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had also informed them of the enormous freightage charge 

 from Milford and Holyhead for the transport of fish, and 

 suggested that, as whisky and other goods were carried at 

 a much lower rate, the railway companies should be com- 

 pelled, as he understood him, to carry articles of food at a 

 less rate than was now charged. But he really did not see 

 how the Government could carry out that suggestion, or 

 how they could be expected to compel the two railway 

 companies to carry these goods at less rates than they 

 chose to impose. The principles of political economy, 

 although banished, as far as Ireland was concerned, to 

 Saturn and Mars, in England held their full sway, and 

 under these circumstances he could not help thinking that 

 any attempt on the part of the Government to compel 

 railway companies to carry these articles of food at a less 

 rate than those they considered proper, would hardly meet 

 with the sanction of Imperial Parliament. With regard 

 to the interesting statement that Mr. Earll had made 

 with regard to the inland fisheries of the United States, he 

 thought there would be little difficulty in carrying out 

 something of a similar nature in Ireland, where the lakes 

 and rivers were, as far as affording food to the population, 

 entirely unproductive. 



