"is highly satisfactory." It may be added that the
investments in Government and India Stock, on which dividends were paid
at the Bank of Ireland, at the end of 1882, amounted to not less than
31,804,000L.

It is proper that Ireland should be bountiful with her increasing
means. It has been stated that during the last eighteen years her
people have contributed not less than six millions sterling for the
purpose of building places of worship, convents, schools, and colleges,
in connection with the Roman Catholic Church, not to speak of their
contributions for other patriotic objects.

It would be equally proper if some of the saved surplus capital of
Ireland, as suggested by Mr. Parnell, were invested in the
establishment of Irish manufactures. This would not only give
profitable occupation to the unemployed, but enable Ireland to become
an increasingly exporting nation. We are informed by an Irish banker,
that there is abundance of money to be got in Ireland for any industry
which has a reasonable chance of success. One thing, however, is
certain: there must be perfect safety. An old writer has said that
"Government is a badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are
built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise." The main use of
government is protection against the weaknesses and selfishness of
human nature. If there be no protection for life, liberty, property,
and the fruits of accumulated industry, government becomes
comparatively useless, and society is driven back upon its first
principles.

Capital is the most sensitive of all things. It flies turbulence and
strife, and thrives only in security and freedom. It must have
complete safety. If tampered with by restrictive laws, or hampered by
combinations, it suddenly disappears. "The age of glory of a nation,"
said Sir Humphry Davy, "is the age of its security. The same dignified
feeling which urges men to gain a dominion over nature will preserve
them from the dominion of slavery. Natural, and moral, and religions
knowledge, are of one family; and happy is the country and great its
strength where they dwell together in union."

Dublin was once celebrated for its shipbuilding, its timber-trade, its
iron manufactures, and its steam-printing; Limerick was celebrated for
its gloves; Kilkenny for its blankets; Bandon for its woollen and linen
manufactures. But most of these trades were banished by strikes.[5]
Dr. Doyle stated before the Irish C