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quite the reverse : they welcome them, and receive 

 considerable employment from them ; and as they 

 cannot themselves, under present circumstances, take 

 advantage of the rich harvest which is spread out 

 before them, they envy not their neighbours, and 

 contemplate more in sorrow than in anger the splen- 

 did results of their industry and energy. But have 

 these hardy inhabitants of Cornwall no advantages 

 over our native fishermen ? Alas ! the ready an- 

 swer is — all this industry and productive wealth 

 have been called forth, and have had energy and 

 life impressed upon them by English capital. Those 

 boats do not belong to the trusty fishermen who na- 

 vigate them ; they belong in shares to rich shop- 

 keepers and merchants in Cornwall, who fit them 

 out, and the proceeds are divided in certain equit- 

 able proportions between the owners and the fisher- 

 men, by which arrangement all are equitably re- 

 compensed ; those who supply the capital, divide, 

 clear of all contingencies, fifteen or twenty per cent. ; 

 and the industrious fishermen themselves lay up in 

 money, as the reward of their toils, an ample provi- 

 sion for winter. 



Can we not imitate this curriculum of industry ? 

 — We proceed to make a few suggestions on this 

 head, as an effort is being made in the present Bill 

 to call forth our dormant industry, and latent wealth 

 in this land of paralyzed resources. 



In the first place, without proper means for de- 

 velopment, nothing can be even reasonably proposed. 



