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Cornish, said he was much interested in the mackerel 

 fishing of the south coast of Ireland ; but he had learnt a 

 great deal he did not know before. Up to the present he 

 always thought that -if a mackerel could speak it would 

 talk Irish, but he was now pretty well convinced that it 

 would also speak in Cornish ; and perhaps if it could 

 speak in either language it could give a different account 

 of its sufferings to that which had been given in the Paper. 

 One thing, however, might mitigate one's sympathies in 

 this respect, for mackerel had not the slightest regard for 

 other fish which suited its taste. In the neighbourhood 

 of Cork there was a fleet of five hundred boats engaged in 

 the mackerel fishery. He was sorry to say there were not 

 as many native Irish engaged in it as he could desire, 

 because round that part of the coast the inhabitants were 

 a poor class of men, with very little enterprise, and very 

 few of them were men of business or capital. In another 

 district, too, mackerel fishing had been established, and 

 seemed likely to succeed ; and he should be very much 

 wanting in his duty if he did not refer to the great help 

 given there by Lady Burdett Coutts, but for whose assist- 

 ance the thing could not have existed. It was very satis- 

 factory to know that the people of the coast a simple 

 primitive people had availed themselves of the assistance 

 offered them, and there were some of the best boats engaged 

 in the fishery now going from the Harbour of Baltimore on 

 the south coast of Ireland. The great object of catching 

 fish was to bring it as quickly and cheaply as possible to 

 the table, and he did not think there was a better fishing 

 ground in the world than that round the south coast of 

 Cork ; but hitherto facilities of transport had been rather 

 deficient. Now, however, they were in a much better 

 position in this respect, as there were rails now touching the 



