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House of Commons. He had not only given a deal of 

 useful information, but had given rise to a very interesting 

 discussion. These were days in which Radicals were found 

 attacking our oldest institutions ; next to the Bible, he 

 thought nothing was so firmly fixed on the Englishman as 

 the old proverb that there were as good fish in the sea as 

 ever came out of it, but even that had been questioned 

 to-day, and had led to a very lively discussion. He did 

 not pretend to say which side was right ; he would only 

 observe, as another speaker had done, that there might be 

 two sides to this question, as regarded the deep sea and 

 the inland waters. His attention was especially called to 

 that from the observation of Mr. Wilmot, from which it 

 appeared that the American herring was totally different 

 from our herrings ; but the discussion had been with regard 

 to the European herring, and he thought there was a great 

 deal of weight in the arguments and the facts stated by 

 Mr. Duff. 



The motion having been passed unanimously, 

 Mr. DUFF, M.P., in reply, said he had been very glad to 

 have aroused such an interesting discussion. He would 

 not enter into the question at any length, but he might be 

 permitted to recall to the recollection of the audience a 

 distinction drawn by Professor Huxley in his opening 

 address. He said there were two kinds of fishing, fresh- 

 water fishing and salt-water fishing, and while it could be 

 shown that you could over-fish and destroy fish in fresh 

 water, there was nothing to prove that salt-water fish were 

 exhaustible. This had a bearing on the remarks made by 

 Mr. MacLelan and Mr. Wilmot, because both those gentle- 

 men's observations had reference to the fresh-water fishing 

 and the lake fishing. Dr. Day, who spoke of sea fisheries, 

 did not quite go the length of saying what they were to 

 do. He rather criticised his observations, without putting 



