25 JANUARY 1890, Page 22

Mr. Tuke reprints, in The Condition of Donegal (Ridgway), certain

letters originally published in the Times in the May and June of 1889. He advocates with practical suggestions the relief, by migration, promotion of light railways, fisheries, &c., of

the congested districts of Ireland. Let us hope that something may be done in this direction, in spite of Irish patrioterwho exploit the misery of their countrymen, and hide-bound political- econo- mists who will have nothing that is not " according to Cocker."