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APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

The statistical tables given in the Appendix are compiled from the Report of the Commissioners for taking the Census in 1841, and from other authentic documents. They may serve to illustrate the differences in wealth and civilization between the four provinces of Ireland. Tables P. and Q. giving some statistical information respecting the several counties of Ireland and England, show the great inferiority of the former country in wealth, and consequently in its capability of supporting the destitute by means of a poor-rate. Tables R. and S. are added, in order to exhibit at one view the greater territorial extent and population of the unions and electoral divisions in Ireland, compared with the unions and parishes in England, illustrating the greater difficulty of management in the former country.

The remainder of the Appendix, excepting the three last portions, consists of extracts from the very valuable Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of the Law and Practice in respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland. These extracts are strikingly illustrative of the condition of the country, and their great importance will plead the author's excuse for drawing so largely on a parliamentary document, which, although readily accessible to any one who takes the trouble to look for it, has probably not been very extensively read.

In Appendices BB and CC, the authority of M'Culloch is adduced to show that the soil of England is distributed among a much larger number of proprietors than that of Ireland. Appendix DD contains a comparative statement of the exports of horned cattle, pigs, and eggs from the ports of Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, in the first ten months of the years 1846 and 1847.

The calculation of proportions in the following tables is made not only with reference to the actual extent of arable land in the rural districts, but also on the estimate that two-thirds of the area of the civic districts is available for human support; and that the waste lands are made so far useful in the feeding of cattle, &c. that seven acres of waste may be considered as equivalent to one acre of arable land.

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APPENDIX A.

Explanation of Classification used in Tables B. to G.

Extracted from Report of Commissioners for taking the Census of Ireland in 1841.
Parliamentary Reports, 1843, vol. xxiv.

The value or condition of a house, as to the accommodation it affords, may be considered to depend mainly on-1st, its extent, as shown by the number of the rooms-2nd, its quality, as shown by the number of its windows-and, 3rd, its solidity or durability, as shown by the materials of its walls and roof. If numbers be adopted to express the position of every house in a scale of each of these elements, and if the numbers thus obtained for every house be added together, we shall have a new series of numbers, giving the position of the house in a scale compounded of all the elements, i. e. their actual state. We adopted four classes, and the result was, that in the lowest, or fourth class, were comprised all mud cabins having only one room-in the third, a better description of cottage, still built of mud, but varying from two to four rooms and windows-in the second, a good farm-house, or in towns, a house in a small street, having from five to nine rooms and windows-and in the first, all houses of a better description than the preceding classes.-Page xiv.

The rule we adopted for classifying accommodation was but an extension of the principle which guided us in classifying the houses themselves. According to it, First class accommodation consists of first class houses, each containing one family. Second class accommodation consists of second class houses, each containing one family, and of first class houses, each containing two or three families. Third class accommodation consists of third class houses, each containing one family-of second class houses, each containing two or three families--and of first class houses, each containing four or five families. Fourth class accommodation consists of all fourth class houses--all third class houses containing more than one family-all second class houses containing more than three families and all first class houses, containing more than five families.-Page xvi.

The next classification of families, as designated in the table "according to means," is founded upon the principle, that of man in his natural state, labour is the only capital, and that however complicated the state

of society may become, there can be but two other classes-those who, by intelligence or other means, become directors of labour-and those who by accumulation, or still higher intelligence, have become the employers of the other classes. The rules we laid down for the formation of these divisions were as follow:

FIRST CLASS.—Heads of families possessing capital in wealth or in professional knowledge, or whose means of subsistence enable them to live without labour. In rural districts, this may include farmers of more than 50 acres.

SECOND CLASS.-Heads of families who have some fixed income or employment; also, artizans who possess acquired capital in the knowledge of some trade; neither of which classes, however, is wholly exempt from labour. This may include farmers from five to fifty acres.

THIRD CLASS.-Heads of families without capital in either money, land, or acquired knowledge, i. e. labourers, and persons who obtain the means of existence by employments which require little or no instruction. This may include small farmers up to five acres. Page xviii.

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