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She has, in fact, already doubled her agricul- 

 tural produce ; but, unfortunately for her, she 

 lias at the same time tripled the number of her 

 people. Her national industry has not kept 

 pace with her increasing population ; nor is she 

 in circumstances more favourable for entering 

 the field than she has been at any previous 

 period of her history, even on the supposition 

 that she is in full possession of all that is now 

 so strenuously affirmed as hers. The scheme 

 of itself, isolated from every physical difficulty 

 with which it is surrounded, is a hopeless 

 chimera, which can never exist, save in the 

 minds of men ignorant of practical workings. 



On the very threshold of the tenant-right 

 question, we are met with the singular and 

 unexpected fact that the tenant-right system 

 of Ireland is more favourable for the farmer 

 than the tenant-right system of either England 

 or Scotland. We visited a large extent of the 

 sister country for the express purpose of 

 renting land for third parties in this country, 

 and could find no objections to tenant-rights 

 whatever. In fact, promise an Irish landlord 

 rent, and he will give you a tenant-right or, 

 lease to your own satisfaction if you are a rea- 



