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consulting chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society
of England, whose several lectures, analyses, and con-
tributions, show conclusively the value of such ma-
nure, and the increasing importance of the subject to
agriculturists. The manufacture of inedible fish into " fish
manure" has been carried on successfully for some time
past at LoWestoft, in Suffolk, under very valuable pro-
cesses invented by M. de Melon, of Concarneau, in the de-
partment of Fin!sterre.*

As the subject was one of such paramount importance, the
Directors requested Professor Way to examine the process
proposed to be adopted by this Company, accompanied by Mr.
Hermann Schweitzer, chymist, of Brighton, and Mr. Harman,
Civil Engineer ; the result is that the opinions of the Directors
are fully confirmed both as to the plan which they propose to
adopt, and the value of this " fish manure" as a product.
While, therefore, commercially this Company has strong
claims for support it will, in a national point of view, be produc-
tive of vast benefit, for it will not only develops a source of re-
munerative employment for a population now fast diminishing
for want of energetic direction and English capital, but also
form a body of seamen and pilots who may prove a priceless ac-
quisition to the navaldefences of the country, and it will confer
peculiar advantages on the agricultural interests of the west and
midland parts of Ireland by the production of a good, cheap,
andpertable manure on the spot. Considerations which it is
presumed will entitle it to encouragement from every well-
wisher of Ireland and of the Irish people.
The head offices of the Company are in London ; the prin-
cipal fishing station will be at Galway. There will also be
several additional outlying stations.
It is impossible within the limits of a prospectus to set
forth in detail the vast amount of information which the Di-
rectors have obtained, the resources at their command, or
means and appliances proposed to be adopted. They earnestly
request a perusal of the before-mentioned pamphlet, as sup.
plying in some measure these details.

- As to Capital—lt is at present proposed to call up, only
49-.9Q.4-40 which 0116-half has-Orefd.X keegsMktir..Pri-
liate subscriptionriiinielY,-Cpef ihdre, payable as fo
2/, as wdepoait, and the remainder in three separate calls, at
intervals of not less than three months. The shares may,
however, be paid up in full at once, and in that case interest
at 5/. per cent, will be allowed upon all sums paid in autici.
pation of calls.
In estimating the amount of profit which may be realised
by this undertaking, the directors are anxious to avoid all
statements which might give rise to extravagant expectations;
but a most careful calculation of the annual expenses, and a
moderate estimate of returns, upon authentic data, show,
upon the first branch of the undertaking—namely, fishing,
purchase, and curing of fish—a return of from 30 to 35 per
cent, upon the capital.
_ _ _

Applications for the explanatory pamphlet, for prospec-
tuses, and for shares, to be made to the solicitors or to the
Secretary, at the offices of the Company, either in London or
Dublin.

Report of Professor Way on the Fish Manure manufactured
under the process proposed to be adopted by this Company.
" To the Directors of the Lendou and West of Ireland
Fishing and Fish Manure Company.

" Gentlemen,—On Saturday last I visited, in compliance
with your request, the manufactory of fish manure esta-
blished at Lowestoft, and examined every stage of the pro-
cess, from the delivery of the fresh fish, until, in the state of
dry powder, the manure is ready to be sent out for use. The
result of this inspection is to confirm the opinion I have so
often expressed, that it is perfectly practicable to produce
from fish a portable manure of great va ue. By the adoption
of certain modifications in the machinery, you may, however,
effect a further economy of time and labour, and thereby se-
cure a still more successful result.

" The fish manure prepared at Lowestoft is in the state of
a dry powder, not subject to alteration by keeping under
ordinary circumstances. Its composition is exhibited by the
analysis which I have made of two samples, which are ap-
pended.
" There cannot be a doubt of the value of this manure,
especially for corn crops, and, possessing such a basis, you
will be able to modify its composition at pleasure, so as to
adapt it for each particular crop to which it is to be applied.
" Altogether my visit to Lowestoft has strengthened very
considerably the conviction I have long entertained and fre-
quently expressed, that the manufacture of manure from fish,
which offers the only available means of supplying the de-
mand for additional ammoniacal manure, will, if carried out
on an adequate scale, be of essential benefit to the agriculture
of this country.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
"J. THOMAS WAY.
" 15, Welbeck-street, July 15, 1856. "
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Analysis of two samples of Flail Manure, prepared at the
Manufactory. Lowestoft.

Dog Fish and Herring. Offal Fish.
If o i s t uro
Nitrogenous Animal Matter 62.24 61.72
Oil mid Fatty Matter 9.22 8.84
Phosphate of Lime 9.24 8.86
Sulphate of Lime 1.94 1.46
Alkaline Sulphates and Mmiates,...., 4.58 3.10
Sand, &c 1.03 3.40

100.00 100.00

Nitrogen 8.99 9.24
Equal to Ammonia
J. THOMAS WAY.

Form of Application for Shares.

To the Directors of th• London and West of Ireland Fishing
and Fish./failure Camp any4Limited)
• 32, Regent-circus, Piccadilly, London.
_ _

Gentlemen,— I request that you will, allot me shares
of 101. each in the above-named Company, and I undertake
to accept the same, or such less number as you may allot me,
to pay for'the same, and to sign'the deed of settlement of tho
Company, as and when required, and I enclose (have paid
into the bankers of the Company) a deposit of £ .—Dated
this day of , 1856.

Name in full
Procession or business.
Residence in full
Reference

N.B. Each application must be accompanied by a deposit
of, or a banker's receipt for, 2/. per share. Should the full
number of shares applied for not be allotted, a proportionate
part of the deposit will be immediately returned.

* Specimens of fish manure, as also of oil, may be seen on
application at the offices of the Company.

TO ASSURANCE COMPANIES.—An esta-
blished Insurance Company, with an income of 40,0001. a
year, Is desirous of meeting with a kindred office in London or the
provinces; with or without F.re, which is capable of amalgamation
or sale on terms of a character liberal enough to prove highly ad-
vantageous to the amalgamating Company. Applications, by letter
only, to A. 8., Messrs, Cockshaw and Yates, printers, Horse•shoe-
court, Ludgate-hill, London.