The mansion there is now shut up and dismantled, but the park and the grounds are very beautiful, with a beauty rather enhanced than diminished by the somewhat unkempt luxuriance of the vegetation.

We passed a now well-grown tree planted by the Prince of Wales * * * * * * and drove over many miles of excellent road made by * * * * * * * * employs * * * * * * * * regularly, * * * men as labourers, cartmen and masons, to whom he pays out annually the sum of * * Mr.* * who, by the way, rather resented my asking him if he came of one of the Cromwellian English families so numerous here, and informed me that his people came over with Strongbow--assures me that but for these works of * * * * these men under him would be literally without occupation.

In addition to these there are about a dozen more men employed * * as gamekeepers and plantation-men.

At the * * places belonging to * * * * * * * * * * above eighty men find constant employment, and receive regular wages amounting to over L4000.

Were * * * * dispossessed or driven out of Ireland, all this outlay would come to an end, and with what result to these working-men?
As things now are, while * * * working-men receive a regular wage of five shillings, the same men, as farmers' labourers, would receive, now and then, five shillings a week, and that without food! I saw enough in the course of our afternoon's drive to satisfy me that my informant of the morning had probably not overstated matters when he told me that for at least seventy per cent.