PEAT FOR FUEL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] can confirm your statement in regard to peat that "the accessible stock is not really large." In moving through Donegal last summer, and conversing with the peasantry, I found complaints as to the growing scarcity of accessible peat almost universal. One man assured me that it was three months' constant work in the summer, for his family and him-
self, to prepare and bring home their winter's fuel. I brought considerable comfort to many who spoke despondingly of the dreaded dearth of fuel, by telling them that before many years elapsed, railway extension to the remote districts would put coal within their reach. Several assured me that if they could get coal at a reasonable price, they would never think of using peat.
Your Edinburgh correspondent thinks that in the exporta- tion of the Irish bogs we " might find a way out of Irish grievances different from Parnellism." A " more excellent way" than either Parnellism or peat-export must be devised.
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