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"He is dead! my brave, my only boy! For the last three days excess of misery has stupified me, and I have only awoke to the full consciousness of my loss. Frederick, Frederick my son, my son!"

"Another day has passed, and I am nearly frantic. Now do I feel the bereavement I have undergone. Oh, God, in what have I offended, that the phial of thy wrath should thus be poured on my devoted head? Peace, sinful man; to your closet, and there seek humbleness of spirit to bear thy Maker's visitation. My brain is burning. Oh, God, preserve my senses, and teach me patience under thy decrees."

1834. "I have risen from the bed of sickness-ten weeks of suffering; but the Lord was merciful, and the hand of death was stayed. I am spared, alas! for fresh misery; during the period of my insensibility, the time allowed for claiming relief from the million loan expired, and we are destitute. We must sell the furniture."

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her yet. Will the executive of Ireland suffer the rabble and their leaders to outrage the law of the land openly, and establish a reign of terror? I entreated a trifle, almost as alms, from a man indebted to me some hundreds; and his reply was, that if he paid me a shilling, his house would be burned. Is this a Christian land, and what rulers have we? God pardon them the misery they have wrought me and mine!"

."'Tis over. The grass is withering on the grave of Emily, the beloved and beautiful; and her mother, like Rachel, refuses to be comforted. I cannot weep, although my brain is burning. Oh, my God, keep reason in her seat, and send thy comfort to a mourning mother."

"Mr. Jones, the neighbouring curate, murdered in open day for attending a sick call from a dying soldier."

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'Attempted to bury the pensioner, but was assailed and hustled by the mob, who swore they would throw me into the grave. Obliged to leave the church-yard to save my life. The priest, I am told, performed some ceremonies after I was ejected."

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The monument to my son, erected by his brother officers, has been placed above the altar. It pays a noble tribute to the virtues of my gallant boy. I read the inscription with pride. How dear to a father is a son's fame!"

I hurried over several pages. The melancholy detail of continued suffering was harrowing. I turned many leaves, and threw my eye over the last entry in the book, which, it would appear from the date, had been made on the preceding day.

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I was called off suddenly to give evidence before a court-martial, and three weeks elapsed before I rejoined the detachment. Anxious to visit Mr. Harley, I mounted my horse early next morning and at noon reached the public house that is contiguous to the church-yard of Dunlow. A funeral had entered it, and while the service was proceeding I strolled into the church to shelter from a shower. The interior of the building was ruinous, the seats dropping to pieces, the pulpit door fallen from its hinges, while, forming a singular contrast to the desolation around it, a beautiful tablet of white marble had been recently erected beside the communion-table. I looked at the inscription

"Sacred to the Memory

OF

MAJOR FREDERICK HARLEY."

A nobler eulogy I never read, and it was a just one; for the deceased bad been a gallant soldier, and bled at St. Sebastian, Orthez, and Waterloo. The funeral was over, the rain had ceased, and I left the church to visit the rectory.

I found the white-headed sexton closing the broken gate with stones, and asked him "if Mr. Harley was at home?" He stared, and I repeated the question. The old man burst into tears. "He is dead, sir; we have just buried him."

"Good God! was his death sudden?" No, sir; his heart for years was

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breaking. He's gone-the best of men, the best of masters!"

"And his daughter ?"

"A kind lady, and quite a stranger to the family, heard of Mr. Harley's death, and took Miss Ellen away yesterday."

"Then," I said, half aloud, "I need not go farther."

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No, sir; at the rectory there is nothing but bare walls. The few articles of furniture that remained were removed, under a decrec, by a tradesman, before the old gentleman was cold."

Gracious God! and was this the end of a Protestant dignitary?

It was; but, good my Lord Morpeth, let not this old man's martyrdom excite your sympathies too powerfully. What boots it, that a community of educated and unoffending gentlemen be sacrificed, who, trusting to the sacredness of their properties, dispensed with a liberal hand the income they received, never dreaming of the destitution that awaited them. Pshaw, my lord, it is their own obstinacy after all. You extended your tender mercies to them, for a consideration, and they refused to prostitute their principles for a mess of pottage. Have you not gained your object? and in Whig morality, surely the end justifies the means. Yes, for a few brief months it is possible you may hold office. You have propitiated the agitator, obtained the sweet voices of the tail, with the cooperation of some wretched Protestants-men who, if the foul fiend tendered the bribe, would barter their salvation for a borough. With this gang, you have for a time paralyzed the power, and defeated the wealth, and talent, and respectability of Great Britain. Is not this a glorious boast for you and your accomplices of Stroud? Go on; but, as the Scotch say, "bide a wee;" and if the degradation of your slave-directed party be not commensurate with its deserts, then is there, good my Lord Morpeth, on this earth no political

retribution.

STATISTICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND.

It is with the most sincere and cordial satisfaction that we congratulate this country upon the appearance of the first portion of a work, of which it is but little to say, that it marks an era in the nascent literature of Ireland. It is also our profound trust, that it contains the germ of a more sane and enlightened system of domestic policy, and of a juster and more uniform constitution of public opinion and feeling upon many vital questions, which have been so often and so madly debated and so little understood. We much regret that the very brief interval which remains between the sending out of the present impression and the completion of our number renders it utterly impossible for us to enter at large into its important details, or, indeed, to do more than endeavour to impress our readers with some sense of its general nature and real importance. We confine ouselves the more willingly within this limit, from having observed with much regret the very inadequate interest in statistical inquiry which seems to exist among us, while in the sister island and throughout the Continent there prevails the most enlightened sense of its fundamental importance, as the very basis of all just reasoning upon the national interests of mankind.

The impression, of which a copy is before us, has been limited to a few, printed for the express purpose of being submitted to the judgment of the statistical section of the British Association. We cannot in adequate terms express the pleasure we have derived from the strong and decided approbation which it has received from these eminent persons, both individually and collectively; and if it may be permitted to select an instance, we may name one from whose high eminence, both as a practical and theoretic philosopher, our own opinion derives justifiable confidence in praising what he has publicly praised with such eloquent truth. We allude to Mr. Babbage, whose name requires no addition, and whose strong language in

commending this statistic survey is known to hundreds who had the gratification to be his hearers.

A subject of pleasing reflection which must present itself with peculiar satisfaction both to Colonel Colby and the gentlemen who assisted in maturing and so far executing this meritorious undertaking, is the fact, that it has been set on foot at the very time most favourable to its successful completion, and at a period when its uses are most likely to be important. This latter point we reserve for the few observations which we shall presently have to offer on these uses.

As regards our first position, it is to be observed that at any previous period the imperfect state of most of those subsidiary sciences, which have furnished so much of the most practically useful material of its sections, must of necessity have left the plan both imperfect and incorrect to a great extent. Of this, nearly the entire of practical science might be summed, as affording proof: The chemistry of soils-geology in all its branches-botany, with its improved details-all the vast improvements in agriculture-many ofthe discoveries and institutions in trade and commerce-the vast alterations in machinery, and all the changes consequent upon the varied applications of steam-to which may be added the immense alteration which all the causes of national change have received within this last quarter of a century. Indeed, the almost gigantic labours of previous statists, under all sorts of disadvantage, must in many ways serve to guide and warn the more systematic and justly organized efforts of their better instructed successors in the same spacious field. But above all have these been indebted to the general spirit of scientific communion and cooperation which is a leading feature of the times. The scientific at length may be said to constitute a single body

a republic of letters in the literal sense; and, indeed, the illustrious convention of the national intellect which at this moment honours our University

Dublin:

• Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry By Lieutenant Colonel Colby, of the Royal Engineers, F. R. S. L. and E., M. R.I. A., &c. &c. Hodges and Smith, 21, College-green.

with its presence is but a result of the same spirit to which the compilation of this work is due.

Before we proceed further we must put our readers in possession of the leading heads and general arrangement of this work, and also endeavour to convey in a few words some notion of the instrumentality by which its materials have been collected and arranged. Fortunately for our narrowed time and space, the table of contents at once supplies us with a full and precise summary, which we shall offer as it is, without wasting a single paragraph in superfluous comment, further than to remind our readers of the circumstance that this present portion of the survey derives much added interest and importance from its including within its limits the city of Londonderry, of which the volume contains a splendid etching, finished in the most consummate style of truth, spirit, and delicacy, by the same hand to which this work is otherwise indebted for so much of its most useful and attractive contents.

SECTION 1.-NATURAL STATE.

DIVIDED INTO

NATURAL FEATURES & NATURAL HISTORY.

Hills

Lakes
Rivers, &c.

Geology

Botany

Zoology

SECTION II.-ARTIFICIAL STATE.

MODERN.

DIVIDED INTO

Towns
Gentlemen's Seats
Manufactories
Communications

ANCIENT.

It is impossible for any thinking person to cast his eye over this table of heads without perceiving all the research it implies, and reflecting that it contains a summary of all that is important to the existence of the social state. Most important as it regards science, it constitutes the essential first principles of legislation; of commerce; agriculture; affords the most authentic materials for history; and directly or indirectly combines itself with every momentous question that affects the civilization and internal prosperity, as well as national existence of the empire.

The Ordnance Survey of Ireland is the nucleus, around whose extensive and important operations, the whole of these laborious researches have been combined into a system. While it has directly supplied one leading division, it has directed and facilitated the rest. It has either supplied from its own body, persons competent to execute the several portions of an undertaking too various and extensive for any single mind or class of minds; or with a truly philosophic liberality it has employed and made one with itself persons of known ability, to prosecute the inquiries and draw up the reports for which they were severally competent. Thus laudably securing the very first abilities in each department. An admirable arrangement, to which is mainly attributable the superiority of this over all statistical works hitherto known.

It is well known, that from the
Townland History year 1825, there has been in progress
Pagan
Ecclesiastical
Military

In this section of the Parish of Templemore the important City of Londonderry is included, and its description divided into-Name, Locality, History, State as to Buildings, and State as to People; the classification observed in the latter being-Municipality, Education, Benevolence, Justice, Commerce, and a Summary of the Population.

SECTION III.-GENERAL STATE.

DIVIDED INTO

SOCIAL ECONOMY. PRODUCTIVE ECONOMY. Of which the mat

Rural

an extensive trigonometrical survey of Ireland, the execution of which was committed to the officers of the

ordnance; a trust warranted by the experience of the English survey, as also by the scientific attainments of that body, whose military organization more peculiarly qualify them for an undertaking to which the most extensive cooperation and unity of conduct is essential. Of this body the central control has been committed to Lieutenant Colonel Colby, under whose superintendence it became a school not merely of scientific topography, but of all the subsidiary researches which could become available for the more

ter is embodied in Manufacturing, and extensive investigations of this work. the corresponding Fisheries

heads of the city.

WITH A SERIES OF

Townland Tables.

A few words will convey the extent and precise character of their immediate labours; and suggest a correct idea of the manner in which these must

of both Colonel Colby and his able assistant in collecting and marshalling his statistic corps, that no sentiment of professional jealousy, so often the means of defeating the exertion of public bodies, prevented them from discovering and securing in every instance the persous most qualified by their knowledge, powers of investigation, or even of literary composition. Nothing less, indeed, than this comprehensive arrangement, which at the same time united military system, and the combined ope ration of an organized scientific department with all that could be added of individual talent and efficiency, could have been equal to an undertaking equally extensive and minute in detail

have facilitated every other class of local inquiry. The trigonometrical survey of Ireland begun from a base, between seven and eight miles in length, measured on the shore of Lough Foyle, in the county of Londonderry; this base is liable to a peculiar confirmation, as it is the verification base of the Scottish survey. The greater triangles into which the country is divided, are connected with those of Great Britain by triangles, the angles of which, are Benlomond, Sca Fell, Snowdon and Precelly top on the English and Scottish side: on the Irish, Knocklayd in Antrim, Sleeve Donard in Down, Kippure near Dublin, and Forth near Wexford. The detail survey followed in 1826-requiring in the highest degree diviand met with some delays, both from the necessity of completing the system and of making some alteration in the scale of proceeding-as that first ordered by parliament was not sufficiently minute for the purpose of valuation. We forbear to enter more minutely into this interesting topic, as its details are too familiar to the scientific and too little understood by others, to be capable of much general interest in a cursory notice such as this.

Of this plan, the conduct of the extensive details was entrusted to such individuals as were known by the official authorities to be most competent, by their attainment, talents, and tried experience. While the general supervision and unremitting attention of Lieutenant Larcom, preserved that unbroken communication, which secured to each person or class the corrective experience of the whole. Upon the excellence of this judicious arrangement, the compilation now before us will amply testify. And we are enabled, upon the most satisfactory authority, to assure the public, that in every department of inquiry, the utmost reason shall be found to applaud the sagacious discrimination of Colonel Colby, for the selection of his agents and the enlightened system of arrangement and superintendence, which facilitated and matured their investigations. By these individuals, the several reports were drawn up from their own materials, or from those which were provided for them by the joint labour of other members of the survey. It is also much to the credit

sion of labour and unity of purposeand presenting at every step the most enormous difficulties: the numberless and minute objects-the far extended field, ignorance, and prejudice, vagueness, and contradiction. Neither could a happier means be devised, for securing credit, to a great work designed to stand as a fundamental authority in questions of the last social importance, than the fact that it comes before the public accredited by the known respectability of the conductors of a survey, which has attracted the attention of Europe-both for its superior accuracy and the valuable improvements it has conferred on this branch of practical science. We have now said enough to convey that general notion here required, of the means employed in accumulating and reducing to order the valuable materials which compose this admirable compilation.

Of the full importance of such an undertaking, it would be difficult to convey a distinct notion. Nor could we by any means contrive to do justice to its merits either by extracts or by summary abstract. The extent of its details, and the summary character of a work in which nothing important to the social community is left out, forbids such an attempt.

Our present purpose is earnestly to recommend this work, to the diligent study of all who entertain any hope to be useful in their generation, or fulfil a respectable part as members of society. Upon its value to science we will not say much, for where such a consideration can have weight, its

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