nished them
by granting their prayer--had England cut the rope, as Mr Roebuck said,
and let them go, where would Ireland have been at this moment? Drifting
away on the ocean of starvation. Let this teach them their dependence
upon their neighbours, and let another fact open their eyes to what
those neighbours are. England has replied to the senseless clamour, the
disgraceful ingratitude, by voting ten millions sterling in a single
year to relieve the distresses which the heedlessness and indolence of
the Irish had brought upon themselves. We say advisedly, _brought upon
themselves_. For, mark-worthy circumstance! the destruction of the
potato crop has been just as complete, and the food of the people has
been just as entirely swept away in the West Highlands of Scotland, as
in Ireland, but _there has been no grant of public money to Scotland_.
The cruel Anglo-Saxons have given IT ALL to the discontented, untaxed
Gael in the Emerald isle.

_Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh._

FOOTNOTES:

[7] Viz. 5-1/2 per cent on all advances on cash or current accounts, and
1/2 per cent commission on all sums overdrawn.

[8] Table showing the quantity of grain, including flour and meal,
entered for home consumption, from 5th July 1846, to 5th February 1847,
from the _London Gazette_ official returns:--

Quarters of grain (including flour and meal) entered for qrs.
home consumption, in the months from 5th July to 5th
January as reported, 1st February, 5,148,449
Quantity duty paid in month ending 5th Feb. 539,418
Do. do. flour and meal, 427,036 cwts. 142,345
_______ 681,763
_________
Quantity duty paid up to 5th January, 5,830,212

In bond, 5th February, 68,939
Do. do. flour and meal, 318,240 cwts. 106,080
_______ 175,019
_______
Quantity in qrs. of duty paid and presently in bond,} 6,005,231
from month ending 5th July to 5th Feb.} _________

[9]
1844. 1845. 1846.
Imports, total official value, L75,441,555 L85,281,958
Sugar, cwts. " 4,139,983 4,880,78