perseverance 

 in those unfortunate undertakings, and regard them as mone- 

 tary martyrs to a maladministration deserving of no better 

 fate than to be the scornful jest of the Foreigner. And 

 rightly so, too ! for, think of it just give it one minute's 

 serious reflection ; if our oyster cultivators could work on 

 the administrative plan of the French or Americans, what a 

 boon it would prove to the general Public ? 



There is no difficulty in the way to its attainment ; 



none whatever. 



" 'Tis as easy as lying." 



I will expound it in a nutshell ! I will show you the way 

 in a word ! 1 will tell you the " Open Sesame " to a 

 bright ostracultural future for England. It is nothing 

 more nor less than "Abolition and Concessions ! ' 



Let the Public take up that cry and the country will 

 be the better for it ; ay, and healthier and richer too. 



Let the Public see that ^fulfilled, and we will easily 

 prove Frank Buckland's assertion, "that the French 

 system though so much lauded is in reality no better than 



our own." 



