over the preceding twelve months.

But this is not all.

The Irish middle classes are accustomed to deposit most of their savings in the Joint Stock banks; and from the returns presented to the Lord Lieutenant, dated the 31st of January, 1883, we find that these had been more than doubled in twenty years, the deposits and cash balances having increased from 14,389,000L.

at the end of 1862, to 32,746,000L.

at the end of 1882.