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theory, therefore, which does not make this 

 provision, must be rejected as impracticable. 



Before proposing any scheme or schemes for 

 the melioration of our labouring classes, from 

 whose calamities evidently all others flow, con- 

 taining such a provision, let us briefly glance at 

 some of the more popular theories of the times, 

 in accordance with the above view of the subject, 

 as this will enable us to avoid rocks on which 

 others have been shipwrecked. It will also 

 introduce several practical questions, inseparably 

 connected with it, which are necessary to be 

 borne in mind. 



Two of those theories have already been 

 alluded to : first, that embraced in the plea of 

 the small Irish tenant, who wanted employment 

 from his landlord to enable him to pay his 

 rent ; and second, the tenant-right theories of 

 Mr. Crawford and others. A third scheme is 

 that of the introduction of manufacturing in- 

 dustry. A fourth source from which to obtain 

 this princely sum is the Exchequer; and the 

 fifth and last alternative, the Irish Parliament. 



The two former of these schemes have already 

 been disposed of in a former page, and there- 

 fore shall only be noticed in this place as 



