The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-24 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuEsDA.Y.

For the Cesarewitch, 7 to 1 woe freely offered against
Silkstone-8 to 1 was asked An offer was made to take
25 to 1 about DuleiDam, and 100 to 3 against Henham
Lass. Business for the future was very quiet. Closing
prices .--

CESAREWITCII.
7to 1 agst Silkstone (offered)
20 to 1 agst Dulcibella (offered)
25 to 1 egst Henham Lass (offered)
33 to 1 agst Moorhen (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Catchtem Alive (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Guiding Star (taken)
40 to 1 egst Cowboy (taken)
40 to 1 agst Rising Sun (offered)
50 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
50 to 1 agst Knutaford (taken)
60 to 1 agst Rapparee (taken)
100 to 1 agst Doncaster (taken)

DERBY.
[OOO to 15 agst Zapateado (offered)
.000 to 15 agst Golden Pledge (offered)

11? BLAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 23.
The general abstracts showing the acreage under
the several crops and the number of live stock in
each county and province of Ireland for the present
year, taken under the direction of Mr. Donnelly,
the Registrar-General, have been printed. They
have been compiled from the summaries made by
4,000 enumerators, selected from the constabulary
and the metropolitan police, who have been every-
where readily assisted by the landed proprietors,
the clergy of all denominations, end the tenant
farmers. The inquiries commenced on the 2d of
June, and terminated in the middle of July, during
which period the particulars of the acreage under
crops and the number of live stock on nearly
600,000 holdings are enumerated:
Comparing the returns of this year with last, I
regret to say that there is a considerable decrease
both in the quantity of land under tillage and in the
number of live stock. The total number of acres
under cereal crops in 1861 was 2,624,957 ; in 1862,
it is 2,552,223, showing a decrease of 72,734 acres.
The decrease has occurred chiefly in wheat and oats
—in the former, amounting to 43,427, and in the
latter to 24,423 acres. There is an increase of 1,000
acres in peas and beans. The net decrease in
cereals, comparing 1862 with 1861, is 2.8 per cent.
There is a decrease to about the same extent in
green crops—that is, 74,785 acres. There is an in-
crease in turnips of 43,045 acres; in mangold and
beet, of 296 acres; in cabbage, of 491 acres; car-
rots, parsnips, vetches, and rape have decreased.
The most serious matter is the decrease of land
under potatoes, which amounts to 116,187 acres.
Meadow and clover covered 1,552,829 acres in 1862,
being an increase of 6,623 acres above the extent in
1861. We have about 150,000 acres under flax,
which is 2,000 more than last
year. The total de-
crease of land under crops in 1862 Is 138,841 acres.
Of this area Mr. Donnelly says 117,832 would
seem to have merged into grass, 1,066 were returned
as under woods and plantations, and 870 went to
increase the fallow, leaving 19,000 acres
of pasture
land unstocked. The quantity which is returned
is
as " bog and waste " confined entirely to Con-
naught. The whichdistressthe small holders in
many instances from p prevailed in some
districts last spring
prevented
putting tting in their crops as usual.
The dearness of labour has
probably operated in
other districts in lessening the quantity of tillage.
The same unfavourable
influences have tended to
diminish the
The small
farmers were obliged
of live stock.
number
to sell their horses, cows,
sheep, and Pigs in order to get food. The falling
off is the result 1
pressure, which
of a temporary
caused the cultivators of the soil to live upon their
capital for a time. But the deficiency thus created
will soon be filled up should the country be blessed
with two or three good harvests. Since last year
horses have diminished by 9,789, cattle by 221,292,
sheep by 100,169 ; pigs have increased by 49,743.
The total number of live-stock in Ireland is worth
11,849,153, and is less valuable than the total num-
ber last year to the amount of £1,564,710, conse-
quently the farmers are so much the poorer. Stock
to the amount of a million and a half sterling have
since gone last year to pay their runts and support
their families. In this estimate horses are valued
at £8 each ; cattle, £6 10s. ; sheep, 225. ; pigs, 255.
These figures show that the goodness of the har-

vest this year is a double blessing.
The number of emigrants who left Ireland from
the Ist of May, 1851, to the Ist of August, 1862,
including males and females, was 1,273,609. This
is a large number. But many of them went only
to Great Britain, and would return again. The
number of persons who stated it to be their inten-
tion to leave the country permanently during the
first seven months of this year was 45,899, being
an increase of 391 over the number who emigrated
within the same period in 1861.

After five nights' rioting and wrecking in Belfast,