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In the province of Munster, a proprietor in the barony of 

 Iveagh said, that when the landlord prevents subdivision, 

 the sons of the tenantry do not marry so early : " Among 

 the sons of my own tenantry/ 5 he added, " there are several 

 unmarried men, who will not marry, because they know I 

 should not let them remain in their fathers 5 houses, as the 

 father would certainly give them a part of his land/ 5 



The answers to the inquiries made in the other baronies 

 of Ireland are similar ; in that of Decies-without-Drum, 

 it was added, that the only provision necessary for a man's 

 marrying, is a bundle of straw for a bed, a blanket, an 

 iron pot, and a stool. 



REMARKS. 



No positive idea can be formed of the degree of 

 innocence which modern society might attain, nor 

 of the amount of crime which it might bear : we 

 are therefore brought to form comparative ideas. 

 Criminal justice in Ireland, Scotland, England and 

 Wales, has the same laws and the same mode of pro- 

 cedure ; but England and Scotland, which possess 

 large manufactures, cannot be compared with Ire- 

 land and Wales, which have scarcely any. Wales is 

 mountainous, and the soil far from good ; but the 

 landowners have admitted families to occupy it, only 

 on their declaring the quantity of land necessary for 

 them to live upon. The farms there, in general, 



