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duce to London by vans, which travel during the 

 night. The carriages in which the fish are thus 

 conveyed are exempted by law from the post- 

 horse duty. We presume that the extension of 

 railway commerce has materially affected the 

 transmission of fish, as well as of other articles, 

 whose value is impaired by delay. During fa- 

 vourable seasons one hundred thousand Mackerel 

 are brought to Billingsgate every week. At Hast- 

 ings, ten thousand eight hundred have been ob- 



MACKEREL BOAT OFF HASTINGS. 



tained in a single day by four boats ; and on the 

 next day seven thousand by two boats. Six- 

 teen boats brought into Lowestoffe a catch of 

 Mackerel worth £5,252, the produce of one day's 

 fishing, in 1821 ; and the fishery of that year on 



