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branches of industry as one to two nearly, 

 while in Ireland this position is reversed, the 

 agricultural population being double that of 

 the others. The possibility therefore is, that 

 Ireland may ultimately double her present 

 population without increasing the number of 

 her agricultural labourers. 



3. The last question which w r e propose con- 

 sidering is this: Will those schemes, when 

 reduced to practice, make provision for all 

 classes of the community? It will readily be 

 perceived that in this they fall infinitely 

 short. In Ireland and the Highlands of Scot- 

 land they make a temporary provision for 

 all classes, until they double their present 

 numbers, a limited period only, comparatively 

 speaking, for either of those provinces. We 

 formerly stated that English commerce is at 

 present capable of supplying the quantity of 

 manufactured goods which a reformed state of 

 the country would require, while latterly we 

 have been entertaining the probability of 

 Ireland ultimately manufacturing articles for 

 herself. In the sister country at present the 

 number of agricultural labourers are nearly 

 sufficient to cultivate every arable acre of her 

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