s, than in
other parts, where Protestantism is professed by a considerable
portion of the population."

We refer to our previous statements, founded on unquestionable
authority, to show how perfectly erroneous this "view of the case" is.
The direct contrary is the fact; land is set for at least one third more
in the Protestant and peaceable north, than in the Roman Catholic and
turbulent south. As a specimen of our author's style when he becomes
jocose, and of his veracity when he describes the conduct of Irish
landlords, we give a graphic sketch, representing the mode of letting
land in the sister country--

"Fancy a 'lord of the soil' (a petty one 'tis true) walking with a
bevy of bidders _humbly_ following him, after obtaining a bid of
money far beyond the value from one, exciting the others to outbid
in duty rent, thus:--'Well, Mich, you hear what Pat bids; now, what
will _you_ advance?'--'Why, yer honer, God knows it's more than
the value, but I'll give yer honer three days
turf-drawing.'--'Three days is it, my lad, when you know well
enough that my turf-stack takes a month's fine weather to get
in?'--'Och! then,' says Denis, 'but I'll not grudge your honer a
week.'--'By the powers now,' says Larry, 'I'd give yer honer two
weeks, if the place and the rint would kape a horse, or a mule, or
a donkey, in the way of drawing; but I'll bring yer honer a fat pig
any how, and pay the rint of four pounds an acre as punctually as
_any other_ man.'--'Larry, the land is yours, my boy, and a mighty
chape bargain too! Ted Sullivan promised me five pounds an acre
plantation; but I was rather doubtful of his manes--I'll only ask
ye to cut and save me a few slane, according to times, as you
cannot draw it.'"

L4 the acre!!! this certainly beats any thing we ever heard of before;
and until now we thought it a service of danger for any man to bid for
another's holding, or even to take an unoccupied one; but Mr Wiggins has
made many discoveries which are new to us, and not the least
extraordinary is, that "_Lycurgus gave laws to the Athenians._"!!!

One of the great panaceas of Lord Normanby's _protege_ is, that the land
should be "set at full rents, on _sensible leases_"--which he proceeds
to describe as leases for not less than twenty-one years. We have heard
of many _longer_ leases than those of twenty-one years, we never heard