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coasts of Scotland ; they sent very large numbers of boats 

 from the east coasts of Ireland to the west coast of Scotland, 

 and these men joined in swelling the total of fish taken by 

 Scotchmen. He assumed Mr. Walpole would not be 

 acquainted with little details of this kind, but it was 

 well known in Ireland that the fishermen regularly fished 

 in Scotland, and some of them went down as far as Yar- 

 mouth. They might look forward with great hope to the 

 future of the fishermen of Ireland, for it was stated in the 

 annual report issued a short time back, that whereas the 

 mackerel and herring fishing-boats had increased on the 

 part of the Isle of Man, Scotland and England about 50 

 per cent., these large and improved boats had increased 

 100 per cent, in Ireland within the last seven or eight years. 

 Although an Irish official, he was not an Irishman, but 

 he felt bound to stand up and say that he believed they 

 were going a-head. He did not think they were looking 

 for charity in Ireland. On the west coast they had 

 laboured under a great disadvantage for many years, in 

 fact always from the want of harbours, and a Bill was 

 now before Parliament, not to give money from the 

 Exchequer, but to give money which belonged to the 

 Irish Church for this purpose, and he had been summoned 

 to London for the purpose of giving evidence on the 

 subject, and he could only say he had given the Bill the 

 strongest support he possibly could, because he was satis- 

 fied that without proper harbour accommodation on the 

 west coast, they could have no hope for any great increase 

 there of the large high-class fishing vessels such as were 

 found in the Isle of Man and Scotland. 



The Chairman, in putting the resolution, said Mr. Wal- 

 pole had proved to demonstration that very high charges, 

 and without saying anything disrespectful to railway 



