But the spirit and the forms of the Imperial authority over the country have unquestionably undergone a great change for the better, not only since the last century, but since the accession of Queen Victoria.
Upon the question of land improvements, Mr.Stacpoole told me, to-night, that he borrowed L1000 of the Government for drainage improvements on his property here, the object of which was to better the holdings of tenants.

Of this sum he had to leave L400 undrawn, as he could not get the men to work at the improvements, even for their own good.

They all wanted to be gangers or chiefs.

It reminded me of Berlioz's reply to the bourgeois who wanted his son to be made a "great composer." "Let him go into the army," said Berlioz, "and join the only regiment he is fit for." "What regiment is that ?" "The regiment of colonels." In the course of the evening a report was brought out from Ennis to Colonel Turner.

He read it, and then handed it to me, with an accompanying document.