Dr. Stubbs, of Trinity College, Dublin, writes to Thursday's Times
to announce the fall in Irish investments which has taken place, first between January 1st, 1885, and January 1st, 1886, and then between the first day of this year and March 1st. The ten stocks in which he has calculated the value of £1,000 stock on these respective dates are,—Bank of Ireland, Royal Bank or Ireland, Provincial Bank of Ireland, the Great Southern and. Western, Great Northern, of Ireland, the Midland and Great Western Railways' Ordinary Stock, also Four per Cent. Debenture Stock of the same, and the Four per Cent. Deben. tures of the Dublin and Wicklow Railway, The total value of £1,000 of each of these stocks, added together, was on January 1st, 1885, £16,860; on January 1st, 1886, £14,800; and on March 1st last, £13,800. That is, the fall of value on the year was 121 per cent., with a further fall of 7 per cent. on the last two months alone,—nearly, 191 per cent. in the fourteen months. Such is the confidence of investors in the results of Home-rule.
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