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by the persons now conducting these establishments. The Royal Irish 

 Fisheries' Company, instead of plunging into the vortex of wild and 

 ill-conceived speculations, upon the usual scale of large joint-stock fishing 

 companies, are wisely feeling their way upon a moderate scale, and from 

 their establishment at Dingle the Dublin market is occasionally supplied 

 with some of its finest turbot and soles; they have secured the services 

 of Mr. Brown, one of the best Scotch curers; and under the steady and 

 quiet management of the two gentlemen who have the direction of the 

 concern we entertain a confident hope that the project will prosper, and 

 speedily become a safe and profitable source of investment for the public 

 as well as of advancement of the fisheries. Our curing establishments 

 at Killybegs and Belmullet have been transferred to enterprising persons 

 who are making active preparations for the curing season; and there is 

 every reason to hope that at Valentia we shall speedily find similar 

 successors. At Ballycoltin, in the county Cork, the exertions of the 

 Rev. Mr. Kingston, are stated in a published report to have produced 

 the most gratifying results; and at the Galley Head an intelligent 

 person, Mr. Morley, of the coast guard service, aided by the kindness 

 of the benevolent Lady Carbery, and of the Rev. Mr. Stewart, has done 

 much to sustain the energies of the fishermen. Captain Thomas, the 

 enterprising manager of the Coosheen copper mines, near Schull, has 

 contrived to render the fishery first an auxiliary, and more recently a 

 substitute for the employment which in more prosperous times the 

 mines used to afford. At the Little Killeries, on the Galway coast, 

 General Thompson has established a fishing colony, having erected 

 comfortable habitations, to which he annexed small allotments of land; 

 which, with perseverance was likely to have been successful, till the 

 inducement of out-door relief drew off several persons who had been 

 supporting themselves by their own industry. It is much to be deplored 

 that other active and benevolent persons have experienced similar diffi- 

 culties where gratuitous relief was given. 



The pursuits of a Fisherman are precarious and laborious in the best 

 of times, and unhappily the mental and physical energies of the people 

 have been so thoroughly paralyzed, that in most cases they preferred a 

 wretched existence to an occupation for which neither their food nor 

 their clothing was suited. In many instances upon the south coast, the 

 crews of row-boats who had ventured to sea in an exhausted state, have 

 been in imminent danger from their inability to come back from the 

 fishing ground, through absolute weakness from want of food. We have 

 especially referred to those new cases of individual exertion to promote 

 employment in fishing; and we are enabled to add, that in several old 

 existing establishments increased activity has been evinced, and that 

 public attention seems to have been directed to the object as one of the 

 staple resources of the country. The curing establishments of Mr. 

 Dawson and Mr. Cadogan, at Kinsale, are not inferior in extent and 

 accommodation to many of the best concerns in Scotland ; and we have 

 with much satisfaction learned that a considerable trade in fish has been 

 carried on out of that place through the intervention of enterprising 

 adventurers from Skerries, who have become large purchasers of fish 

 upon the south coast for the supply of the Liverpool market. Among 

 the most valuable sources of demand for fish, and of profitable employ- 

 ment for the people, we should not omit to include Mr. Robertson's 



