If They Are Evicted Now And Readmitted As Caretakers, They Can Be Sent Off Again At A Week's Notice And Have No Claim Under The Ulster Custom For Past Improvements.

I think any candid person can see that these people are not in a position to pay back rent, or even present rent at the high rate to which it is raised.

In some instances they are not able to pay any rent at all. There had been some years of bad seasons ending in one of absolute famine.

The report of the Relief Committee for northern Donegal was published on 28th of October, 1880. I met with a member of that Committee, which was composed of sixteen Protestants and eleven Catholics, including the Catholic Bishop of Raphoe and the Presbyterian member of Parliament. This gentleman informed me that food was given in such quantities as to preserve life only. Seed was also given. Many people of respectable standing, whose need was urgent, applied for relief secretly, not wishing their want to be known. Helped in this careful way the amount given, exclusive of expenses, in North Donegal was L33,660.17.1, of which amount the New York _Herald_ gave L2,000, besides L203 to an emigration fund enabling 115 persons to leave the country. Surely we must think that before these people applied for public charity - and every case was examined into by some of the Committee or their agents - they had exhausted all their means, and sold all they had to sell.

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