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The difference between the annual incomes 

 of the English and Irish labourers in our em- 

 ployment in the counties of Huntingdon and 

 Armagh, and in the employment of the same 

 nobleman, at the same species of work in the 

 two countries, averaged from 207. to 307. and 

 upwards in favour of the former, taking the 

 wages of the latter at Is. per day, the sum 

 which we paid on our arrival in the Sister Isle. 

 The total deficiency in the wages of the whole 

 labouring population of Ireland, according to 

 this scale, will be found considerably beyond 

 20,000,0007 yearly, a deficiency quite sufficient 

 to account for all those privations and sufferings 

 under which her unfortunate peasantry groan, 

 especially when we consider, at the same time, 

 that the amount of their productive labour is 

 still more deficient than that of their wages, as 

 will be subsequently shown. 



The comparative prosperity of the north of 

 Ireland, over the south and west, arises from 

 the culture and manufacture of fiax, and the 

 amount of employment thus afforded, with the 

 consequent increase of wages received by the 

 small farmers and working people from this 

 source. The benefit derived from manu- 



