a percentage only equalled by that which bad debts subtract from the income of the humane medical practitioner; and skilled workmen at Manchester would claim payment for over-time, if their hours of leisure were as unceasingly interfered with.

It is indicative of the hold the Missions have taken on public opinion, and a just tribute to their exertions, that our metropolitan Bishop, after personal inquiry, should press their claims to public support from the pulpit, proclaiming the Irish church to be in the van against Popery; and that their success was our security. England has but a doubtful claim to the birth-place of Saint Patrick, whose church never admitted the rule of Rome; but it is not to be denied that the Pope, Hadrian IV. (the only English Pontiff), who first bound the Irish church to Rome, was an Englishman born : or, that our prelates and government were enslavement.

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Suffering repentance, on our part, is not enough we must atone as we best may for the past, by honest exertions to unloose those bonds, and to restore that primitive independence which we so manfully secured for our English Church at the Reformation.

No one can pass even a few hours in Clifden, without hearing the golden opinions earned by Mr. Darcy, the incumbent, lately the lord of the town and the district, now, as he was described to me, the cheerful pastor, doing an amount of good which, in his anomalous position as proprietor without means or power to perform the duties attached to property, he could never have accomplished.

I REGRET that time did not admit of my visiting the O'Neil estate on the coast, which passed through the Encumbered Estates Court about a fortnight since. The purchasers of several lots spoke very highly of it, but confessed to a wish for more bog to consolidate some spots on the coast by overlaying the blowing sand. I should much like to have examined into the capabilities which the fisheries, kelp, and coral offer. I was shown some very promising specimens of the latter valuable product, and as the coast is of granite, the subjoined extract

from Sir Henry de la Beche's "Connexion between Geology and Agriculture," seems partly to bear out the proprietor's estimate of his acquisition.

"Generally speaking, the harder the coast, and the less the detritus that can be worn from it, the greater the proportion of comminuted shells in a given proportion of sand."

* On the road from Clifden to Roundstone I passed the stone, gables of a cabin which had been left in ruins ever since it had been the scene of an act of Lynch-law perpetrated on its inmate for sheep-stealing, by his neighbours, who murdered him with sticks and stones. stones. There are no sheepstealers now; "et je sais bien pourquoi," as the réfrain has it, "there are no flocks." At Ballinahinch I was told sheep did not do well there, an observation so unfavourable to the agricultural prosperity of the district I was not prepared for.

A crow had perseveringly and rather uncomfortably attended the car at some distance, when on my jumping down, to examine a very bright sulphur-coloured hillock of moss, shedding a most poverty-stricken light about it, I found the bird of ill omen settled on the droppings of the horse, as close to me as an English crow would venture after a month's frost.

I thought, and I believe I said, "A hard summer, Master Crow,"* a remark which, though sounding flippant enough in a printed narrative, had in my mind associations of

* July and August are called the "meal months," from the necessity the people are under of living upon meal at that period; but in many months, for instance, in the summers of 1821, and during the partial failures in the west of 1835, 1836, 1837, in 1839, 1842, 1846, and last in 1847, in short, in eight out of the sixteen years, comprised in the above period, they would be more aptly described as the nettle-top months, if the resources of the population are considered, without reference to the 1007 committees established under the superintendence of the commissariat, or the concurrent sympathy of the humane of all countries and denominations, from the very ends of the earth.