hich I write this note (June 9), Mr.
Seigne has kindly, but without results, endeavoured to get for me some
authentic return made by a small tenant-farmer of his incomings and
outgoings.

[21] Note I.

[22] Note K.

[23] While these pages are going through the press a Scottish
friend sends me the following extract from a letter published in the
_Scotsman_ of July 25:--

"In the same way I, in August last, when in Wicklow, ascertained as
carefully as I could the facts as to the Bodyke evictions; and being
desirous to learn now if that estate was still out of cultivation,
as I had found it in August, I wrote the gentleman I have referred
to above. His reply is as follows:--

"'I can answer your question as far as the Brooke estate is
concerned. None of the tenants are back in their farms, nor
are they likely to be. The landlord has the land partly
stocked with cattle; but I may say the land is nearly waste;
the gates, fences, and farmsteads partly destroyed. I was at
the fair of Coolgreany about three weeks ago, and the country
looked quite changed; the weeds predominating in the land
that the tenantry had under cultivation when they were
evicted from their farms. The landlord has done nothing to
lay the land down with grass seed, consequently the land is
waste. The village of Coolgreany is on the property, and
there was a good monthly fair held there, but it is very much
gone down since the disagreement between the landlord and
tenant. The tenants, speaking generally, in allowing
themselves to be evicted and not redeeming before six months,
are giving up all their improvements to the landlord, no
matter what they may be worth. I have got quite tired of the
vexed question, and may say I have given up reading about
evictions, and pity the tenant who is foolish enough to allow
any party to advise him so badly as to allow himself to be
evicted.'

"Those who read this testimony of a candid witness, and remember the
cordial footing on which Mr. Brooke stood with his tenantry in
Bodyke before Mr. Billon appeared amongst them, may well ask what
good his interference did to the now impoverished tenantry of
Bodyke, or to the district now deserted or laid waste.--I am, etc.,

A RADICAL UNIONIST."

[24] In curious confirmation of thi