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of those who heard them, but of the country at large, and, 
in fact, of the whole civilised world. 
Mr. JEX said there were thousands in the City of London 
besides aldermen who ate turtle; and as to stopping the. 
fish coming to the great centres of England, it was not the 
aldermen but the railway carriers who were the obstacles. 
A gentleman wrote to him from Glasgow that he could pay 
the freight of a barrel of herrings to Sidney and back and 
have a surplus left. It was not a question of the aldermen, 
but of the railway ring, and he hoped the Railway Commis- 
sioners would take the matter in hand and put ‘a stop to 
the heavy charges now imposed for the carriage of fish, and 
thus enable him to bring fish not only from Scotland but 
from the west coast of Ireland, where there was an immense 
supply. ‘ 
Mr. OKOSHI said there was no doubt that this Paper had 
thrown great light on the fisheries of Africa. The Japanese 
were a great fish-eating people, and in fact a great portion 
of them lived on fish ; they not only ate fish which were 
commonly used here, but some other kinds, as the octopus ; 
and as he found from the Paper that the’fish was caught in 
the Canary Islands, he should like to know whether it was 
used there as food, as it was in Japan and China. It 
might seem curious to Englishmen that this fish should 
be eaten, but he could assure them it was really very 
delicate. : 
The vote of thanks having been carried unanimously, 
Captain MOLONEY, in responding, said that he had 
already sufficiently trespassed on the generous patience of 
Sir Ambrose Shea and of the audience, and therefore 
would be brief. It did not require, fortunately, many 
words to convey his appreciative acknowledgments of the 
terms of the vote of thanks that had been so flatteringly 
