The Economic History of Ireland from the Union to the Famine

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1921 - 589 стор.

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Сторінка 452 - Consolidated Fund, which shall be charged, in the first instance, with the interest of the debt of Ireland, and with the sinking fund applicable to the reduction of the said debt, and the remainder shall be applied towards defraying the proportion of the expenditure of the United Kingdom to which Ireland may be liable in each
Сторінка 453 - be so defrayed indiscriminately by equal taxes imposed on the same articles in each country, and thenceforth from time to time, as circumstances may require, to impose and apply such taxes accordingly, subject only to such particular exemptions or abatements in Ireland, and in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as circumstances may appear from time to time to demand:
Сторінка 186 - be laid before you. You will approach this subject with the caution due to its importance and difficulty ; and the experience of the salutary effect produced by the act for the amendment of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales may in
Сторінка 103 - that in England and Scotland, before a landlord offers a farm for letting, he finds it necessary to provide a suitable farmhouse, with necessary farm buildings for the proper management of the farm. He puts the gates and fences into good order, and he also takes upon himself
Сторінка 118 - has thriven and improved, in comparison with other parts of the country; and although we can foresee some danger to the just rights of property from the unlimited allowance of this tenant right, yet we are sure that evils more immediate and of a still greater magnitude would result from any hasty or general disallowance of it.
Сторінка 28 - We cannot forbear expressing our strong sense of the patient endurance which the labouring classes have generally exhibited under sufferings greater, we believe than the people of any other country in Europe have to sustain."* The
Сторінка 453 - of January in the year 1800, in premiums for the internal encouragement of agriculture or manufactures, or for the maintaining institutions for pious and charitable purposes, shall be applied, for the period of 20 years after the Union, to
Сторінка 453 - day of January 1801, all public revenue arising to the United Kingdom from the territorial dependencies thereof, and applied to the general expenditure of the United Kingdom, shall be so applied in the proportions of the respective contributions of the two countries.
Сторінка 453 - That, from the period of such declaration, it shall no longer be necessary to regulate the contribution of the two countries towards the future expenditure of the United Kingdom according to any specific proportion, or according to any
Сторінка 237 - But those who are habitually and entirely fed on potatoes live upon the extreme verge of human subsistence, and, when they are deprived of their accustomed food, there is nothing cheaper to which they can resort. They have already reached the lowest point in the descending scale, and there is nothing beyond, but starvation or beggary.

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