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dations appear to be worked out with strict impar- 

 tiality ; it may doubtless require technical or verbal 

 amendments, which is generally the case with com- 

 plicated measures ; and perhaps there is not an Act 

 on the statute-book, which is conversant with a 

 greater variety of intricate details ; but there is am- 

 ple time, before the commencement of next session, 

 for the most minute consideration of its provisions 

 by all those interested in its success, and we trust 

 the result will be, a measure useful to the country. 

 Early in the session it will be proceeded with; indeed, 

 those competent to form an opinion on this subject, 

 consider that not a day should be lost in stopping the 

 exhaustion of the Salmon-fisheries, and calling into 

 activity the sea-coast fisheries. Mr. Conolly, as we 

 have said, has charge of the Bill, and it is likely the 

 task will prove an arduous one ; but he has devoted 

 much study and attention to the subject, and pos- 

 sesses ample ability and energy for the task : he is 

 owner of the Fishery of the Erne, at Ballyshannon 

 — a noble Salmon-fishery — which, we believe, paid 

 him a rent of a couple of thousand pounds per an- 

 num, until the fisheries, somewhere about the year 

 1842, fell upon disastrous days, and evil times ; but 

 though owner of so valuable a fishery, sure are we, 

 with his large possessions, that no personal motive 

 influences him to undertake this arduous measure ; 

 he is rather, we should say, influenced by a desire to 

 promote the prosperity of the country, by obtaining 

 due encouragement for her fisheries ; and by judi- 



