3386 
which received pecuniary aid, was as 
followsi— _ ae 
F | Acreable 
Tas Population.) Contents. 
Cork. Aree emrnecneces 702,000 1,048,800 
Kerry Ho Ae Meeleeeace 205,000 647,650 
Limericks+«++e0¢+4++ 214,000} 386,750 
286,000) . 989,950 
297,000} 790,600 
. 127,000] 247,150 
Leitrim ++++ee-+++++ 405,000) 255,950 
Roscommon +-+++-+- 207,000| 346,650 
Clare ««s'e'esaeee,,)++ 209,000] 476,200 
Tipperary (part) -++- 353,000) 554,950 
Cork (city) -++++++- 100,000 = 
Limerick (city)<++++= 66,000 = 
Galway (town) ------ 26,000] » — - 
2,907 ,000'5,544,650 
There is an error in the casting up 
of the table of acres, minus 200,000. 
The total should be 5,744,650, and the 
whole is under-rated,—the fractions 
being omitted. The Report moreover 
states, “It would thus appear that the 
distressed districts were equal in 
extent to one-half of the superficial 
contents of Ireland.” But such is by 
no means the case, The province of 
Munster (with the exception of the 
county of Waterford alone,) and Con- 
naught, comprising the distressed dis- 
triecis, contain, itis true, ten counties 
among the largest in the island; but 
their superficial contents are by no 
means, equal.in extent to the ten 
counties of Ulster, and the eleven 
counties of Leinster. The former 
containing, as in the Table (corrected), 
5,744,650, and the latter two provinces 
6,256,650, Lfrish acres: in all, accord- 
ing to Beaufort, 12,001,200, equal to 
18,750 Irish square miles, which make 
30,370 English square miles, equal to 
19,436,000. English acres,., Now, as 
the fractions were omitted in Beau- 
fort’s tables, it may be fairly stated, 
that Ireland contains, in round nam- 
bers, 20,000,000 of Irish acres, and 
7,000,000 of inhabitants. But though, 
perhaps fromynadyertency, there is so 
considerable an. error in the calcula- 
tion of, the Report, yet that does not 
in the, least invalidate the conclusion 
to be drawn from it, viz. that the. dis- 
tress, felt by the natives of ihe south 
and, west of Ireland is to be ascribed, 
—Ist, To the want of productive em- 
ployment; 2d. To the land being for 
the, most parttet out, in small farms, 
—from, twenty, to, five, and even three, 
acyes,each; and, Jastly, from the late 
failure of the potato.crop. 00. 
The over-populousness of the coun- 
try is chiefly owing to the system of 
2 
Statistics of Ireland. 
| Dec. 1, 
small farming. Nothing can prevent 
a peasant marrying, if he possess a 
cottage, such as it is, and a patch of 
potatoes. He will even marry without 
them. He rears half a dozen ebil- 
dren, pays an exorbitant rent for a 
farm of five acres, and at the same 
time contributes to support his own 
clergy and the clergy of an alien réli- 
gion; and it is expected that he and 
his family shall be decently clad, that 
his cottage shall be decorated with 
roses and jasmine, and ‘that the ‘inte- 
rior shall be supplied with a well- 
furnished dresser and a esi ate 
In ageneral point of view, 7,000,060 
of inhabitants, and 20,000,000 of Eng- 
lish acres, after deducting lakes, 
rivers, and bogs, &c. give much less 
than three ‘acres to each individual; 
and when it is considered that the 
rural population comprises more than 
three-fourths of the whole, and that 
they have absolutely no other mode of 
supporting existence than what is de- 
rived from agricultural labour, it suf- 
ficiently accounts for the distressed 
and disturbed state of the country. 
Dublin; Nov. 0. WE, Ww. 
eae 2 : it 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
VERY journal has been so filled 
with the lucubrations of trayel- 
lers in France, that it appears scarcely 
possible to treat of any thing new on 
a subject so exhausted. A book of 
Travels in France generally . consists 
of descriptions of the measurement of 
public buildings, given for the hun- 
dredth time, with mathematical pre- 
cision; remarks on the badness of the 
vehicles ; modes of eating, interspersed 
with novel and interesting observa- 
tions on the state of the weather at 
particnlar hours of particular days; 
inn-keepers’ impositions, and of course 
the imminent perils of the traveller. 
In short, if we desire fo become ac- 
quainted with the manners of the 
people, we must Jeaye the rule-and- 
compass traveller, and go back to our 
old friend Smollett, whose. descrip- 
tions. of the French, notwithstanding 
the fretful and diseased spirit with 
which they were written, are unri- 
valled for their spirit and accuracy. 
Lady Morgan excels in describing the 
policy of governments, and the force 
and energy with which she depicts the 
character of the true patriot; indeed, 
she has invested her descriptions of 
the latter with a degree of individu- 
ality 
