[277] It is pleasant to know that the settlement at Peterborough has continued to flourish, as the following extract from the late John F. Maguire’s “Irish in America” will show.—­“The shanty, and the wigwam, and the log-hut have long since given place to the mansion of brick and stone; and the hand-sleigh and the rude cart to the strong waggon and the well-appointed carriage.  Where there was but one miserable grist mill, there are now mills and factories of various kinds.  And not only are there spacious schools under the control of those who erected and made use of them for their children, but the ‘heavy grievance’ which existed in 1825 has long since been a thing of the past.  The little chapel of logs and shingle—­18 feet by 20—­in which the settlers of that day knelt in gratitude to God, has for many years been replaced by a noble stone church, through whose painted windows the Canadian sunlight streams gloriously, and in which two thousand worshippers listen with the old Irish reverence to the words of their pastor.  The tones of the pealing organs swell in solemn harmony, where the simple chaunt of the first settlers was raised in the midst of the wilderness; and for miles round may the voice of the great bell, swinging in its lofty tower, be heard in the calm of the Lord’s day, summoning the children of Saint Patrick to worship in the faith of their fathers.”—­The Irish in America, by John F. Maguire, M.P.  London, 1868, p. 110.

[278] Quoted in Report of Committee of the House of Lords on Colonization from Ireland in 1847, p. vii.

[279] Quoted in Report of Committee of the House of Lords on “Colonization from Ireland” in 1847, p. 10.

[280] Sessional Papers, 1846, No. 24.

[281] Sessional Papers, 1835.

[282] The Census Commissioners, whose Emigration Statistics I use, do not add the one and a-half per cent. for probable births; hence they state the number of emigrants between 1831 and 1841 at 403,459 only.

[283] Census Returns for 1851—­Tables of Deaths, p. 227-8.

[284] Census of Ireland for the year 1851—­Report on Table of Deaths, p. 278.  Thorn’s Directory for 1848, p. 126.

[285] Question 1790, and Answer.

[286] Questions and Answers 1797 and 1798.

[287] A million and a-half of emigrants was the number contemplated by Mr. Godley’s scheme, but his opinion was that there would be “a parallel stream of half a million, drawn out by the attraction of the new Irish colony, which, would make the whole emigration two millions.”