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at present is estimated at 168,851,143/., and 

 that of Ireland 48,200,8347. annually. Accord- 

 ing to the tenant-right scheme, the former may 

 be 268,851,1437., and the latter, 76,200,834^, 

 leaving a difference in favour of the former of 

 nearly 200,000,0007. annually, the difference 

 in the agricultural population of the two being 

 immaterial. 



3. Manufacturing scheme. We have already 

 stated that the cause of those calamities which 

 at present afflict Ireland and the Highlands of 

 Scotland, is the want of manufacturing and 

 commercial industry. In these places, the 

 science of labour and the elements of national 

 industry have been very much neglected. 

 Many theorists have arrived at the erroneous 

 conclusion, that the introduction of manu- 

 facturing industry at present would meliorate 

 the condition of the peasantry of those pro- 

 vinces, and advance them to a level with those 

 of England. They further conclude, that, but 

 for the unsettled state of the country, and the 

 insecurity of life and capital in Ireland, this 

 scheme of reformation would immediately be 

 carried into effect, owing to the natural richness 

 of the country, and the many facilities which it 

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