11 JANUARY 1868, Page 2

Will some one of our Irish correspondents send us the

actual facts, as shown by the old experiments, about the capacity of Ire- land to grow tobacco? The cultivation is prohibited, but if the plant can be made to grow over any large extent of Irish soil the island has a real economic grievance worth serious agitation. The market for cheap tobacco is almost unlimited, and if Ireland can really supply a useful kind, however coarse, it might be worth as much to her as a new manufacture.