ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND. 11 



" In Ireland. 



Cotton - 1,416 



Flax - 100 



1,516 



" In Scotland. 



Cotton - 17,531 



Woollen 22 



Flax 168 



17,721 



" Since this return has been made, there has 

 been a large accession in number." 



Figures so different as these, connected with 

 one branch of industry, furnish evidence of 

 results not easily calculated. The south and 

 west of Scotland, with a population of only one- 

 fourth of that of Ireland, has nearly twelve 

 times the amount of machinery of the above 

 kind. In England, the difference is nearly as 

 great. In every other department of manu- 

 facturing industry, similar differences exist. In 

 short, every Englishman not only performs 

 double the work of an Irishman personally, 

 but he brings into the field of industry, along 



