(FROM AMERICAN PAPERS).

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2542, 28 February 1877, Page 3

(FROM AMERICAN PAPERS).

SOCLM. CONDITION: OP IRI, ..;:-.• .■ LAM). - ■ ■- ■ •"

The Dublin correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette saya : At tho Dublin (Statistical Society Jonathan Pirn, the Jate Liberal member^ for Dublin, has read a paper on the social.and economic condition of Ireland. He states .that there lias becu^since 1848 an increase of the fifmiber of" farms of medium size, which »ro sow in the, proportion of §7 holdings to every JOCK) inhabitants, and were then only '16 to every 1000.' He attributes the decrease in, the growth of cereals entirely to the "operation of free trade and the increased prosperity of .meat consumers. He states that one-seventh of the area of Ireland has been sold in the Landed Esv Uten Court, amountipg to 8,000,000 aires, and has been bought by 16,000 purchasers. The number of tenants who have'purchased the fee of their, farms' under the " Bright clauses "of : ilie Land Act is 680. The number of" first and secondclass houses in Ireland increased between 1841 and 1871 more than one-third. The mud cabins have greatly declined in nu,mber,; ■■