the sanctuary with an expression of recollection so profound, that it might have been a Trappist who had entered.  So it was during the hour he remained:  he seemed perfectly unconscious of any human creature being in the place, except the priest at the altar before him.  He seldom used a prayer-book, and his eyes were never once raised during the whole time.  Buried in his great cloak, he moved noiselessly out, as he had entered—­a bright example,—­a very model,—­to the whole congregation.

The remaining reports of the Relief Commissioners do not call for any very lengthened notice.  The fourth of the series was published on the 19th of July, at which time 1,823 electoral divisions were receiving relief under the Act.  They say:  “By an arrangement with the Commissary General, we are clearing out the Government depots of provisions, by orders on them in lieu of so much money.  These depots were established at an anxious period of a prospect of great deficiency of supplies, which no longer exists.”  It is needless to repeat here what has been abundantly proved before, that the people died of starvation within the shadow of those sealed up depots, and they would not be opened;—­they were opened when the supplies they contained were not required, there being plenty in the market.

From the accountant’s department we learn that 2,643,128 rations were being daily issued, which it was hoped would be the maximum relief that the Commissioners would be called on to administer; 79,636 of these were sold.  This shows an increase of daily rations from last report of 291,028.  The fall in provisions had reduced the price of each ration from 2-1/2d. to 2d.  The amount given in loans and grants was now reduced by about L3,000 a day, the expenditure in that way being then about L20,000 a day.  The aggregate amount of money issued up to the 19th of July was L1,010,184 7s. 10d. to 1,803 electoral divisions.  The cost of the Government staff for superintending the issuing of relief, is set down at two and a half per cent.—­6d. in the pound,—­a low figure, indeed, but it must be taken into account that they only superintended; the committees did the actual work of giving out the relief.  The issue of cooked food was opposed by the people in some places, and this opposition was punished, by a reduction being made in the quantity of rations issued in such places.  In a fortnight, about 8,000 tons of the food in the Government depots were given in lieu of money, the money value of which was L98,728, the daily market price being that charged by the Commissary General.  The arrangement was carried out in this way:  There was issued on the 1st of June a circular to the inspecting officer of each Union, by virtue of which an order on the Government depot was given to the Finance Committee of the Union, instead of the amount (in cash) of the fortnightly estimate sent in of the sum required for each electoral division of that Union; but the whole fortnightly estimate was not usually supplied in meal only, to any one electoral division; it was given partly in meal and partly in money.