1. Population of Ireland in 1841 8,175,238 2. Total insane confined January 1, 1843 3,529 3. Total curable, comprised in No. 2 1,055 4. Total incurable, ditto 2,474 5. Total curable (not including private asylums) confined January 1, 1843 848 6. Number for which the district asylums were first built 1,220 7. Number confined in district asylums, January 1, 1843 2,061 8. Confined in other than district asylums, January 1, 1843 1,468 9. Number confined in thirty-two jails, January 1, 1843 211 10. Number confined in workhouses, March 31, 1843 557 11. Number of curable cases confined in thirty-two jails, January 1, 1843 78 12. Number of curable cases in district asylums, January 1, 1843 698 13. Number of incurable cases in district asylums, January 1, 1843 1,368 A correspondence took place between the Irish Government and the managers of the district asylums on the subject of the Report of the House of Lords' Committee on the state of the lunatic poor, commencing November, 1843, by a letter from Lord Elliott to the superintendents, asking for their opinion. These unanimously endorsed the conclusions arrived at by the Committee, and, in some instances entering into the mode of inspection of asylums by the two inspectors-general of prisons at their half-yearly visitation of gaols, asserted that "it must from a variety of causes be of no use whatever." The Irish Government also opened a correspondence in 1844 with the grand juries of each county, and their opinion was asked as to the eligibility of the sites proposed for new asylums. As the Acts of Parliament limited the number of patients in any single asylum, it was sought to remove this obstacle by an Act in 1845, 8 and 9 Vict., c. 107. This Act also provided for the erection of a central asylum for criminal lunatics, which carried out one important recommendation of the Lords' Committee. The Cork Asylum was at the same time added to the district asylums. In 1846 an Act (9 and 10 Vict., c. 115) was passed to amend the laws as to district asylums in Ireland, and to provide for the expenses of inspection of asylums. From a return made in this year (1846) showing the total number of lunatics in the district, local, and private asylums and jails on the 1st of January during each of the previous ten years, I observe that in 1837 there was a total of 3077, and in 1846 a total of 3658, thus distributed:--