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by the French railway companies gave the French 
fishermen considerable advantages over the English 
fishermen. He had also received a letter from Mr. 
Vaughan, of Yarmouth, who had been in the fish trade all 
his life. That gentleman stated that the rate for sending 
offal to London was 26s. to 28s., prime 37s. 6d.; but this 
sum did not include iceing, for which a charge of 3d. per 
package was made, bringing the amount to 5s. per ton more, 
nor did it include collecting or delivery at either end, the 
charge for the whole amounting to 8s. 4d. per ton, bringing 
the rate for prime up to 50s. perton. The profit to the 
company upon the iceing was also very large. To smack- 
owners and others the package rate was calculated at 
23s. 4d. per ton; barrels of fish were charged at the rate 
of 2s. 6d. per barrel, and cod at the rate of 30s. per ton. 
For vegetables in large quantities the rates were for 
2-ton lots, 9s. 2d.; for 5-ton lots, 8s. 4d.; for coal, 8s. 9d. 
per ton, 4-ton lots. Beer was carried for 9s. a ton, this 
amount including hauling from the store, in addition to 
which the beer was conveyed by the quick route. From 
that letter it would be seen what enormous charges were 
levied for fish, and what low rates for other goods. The 
next document to which he might refer, was a receipt for 
8s. 11d. which he paid for one box containing twenty-nine 
lobsters sent from Garve, which was as much as the lobsters 
fetched. The rate for Cornish mackerel was 80s. per ton ; 
Scotch rates for herrings, 76s. ; from Wick, 80s. The rates 
of railway carriage from Ireland were extremely heavy ; for 
cheap fish, herrings and mackerel from Cork, the rate was 
85s. per ton; mackerel from Holyhead, 75s. ; mackerel and 
herrings from Milford, 65s. 6d, the carriage of sprats being 
7s. 6d. per barrel, 6d. being charged for delivery. Before 
any one could send fish to Billingsgate or to any of the 
