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NUMBER OF CULTIVATORS TO ACRES IN ENGLAND.
Instances taken from Mr. Morton's Hand Book of farming, 367.
THE COST OF HAND POWER.
The product of manual labour contrasted with that acquired by the application of steam, 368.
EMIGRATION.
The future expansion of the Irish population: The prospects of an embarrassed tenant and a prosperous emigrant compared, 370.—Number of emigrants from 1851 to 1865, 371.
AGRICULTURAL LABOUR IN IRELAND.
Rate of wages, 372—Condition of casual labourer, 374—Labourers often unemployed, 374—The small tenant a bad labourer, 374—Not low wages but uncertainty of employment occasions the misery of the labourer's condition, 375.
PRESENT AND FORMER RATE OF WAGES IN DOWN.
Note by Lord Dufferin's agent on the above subject, 376.
POSTSCRIPT.
Mr. Butt's New Work on Ireland.
Some observations in reply to the exceptions taken by Mr. Butt to Lord Dufferin's statements of fact, 377-379—Mr. Butt's statistics of emigration, 380-383—Lord Dufferin's statement as to the rise of wages, 384-390—Objections to Mr. Butt's version of his opponent's opinions, 390-392—Conclusion, 393.
Mr. Hill's Article on Ireland.
Mr. Hill's data and statistics examined, 395-402.
