ain D'Esterre,
seems to have exercised a marked influence upon his whole life, and he
frequently alluded to it in terms of the profoundest regret. It was a
sight not to be forgotten, to see him attend Mass and receive Holy
Communion in Clarendon Street. When he was at home, his habit was to
walk from Merrion Square to that, his favourite chapel, to eight o'clock
Mass. On those occasions he usually wore a very ample cloak, the collar
of which concealed the lower half of his face. Thus enveloped, he
entered the sanctuary with an expression of recollection so profound,
that it might have been a Trappist who had entered. So it was during the
hour he remained: he seemed perfectly unconscious of any human creature
being in the place, except the priest at the altar before him. He seldom
used a prayer-book, and his eyes were never once raised during the whole
time. Buried in his great cloak, he moved noiselessly out, as he had
entered--a bright example,--a very model,--to the whole congregation.

The remaining reports of the Relief Commissioners do not call for any
very lengthened notice. The fourth of the series was published on the
19th of July, at which time 1,823 electoral divisions were receiving
relief under the Act. They say: "By an arrangement with the Commissary
General, we are clearing out the Government depots of provisions, by
orders on them in lieu of so much money. These depots were established
at an anxious period of a prospect of great deficiency of supplies,
which no longer exists." It is needless to repeat here what has been
abundantly proved before, that the people died of starvation within the
shadow of those sealed up depots, and they would not be opened;--they
were opened when the supplies they contained were not required, there
being plenty in the market.

From the accountant's department we learn that 2,643,128 rations were
being daily issued, which it was hoped would be the maximum relief that
the Commissioners would be called on to administer; 79,636 of these were
sold. This shows an increase of daily rations from last report of
291,028. The fall in provisions had reduced the price of each ration
from 2-1/2d. to 2d. The amount given in loans and grants was now reduced
by about L3,000 a day, the expenditure in that way being then about
L20,000 a day. The aggregate amount of money issued up to the 19th of
July was L1,010,184 7s. 10d. to 1,803 electoral divisions. The cost of
the Government staff for sup