in: AND Ol : 





exau in limited liability com 



amounted to : 



1880 

 1890 



IS,;, 



1 1,500,000 

 19,000,000 

 25.48o.ooo 1 



Such figures show the direction in which Ii 

 political economy is moving; they tell us lit 

 of its present condition. 



A i! 1 account of housing conditions is 



m in the Irish Census. The houses are 



ided into four classes. The lowest (fourth) 



mud cabins with one window and one 



room; the third class consists of cottages having 



ne to four rooms and the same number of 



unuli \vs ; the second class are decent farm- 



h from 4 to 9 rooms and windows; 



highest class are really good houses. If 



accept this classification, we obtain the 



following figures. There were in the 



ike into consideration the fact that in 

 many cases more than one family inhabits the 



.ncial Relations Report, p. 207. [For 1904-5 the 

 figure is ^42,409.899- Trans t.] 



