"Irish in America" will show.--"The shanty, and the wigwam,
and the log-hut have long since given place to the mansion of brick and
stone; and the hand-sleigh and the rude cart to the strong waggon and
the well-appointed carriage. Where there was but one miserable grist
mill, there are now mills and factories of various kinds. And not only
are there spacious schools under the control of those who erected and
made use of them for their children, but the 'heavy grievance' which
existed in 1825 has long since been a thing of the past. The little
chapel of logs and shingle--18 feet by 20--in which the settlers of that
day knelt in gratitude to God, has for many years been replaced by a
noble stone church, through whose painted windows the Canadian sunlight
streams gloriously, and in which two thousand worshippers listen with
the old Irish reverence to the words of their pastor. The tones of the
pealing organs swell in solemn harmony, where the simple chaunt of the
first settlers was raised in the midst of the wilderness; and for miles
round may the voice of the great bell, swinging in its lofty tower, be
heard in the calm of the Lord's day, summoning the children of Saint
Patrick to worship in the faith of their fathers."--_The Irish in
America_, by John F. Maguire, M.P. London, 1868, p. 110.

[278] Quoted in Report of Committee of the House of Lords on
Colonization from Ireland in 1847, p. vii.

[279] Quoted in Report of Committee of the House of Lords on
"Colonization from Ireland" in 1847, p. 10.

[280] Sessional Papers, 1846, No. 24.

[281] Sessional Papers, 1835.

[282] The Census Commissioners, whose Emigration Statistics I use, do
not add the one and a-half per cent. for probable births; hence they
state the number of emigrants between 1831 and 1841 at 403,459 only.

[283] Census Returns for 1851--Tables of Deaths, p. 227-8.

[284] Census of Ireland for the year 1851--Report on Table of Deaths, p.
278. Thorn's Directory for 1848, p. 126.

[285] _Question_ 1790, and _Answer_.

[286] _Questions_ and _Answers_ 1797 and 1798.

[287] A million and a-half of emigrants was the number contemplated by
Mr. Godley's scheme, but his opinion was that there would be "a parallel
stream of half a million, drawn out by the attraction of the new Irish
colony, which, would make the whole emigration two millions."

The following is a list of those who signed the memorial for
colonization in Canada:--Archbishop Whately, the