Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in IrelandWillis, Sotheran, 1867 - 402 стор. |
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15 acres acres Act of Parliament advantage agricultural labourers amongst amount Appendix average Belgium Butt Butt's capital cent compensation condition Connaught consequence considerable Cork cottier crops cultivation decrease Devon Commission districts East Flanders effect ejectment employment England evictions Evidence existence extent fact famine farmers favour Flanders France G. C. Lewis Galway hectare improvements increase industry instances interest Irish Judge Longfield Kerry land in Ireland Land Proprietor landlord lease Leinster Lord Dufferin manufacturing ment Munster north of Ireland number of emigrants occupiers opinion paid Parliament pasture peasant persons petite culture portion possession potato present produce profits proportion prosperity provinces provinces of Ireland rack-rents rate of wages Ratio of Emigrants rent rural Scotland shillings small farms soil subdivide subletting sufficient tenant-right tenantry tenure tillage tion Tipperary total number Ulster valuation waste land Waterford Wexford
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Сторінка 14 - It is in vain to say, that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.
Сторінка 131 - The cotton manufacturer, the sugar refiner, the soap and candle maker (who especially dreaded the abundance of our kelp), and any other trade or interest that thought it worth its while to petition was received by Parliament with the same partial cordiality,* until the most searching scrutiny failed to detect a single vent through which it was possible for the hated industry of Ireland to respire.
Сторінка 13 - A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided for as a smaller.
Сторінка 228 - ... themselves or their ancestors, compensation is due to them on that ground ; even if otherwise, it is still due on the ground of prescription. Nor can it ever be necessary for accomplishing an object by which the community altogether will gain, that a particular portion of the community should be immolated. When the property is of a kind to which peculiar affections attach themselves, the compensation ought to exceed a bare pecuniary equivalent.
Сторінка 130 - ... never for a moment relaxed their relentless grip on the trades of Ireland. One by one, each of our nascent industries was either strangled in its birth, or handed over, gagged and bound, to the jealous custody of the rival interest in England, until at last every fountain of wealth was hermetically sealed, and even the traditions of commercial enterprise have perished through desuetude.
Сторінка 179 - ... presque toutes exploitées directement par les propriétaires. Chacun pour ainsi dire cultive son propre champ et peut s'asseoir à l'ombre de son noyer. Il en résulte pour tous une sorte d'aisance rustique qui dérive non de la possession de grands capitaux, mais de l'abondance de toutes les deurées.
Сторінка 131 - ... interest that thought it worth its while to petition was received by Parliament with the same partial cordiality,* until the most searching scrutiny failed to detect a single vent through which it was possible for the hated industry of Ireland to respire. But, although excluded from the markets of Britain, a hundred harbours gave her access to the universal sea.
Сторінка 130 - Irish cattle were declared a nuisance, and their importation was prohibited. Forbidden to send our beasts alive across the Channel, we killed them at home, and began to supply the sister country with cured provisions. A second Act of Parliament imposed prohibitory duties on salted meats. The hides of the animals still remained, but the same influence soon put a stop to the importation of leather.
Сторінка 143 - British house of commons, but this measure was negatived on a division. Towards the close of that year, the events of the war in North America, and the state of things in Ireland, produced a different feeling in the British parliament. State necessity, acting under a sense of political danger, yielded without grace, that which good sense and good feeling had before recommended in vain.
Сторінка 37 - It appears that in Great Britain the agricultural families constitute little more than a fourth while in Ireland they constitute about two-thirds of the whole population; that there were in Great Britain in 1831, 1,055,982 agricultural labourers, in Ireland 1,131,715, although the cultivated land of Great Britain amounts to about 34,250,000 acres and that of Ireland only to about 14,600,000. We thus find that there are in Ireland about five agricultural labourers for every two that there are for...