tion with the gentlemen most active in the late measures for the benefit of the Irish poor, must have been again and again gratified by the warm and earnest attention, that has been paid to this subject by government, as well as by individuals. What has been doing by the Dublin Society,-by that for promoting the comforts of the poor,-by the association for discountenancing vice,-by the fever institutions, -in the Dublin House of Industry and Foundling Hospital, at Cork, Waterford, Killaloe, New Ross, and other places, is certainly intitled to every degree of praise and commendation. But these institutions do little more than shew what is practicable; making part of a general system, and supplying the means and example of what is to be done. Measures must be adopted by government for awakening, in every part of Ireland, a spirit of improvement; the objects of which may be classed under the three following heads :—

1st, The promotion of schools, generally and effectually extended to the children of all the poor in Ireland.-It may not be possible entirely to put out of the question the distinction of the sects, which are prevalent in that country: but, upon their own authority I may

be allowed to submit that EDUCATION, not conversion, ought to be the object of these schools; and that they should be made as contributory to industry and civilized happiness, and as acceptable and inviting to all denominations of Christians, as may be done with any degree of propriety and security.

2d. The providing of additional means and motives to domestic employment and domestic management in cottages; so as not only to meliorate individual character, but also to increase the amount and benefit of national industry. The poor in some parts of Ireland derive great advantage from their spinningwheels, and from the domestic occupation which they supply: but those benefits are not universally extended; and it may be doubted whether they ever will be. In the Reports of the Society (No. CVI), the reader will find an account of the late introduction of the manu facture of split straw into this country, and of the effects which it has produced in some of our parishes. It will appear from that, and from a paper in the Appendix to the fourth volume, that no difficulty or expense would attend the introduction of it into the cottages in Ireland; and that it would afford the means of employ

ing and educating a large proportion of those children, that are at present unprovided for. The raw material is very cheap, the work is easily learnt, and requires very little exertion; at the same that it is friendly to personal cleanliness and to domestic habits.

3d. The general extension of fever institutions, vaccination, and of other charities for preserving the poor from the ravages of infec tious disorders, and the conducting of them in such a manner, as to produce a favourable impression on the minds of the poor, and to increase the communication between them and the rich and thereby accustom them to look to the other classes for kindness and assistance. This would be deserving of all the attention that could be applied to those desirable objects.

Though Ireland has the advantage of being unincumbered with our system of poor laws, and though the Irish have a degree of activity and fervour of mind which we are not so fortunate as to possess in England, yet it must be repeated that there are many circumstances, which render it impossible that the great and necessary im provements in the condition of the poor in Ireland, should be produced by mere individual exertion and co-operation. It is, however, essen

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be allowed to submit that EDUCATION, not conversion, ought to be the object of these schools; and that they should be made as contributory to industry and civilized happiness, and as acceptable and inviting to all denominations of Christians, as may be done with any degree of propriety and security.

2d. The providing of additional means and motives to domestic employment and domestic management in cottages; so as not only to meliorate individual character, but also to increase the amount and benefit of national industry. The poor in some parts of Ireland derive great advantage from their spinningwheels, and from the domestic occupation which they supply: but those benefits are not universally extended; and it may be doubted whether they ever will be. In the Reports of the Society (No. CVI), the reader will find an account of the late introduction of the manu facture of split straw into this country, and of the effects which it has produced in some of our parishes. It will appear from that, and from a paper in the Appendix to the fourth volume, that no difficulty or expense would attend the introduction of it into the cottages in Ireland; and that it would afford the means of employ

ing and educating a large proportion of those children, that are at present unprovided for. The raw material is very cheap, the work is easily learnt, and requires very little exertion; at the same that it is friendly to personal cleanliness and to domestic habits.

3d. The general extension of fever institutions, vaccination, and of other charities for preserving the poor from the ravages of infec tious disorders, and the conducting of them in such a manner, as to produce a favourable impression on the minds of the poor, and to increase the communication between them and the rich and thereby accustom them to look to the other classes for kindness and assistance. This would be deserving of all the attention that could be applied to those desirable objects.

Though Ireland has the advantage of being unincumbered with our system of poor laws, and though the Irish have a degree of activity and fervour of mind which we are not so fortunate as to possess in England, yet it must be repeated that there are many circumstances, which render it impossible that the great and necessary improvements in the condition of the poor in Ireland, should be produced by mere individual exertion and co-operation. It is, however, essen