"We see the population of Ireland flowing off to the United States in one continuous and unfailing stream, at a rate that in twenty years, if uninterrupted, _will reduce them to a third of their present numbers_. We see at the same time an increasing emigration from this island. England has so long been accustomed to regard excess of population as the only danger, that she will be slow to weigh as seriously as perhaps she ought _this rapid subtraction of her sinew and bone, and consequent diminution of physical strength_. It is impossible, however, that so considerable a change should be attended with unmixed advantage, or that human forethought should be able to compass all the results. The census of next spring may invite attention to a subject, the very magnitude of which may soon command our anxiety." 5. It has totally ruined the West Highlands of Scotland, which depend on two staples--kelp and black cattle--the first of which has been destroyed by free trade in barilla, and the second ruined by free trade in cattle, for the benefit of our manufacturing towns, and sent their cottars in starving bands to Glasgow, already overwhelmed by above L.100,000 a-year of poor-rates. 6. It has so seriously affected the internal resources of the country, that, with a foreign trade prosperous beyond what has been seen since 1845, the revenue is only L.165,000 more than it was in the preceding year, which was one of great depression; and the last quarter has produced L.110,000 less than the corresponding quarter of 1849. 7. It has so lowered the _incomes_ of people in the country, that although the number of travellers by railways has greatly increased, and the total receipts of the lines have been swelled by L.1,700,000 since last year, the mileage _has decreased_-proving, that the _general_ traffic of the country bears no adequate proportion to its railway lines. It stands thus,-- 1849. 1850. Mileage on 6257 miles, L.2302 L.2247 --_Times._ which is a _fall_ of L.55 a mile in the midst of our boasted prosperous export trade.