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be now applied, inflammatory action must be 

 allayed and the progress of disease arrested. 

 Before manufacturing industry can be intro- 

 duced into those provinces of the Empire, from 

 500,000 to 600,000 effective men must be 

 found in profitable employment of a reproductive 

 kind. Bread must be found for about 3,000,000 

 of our population. It is only when this has 

 been accomplished, that the rising generation 

 of Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland can 

 be initiated into the manufacturing and com- 

 mercial industry of England, and the domestic 

 circumstances of the labouring population of 

 the two countries be brought to a common 

 standard. It is totally useless, therefore, at 

 present, to expect from any manufacturing 

 scheme the reformation of our agricultural la- 

 bourers in Ireland, or of our manufacturing 

 ones in this country. 



Fourth and fifth schemes. On the first plan, 

 we found the purses of Irish landlords deficient 

 by some 28,000,0007. ; and on the second) those 

 of their tenants by some 100,000,0007., at 

 present, with double that sum staring them as 

 requisite for their future reformation ! We save 

 ourselves the trouble of visiting St. Stephen's 



