“The decrease of the Irish population from 1841 to 1851 was 1,659,330, of whom 1,289,133 emigrated. But as there was no considerable emigration till 1846, and the famine occurred in that year, there can be no doubt that down to the end of 1845 the population had advanced at its former rate, which would make the inhabitants in 1845 about 8,500,000, and the decrease since that time fully 2,000,000.”—_Emigration Report_, July 12, 1852. Footnote 8: See _Blackwood’s Magazine_, Feb. 1852. Footnote 9: _The Moor and the Loch._ By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. 3d Edit. Edinburgh, 1851. Footnote 10: “The Great Question.” June 1852. No. CCCCXL. Footnote 11: See our April Number, “The Earl of Derby.” Footnote 12: Tuesday, 20th July 1852. Footnote 13: New Series, 14th March 1839. Footnote 14: Hansard, 3d Series, vol. xlvi. col. 694–5. Footnote 15: Page 403—“The Earl of Derby.” Footnote 16: In a similar strain ventured to speak a certain Mr Serjeant Murphy at Cork. “Who is their Chancellor of the Exchequer? I’ll tell you what he is. He is a political adventurer, who speculates on politics as a black-leg on the turn of the dice and the fluctuating chance of the turf—a political trader!” And the refined and complimentary Milesian proceeds to utter a supposed _bon-mot_ concerning Mr Disraeli’s speech on the Budget, which, he says, he himself heard, “while sitting near the Duke of Cambridge, _with whom I have the honour of being acquainted_!” Footnote 17: Wednesday, 14th July 1852. Footnote 18: 21st July 1852. Footnote 19: 21st July 1852. Footnote 20: See our June Number, p. 763. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected palpable typographical errors; retained non-standard spellings and dialect. 2. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 3. Enclosed blackletter font in =equals=.