for the Alleviation of Sufferings. SOS 



way of obtaining political consequence. The 

 pride which is felt in England in having a rich 

 and thriving tenantry is scarcely known in 

 Ireland, where the difficulties of obtaining rents, 

 not that of finding tenants, are a great draw- 

 back to the purchase and possession of estates. 



Dr. Anderson, about forty years ago, in a 

 survey he was employed to make of the He- 

 brides, with a view to suggest the best means of 

 preventing emigration, reported that the excess 

 of population beyond what the capital was 

 capable of employing in agriculture, was the 

 cause of the general poverty and distress ; as 

 a great portion of the people was living on the 

 stock of the effective labor of others, and un- 

 able by their own to contribute any thing 

 towards it. Such at this time is the case in 

 Ireland; and, under the present peculiar cir- 

 cumstances of the country, emigration ought 

 rather to be encouraged than restrained. 



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Our ride about Hazlewood afforded us very 

 many charming prospects. Mr. Wynne has the 

 whole of it extremely well kept, and perhaps, 

 with a general character so entitled to the grand, 

 1 might venture to offer, though as a solitary 

 opinion only, that less dressing, with more ex- 

 posure, would not be inappropriate in point of 



