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sources from which to obtain 28,000,0007. 

 annually for our Irish labourers ; or rather 

 schemes which will enable us to elevate the 

 domestic circumstances of our labouring popu- 

 lation to one common level. The third has 

 also been in some measure anticipated in stating 

 the cause of the present depressed state of 

 Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland; but, 

 on review, will be found an unfit scheme for 

 the reformation of those two provinces at 

 present. The latter two are so ridiculous as to 

 merit no serious consideration, and are both 

 disposed of accordingly. 



1. The pocket of the landlord. A large por- 

 tion of the British public, both in Ireland 

 and the United Kingdom, unhappily attach by 

 far too much importance to the residence of our 

 landed aristocracy among them, and, on the 

 contrary, set less value upon the resources of 

 their own industry than justice demands of 

 them. Our limits will not allow us fully to 

 expose the grossness of the delusion which 

 prevails as to this point among the villagers 

 and labouring population in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of noblemen's residences. When 

 their landlord happens to be an absentee, all 





