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commerce is too little dependent upon native 

 agriculture, and too much upon foreign, as 

 formerly noticed. 



The effect which a diminution of the yearly 

 incomes of our agricultural population below 

 the proper level would have upon our com- 

 mercial and manufacturing interests, and the 

 benefit which the latter would gain by an 

 advance in the incomes of the former, from a 

 depressed state to a proper level, will, perhaps, 

 appear more evident from the following two 

 examples. 



1. If we take the agricultural labourers of 

 England and the Lowlands of Scotland in 

 round numbers at 1,000,000, the rate of wages 

 2s. per day ; then the amount of their yearly 

 incomes will be 31,200,0007. The whole of this 

 sum passes into the hands of the commercial and 

 manufacturing interests from the hands of the 

 agricultural labourer ; and how many exchanges 

 take place afterwards, before its return to them 

 again, it would be useless to attempt to calcu- 

 late. 



A reduction of the incomes of the agricultural 

 labourers of the United Kingdom to the Ulster 

 level, where the daily wages are Is., would of 

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