§ COLONEL CONOLLY inquired of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary for 1235 Ireland whether the fishery establishments on the western coast of Ireland had answered the purpose, and paid their own expenses; and whether the Government would have any objection to communicate to the House the accounts of expenditure, &.?
§ SIR W. SOMERVILLE replied, that in the instance of the Killybeg station these fisheries had been found able fully to pay their own expenses; and that although other stations had not been so productive, yet that the object for which they were set on foot—as industrial establishments—the promotion of energy on the part of the fishermen—had been quite answered, and that they had acted as very useful stimuli to exertion.