Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in IrelandWillis, Sotheran, 1867 - 402 стор. |
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15 acres acres advantage Agent agricultural labourers amount Appendix average Belfast Belgium Butt Butt's capital cent circumstances claim compensation condition Connaught consequence consider considerable Cork cottier crops cultivation culture of Belgium Decrease Devon Commission difficulty districts East Flanders emigration from Ulster employment England evictions Evidence existence extent fact favour Flanders flax France G. C. Lewis Galway give hectare improvements increase industry instances interest Irish Judge Longfield Kerry land in Ireland Land Proprietor landlord Leinster long leases Lord Dufferin manufacturing ment Munster north of Ireland number of holdings occupiers opinion paid Parliament pasture persons petite culture population portion possession potato present produce profits proportion prosperity provinces provinces of Ireland rack-rents rate of wages rent rural shillings small farms soil subdivide subletting tenant-right tenantry tenure tillage tion Tipperary total number valuation Waterford week
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Сторінка 10 - 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 224 - The claim of the landowners to the land is altogether subordinate to the general policy of the state. The principle of property gives them no right to the land, but only a right to compensation for whatever portion of their interest in the laud it may be the policy of the state to deprive them of.
Сторінка 127 - 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 224 - ... 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 126 - a nuisance,' and their importation 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 meat.
Сторінка 9 - A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided for as a smaller.
Сторінка 127 - ... 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 125 - From Queen Elizabeth's reign until within a few years of the Union the various commercial confraternities of Great Britain 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 129 sealed, and even the traditions of commercial enterprise have perished through...
Сторінка 126 - The sheep breeders of England immediately took alarm, and Irish wool was declared contraband by a Parliament of Charles II. Headed in this direction we tried to work up the raw material at home, but this created the greatest outcry of all. Every maker of fustian, flannel, and broadcloth in the country rose up in arms, and by an Act of William III. the woollen industry of Ireland was extinguished, and 20,000 manufacturers left the island. The easiness of the Irish labour market and the cheapness of...
Сторінка 311 - ... intensity of that competition.' What follows is most important : ' 1033. But the result of your evidence would be this, would it not, that the tenant-right having, as you may say, two effects, one good, which is the payment for improvements, and the other bad, which is the compulsory payment for goodwill, yet that the good effect is so considerable that, upon the whole, you would consider the farmers are in a better position where tenantright exists than where it does not ? — I have already...