although they have made the most they could of a weak 

 case, and put as good a colouring as possible to make the 

 pale face bear the light before a national audience. It 

 would take me long to do it justice, but I will give you an 

 idea of what the country is losing. 



In page 4 — "Herring Fisheries," 1882 — statistics have 

 been taken from the following places only : — Howth, Ark- 

 low, Kinsale, Greenore, Ardglass, Omeath, and Warrenpoint, 

 Kilkeel, Amalong, Courtown and Balbriggan, from which 

 points were captured 70,457 mease, at a total value of 

 ^78,860. 



Of course you will imagine that these are scattered 

 denominations, representing the attacks upon the herring, 

 all ro7/ /id the coast of Ireland. No siicJi thing; look at the 

 map behind me, where I have marked them all. 



But, to make things worse, when I refer to the report of 

 1879, I find that these same points are there declared to be 

 then, as NOW, the ONLY places from which regular and 

 authentic returns can be procured ! Worse again — I there 

 find that the value taken in '79, from these exceptionally 

 favoured places, which make up the Irish contribution to 

 English supply is considerably over that of 1882. Well, but 

 what proportion of our coast do these places represent to cal- 

 culate this .? We must turn to the divisions, and there I find 

 that, giving the wJiole possible area in which these fishings 

 could be defined, the mileage amounts on the east coast 

 to 223 miles, and Kinsale to no miles, making altogether 

 333 miles, leaving besides four divisions — the length of which 

 is not given in the report — 2337 miles of coast zvith no return. 

 With these Government statistics available must we not 

 charitably imagine that the Treasury cannot have read 

 them, when opposing Mr. Blake in a pitiful grant of our 

 own money towards carrying out the recommendations of the 



