ber, at New York, a
small lot of best Indian corn, at _twenty-three shillings_ per quarter
of 480 lbs.; and the same post which brought the invoice brought a
letter stating the price at Liverpool was _seventy-two_ shillings. What
will Lord John Russell say to this?

[125] Board of Works' Series, vol. L., p. 97.

[126] Mr. Monsell's Letter to Lord Devon.

[127] The case of Ireland, etc., contained in two letters to the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere, Chief Secretary of Ireland, by the Rev. William
Prior Moore, A.M., Cavan, p. 6. Halliday Pamphlets, vol. 1991.

[128] _Ib._ p. 7.

[129] _Ib._

[130] The Case of Ireland, etc., p. 11.

[131] _Ib._ p. 11, 12. The capitals and italics in the above quotations
are Mr. Moore's.

[132] Memorandum to Commissary-General Hewetson. Commissariat Series, p.
452.

[133] "A great deal of delay on the part of the Board of Works in the
respect of drainage was occasioned by that body involving themselves in
legal intricacies which were not necessary under the Act." _O'Connell's
Speech at the Baronial Sessions of Caherciveen._

[134] _Correspondence on some of the general effects of the failure of
the potato crop and its consequent relief measures. By J.P. Kennedy,
formerly an officer of the corps of Royal Engineers, and late Secretary
of the Land and Relief Commissions. Dublin: Alex. Thom, 1847. Halliday
Pamphlets, vol. 1993._

[135] _Ibid._ The italics are Mr. Kennedy's.

[136] Now Lord Emly.

[137] "The works under the 9th and 10th Vict., cap. 107, (the
Labour-rate Act,) were to be sanctioned for sake of this relief, and not
for sake of the works themselves."--_Mr. Trevelyan's Letter to
Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, Board of Works' Series of Blue Books, vol. L.,
p_. 97.

[138] See Proclamation, in Appendix, Note D. "The intended meeting in
Dublin will be _now_ abandoned, as the promoters of it must be satisfied
with Lord Bessborough's Proclamation."--_Mr. Pierce Mahony to the Earl
of Clarendon, 6th October, Commissariat Series of Blue Books, vol. I.,
p. 123_.

Mr. Pierce Mahony was a very well-known Dublin solicitor; a man of
position, and evidently in the confidence of Lord Clarendon. He writes
from the Stephen's-Green Club, the recognised representative body of the
Whigs in Ireland. How anxious the Government must have been that a chief
effect of their proclamation would be to prevent the intended
demonstration in Dublin is patent from the hurry with which Mr. Mahony
trans