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cost of production and profits realized will be found fully 

 explained by the explanations which follow. 



After getting paid 750 for my right of patents for Italy, 

 and an order for 2,000 worth of machinery, I visited my 

 native city, Armagh, Ireland, on the 10th July, 1854, and 

 brought with me a large assortment of specimens of Flax, 

 hemp, and Indian fibres, and after they had been examined 

 by the trade and editor of the Armagh Guardian, I agreed 

 to return the next month, and to give a lecture on the 

 subject, before the members of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of Ireland, at its annual meeting in Armagh ; but as business 

 prevented my attendance, I sent forward three cases of 

 specimens which, including cases, cost me above 12, 

 directed to the secretary of the Agricultural {Society, for 

 exhibition, but through the stupid neglect of the railway 

 officials, my case was overlooked until the show was 

 over. In consequence I wrote the following letter for 

 publication. 



IRISH RAILWAY OFFICIALS AND THE MODE OF PERFORMING 



DUTY. 



To the Editor of the ' ' Armagh Guardian" 



"DEAR SIB, It is much to be regretted, that whatever 

 opportunity presents itself for opening up a way to improve* 

 ments of any kind, but more particularly in matters connected 

 with the agricultural and manufacturing interest of Ireland- 

 for instance, the Agricultural Show of the 9th, 10th, and 

 llth instant, which called forth all sorts of Irish production 

 that men are selected for office whose incapacity or inatten- 

 tion to their duty retards the working out such resources. 

 Unfortunately for Ireland, employment or situations for the 

 middle classes are scarce, and it too frequently happens, as we 



