a year.' But there was at that time a member of the Irish House of Commons who was capable of taking a more enlarged view of the Irish question.

This was Mr.Arthur Dobbs, who belonged to an old and honourable Ulster family--the author of a book on the 'North-west Passage to India,' and of a very valuable work on the 'Trade of Great Britain and Ireland.' He was intimately acquainted with the working of the Irish land system, for he had been many years agent of the Hertfort estate, one of the largest in Ireland.

There is among Boulter's letters an introduction of Mr.Dobbs to Sir Robert Walpole, recommending him as a person of good sense, who had applied himself to the improvement of trade, and to the making of our colonies in America of more advantage than they had hitherto been.

He was afterwards made Governor of North Carolina.

I have mentioned these facts in the hope of securing the attention of landlords and statesmen to the following passage from his book accounting for the deplorable condition of the province of Ulster at that time, and the emigration of its industrious and wealth-producing inhabitants.