NORTH AND SOUTH OF IRELAND. 17 



faetiiriiig and commercial industry by the 

 lain mring population of Ulster is far greater 

 than is generally credited, and too much praise 

 cannot be bestowed upon those who are so 

 laudably exerting themselves to extend its in- 

 fluence to the other provinces of their country. 

 The incomes of the small farmers and workmen 

 in the flax manufacturing districts of Ulster 

 will be found, taking the year over, little short 

 of being double the incomes of those of the 

 other districts and provinces of Ireland, where 

 the industrial resources of the country have 

 been more neglected. 



It would be difficult, perhaps, to find a 

 parallel in the history of the world, from Adam 

 downwards, to the condition of the peasantry 

 in the south and west of Ireland, taking every- 

 thing into account, unless it be found in that 

 of the Hebrideans and Highlanders of the 

 mainland of Scotland opposite them, whose 

 case is equally deplorable. 



The adversity under which the above two 

 classes suffer, viz. the manufacturing operatives 

 and others connected with our commercial 

 interest, and the agricultural labourers of Ire- 

 land and the Highlands of Scotland, although 

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