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declares it to be illegal for any employer to pay any person 

 employed in knitting any kind of woollen manufactures other- 

 wise than in coin ; that any payment in goods instead of money 

 (under any agreement, director indirect) makes the employer 

 liable to a fine of £10 for the first offence, £20 for the second, 

 and so on up to £100, and that if any person so employed 

 becomes chargeable to the parish, the parish can recover from 

 the employer the amount of wages which have not been paid in 

 money, while he cannot recover the goods he paid instead. 

 The spirit of the law seems clear, but there must be some defect 

 in the letter and application of it. 



The picturesque aspect of fishing is beautifully exemplified 

 in photographs, sent by Mr. Gibson, of Penzance, and Mr. 

 Orchard, of St. Austell. But fishing has also its antiquarian 

 interests, and some of the ancient appliances sent by Mr. E. 

 Eashleigh, have been much noticed, such as the Kjllick, or 

 wooden anchor weighted with a stone, and the old nossil twister 

 for twisting nestles for long lines, and the compass fixed in a 

 wooden bowl, which may be seen alongside of several similar 

 appliances of the newest make. 



But it was not to see these things that the fishermen of 

 Cornwall were so liberally invited to the great show. Twelve 

 men from various fishing villages were conveyed gratuitously to 

 London and back by the Great Western Railway, and had an 

 opportunity of spending six days in the metropolis, during 

 which time they were maintained free of cost by the funds 

 placed at the disposal of the Cornish committee, under the 

 presidency of Mr. Tremayne, whose active interest, together 

 with that of Sir John St. Aubyn and Mr. T. Cornish, they 

 must have appreciated. Besides having repeated opportunities 

 of visiting the exhibition itself, they were most kindly enabled 

 to see various objects of interest in the great city, which some 

 of them had never seen, such as the Zoological Gardens, &c. They 

 were hospitably entertained by the Prince of Wales, and invited 

 by the Queen to visit Windsor Castle, and I am much mistaken 

 if they will not look back uj)on those few days with great 

 pleasure, and especially remember Mr. Buck, secretary of the 

 Sailor's Home, where they were lodged, and by whom they were 

 relieved of all difiiculty and trouble, — and the unwearied atten- 



