We give a fac-simile of the first page, which cannot fail to interest the antiquarian.
[143] _Famine years_ .-- During the famous, or rather infamous, Partry evictions, an old man of eighty and a woman of seventy-four were amongst the number of those who suffered for their ancient faith.

They were driven from the home which their parents and grandfathers had occupied, in a pitiless storm of sleet and snow.

The aged woman utters some slight complaint; but her noble-hearted aged husband consoles her with this answer: "The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ were bitterer still." Sixty-nine souls were cast out of doors that day.

Well might the _Times_ say: "These evictions are a hideous scandal; and the bishop should rather die than be guilty of such a crime." Yet, who can count up all the evictions, massacres, tortures, and punishments which this people has endured?
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