text:  As a proof of the disposition of the gentry to reduce the expenditure to the lowest possible amount we will state what every gentleman serving on grand-juries in Ireland must be cognisant of--namely _that not more than one-third of the presentments approved of by the rate-payers are ever passed by the grand-juries_; and yet road sessions at which the principal rate-payers have power to vote were instituted to check the extravagance of the proprietors