London and Brighton 5,174 tons. Great Western 2,885 ” North British 8,303 ” Great Northern 11,930 ” North Eastern 27,896 ” South Eastern 3,218 ” Great Eastern 29,086 ” —————— Making a total of 88,492 tons. For Ireland the statistics of carriage for the same year are as follow:— Great Southern and Western 1145 tons. Midland and Great Western 785 ” Waterford and Limerick 374 ” Dublin and Drogheda 1004 ” ————— Making a total of 3308 tons. The best index, however, of the quantities of fish taken out of the British seas is the supply of that comestible required for London alone. Two attempts have been made to obtain a correct account of the quantities of each kind used for the commissariat of London. Fourteen years ago Mr. Mayhew gave a summation of the quantities of fish sold at Billingsgate, and the number of each kind as detailed is really astonishing; as 203,000 salmon, nearly four millions of fresh herrings, and others in proportion. The second attempt to gauge the fish-supply of the great metropolis was made by a Member of Parliament. In moving for a commission to inquire into the state of the British fisheries, he gave the following statistics:— Codfish 500,000 Mackerel 25,000,000 Soles 100,000,000 Plaice 35,000,000 Haddocks 200,000,000 Oysters 500,000,000 Periwinkles 300,000,000 Cockles 70,000,000 Mussels 50,000,000 Lobsters, daily 10,000 There is likewise a very extensive demand for cured or pickled fish. Mayhew quoted 1,600,000 dried cod and 50,000,000 of red herrings as being a portion of the London fish-supply. Eels are also a very large item, being set down as nearly 10,000,000 per annum; and as for crabs, prawns, shrimps, sprats, etc., they are required by the ton weight, and are hawked about London in millions! CHAPTER III. FISH CULTURE. Antiquity of Pisciculture—Italian Fish-Culture—Sergius Orata—Re-discovery of the Art—Gehin and Remy—Jacobi—Shaw of Drumlanrig—The Ettrick Shepherd—Scientific and Commercial Pisciculture—A Trip to Huningue—Tourist Talk about Fish—Bale—Huningue described—The Water Supply—_Modus Operandi_ at Huningue—Packing Fish Eggs—An Important Question—Artificial Spawning—Danube Salmon—Statistics of Huningue—Plan of a Suite of Ponds—M. De Galbert’s Establishment—Practical Nature of Pisciculture—Turtle-Culture—Best Kinds of Fish to Rear—Pisciculture in Germany—Stormontfield Salmon-Breeding Ponds—Design for a Suite of Salmon-Ponds—Statistics of Stormontfield—Acclimatisation of Fish—The Australian Experiment—Introduction of the _Silurus glanis_.