if at a distance exceeding forty miles, and by light 

 carts, which will carry about seven hundredweight, 

 should this method be preferred, where the place 

 is within that distance, on respectable persons in 

 the particular towns undertaking the superintend- 

 ance, and for early returns. The fish is sent as 

 regularly as the cost price in the market will 

 permit; to this is added a sum to cover all ex- 

 penses of carriage, &c. The Committee may men- 

 tion Marlow and Wickham, in Bucks ; Bir- 

 mingham, with the adjacent towns ; Henley, in 

 Oxfordshire ; and Maidenhead, in Berks ; as hav- 

 ing received a supply. At Birmingham, a very few 

 months after it commenced, and a proportionate 

 demand was raised, private individuals began to 

 embark in the measure. The Committee were 

 much gratified at being informed that the dealers 

 were bringing great quantities of fish from the 

 Yorkshire coast, on such moderate terms as would 

 render it necessary for the parties to close their 

 engagements with the Association. At Maiden- 

 head, in Berks, which is a place by no means of 

 large population, the quantity of fish purchased 

 within about the last six months, is estimated at 

 no less an amount than fifteen tons ; for which, 

 and all expenses, 501 have been charged ; being 

 little more than threepence-halfpenny per pound 

 for the fish, and all the costs of convening it thither. 

 It has been nearly of all the sorts the season af- 



