216 ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK III. 



The same statements of the population give the number 

 of persons employed in agriculture in the two countries. 

 They are composed, first, of occupiers not employing la- 

 bourers ; secondly, of labourers not occupying land : 



Great Britain. Ireland. 



Occupiers employing labourers . . 187,075 95,339 



Occupiers not employing labourers 168,815 564,274 

 Labourers not occupying land . . 887,167 567,441 



Total of the two last classes . 1,055,982 1,131,715 



It appears, therefore, that there were in Great Britain, 

 in 1831, 1,055,982 agricultural labourers in Ireland, 

 1,131,715 ; although the cultivated land of Great Britain 

 amounts to about 34,250,000 acres, and that of Ireland 

 only to about 14,600,000 ; that is to say, there are in Ire- 

 land about five agricultural labourers for every two that 

 there are for the same quantity of land in Great Britain. 

 Nevertheless the annual value of the agricultural produce 

 ot Great Britain is estimated at 150,000,000, and that of 

 the produce of Ireland at only 36,000,000. 



It further appears that in Ireland agricultural wages 

 vary from 6d. to Is. a day ; that the average of the country 

 in general is about 8d. ; and that the earnings of the la- 

 bourers come, on an average of the whole class, to from 2s. 

 to 2s. 6d. a week, or thereabouts, for the whole year round. 



These calculations are made from the following table, 

 which shows the wages of agricultural labourers in the 

 different counties of Ireland, and the amount of their earn- 

 ings in the year, so far as any estimate can be formed of 

 them. 



