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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, t.VKaxEspAir, FEL Hi.

There being but thirty Members present at four o'clock, the
Speaker was unable to take the Chair, and the lleuse adjourned
until to-morrow.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

REPORT

SY TRY COMMISSIONERS FOR THE HERRING FISHERY, OF
THEIR PROCEEDINGS, YEAR ENDED ST/1 APRIL 1824;
saixo FISHING 1823.

The Provisions of the Fishery Acts, and the regulations made
by the Commissioners for improving the construction of casks, and
the cure of fish intended for bounty, are now so well understood,
and so generally observed, that in their proceedings during the year
ended ith April 1024, little has occurred requiring particular notice
in this Report It has been the object of the Commissioners to
uphold the reputation of the Official Brand,and to raise the character
of the British Fishery, by every means they could devise. For this
purpose, the attention, both of the officers and curers, has been
again directed to the propriety of having the fish prepared, so as to
suit the different 31arkets for which they are destined ; and mew.
sures have been taken for introducing a more perfect knowledge of
the Dutch mode of cure, for Herrings intended for the Continent of
Europe. The stations have, as usual, been surveyed by the
general inspectors during the fishing season ; the naval superin-
tendents have been employed In preventing depredations. and pre-
serving order at the fishery, wherever their presence could be use-
ful ; and the accommodation of the Trade has been studied, by
removing the officers from one district to another, as occasion re-
quired.
From • comparison of the Accounts presented with those of the
preceding year, it will be found that, although the produce of the
West Highland Fishery is still very deficient, the fishing, upon.
the whole, has been most abundant. The total quantity of Herrings
cured is 31h2,190i barrels, of which 299,031 barrels have been found
entitled to bounty, and 239,11301 barrels.h are been exported, being
an increase over the preceding year of 143,321 i barrels in the quan-
tity cured, of 0fi,521 barrels in the quantity branded, and of
69,1834 barrels in the quantity exported. The condition of the
Herrings has been represented to the Commissioners as superior
to that of any former year ; and although the prices iontinued low,
they have every reason to believe, notwithstanding the great quan-
tity taken, that few herrings remained in the hands of the
curers in this country, at the commencement cf the ensuing
season.

It will be found also, that the Accounts of the Cod and Ling
Fishery exhibit a comparison equally favourable. In the year
under consideration, the number of vessels cleared out for the
tonnage bounty. is 102, while the total quantity of fish found en-
titled tollounty is 63,590 cwt.. cured, dried, and 5,407 barrels cured
in pickle, and the total quantity exported Is '23,098 cwta. cured
dried ; being an increase over the receding year, of 14 in the
number of vessels ; of 9,0114 ewts. Dried Fish, and 1,746 barrels
pickled fish, in the quantity found entitled to bounty, and of
3.00 cwts. in the quantity exported. The cure of the fish has
also been represented to the Commissioners as having been much
improved, en.' the demand for them so great, that the whole were
quickly disposed of at remunerating prices.
A L. OBBORN.
GILBERT !KBES.
Joxx HAY.
Woe. RAs.
Offite for the Herring Fishery, J. CLERK HATTRAY.
Edinburgh, Ist Nov. 1024. WILLIAM Fortars.

We are requested to state, that it was the son of Mr. Bow-
ley, the Auctioneer, of Brydges-street, who made the affidavit j in the
King v. Taylor, reported in our Paper of Monday) en the part of
the prosecutiou, and not lir. Bowley, sea.