rease from the 28th of August of 599,816 daily
rations.

The expenditure under the Act is thus detailed:--

To Sir R. Routh for provisions
from depots ... L136,795 0 8

_Money_ advanced fortnightly to
the several electoral divisions
for relief ... L1,420,417 14 11

To fever hospitals ... L119,055 16 0

The advances at one time exceeded L60,000 a-day, distributed over nearly
two thousand accounts.

The sum given to Sir R. Routh for the food in the depots shows there
were about twelve thousand tons of provisions in them.

The sum set down to the fever hospitals includes the erection and
furnishing of the fever sheds. In addition to this amount, L4,479 was
expended in providing proper medical inspection and superintendance in
localities in which great sickness prevailed, and L60,000 was advanced
for the enlargement of the Workhouses, principally by the erection of
fever wards.[268]

In the appendix to this, their last report, the Commissioners bear
honourable testimony to the manner in which the people behaved. They
say: "The order and good conduct of the peasantry, and of the people
generally, notwithstanding the great influx of paupers into the towns,
is highly to be commended. All admit, that the resignation and
forbearance of the labouring classes was _astonishing_, when it is
remembered with what rapidity the real famine encompassed them."

FOOTNOTES:

[246] The following were the Commissioners appointed under the Act: Sir
John F. Burgoyne, Thomas N. Redington, Esq., Under Secretary; Edward
T.B. Twistleton, Esq., Colonel Duncan M'Gregor, Commissary-General Sir
Randolph J. Routh, and Colonel Harry D. Jones.

[247] The number of electoral divisions is, at present, 3,438, embraced
within 163 Unions.

[248] _Sunday Observer_; which journal should, for the information of
posterity, have placed upon record what, if any, were the other courses
in the _carte_ at the Reform Club, the day on which M. Soyer's Irish
Soup No. 1 was so highly approved of.

[249] _The comparative nutritive and pecuniary value of various kinds of
cooked food_, by John Aldridge, M.D., M.R.I.A., read at a meeting of the
Royal Dublin Society on the 6th of April, 1847.

[250] _Freeman's Journal_, April 6th.

[251] _Evening Packet_.

[252] He did not even escape the shafts of ridicule. A writer in the
Dublin _Na