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came under our notice this was absolutely 

 necessary, for the money slid quietly into the 

 htiulloroTs pocket in the shape of arrears of rent. 

 If in the first case we robbed St. Peter to pay 

 St. Paul, in this we are robbing St. Patrick 

 to pay the landlord ! 



That the relation between landlord and 

 tenant in Britain requires revisal, few will 

 deny who are acquainted with the different forms 

 of that relation in different parts of the three 

 kingdoms. But that the calamities of Ireland 

 and the Highlands of Scotland flow from this 

 source, is a question the fallacy of which will 

 readily be perceived from the following three 

 views of it. 



1. The difference between the condition of the 

 tenantry of the Hebrides and that of the tenantry 

 of the Aird, Black-Isle, Wester and Easter Ross, 

 is as great and even greater than the difference 

 between the condition of the tenantry of Tippe- 

 rary and that of those of the county of Armagh. 

 Both the Hebridean tenantry and the Tipperary 

 tenantry complain of tenant-rights. It may 

 with as much propriety and justness be alleged, 

 that the present deplorable condition of the 

 Hebridean tenantry, and the difference which 

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