From the classification of occupations and professions, we learn that the Roman Catholics bear the following proportions to the Protestants of all denominations.

Persons employed in the manufacture of:  Roman Catholics.

Skin clothing .77 per cent. 
Woollen do. .88 "
Flax do. .43 "
Cotton do. .53 "
Straw do. .66 "
Silk do. .66 "
Miscellaneous do. .67 "
In producing furniture .84 "
In unclassed industrial employments .84 "
In amusements .80 "
In architecture .78 "
In making machinery .76 "
In conveyance and travelling .73 "
In literature and education .56 "
In charity and benevolence .52 "
In health .50 "
In science and art .47 "
In justice and government .46 "
In banking and agency .40 "

There are other suggestive figures in the census, bearing on this question.  While three-fourths of the farmers are Catholics, three-fourths of the land-agents are Protestants, who, as a rule, have an unconquerable antipathy to the Catholic clergy, as the only obstacle to their absolute power over the tenants, with whom they find it hard to sympathise.  Of farm labourers and domestic servants, nine out of ten belong to the race supposed by some to be incapable of virtue and loyalty.  Again, of the whole British army of all ranks, 37 per cent. are Irishmen, and of these Irish soldiers, 67 per cent. are Catholics.  More than three-fourths of the magistrates are Protestants; and they bear about the same proportion on the grand juries.  According to the theory and practice of the constitution, all power, legislative and administrative, must be based on the ownership of land.  The rate-payers have a voice indeed, but it is generally nothing but an echo of the landlord’s voice; what else can it be when they are tenants-at-will, depending on the mercy of the proprietor for the means of existence?  In county offices, the Protestants have an overwhelming majority.  It is the same in all the offices filled by government patronage, except the judges of the superior courts.  There Catholics are in the majority, because they had obtained seats in the House of Commons.