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Ulster, and in every province of Ireland, are 

 void of everything like permanency of character 

 about them, and hence in the course of time 

 have to be renewed ; it is very evident, 

 therefore, that eventually the poor man must 

 either negotiate with his private banker for a 

 new loan, who would now probably scruple to 

 give it, or else remain in a situation like many 

 of his friends of Ulster, paying a high enough 

 rent to the landlord, and as high a one to the 

 money-jobber from whom he borrowed the 10/. 

 per acre. The want of a system which has for 

 its ultimate object the payment of some 20s. per 

 acre of additional rent, can scarcely be brought 

 forward, on any feasible grounds whatever, by 

 those who are unable to pay their present rents, 

 as the cause of their being unable to do so. 

 The same conclusion is obvious, whether the 

 tenant borrows the money invested or not, pro- 

 vided the improvements are effected at his 

 expense, or that they are included in the 

 purchase price of his tenant-right. 



3. The most unfortunate delusion which 

 exists among the small tenantry of Ulster^ 

 connected with the subject, is the belief that 

 their tenant-rights give to them a security or 



