Note 7 — GOLD—EMIGRATION—FOREIGN DEPENDENCE—TAXATION.

“The decrease of the Irish population from 1841 to 1851 was 1,659,330, of whom 1,289,133 emigrated. But as there was no considerable emigration till 1846, and the famine occurred in that year, there can be no doubt that down to the end of 1845 the population had advanced at its former rate, which would make the inhabitants in 1845 about 8,500,000, and the decrease since that time fully 2,000,000.”—Emigration Report, July 12, 1852.