"Lord Mayor of Dublin."

It does not appear that the address to the Queen agreed to by the last
resolution was ever presented, which omission is sufficiently accounted
for by the resignation of the Peel Cabinet, which occurred a few days
afterwards, on the 8th of December.

Not to prolong those extracts, I will here quote an analysis of five
hundred letters received by the Mansion House Committee, which was given
by the Earl of Mountcashel at a meeting of farmers held in Fermoy, in
the county Cork. "I have seen," says his Lordship, "an analysis of five
hundred letters received by the Mansion House Committee, made by Mr.
Sinnott, the Secretary. Of those, one hundred and ninety-seven have come
from clergymen of the Established Church; one hundred and forty-three
from Roman Catholic clergymen; thirty from Presbyterian clergymen; one
hundred and seven from deputy-lieutenants and magistrates; and the
remainder from poor-law guardians and so forth. Taking all these
communications together, one hundred and fifty eight calculated upon a
loss of less than one-third of the potato crop; one hundred and
thirty-five upon the loss of a full third; one hundred and thirty-four,
that one-half of the crop was destroyed, and forty apprehended a
destruction of more than one-half. With respect to the residue of the
crops, there are two hundred and sixteen letters in which no opinion is
given, whilst the writers of one hundred and one think that the
remainder of the crop may be saved, and one hundred and eighteen are of
a contrary opinion. Thus, we have all classes and parties in the
country--Protestant and Presbyterian clergymen more numerous than Roman
Catholic clergymen--peers, deputy-lieutenants, magistrates, poor-law
guardians--all concurring in the main fact, that a vast portion of the
food of millions of the people has been destroyed whilst all is
uncertainty as to the remainder."

With this information before them and a vast deal more besides, it is
not to be wondered at that the Mansion House Committee passed the
resolutions given above. A strong protest, indeed, but it came from a
body of men who had laboured with energy and diligence from the very
first day the Committee was formed. One of the earliest acts of that
Committee was to prepare a set of queries, that, through them, they
might put themselves in communication with persons of position and
intelligence throughout the entire country. The result