"The town and the surrounding country for many miles are possessed by twenty-six proprietors, whose respective yearly incomes vary from one hundred pounds, or less, to several thousands. They had all been respectfully informed of the miserable condition of the people, and solicited to give relief. Seventeen of the number had not the politeness to answer the letters of the committee, four had written to say they would not contribute, and the remaining five had given a miserable fraction of what they ought to have contributed. My first donation from a small portion of a small relief fund, received from English strangers, exceeded the aggregate contributions of six-and-twenty landed proprietors, on whose properties human beings were perishing from famine, filth, and disease, amid circumstances of wretchedness appalling to humanity and disgraceful to civilized men! I believe it my sacred duty to gibbet this atrocity in the press, and to call on benevolent persons to loathe it as a monster crime. Twenty-one owners of property, on which scores, nay hundreds, of their fellow-creatures are dying of hunger, give nothing to save their lives! Are they not virtually guilty of wholesale murder? I ask not what human law may decide upon their acts, but in the name of Christianity I arraign them as guilty of treason against the rights of humanity and the laws of God!" It is to escape the responsibility mentioned by Mr. King, as well as to avoid the payment of poor-rates, that the landlords resort to the desolating process of eviction. To show the destructive nature of the tyrannical system that has so long prevailed in Ireland, we will take an abstract of the census of 1841 and 1851. 1841. 1851. Houses: Inhabited 1,328,839 1,047,935 " Uninhabited, built 52,203 65,159 " " building 3,318 2,113 — — Total 1,384,360 1,115,207 Families 1,472,287 1,207,002 Persons: Males 4,019,576 3,176,727 " Females 4,155,548 3,339,067 — — Total 8,175,124 6,515,794 Population in 1841 8,175,124 " 1851 6,515,794 — Decrease 1,659,330 Or, at the rate of 20 per cent. Population in 1821 6,801,827 " 1831 7,767,401 " 1841 8,175,124 " 1851 6,515,794 Or, 286,030 souls fewer than in 1821, thirty years ago.