20 WANT OF AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT. 



which he resides. He does not want foreign 

 corn, for he has nothing to give for it ; nor 

 cheap corn either, for he never buys any, and 

 that for the self-same reason ; and when he 

 sells, the greater that the price is, so much the 

 better. He is perfectly content with the 

 management of his own farm, and the amount 

 of its produce. It is all that Providence has 

 been pleased to give him, and therefore he 

 has no reason to be otherwise than satisfied. 

 But, after all, he is not without his misfor- 

 tunes. He wants employment to the value of 

 51. yearly, at least, in order to enable him to 

 pay his rent. If his landlord would come 

 forward generously and supply the deficiency 

 here wanting, then the relation between them 

 would be what it ought to be matters would 

 go on smoothly, and every one would receive 

 his own ; but Irish landlords are so unreason- 

 able as to spend their rents upon anything and 

 everything except Irish agricultural employ- 

 ment. In short, they support commercial and 

 manufacturing industry ; and hence the per- 

 plexing difficulties with which the poor people 

 are surrounded. 



There are in Ireland about 2,000,000 of 



