The emigration would have been very much greater, had not the parish priest given employment to a considerable number of men, by building a new church, convent, and convent schools.

The poorest of the children, and, in Ireland, none but the very poorest will accept such alms, get a breakfast of Indian meal and milk all the year round.

The comfort of this hot meal to them, when they come in half-clad and starving of a winter morning, can only be estimated by those who have seen the children partake of it, and heard the cries of delight of the babies of a year old, and the quiet expression of thankfulness of the elder children.

Before they go home they get a piece of dry bread, and this is their dinner--a dinner the poorest English child would almost refuse.
The number of meals given at present is 350 per diem.

The totals of meals given per annum since 1862 are as follows:-- During the year 1862 ......