of the inhabitants.

This proportion is swelled by the influx of people from other regions seeking occupation here, which they do not find, or simply coming here because they are sure of relief.

This state of things illustrates not so much the decay of industry in Cork as the development of a spirit of mendicancy throughout Ireland.

In the opinion of many thoughtful people, this began with the Duchess of Marlborough's Fund, and with the Mansion House Fund.

Colonel Spaight remembers that in Strokestown Union, Roscommon, when the guardians there received a supply of one hundred tons of seed potatoes, they distributed eighty tons, and were then completely at a loss what to do with the remaining twenty tons.