tract, from a very sensible pamphlet by
Mr. Murray, is so appropriate to this subject, that we cannot
deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting it here:--

"You have been accustomed to grapple with and master
figures, whether as representing the produce of former
tariffs, or in constructing new ones, or in showing the
income and expenditure of the greatest nation on the earth.
Those now about to be presented to you, as an appendix to
this communication, are small, very small, in their separate
amounts, and not by any means in the aggregate of the
magnitude of the sums you have been accustomed to deal with;
but they are large separately, and heaving large in the
aggregate, in all that is connected with the higher and
nobler parts of our nature--in all that relates to and
evinces the feelings of the heart towards those who are of
our kindred, no matter by what waters placed asunder or by
what distance separated. They are large, powerfully large,
in reading lessons of instruction to the statesman and
philanthropist, in dealing with a warm-hearted people for
their good, and placing them in a position of comparative
comfort to that in which they now are. The figures represent
the particulars of 7,917 separate Bills of Exchange, varying
in amount from L1 to L10 each--a few exceeding the latter
sum; so many separate offerings from the natives of Ireland
who have heretofore emigrated from its shores, sent to their
relations and friends in Ireland, drawn and paid between the
1st of January and the 15th of December, 1846--not quite one
year; and amount in all to L41,261 9s. 11d. But this list,
long though it be, does not measure the number and amount of
such interesting offerings. It contains only about one-third
part of the whole number and value of such remittances that
have crossed the Atlantic to Ireland during the 349 days of
1846. The data from which this list is complied enable the
writer to estimate with confidence the number and amount
drawn otherwise; and he calculates that the entire number,
for not quite one year, of such Bills, is L24,000, and the
amount L125,000, or, on an average, L5 4s. 3d. each. They
are sent from husband to wife, from father to child, from
child to father, mother, and grand-parents, from sister to
brothe