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Government towards their development, Mr. Blake had 

 referred very slightly to the incredible injustice of past 

 days, and it was impossible for any man, whether an Irish- 

 man or Englishman, to read of the record of that cruelty 

 which destroyed the wholesale manufactures of Ireland, 

 without feeling his blood boil with honest indignation at 

 such atrocities being committed. It could not be denied 

 that the Government of to-day, which, though not exactly 

 the same Government as of those days, was its successor 

 and owed a reparation to those industries which it was easy 

 to destroy, but often extremely difficult to rehabilitate. 

 Mr. Bloomfield had given a case in point. He had alluded 

 to the little port of Baltimore, which, owing to the generosity 

 of Lady Burdett Coutts, had developed in an incredibly 

 short time to a most important fishing-port. If so much 

 could be done by private enterprise and benevolence, 

 surely it became the Government of the richest Empire 

 in the world to rescue people from that slough of despair 

 into which a great portion of Ireland had been plunged 

 for so many generations, and to raise them again into a 

 position which they should occupy, and which, he was 

 firmly convinced they would occupy, without the necessity 

 of foreign migration, or without further or more dangerous 

 experiments in agricultural legislation. The Paper read by 

 Mr. Walsh was one of extreme interest ; he had given a 

 succinct history of the fisheries of that part of Ireland with 

 which he was specially connected, and brought forward 

 very strong reasons indeed for Government assistance, and 

 with regard to technical education and other points. He 

 had also informed them of the enormous freightage charge 

 from Milford and Holyhead for the transport of fish, and 

 suggested that, as whisky and other goods were carried at 

 a much lower rate, the railway companies should be com- 



