246 CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 



" How long have you been in Achill ? 



I have been in Achill this last time six years. 



Had you ever been there before ? 



I had, for three years. 



What interval was there between the two times of residence ? 



About three years. 



You were, therefore, there when Mr. Nangle came in 1 834 ? 



I was. 



Did you see any improvement produced in the island ? 



I did ; I saw great improvement in the cultivation of the land, and also 

 in having schools for the instruction of the children. 



Did the people testify any feeling toward Mr. Nangle at that time? 



They always appeared to me at the time to be very fond of Mr. Nangle, 

 and to like him very much. 



When were the first indications of a different feeling towards Mr. Nan- 

 gle? 



When the priest gave orders to shout after the protestants whenever they 

 saw them." 



This evidence needs no comment. * * * * 



The allusion to Mr. Long, in the article which has called forth 

 these remarks, induces me to believe that it was written by an English 

 tourist, who paid a hasty visit to this island last summer. 1 think 

 his name was Newman. I accompanied that gentleman and the Rev. 

 William Prior Moore, Head Master of the College of Cavan, who 

 was then at the settlement, to Mr. Long's, and I shall now detail the 

 whole of the conversation, from which the writer in your Magazine 

 has selected so much as suited his purpose. 



As we walked across the mountain, I remarked, that a system of 

 petty thieving prevailed generally in Ireland, to an extent which, ope- 

 rated as a check on the expenditure of capital for the improvement of 

 the country ; and I attributed the prevalence of this evil to the Romish 

 doctrine, which teaches that a sum, amounting to some shillings, may 

 be stolen from a gentleman without the guilt of mortal sin. 



When we arrived at Mr. Long's, the English tourist asked him 

 whether he had suffered much from petty depredation. He replied 

 in the negative. I remarked that that could readily be accounted for, 

 as he lived in the centre of a large tract of land, where there was not 

 a single human habitation within a mile of him. To this Mr. Long 

 assented, at the same time remarking, that he was further secured 

 against depredation, by there being no thoroughfare through the valley 

 in which his house was situated ; but, added Mr. Long, notwithstand- 

 ing these peculiar securities, / have a man suynmoned at this moment, 

 for cutting my grass. Here the conversation ended : Mrs. Long 

 then came into the room, and without knowing the subject of our 

 previous conversation, she began to speak about the coast-guards in the 

 next village, saying that they complained sadly that they could not 

 have a garden, ybr such a systeyn of thieving 'prevailed in the village, 

 that their neighbours would not leave them so much as a cabbage. 

 I immediately told our English tourist to note that. It seems, how- 

 ever, that my admonition was unheeded ; this unsectarian and U7ip- 

 olitical gentleman, in the plenitude of his liberality, was detennine 



