From the London Economist. COBBETT'S IRISH FAMINE
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PROPHECY.

 Remarkable Prophecy of Cobben rcsp-eiinc Ireland and the failure of Ms Potatoe Crop. ..-

 BENNINGTON To the Ediior:

 My Dear Sir-Last evening. met, at dinner, Roman Catholic Priest, a Doctor Smith, from Connemara County, Galway. who related the following conversation he had with that extraordinary man, Cobbett In 1926, while speaking of Ireland, Cobhe,t said, that the dirty weed, alluding to the Potaloe, UouM De the curse of Ireland. f" How so ?" replied Dr. Smith, "what must the people do Withou! it ? they live upon it they have had 1t in cultivation lSO years" Cobbett answered, "they must 20 back to the same food they were accustomed to live upon previously to the general cuIti- valion of the dirty weed and that Is to grain. as wheat, oats, rye, &c. You have four millions of souls in Ireland, and eish, millions of uncul,ivated ground. This ground must be drained, and brou.Lt into cultivation, aud yoa must again grow wheat, oats, rye, &c. The psta,oe will not last more thar twenty years. when it will work itself out, and then you vill see to what state Ireland will be reduced. You must return to grain crops and Ireland, ir- stead of bsiag of the most degraded will be !. come one of the finest countries in the world, You may live to see my ~or1s prove true, but never shall"

 Dr.. Smith made note Of the above in lS26, and the same opin!on and prophecy concsrning the Potato occurs tn one oI Cobbe.'s books, Cottage Economy or Cot tage Comforts, il is forgotten which.