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REMARKS. 



The Commissioners were obliged to recur to 

 dates as far back as 1821 and 1825, to ascertain 

 tbe commercial relations between Ireland and En- 

 gland, because since the year 1825 the Custom 

 House has ceased to keep a register of the exports 

 from one country to the other. The two islands 

 are no longer separate, These relations, we see, 

 are ruinous to Ireland, and the evil nevertheless 

 continues, although it is not known. 



The great evils of Ireland result from the fact 

 that the majority of the landowners are English, 

 resident in Great Britain, and that they there 

 consume the incomes which they derive from Ire- 

 land : the aggregate of these revenues may be esti- 

 mated by the difference which exists between the 

 imports and the exports. Each year, from 1821 to 

 1825, the average value of the imports into Great 

 Britain was 7,800,000, and the aggregate of her 

 receipts in payment was only 6,200,000. Ire- 

 land thus pays annually a tribute of 1,600,000 to 

 Great Britain. The wish expressed by Mr. Burke, 

 that these two islands should flourish together, is 

 making little progress to its accomplishment. 



