NOTES AND MEMORANDA 821 not broken up in rotation, and of 38,424 acres under hay on clover, sanloin and grasses under rotation. There is an increase of 213,959 acres under grass, of 2,145 acres of fallow land, and of 825 acres under woods and plantations, while there is a decrease of 80,639 acres under bog waste, water, &c. Agricultural Statistics Ireland 1891. General Abstracts showing the ?4creage under Crops, also the Number aud Description of live Stock in each County and Province, 1890?91 (C--6516). THIn is the annual abstract return issued by the Registrar-General of Ireland. It shows that the total extent of land under crops including meadow and clover is 4,815,465 acres, being a net decrease on the extent in 1890 of 104,621 acres or 2'1 per cent. There was a decrease in Leinster of 32,452 acres, or 2'4 per cent.; in Munster of 7,954 acres or 0'7 per cent.; in Ulster of 56,001 acres, or 3'2 per cent., and in Connaught of 7,854 acres, or 1'2 per cent. In 1890 the extent returned under grass was 10,212,256 acres, in 1891 the amount returned is 10,291,400 acres, being an increase of 79,144 acres; the extent returned as fallow in 1890 was 14,595 acres, and in 1891, 21,786 acres; the extent under woods and plantations in 1890 was 327,461 acres, against 311,351 acres in 1891, and the extent returned under bog and marsh, barren mountain land, &c. in 1890 was 4,854,715 acres against 4,888,751 acres in 1891, being an increase of 34,036 acres. As regards the live stock in Ireland, it appears that between 1890 and 1891 there has been an increase in the number of horses and mules amounting to 6,617, a.nd in the nmnber of cattle amounting to 208,161; there has been an increase in sheep amounting to 398,996. Pigs exhibit a decrease of 202,590. Agricultural Statistics (Ireland) 1891 Report and Tables relating to Migratory Agricultural Labourers (C--6519). AT?ACHSD tO this report, which is issued by the Registrar-General, Ireland, are tables in continuation of those presented annually since the year 1880. The chief points of interest dealt with in the report are the distribution of migratory agricultural labourers in Ireland when at home; their relative proportion to the population; their social position when at home as measured by the extent of their holdings if any, their destination and the number who left the several ports froin the 1st January to the 31st August, 1891. Austria and Belgium. Correspo?dence Respectbtg Tariffs for Goods and Passengers on Belgian State Railways, and Returns for 1888, showing the Working of Belgiau and o] Austrian and Hungariau State Railways (C. 64'23), Tsr deductions which are drawn from the statistics are: (1) That the zone systeln increases the number of passengers at a rate dis-
