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undivided attention, and I trust it will not appear 

 invidious if I give an extract from the Report of the 

 Select Committee of the House of Commons last 

 year ; it is in the following words : — 



" Your Committee is of opinion, that, under the peculiar cir- 

 cumstances of the Salmon-fisheries of Ireland, it is absolutely ne- 

 cessary to their due administration that it be confided to a separate 

 department of the executive Government, not connected with the 

 Board of "Works, and that adequate means ought to be imme- 

 diately provided for tliat purpose." 



I have thus endeavoured to show, that the laws, 

 the control, and the management of the fisheries, are 

 defective, and that a consolidated law, and efficient 

 control are urgently requisite. The support of the 

 Government may be confidently expected, under such 

 a Report from the Select Committee of the House 

 of Commons, and a deputation from the meeting 

 which is about to be held, will seek to obtain the in- 

 terference of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, on 

 behalf of the Irish Fisheries. 



To a great statesman the improvement of the re- 

 sources of a country will always be a cherished ob- 

 ject. The promised remedial measures to Ireland 

 have been withheld, and the fisheries are annually 

 declining through want of that protection and en- 

 couragement to which they are justly entitled. 



I have in former communications stated, that the 

 complete restoration of the Salmon-fisheries is within 

 the control of the Government, and I trust no unbe- 



