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encouragement which the flag of England always gave 

 would be afforded to those industrious men who risked their 

 lives in an important and interesting calling, and that it 

 would be found that some of our gunboats would be placed 

 on important fishing grounds as a regular institution of the 

 future. Mr. Mundahl had explained in the most graphic 

 and interesting language the whole operation of line fishing, 

 and no doubt there were many things which would be 

 eminently suggestive to those who had listened to the 

 paper. He had certainly taught him a great deal ; and no 

 doubt every one, although they might be acquainted with 

 the subject, would learn something. It was not always, 

 even in these interesting discussions, that everything useful 

 was to be learned, and nothing which had a contrary 

 tendency ; he did not know whether it was the fault of the 

 reporters, but he read the other day in the Times that at 

 one of the previous Conferences it was laid down as a fact 

 that the fishermen were a class of persons so very impro- 

 vident and so very poor that they were always in debt. 

 Whether that was so in other parts of the country he could 

 not say, but with regard to the two great fishing districts 

 he had been acquainted with, viz., Great Yarmouth and 

 Grimsby, he did not think there was a more provident, 

 saving, and God-fearing class all round than the fishermen 

 of those two places, and he decidedly objected to its being 

 put forward that they were so improvident that all the year 

 round they must be in debt. Again, they were told on 

 eminent authority that these men ought to put their money 

 into saving banks and things of that kind, and ought never 

 to enter into speculation by putting their money into the 

 fishing industry with which they were connected. Now, 

 his opinion was that the man who was connected with any 

 industry which he liked, which he conducted with success, 



