50 TENANT-RIGHT SCHEMES. 



According to Mr. M'Culloch (we abridge 

 from the " Farmers ' Almanac" of the present 

 year), the extent of land under aration in 

 Ireland is 5,750,000 acres. The yearly value 

 of the same is estimated at 28,200,8347., or about 

 4Z. 18s. per acre. The annual produce of the 

 cultivated lands would, according to this cal- 

 culation, require to be doubled, in order to 

 afford the necessary sum required by agricul- 

 tural labourers alone, leaving nothing for the 

 large farmer, the blacksmith, the carpenter, 

 the saddler, &c., who will naturally look for 

 their own share of any returns from the soil. 



We concur in the practicability of doubling 

 the present amount of agricultural produce 

 from the arable lands in Ireland. But granting 

 this, and waiving all other practical questions 

 with which it stands inseparably connected, 

 what will it avail the advocates of the tenant- 

 right question ? This is the very policy which 

 Ireland, unhappily, has hitherto been pursuing. 

 For the last century, she has been acting upon 

 the principle which modern vanity is now 

 endeavouring to foist upon the British public 

 as the only panacea which can save her devoted 

 provinces from sinking into everlasting ruin. 



