successive waves of fresh arrivals to be accommodated?
Even those who most deplore emigration would not recommend a resubdivision for their benefit of holdings whose size at this moment is perhaps below the desirable average:[1] the labour market is only too amply supplied: agitation has succeeded in burking everywhere, except in Ulster, our nascent manufacturing enterprise;[2]what other
- ↑
Number of holdings not exceeding 1 acre, 48,653, Number of holdings not exceeding„ 5 acre,„ 82,037, Number of holdings not exceeding„ 15 acre,„ 176,308 306,998 This is more than one-half of the entire number of farms in Ireland. Of the remainder, 136,578 are less than 30 acres in extent. Census, 1861.
- ↑ "Political excitement and agrarian outrage tend to discourage the introduction of English capital, limit the competitors in the market for those mortgaged estates that are sold, prevent the relief of the mortgager by a diminished rate of
interest, and therefore cripple his means of assisting his tenantry, while they at the same time estrange the feelings of the tenant from the landlord, their interest being inseparable, and the progress of improvement being entirely dependent on their mutual co-operation.
"Thus we find, that the original causes, ignorance and want of employment, with their numerous evil effects, act and re-act upon each other in every possible variety of ways that can be imagined, to increase the miseries and disorders of society; and these destructive consequences must continue and extend until the original causes be removed by the sound instruction and profitable employment of the people. "The present failure of the crop, as it renders utterly hopeless the position of those classes who have hitherto depended
