wife, and children, but the aged parents and the married couple and
their destitute relatives, even to the third and fourth degree of
kindred. God forbid that political economists should dissolve these
ties! should violate these beautiful charities of nature and the
gospel! I have often found my heart throb with delight when I beheld
three or four generations seated around the humble board and blazing
hearth; and I offered a silent prayer to the great Father of all that
the gloomy gates of the workhouse should never separate those whom
such tender social chains so fondly link together.'

The following is a tabular view of the whole amount of voluntary
contributions during the Irish famine, which deserves a permanent
record for the credit of our common humanity:--

£ s. d. £ s. d.
Local contributions officially reported
in 1846 104,689 18 1
Local contributions officially reported
in 1847 199,569 4 1
British Relief Association, total
received 470,041 1 2
say five-sixths for Ireland 391,700 17 8
General Central Relief Committee,
College Green 83,934 17 11
Less received from British Relief
Association 20,190 0 0
_____________ 63,744 17 11
Irish Relief Association, Sackville
Street 42,446 5 0
Relief Committee of the Society of