Yet, we are told, the Irish have no real grievances.

Of course, starvation from want of work is not a grievance! Within the few months which have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of this History and the present moment, when I am engaged in preparing a second edition, a fact has occurred within my own personal knowledge relative to this very subject, and of too great importance to the history of Ireland in the present day to be omitted.

A shoal of sprats arrived in the bay of -- -- and the poor people crowded to the shore to witness the arrival and, alas! the departure of the finny tribe.

All their nets had been broken or sold in the famine year; they had, therefore, no means of securing what would have been a valuable addition to their poor fare.

The wealthy, whose tables are furnished daily with every luxury, can have but little idea how bitter such privations are to the poor.