NOTES.

Note (*) Page 5.-The driver is generally a peasant's son, taken from the spade, and hired at a salary of five or six pounds a-year. His occupation is to drive or distrain cattle, sheep, and other stock of the backward tenants; to cart and sell without mercy; to threaten and impor tune for money, and to be the most formidable of all animals to the poor. These men are fre quently the objects of popular vengeance, and are devoted to death, with the ty the proctor, the police constable, &c. &c. He is ever the ready instrument of oppression; whether to take a blunderbuss, or to take an oath; to serve a law process for the tything parson, the tax gatherer, or the absentee landlord; or, in short, to bear the whole risk and odium of executing the sen, tence of harsh laws in their fullest and most oppressive severity. Like the robber of the desert, his hand is against every one, and every one's hand is against him. Thus there subsists a constant action and re-action, alike subversive of the public peace, and of the public morals

oppression and inhumanity sanctioned by law; and violence and bloodshed in opposition to it. Those in power must inevitably designate the peasant's resistance to the driver as outrageous murder, as crime of the blackest dye; but na. ture, deep within the bosom of an oppressed and starving population, acknowleges it a necessitated self-defence, or a just retaliation.

(1) Page 48.-Places of emolument, rank, precedence, and profit, enjoyed by and distributable amongst the Irish bar, April 22, 1818, viz.

Lord Chancellor (salary encreased

since 1789)...

Master of the Rolls (ditto).

{1}

15,000l. for self and servants.

I 5,000l. ditto

Judges of the Law Courts (ditto).. {12}

Masters in Chancery..........

Deputy Remembrancer of the Ex

from 8,000l. to

4,0001. each.

4 3 to 4,0002. each.

{ } }

same.

Judge of the Prerogative Court... 1 1,8007.

Consistorial Court....

6001.

Carried forward.... 63

5 100 to 2001. each.

Doners, St. Sepulchres, St. Patricks, &c.....

Colonial Situations in Ceylon, Canada, Grenada, Prince of Wales's Island, &c. ...

Carried forward.... 259

Among two hundred barristers, besides about fifty more remaining unplaced.

(2) Page 125.-The Butlers and Fitzge ralds had been powerful rivals and enemies from the time of their arrival in Ireland with Henry II. The anecdote is well known of the Earl of Desmond being taken prisoner by the Earl of Or. monde, and borne off wounded on the shoulders of the Ormonde followers, returned in answer to the taunting question of "where now is the great Lord Desmond ?" "Still on the necks of Butlers."

When a temporary reconciliation was effected between these powerful chiefs, a hole was cut in the door of the chauntry of St. Patrick's