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conveys most forcibly the state of the British fisheries, 

 in comparison with the advantages possessed and 

 maintained by the French, Captain Loch heard the 

 French speak with pride of the sailors their bankers 

 produced, and of the hardships and dangers they 

 were exposed to in fishing on the banks, and that to 

 deprive their country of these fisheries would be to 

 lop off the right arm of her maritime strength." 



A short article from the Field of the 14th of Sep- 

 tember, 1864, containing a paragraph cut from the 

 Times, wiU give confirmatory evidence on this subject. 



"FEANCE AND THE DEEP-SEA FISHERIES. 



"We have frequently noticed the efforts which 

 France has been making and is making to extend 

 and increase her maritime power by industriously 

 prosecuting and developing her fisheries. We have 

 asserted again and again, that her activity in this 

 respect is solely for the purpose of creating and 

 maintaining a great navy. We have even told the 

 tale of the Newfoundland treaty, showing how a 

 British minister did, without scruple or hesitation, 

 sign a treaty handing over to France the most valu- 

 able portion of these fisheries — fisheries, upon the 

 discovery and working of which our navy first became 

 formidable. In fact, it is to the fisheries of New- 



