arn from Cork, 300,000 pounds a year in the Irish
market. No wool smuggled, or at least very little. The wool comes to
Cork, etc., and is delivered out to combers, who make it into balls.
These balls are bought up by the French agents at a vast price, and
exported; but even this does not amount to 40,000 pounds a year.

Prices.

Beef, 21s. per cwt., never so high by 2s. 6d.; pork, 30s., never higher
than 18s. 6d., owing to the army demand. Slaughter dung, 8d. for a horse
load. Country labourer, 6d.; about town, 10d. Milk, seven pints a
penny. Coals, 3s. 8d. to 5s. a barrel, six of which make a ton. Eggs,
four a penny.

Cork labourers. Cellar ones, twenty thousand; have 1s. 1d. a day, and as
much bread, beef, and beer as they can eat and drink, and seven pounds of
offals a week for their families. Rent for their house, 40s. Masons'
and carpenters' labourers, 10d. a day. Sailors now 3 pounds a month and
provisions: before the American war, 28s. Porters and coal-heavers paid
by the great. State of the poor people in general incomparably better
off than they were twenty years ago. There are imported eighteen
thousand barrels annually of Scotch herrings, at 18s. a barrel. The salt
for the beef trade comes from Lisbon, St. Ube's, etc. The salt for the
fish trade from Rochelle. For butter English and Irish.

Particulars of the woollen fabrics of the county of Cork received from a
manufacturer. The woollen trade, serges and camlets, ratteens, friezes,
druggets, and narrow cloths, the last they make to 10s. and 12s. a yard;
if they might export to 8s. they are very clear that they could get a
great trade for the woollen manufactures of Cork. The wool comes from
Galway and Roscommon, combed here by combers, who earn 8s. to 10s. a
week, into balls of twenty-four ounces, which is spun into worsteds of
twelve skeins to the ball, and exported to Yarmouth for Norwich; the
export price, 30 pounds a pack to 33 pounds, never before so high;
average of them, 26 pounds to 30 pounds. Some they work up at home into
serges, stuffs, and camlets; the serges at 12d. a yard, thirty-four
inches wide; the stuffs sixteen inches, at 18d., the camlets at 9.5d. to
13d.; the spinners at 9d. a ball, one in a week; or a ball and half 12d.
a week, and attend the family besides; this is done most in Waterford and
Kerry, particularly near Killarney; the weavers earn 1s. a day on an
average. Full three-fourths of the wool is expo