During the last year they had increased by the sum of 2,585,000L.

"So large an increase in bank deposits and cash balances," says the Report, "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.