The number of gentlemen engaged in the learned professions is steadily decreasing; the traffic on Irish railways and the returns are steadily decreasing; the live stock in cattle, which was to have supplied and compensated for the live stock in men, is fearfully decreasing; the imports and exports are steadily decreasing.

The decrease in cultivated lands, from 1862 to 1863, amounted to 138,841 acres.
While the Preface to the Second Edition was passing through the press, my attention was called to an article, in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, on the Right Rev.Dr.Manning's Letter to Earl Grey.

The writer of this article strongly recommends his Grace to publish a new edition of his Letter, omitting the last sixteen pages.

We have been advised, also, to issue a new edition of our HISTORY, to omit the Preface, and any remarks or facts that might tend to show that the Irish tenant was not the happiest and most contented being in God's creation.
The _Pall Mall Gazette_ argues--if, indeed, mere assertion can be called argument--first, "that Dr.Manning has obviously never examined the subject for himself, but takes his ideas and beliefs from the universal statements of angry and ignorant sufferers whom he has met in England, or from intemperate and utterly untrustworthy party speeches and pamphlets, whose assertions he receives as gospel;" yet Dr.Manning has given statements of facts, and the writer has not attempted to disprove them.

Second, he says: "Dr.Manning echoes the thoughtless complaints of those who cry out against emigration as a great evil and a grievous wrong, when he might have known, if he had thought or inquired at all about the matter, not only that this emigration has been the greatest conceivable blessing to the emigrants, but was an absolutely indispensable step towards improving the condition of those who remained at home;" and then the old calumnies are resuscitated about the Irish being "obstinately idle and wilfully improvident," as if it had not been proved again and again that the only ground on which such appellations can be applied to them in Ireland is, that their obstinacy consists in objecting to work without fair remuneration for their labour, and their improvidence in declining to labour for the benefit of their masters.