manufacturing districts, and, as is affirmed, destroyed property in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire, to the amount of L40,000,000."[13] Lastly, the famine has taught the empire an important lesson as to Irish Repeal. For many years past, that country has been convulsed, and the empire harassed by the loud and threatening demand for the Repeal of the Union, and the incessant outcry that the Irish people are perfectly equal to the duties of self-government, and that all their distresses have been owing to the oppression of the Saxon. The wind of adversity has blown, and where are these menaces now? Had Providence punished them by granting their prayer--had England cut the rope, as Mr Roebuck said, and let them go, where would Ireland have been at this moment? Drifting away on the ocean of starvation. Let this teach them their dependence upon their neighbours, and let another fact open their eyes to what those neighbours are. England has replied to the senseless clamour, the disgraceful ingratitude, by voting ten millions sterling in a single year to relieve the distresses which the heedlessness and indolence of the Irish had brought upon themselves. We say advisedly, _brought upon themselves_. For, mark-worthy circumstance! the destruction of the potato crop has been just as complete, and the food of the people has been just as entirely swept away in the West Highlands of Scotland, as in Ireland, but _there has been no grant of public money to Scotland_. The cruel Anglo-Saxons have given IT ALL to the discontented, untaxed Gael in the Emerald isle. _Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh._ FOOTNOTES: [7] Viz. 5-1/2 per cent on all advances on cash or current accounts, and 1/2 per cent commission on all sums overdrawn. [8] Table showing the quantity of grain, including flour and meal, entered for home consumption, from 5th July 1846, to 5th February 1847, from the _London Gazette_ official returns:-- Quarters of grain (including flour and meal) entered for qrs. home consumption, in the months from 5th July to 5th January as reported, 1st February, 5,148,449 Quantity duty paid in month ending 5th Feb. 539,418 Do. do. flour and meal, 427,036 cwts. 142,345 _______ 681,763 _________ Quantity duty paid up to 5th January, 5,830,212 In bond, 5th February, 68,939 Do. do. flour and meal, 318,240 cwts. 106,080 _______ 175,019 _______ Quantity in qrs. of duty paid and presently in bond,} 6,005,231 from month ending 5th July to 5th Feb.} _________