The Registrar-General of Ireland has published the returns that "
Officials who have taken the oath to be submissive I of the acreage under cultivation in Ireland "during the pre- sent year." The account was taken in June after planting,
but before harvest, and the result shows as against 1862 a falling off of 90,000 acres. The total decline in the acreage of cereals has been 144,719 acres; but there has been an increase of 60,000 acres in the flax crop—owing to the de- mand for linen produced by the cotton famine—and a small increase in potatoes and green crops. Owing, however, to better cultivation and a good season, the harvest this.year will be worth millions more than the last. The return, however, is not suggestive of pleasant thoughts, as the decline in acre- age must have been produced by the decline in population.
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