Journal_. "Upwards of L100,000 was expended in relieving the sick and
destitute emigrants landed in Canada in 1847."--Nicholls' History of the
Irish Poorlaw, p. 327--_note_.

[292] Dr. Stratten, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, quoted by
Census Commissioners for 1851 in p. 305 of their Report on Tables of
Deaths.

[293] "The Irish in America," by John Francis Maguire, p. 186.

[294] "Report of Commissioners of Emigration for the State of New York,"
quoted by Mr. Maguire.

[295] Dr. Stratten in "Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal."

[296] Twelve months' residence in Ireland during the Famine and the
Public Works: by William Henry Smith, C.E., late conducting engineer of
Public Works, p. 92.

[297] Report p. 27. Halliday pamphlets, vol. 1990.

[298] Report, pp. 29, 30.

[299] Report, pp. 33, 34.

[300] _Ib._, pp. 54, 55.

[301] _Ib._, p. 73.

[302] The report of the Emigration Commissioners for 1873 [just issued
28th October, 1874] gives the following facts. In the course of last
year 310,612 emigrants sailed from the ports of the United Kingdom,
being a larger number than in any year since 1854. Of these, 123,343
were English, 83,692 Irish, 21,310 Scotch, 72,198 Foreigners, who had
merely touched at British ports, and 10,929 whose nationality was not
ascertained. The remittances of Irish Emigrants to their friends at home
were as usual very large, the total sum being, according to the
information within reach of the Commissioners, L724,040. This includes
the remittances of both the United States and Canada. Of this sum
L341,722 came in the shape of prepaid passages, more than sufficient,
says the Report, to defray the cost of steerage passages at L6 6s. each
for the 83,692 Irish who emigrated within the year. _Thirty-first
General Report of the Emigration Commissioners, p. 4._

CHAPTER XV.

The Soup-kitchen Act--The harvest of 1847--Out-door Relief
Act--Great extension of out-door relief--Number
relieved--Parliamentary papers--Perplexing--Misleading--Sums
voted--Sums expended--Sums remitted--Total Treasury advances under
various Acts--Total remissions--Sum actually given as a free gift to
meet the Famine--Charitable Associations--Sums collected and
disbursed by them--Two Queen's Letters--Amount raised by
them--Assisting distressed Unions--Feeding and clothing school
children--Feeling about the Irish Famine in America--Meetings
throughout the