show, among other things, that the proportion of the professors of the two religions, as there given, is a steady and not an incidental one. These figures also confirm a statement often made to me, and noticed elsewhere, viz. that the lower class of the population are still essentially Catholic, even in PROTESTANT ULSTER.

As there is some deviation from the more ordinary dietary of the Unions in this house, I give in the following Table that portion of it having reference to the different classes of adults. It will be observed that here, for the first time, we see all the inmates participating in the allowance of a third daily meal, or supper.

Scale of Diet in the Londonderry Workhouse.

There is a farm attached to the workhouse, of about ten acres, for the purpose of training the school-boys to habits of industry in agricultural labour; and also to afford a supply of vegetables for the house—namely, turnips, carrots, parsnips, cab

1 The vegetable soup is composed of å stone carrots, 1 stone turnips, stone onions, 5 lbs. cabbage, lb. pepper, with 10 lbs. oatmeal, for each 100 rations.

2 The "meal" consists of half oatmeal and half Indian meal: it is made into stirabout with water and salt.

bages, onions, leeks, and parsley. Potatoes are also cultivated in the grounds, in sufficient quantity to supply the house for about seven weeks in the months of August and September.

I received some account of the Temperance movement in Derry, from one of its zealous advocates in the town. This began so long back as 1836. At one time the Society had full 2000 members, but now it cannot boast of more than 500. There is a Temperance Hall where the members have evening meetings occasionally. For the last six years there has been a Benevolent Society attached to the Temperance Institution, and comprising nearly all the members. The object of this Society is to afford relief in sickness and to pay the expense of funerals, at which all the members attend with crape on their left arm. The members, who are nearly all Catholics, pay threepence weekly.

Before leaving Londonderry, I went about six miles into the country to the north-west, to see an old rath or fort in the county of Donegal, on the banks of Lough Swilly; which is evidently, both in extent and beauty, one of the finest of Ireland's thousand inland friths or salt-water lakes. This rude fort or castle is situated on one of the hills overlooking the lough, and commands a splendid view of its many-branched arms and islands. It is one of a class numerous in the country, consisting simply of a vast accumulation of huge stones rudely

piled, in the form of a circular rampart, round the brow of the hill. It must have been a stronghold in its day; and a little labour to build up the breaches of time with its own fallen ruins, would make it so still.

The country between Londonderry and Lough Swilly is, for the most part, wild moorland, or with only partial slips of cultivation; there being nothing like complete or continuous cultivation except within two or three miles of the town.

I went into a small farmhouse at the foot of the fort-hill. The kitchen was full of smoke and dirt, and the cowhouse full of cows. It was a dairy farm; but presented few of the rural charms commonly seen about such homesteads in England. The mistress of the establishment was in the cowhouse, settling her charge for the night. Her language and her brogue were Scotch-almost as pure and perfect as they exist in the Lowlands of Scotland. I was so struck with this, that I asked if she was not herself really a Scotchwoman; but she assured me that her family had lived in the country for some generations.

I need hardly say, that the whole of Ulster retains more or less of this mark of the old Plantationmen of James I., which is the surest proof of the change of blood in this part of Ireland. But "the kindly Scotch tongue" sounds more startlingly familiar when heard on the banks of a mountain loch, amid peat and heather, and within the walls of a chimneyless and smoky cabin.

We left Londonderry for Coleraine in the stagecoach, being anxious to make our circuit of the coast of Antrim as quickly as possible, in order that we might be in time to attend the meeting of the British Association, then assembling in Belfast. Although the day was rainy, I considered myself fortunate in getting a seat on the outside, as I was reluctant to miss seeing any portion of the route. There was, however, not much worth seeing during this day's journey. The country from Derry to the halfway town of Newtown-Limavaddy is, for the most part, fertile and tolerably-well cultivated, with little of deteriorating bog. For a considerable way the road lies near the shores of Lough Foyle, (not very picturesque,) and commands a fine view of the range of the Innishowen mountains dividing Lough Foyle from Lough Swilly.

After passing Limavaddy, and leaving behind us the rich banks of its beautiful river Roe, we enter on a wild boggy and mountainous region, hardly to be surpassed in dreariness by any district in Ireland. This wild country continues till we come within a mile of Coleraine, and its beautiful river, the Bann.

Much of the country passed through has belonged to the great London companies since the Plantation of Ulster in the time of King James I.; and though several of the companies have since sold their lands, the greater number still retain their property or have only let it on lease for a time. As far as I could learn, these companies are the only

absentees who are popular in Ireland; and I am not sure that they are not more regarded by the tenantry than the majority of the resident landlords. Their conduct may be taken as evidence against the general applicability of a maxim already commented on in these pages-that public bodies have no heart. We shall have further proof, by and bye, of the possession of this sympathising organ by these London companies.

The county of Londonderry is almost as bare of wood as any of the districts hitherto visited. Although, no doubt, richer in this respect than it was fifty years since, when it was officially reported on in regard to its timber produce by Mr. Beresford, yet I fear it is still somewhat obnoxious to the charge with which he winds up his report, "that the county of Londonderry is perhaps the worstwooded in the King's dominions."

Limavaddy, or as it is usually named, NewtownLimavaddy, is a neat and thriving town. It is situated in the heart of the flax district, and carries on an active trade in this article. According to the last census it had, in 1851, a population of 3206, being an increase of 105 since 1841. This increase, small as it is, is a strong evidence of prosperity in an Irish town.

I learnt from one of the Presbyterian clergy of Limavaddy that the Temperance system was now in a very flourishing condition in that district, in consequence of an active movement made in its favour