The figures represent
the particulars of 7,917 separate Bills of Exchange, varying
in amount from L1 to L10 each--a few exceeding the latter
sum; so many separate offerings from the natives of Ireland
who have heretofore emigrated from its shores, sent to their
relations and friends in Ireland, drawn and paid between the
1st of January and the 15th of December, 1846--not quite one
year; and amount in all to L41,261 9s. 11d. But this list,
long though it be, does not measure the number and amount of
such interesting offerings. It contains only about one-third
part of the whole number and value of such remittances that
have crossed the Atlantic to Ireland during the 349 days of
1846. The data from which this list is complied enable the
writer to estimate with confidence the number and amount
drawn otherwise; and he calculates that the entire number,
for not quite one year, of such Bills, is L24,000, and the
amount L125,000, or, on an average, L5 4s. 3d. each. They
are sent from husband to wife, from father to child, from
child to father, mother, and grand-parents, from sister to
brother, and the reverse; and from and to those united by
all the ties of blood and friendship that bind us together
on earth.
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