Condition Of Ireland

The last number of Burritt's paper has the following recent statement from hiui respecting this wretched country. ': This nfflicted land is fast recovering from tSe effects and presence of that awful visitation which has been lo it all lhat the destroying angel was to Egypt ; for more than the first born, and more than one or two have fallen in every house in Although there is still great destitution of food, there is scarcely any starvation,and the famine fever is abating. Even in Skibbereen there is a striking improvement. Rev. R. R. Townsand, in a letter from that place,says: 'Though our work-house is as crowded as ever, having at this instant eleven hundred in it - three hundred over its originally inlended number - there veere but Jour deaths in the last week j a prodigious change from over one hundred dealhs in the same space of time shor'.ly ago." - The prospects of the different crops ure represented as extremely favorable, not yielding in promise to those of anyyear wiihin the memory of ' the oldest ïnhabitant" of Ireland. The grain crops are fast ripening. The accounts of the potnto erop are unanimously favorable, though much solicitude is feit with regard to its fate. A few weeks will decide whether that staff of food is to be again cut off. If it should be, the country and the world will be more ready to meet the deficiency it may cause than was the case last year. It is estimated that 25 per cent more of the land in Ireland is under cultivation this year than any preceding one. Still there are upwards of 2,900,000 persons receiving rations at the public expense at the present momeni, or more than one third of the eniire population of the island. Shice the first of January the English Government lus borrowed L8,000,000, all of which has been applied to relieve the suflering in Ireland. Adding to this vast surn nll the individual, contributors for ?he same object, notless than $50,000,000 will have been appropriated, between the last and coming harvest, to relieve the wretchedness caused in 'hal country by the failure of the potato erop !"