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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



i capital which they c 



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f cess and poor-rate. The 



oter a period of 20 years, of one-half the amount 

 muted for the relief of distress in Ireland during the 

 first years of the famine. The police force used to he 



nppoae that the county rate on the average of years 



btea bo high. The poor-rate is the only remaking 



diiion of the 1 1 ctoral division. Where there is employ- 

 ment it will be trifling ; where there is none it will of 

 -ulerable. 



population. In the west of Ireland, the population— 

 brisk 1 feel satisfied that the inmates of the poor-house 



whatsoever. In Carlow, where the rate-payers complain 

 of the excessive burden of poor-rates, I venture to 



and one-half of the rate— and where the lands were 



And why should not districts in the west of Ireland be 

 as Carlow ? they need but the hand of the improver 

 and the employer to make them so. Before the famine, 

 the rate in Carlow and Wexford did not exceed |7 in 

 the pound, very frequently not bo much. When the 

 famine shall have passed away, why should not the 

 •ame amount suffice for the support of a thinned 

 population ? By the old law, any contract in a lease 

 A uW D landl ° rd and teDan , t whereb y the landlord 

 ttt of last session, that prohibition has been repealed, 



law throws one-half 



ibility. If there be i 



landlord. In an 

 from the court of Chancery, and have passed into the 

 tods of an unembarrassed proprietary, the future 

 •JMlities of the tenant for county cess and poor-rate 

 *ul not probably exceed 6s. in the pound ; a small sum 

 eS" ed Whh the taxation of England, where the 

 On the point of labour :— The labourer in the 

 wnote parts of the west of Ireland has hitherto 

 «raed bnt 6<f. a day. I trust, however, we shall 

 "e an improvement in his position in the social scale, 

 Whe will not expect more than from lOrf. to Is. a day 

 ■wages. Labour, therefore, may he estimated at one- 

 £? TantT h ^ ^ ? ng,aDd - At .P ieCe WOrk the 

 A«J\ h £- bitttble globe » he ™ not n aturally turbulent, 

 »WH • t^ cesses do often dishearten and discourage 



*W» him as with them the influence of good manners j heavy rate 

 "w good morals will be felt, but it must descend to > defray the 



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probably be looked on with jealousy ; but : plain, or more properly more complex, he states t 

 tthe gentleman farmer who WXW ; r i C e is merely an 



•-♦».. kindness-Paddy likes B ,„J not of actual value, and sup 



should keep a firm hand also, would be 

 acts of lawless violence in the wilds of Con- 



capital. There never was a fairer 



anxiety. I, too, partake of that feeling ; I may have 

 viewed the subject through the sanguine hues of hope, 

 but I have consider-. -.; 



British farmer, if he coincide in opinion with me, must 

 make up his mind to endure some hardship, to exchange 

 the cultivated and rich landscapes of his own quiet 

 land for the wild and bolder scenery of a mountainous 



having pulled on I 

 (IrMifriezeisavci 

 to defy all weather, 



produce, and at u un( j er ^ e 



same conditions, the value for a quarter of Wheat in the 



km would bo 



e GO,, owing to a duty on .corn, 'the?^ 



cideutally omitted Lord Clancarty' 



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ENGLISH FARMERwnw FOREIGN FARMER. 



hensions, and the practicability of still farming wi 



To desponding farmers such assurance would 1 

 especially welcome, could their reason he convinci 

 that the hopes held out are at all likely to he reali*< < 



protection, viz., the lowering the price of our heme 

 produce, or native industry, in order to extend our 

 foreign trade, which however has unfortunately had 



that have been made, for, like the dog in the fab™ we* 



so heavily taxed, or in so artificial a state, we must be 

 greatly dependant on our native products for the 

 greater part of our revenue ; all other modes by which 



significance before one by which wealth is made to 

 spring up from the soil, the unalienable and indefeas- 

 able property of our inhabitants. This is not the mere 



metals are shifted from one scale to the other, in the 

 balance of national rivalahip, an interchange which, 



deal of what it may deem wealth, by the comparative 



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: speak the sentiments of a good majority of 



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opposition to the merely represent 

 of riches ; an interchange depends 



[ace in your valuable journal. T, M. 



Home Correspondence 



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great, and in all cases deductions a 



profitable, subsisting mainly in exchange for possible to be ol 

 :eived, by restoring an equivalent (at least \ pamphlet does n 



remarkably light, are competing wi 



ches nearer to a ; pay their high rents and prosper, and what means 

 e to what we r< ■ ■ equal profita, 



r reduced rent, or to the Government for renewed pro- 



dnds, and taxes not only to English farmers how these high rents are raised. Tl 

 i costly government, hut the may be done by an abstract or tabulated view of t 



that crowds of half-fi 



*™gs pdfered Turnips and Potatoes, and confei 

 XVS" 114 to proem ■ 

 S ch th *y had beer 



suffer. But how many 



Z™l h % had been born to s 

 P rob, and yet wl 

 ^ <lurmg this period or utter want there were no 

 ^ i^^hemes nor illegal associations for plunder ; 



StJoS^u*"^*™ propcrtJ'Ste teinTn tbemato 

 {Jjjy observed. Would the people of England or of 

 nJJJJ * ave bo rne as much without tumults ? Would 



Jfi *>* m ean to assert 'that the Irish peasant is a 

 g*n character-he is far from perfection ; he wants . 



M of character, and a feeling of sturdy a peculiar sort of 

 with a desire to raise himself from the [ have produced m. 



pendence, with a desire to 'raise himself from the 1 ha™ produced more per acre than they, as we have 

 ! »*> which he haT failed, naturally, for hia • paid more per acre than they; overlooktng that it u[ 



ances against us, we have only one course left • .^^^jg 



5^ p^ttaate qu^tity fr " nd not being over complimentary- to the 



soranimtffood." -. .eeause such^vague language 



rustV'imtkVthat^ne £>£> - ' < ZJZeSthL ^[i 



agri/ulture depends on the I leasing long leases or tenant 



and with boldness he states : nwtieal men as farmers (take 



are. But unfortunately the orly j r !' I. - x i u>. I Line shi re as examples), do not appear to 



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able to adduce, is the very lame one, that we have 

 done it before, forgetting that it was under '^rj Jii- 



than they, as we have Hyde Grey's pamphlet. 



