THE COUNTY.

The Rev. J. Andrewes Reeve will be instituted at Kenwyn on Thursday (this day ) at noon. Dr. Meymott Tidy, whose scientific lecture* have given so much p'easnre in various towns in Cornwall, has been nominated by the Royal College of Surgeons one of the analysts to the Home Office, and has been ap;>oiiite(l accordingly. Except for the purposes of registration very few local authorities have carried out the provisions of the Dairies Order, as they have no special officers for the inspection of dairies. Tbe Privy Council have been in communication with tbe Local Government Board on the subject. G. W. R. Time-tahle —Last week we announced certain alterations which come into operation this day, and in another column we now publish the time-table for June. Again we regret that the management have not provided for through undelayed communication with Falmouth by first up-train from Penzance. Loud complaints from passengers are heard daily of the enforced loss of nearly two hours of valuable time at Truro. We expect to hear of further alterations shortly, and hope to see another up-train added—say to leave Penzance at 8.0 a.m. We had a notion that Mr. W. C. Borlase's proposed transfer of all the parish registers to London would meet with a protest beyond Corneal', and Mr. R. S. Ferguson, a Fellow of the Antiquarian Society and local secretary to the Cumberland Antiquarian Society, confirms it. Such a removal, he says, would be destructive, of all local research and a deadly blow to county Antiquarian Societies : it would benefit no one but a few London antiquaries "who might well be content with the many advantages they have over the residents in the country, without seeking to rob us." These are strong words for the friends Mr. Birlase wants to a?aist, but Mr. Ferguson and those who think with him are about to proceed to deeds and to try to stop the passage of the Bill. " I regret" ( adds Mr. Ferguson ) " that Mr. Borlase, wbo has made himself a name for local research in Cornwall, should promote a Bill which will strangle it in Cumberland." Development of The Cohni.su Fisheries.—l do not agree with Mr. Jex in attributing the existing scarcity of the supply of fish to a decrease in tbe productiveness of tbe sea. Compared witb twenty-five years ago our mackerel fleets in this district have donbled in tbe number of their boats, and whilst the boats then nsed were of 26ft. to 30ft. keel, the boats now used are 42ft. to 46ft. keel, and this means a power of searching for more fish at a greater depth and distance from shore tLan the smaller boats could do. We had then only one occasional trawler here (at Penzance); we are now visited periodically by over a hundred sail of them. Tbe only hake wc had, twentyfive years ago, were those taken by handlines in the idle time in driving boats. We have now...