are not surprised at Irish disaffection--are not surprised that the
expatriated youth joins the first wild scheme, which promises to release
his country from such cruel scenes, and shares his money equally between
his starving relatives at home, and the men who, sometimes as deceivers,
and sometimes with a patriotism like his own, live only for one
object--to obtain for Ireland by the sword, the justice which is denied
to her by the law.

I conclude with statistics which are undeniable proofs of Irish misery.
The emigration _at present_ amounts to 100,000 per annum.

[Illustration: The Emigrants' Farewell.]

From the 1st of May, 1851, to the 31st of December, 1865, 1,630,722
persons emigrated. As the emigrants generally leave their young children
after them for a time, and as aged and imbecile persons do not emigrate,
the consequence is, that, from 1851 to 1861, the number of deaf and dumb
increased from 5,180 to 5,653; the number of blind, from 5,787 to 6,879;
and the number of lunatics and idiots, from 9,980 to 14,098. In 1841,
the estimated value of crops in Ireland was £50,000,000; in 1851, it was
reduced to £43,000,000; and in 1861, to £35,000,000. The number of
gentlemen engaged in the learned professions is steadily decreasing; the
traffic on Irish railways and the returns are steadily decreasing; the
live stock in cattle, which was to have supplied and compensated for the
live stock in men, is fearfully decreasing; the imports and exports are
steadily decreasing. The decrease in cultivated lands, from 1862 to
1863, amounted to 138,841 acres.

While the Preface to the Second Edition was passing through the press,
my attention was called to an article, in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, on