I not stated enough to induce those in authority, and 

 having the power to take up this matter in the interests of 

 a country containing such an incalculable number of inde- 

 pendent waters, now lying waste from neglect ? and I would 

 feign have the reply of King James to the emigrating 

 Puritans of New England, who gave " fishing " as one of 

 their inducements ; " So God have my soul, 'tis an honest 

 trade, 'twas the Apostles' own calling." It is indeed a 

 grave consideration when we find that from a minimum 

 of Government patronage, the census of 1870 gives 

 1 1,000,000 as the value of the American fisheries, while 

 at the present time, Professor Goode puts it at about 

 100,000,000 ! All beyond this moderate assistance would be 

 provided by private enterprise educated up to the knowledge 

 of the existing and general want of supply through the 

 teaching of the Conferences of the Great International 

 Fisheries Exhibition. There is another aid (and God forbid 

 that, while urging the case upon the ground of duty and self- 

 interest as between the Government and people I should be 

 thought to condemn the exercise of spontaneous philan- 

 thropy), and, though I make no appeal to charity, no one 

 pretending to exhaust the subject of the Irish Fisheries can 

 abstain from noting and recording the divinely impelled 

 experiment of a right noble lady in affording assistance to 

 a hardy and honest class on strict principles of prudence, 

 because the result has proved as honourable to the kind- 

 ness and sagacity of the giver as it has to the character of the 

 recipients; and during these Conferences, in a less formal man- 

 ner, I stated, on the authority of the banker of Skibbereen, 

 then present, that the result of this industry, succoured by 

 benevolence, had been illustrated by fish purchases requiring 

 on one day 7500. I have already shown from official 



