Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in Ireland

Preface

The greater portion of the contents of the following pages, appeared originally in the form of letters to the Times.

Those letters were written in the hopes of inducing my fellow-countrymen to pause, before adopting without further investigation a theory with regard to Irish emigration and what has been called " the exterminating policy of Irish Landlords," which, after having been for years industriously propagated in Ireland, had at last received the imprimatur of one or two influential Members of Parliament.

But though hastily committed to paper, the views I thus submitted to the public were the result of diligent enquiry, and long-continued observation of the changing phases of our national existence. Nothing but an uncontrollable conviction of the injustice of the accusations with which the landed proprietors of Ireland arc assailed, and of the gross incorrectness of the data on which those accusations are founded, would have induced me to embark in so uncongenial a controversy, — my natural repugnance to which iv

was enhanced by the generosity of sentiment exhibited towards our unfortunate country, in those very speeches to portions of which 1 felt compelled to take exception. That persons of great intelligence should fall into error on the subjects in question did not surprise me. In any country it is difficult to disentangle the threads of popular sentiment, or to follow out the intricate operation of economical laws, — but in Ireland, a hundred influences, — many of them compatible with the purest patriotism, and the most scrupulous integrity, had contrived to prejudice local opinion, and to mislead the national conscience. Yet it would be from such sources alone, that a popular champion would naturally seek inspiration, and if his view of the situation should betray considerable misapprehension of the real facts of the case— it would be unfair to doubt the genuineness of his convictions, or to receive with any other feelings than those of respect and gratitude, any suggestions he might have to offer.

Though deeply sensible of my unfitness to do more than offer a slight contribution to the investigation which has been undertaken of late by many eminent persons, into the relations of Irish tenants with their landlords, there was a certain respect in which I felt I occupied an advantageous position. < >n the one hand, as a northern landlord, I had no interest in refuting accusations, from which, by general consent, the landlords of Ulster have been

V exempted j while, on the other, the phenomena which were supposed to justify them as against the proprietors of the South and West, and the difficulties incident to estate management in Ireland, were sufficiently common both to North and South, to make me familiar with their true origin and character. On this account I was able to enter upon a review of the past, with as much impartiality, and perhaps more acquaintance with the subject than persons totally unconnected with the landed interest of the country. I may indeed be told, that because I am a landlord, I must therefore be prejudiced in favour of the class : I can only reply that I am not conscious of any such partiality, and that I do not even understand the possibility of feeling greater sympathy with the legitimate aspirations of one section of the community, than with those of any other. It has always seemed to me that a true statesman should guard the rights and promote the welfare of the diverse but inextricably associated interests of the Nation with an undistinguishing solicitude.

Even with respect to the future, if I am opposed to many of the changes in the land laws of Ireland which have been suggested, it is not merely because they are detrimental to the interests of the landed proprietors, but because they are gross infractions of the first principles of Liberty, Justice, awl Government, and fraught with mischief to the community ;it large

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In throwing my letters into the form of a pamphlet, 1 have not had time to introduce into them the improvements I could have wished. Though here and there considerable additions have been made to some of the paragraphs, most of the original sentences remain as they were written. Even the new matter, only expands or explains statements and opinions which were originally conveyed in the concise form adapted to the columns of a newspaper. But though very little has been altered, there is scarcely a passage which has not been carefully reconsidered by the light of the various criticisms, with which my letters to the Times were honoured.

Whenever I have been able to convince myself that a correction was required, I have hastened to introduce it. Even in those cases where the ascertained facts perfectly justified a broad expression, I have frequently modified that expression in order to bring it into more perfect harmony with an opponent's view, and from first to last I have endeavoured to understate rather than to exaggerate the data on which I based my argument.

I have also carefully revised my figures, and submitted them to the scrutiny of several eminent statisticians both in this country and in Ireland.

But though I have scarcely done more than review or verify my previous composition, it is not a mere "rechauffe" I submit to those who mav vii

have patience to glance over these pages. Feelinghow little claim I had on public confidence, I have endeavoured to illustrate and corroborate every statement and opinion of my own by a reference to such authorities as are held in universal esteem, and the text of my pamphlet is accompanied throughout by a running commentary of notes, and quotations from various authors.

On no work have I drawn so largely as on the Digest of the Evidence taken before the Devon Commission. I have also frequently appealed to the authority of Mr. Mill, Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Fawcett, Dr. Hancock, and other equally honoured names in support of many of my views. With regard to the agriculture of foreign countries, I have taken M. de Laveleye as my guide for that of Belgium, and M. de Lavergne for that of France.

In the General Appendix will be found the answers I have received from a great number of gentlemen living in different parts of Ireland, to whom I ventured to address a series of questions connected with the subjects under discussion, as well as some extracts from Dr. Hancock's valuable pamphlet on the alleged decline of prosperity in Ireland, and an interesting paper on the present condition of agriculture in the counties of Cork and Kerry, drawn up by Mr. Robertson, a very well informed and intelligent agriculturist; who proceeded this spring at my request, to the South

VI 11 of Ireland, in order to obtain precise information on one or two disputed matters of fact.

Finally, I have excluded from tlie present volume everything approaching to a personal allusion. Though differing so widely on many points with the gentlemen whose misapprehensions I have endeavoured to correct, I sympathize most cordially with their unmistakable anxiety to improve the condition of our fellow-countrymen ; and I should only be too happy to co-operate with them in promoting sucli a change in the state of Ireland as would render the real origin of her misfortunes a matter of indifference to every one but the antiquary.

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Appendix to Chapter I

Vital Statistics — France ....

Sir G-. Lewis on Emigration ....

Effect of Emigration on Population in Ireland

- Return shewing amount of money remitted by Settlers

in North America to their friends in the United

Kingdom, 1848 — 04 (inclusive) Condition of Irish people in 1834 Mr. Mill on the Profits derived from large and small

Spade versus Plough .....

Pay of the English Soldier ....

Emigration from the Scotch Highlands Note as to the Reduction in the number of Persons

of different Religions and Races in Ireland, from

- Reclamation of waste Lands in Ireland, as affected by

Emigration .....

The Emancipation of the Dorsetshire Labourer

Appendix to Chapter II

- Emigration of Protestants from Ireland . . 85

- Return of the Emigration from the United Kingdom

to all parts of the World during the years 1854 to 1858, inclusive ; shewing the trade, occupation, or profession of the Emigrants . . . 80-87

- Table, shewing the Occupations, Sex and general dis-

tribution of the Emigrants in 1801 . . 88-89

34 34

36- 37

38 38 39 39

43 44-5

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Appendix to Chapter V

Rate of Subdivision of Land in France • • 302

Progress of French Agriculture . • . 303

GENERAL APPENDIX.

Dr. Longfield on Valuation .... 304-308

The Custom of Tenant-right in Ulster . . . 308-333

(Extracts from Lord DufFerin's Evidence before Mr. Maguire's Committee.)

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Large v. Small Farms .... 333-340

On the alleged Progressive Decline of the Prosperity

of Ireland, by Dr. Hancock . . .341-343

Comparison of the Eise in Wages, and in the Price of

The profits of the small farmer, and the wages of the

labourer compared .... 353

Table, shewing the Population in 1841, 1851, 1861 : the number of persons attending school and the number and proportion per cent of those not attending school ..... 355

Density of population in Ireland and other countries 356 Comparison of the mineral resources of Great Britain

and Ireland ..... 356

Deposits in Joint Stock Banks . . . 357

Table, shewing the Acreage under crops in 1866 . 358 Table, shewing the gross produce of the Acreage

under crops in 1866 .... 359

Table, shewing gross value of Acreage under crops in

1866 ...... 360

Table, she wing the Tillage acres, the Tillage cultivation, and the gross annual value of the produce in proportion to acres and cultivators . . 361

No. of acres in each Province in 1851 and 1861 ; also

the same reduced to proportions per cent. . 362

Extent of Land in Statute Acres under crops in Ireland, each year, from 1847-66. . . . 363

Number of holdings (classified according to the total extent of Land held by each person), and the entire extent of Land under each class of Landholders with the increase or decrease in each class 354 Total number of Holdings, and their extent in Statute

Acres in 1864 ..... 365 Table of Holdings, 1841 to 1801, from the Regis! tr

General's Return .... 366

Table, shewing the number of hands employed on

various farms in England .... 367

Cost of Hand-Power ..... 368

Emigration : a temporary remedy . . . 370

Number of Emigrants in eaHi year . . . 37 J b t

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Mr. Robertson's Report on the rate of Agricultural Labour in Co. Cork » 372

^Xote b} T Lord Duflcrin's agent on the present and former

rate of wages in the County of Down . , 376

POSTSCRIPT.

Some observations on Mr. Putt's new work, " The Irish

people, and the Irish land" .... 377-301

Mr. Hill's Data and Statistics in relation to Ireland

ANALYSTS.

Chapter I

The counts in the indictment against the landlords of Ireland, pp. 2, 3 — The prosperity of the emigrant, 4 — The former condition of the Irish labourer, 5 — The present supply of labour, 6 — The casual labourer, 7 — Conversion of cottiers into labourers, 8 — Excess of labour supply in 1816, 9 — Proportion of cultivators to area cultivated, 10, 11 — More cultivators are still employed than is compatible with their proper remuneration, 12, 13 — The consequences considered, if no outlet had existed for the surplus population, 14, 15 — Emigration no longer so imperative a necessity, 1G— No extraneous influence should be used to divert the present occupying class from their avocations, 17 — The effect of the potato on population, 18 — The failure of the potato restricted population, 19 — Present rate of increase of the nation, 20— The prospects of the rising generation, 21 — Emigration from Germany, 22 — Emigration suggested by Sir G-. Lewis, 23 — The effects of emigration on rent and on rate of wages, 24, 25 — The momentum emigration may acquire, 2G — The present supply of labour and w r aste lands, 27 — Improvement has been compatible with emigration, 28 — The effect of emigration on British manufacture, 29 — The effect of emigration on the British army, 30 — Emigration and the love of home, 31 — The whole earth plaeed at man's disposal, 32 — Checks on population, 33 — Colonization, 34 — Sir G-. Lewis on emigration, 35 — Tables on emigration, ih. — Money remitted by emigrants, 3G— The labourer and the cottier in 1834, 37 — Small farms v. large, 38— Plough v. spade, ib. — Pay of tho labourer and soldier, 39 — Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, 40 — Protestant and Catholic emigration, 41, 42 — Eeclamation of waste lands, 43 — Emancipation of the Dorsetshire labourer, 44 — Mr. Girdlestonc and tho Dorset labourer, 45.

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Chapter II

The classes that have emigrated, 47 — The connection of the landlord with the emigrant, 48 — The limits of the competence of Parliament, 49 — The results of tlie investigation by the Devon Commission of most of the charges against the landlord, 50, 51 — The trying nature of the crisis in 1S4G, 52 — Judge Longfield ou evictions in 184G, 53 — Emigration the only possible alternative, 54 — One-third of the landlords mined in 1S4G, 55 — The sacrifices made by the landlords to assist emigration, 5G, 57 — The greater proportion of the emigrants not occupiers of land, 58, 59— The extent to which consolidation has been carried, GO — The reduction of holdings between 1841 and 1SG1, Gl — Holdings above 15 acres have largely increased since 1S41, 62, G3 — Emigration of the tenant class, principally confined to occupiers of from half an acre to six acres, G4, G5 — Many of the cottier tenants remained at home as labourers, GG — The tenant class may have contributed one-fourth to the total emigration between 1S46 and 1S51, GG, G7 — Since then very few occupiers of laud have emigrated, 68 — Judge Longfield probably correct in stating that about 4 per cent, of the emigrants are farmers, 69 — Comparison of the extinction of small holdings m the four Provinces, 69* — Comparison of the extinction of holdings of all sizes in the four Provinces, 70, 71 — Comparison of the emigration from the four Provinces, 72 — Annual number of evictions in Ireland, 73 — Xumber of notices of evictions served on Poor-law guardians, 74 — Table of notices and actual evictions, 75 — Proportion of persons affected by evictions to number of emigrants amounts to about 2 per ceut., 76, 77 — Kate of evictions amounts to 1 per annum on every 10,000 acres of occupied land, 7S — Two-thirds of the actual evictions are for non-payment of rent, 79 — Comparison of the proportion of farmers who have emigrated to the total number of emigrants, SO, 81 — The analysis of the Emigration Commissioners makes the emigration of Irish farmers amount to 2\ per cent, of the total emigration from Ireland, 82, S3 — Comparison of the emigration of the professional and farming classes, 84 —

Protestant emigration from Ireland, S5 — Emigration returns, S6 — Occupations of emigrants, 88, SO.

Chapter III

The responsibilities of a former generation of landlords, 91 — The position of an Irish landlord 80 years ago, 92 — The nature and origin of rack-rents, 93 — In former days most of the land let on lease as pasture, 94 — The substitution of " la petite culture " for pasture, 95 — The inability of the landlord to prevent subdivision of farms, 96 — His relations with his fellow countrymen, 97 — The middleman often, though not always, sublet against the will of the landlord, 98, 99 — The landlord could not have foreseen the curso to the country the middleman would become, 100, 101 — The introduction of a middleman occasioned sometimes by benevolent motives, 102, 103— He was intended to act as a link between the peasantry aud their landlords, 104, 105 — It was not his economical position but his individual defects which produced the evils complained of, 106, 107 — The middleman not much worse than his neighbours, 10S, 109 — It is as fair to take the highest rent as to employ labour at the lowest rate of wages, 110, 111 — The one course as fraught with evil consequences as the other, 112 — The i v ise of the middleman, 113 — The middleman in Ulster, 114 — Competition and rack-rents in Ulster, 115 — The Ulster tenant-right is the creature of competition, 116, 117 — Prices given for the "good-will" in Down and Donegal, 118 — These prices often represent no real value, 119 — The disadvantage of the system to the incoming tenant, 120 — The inconsistency of restricting the rent by Act of Parliament, and allowing the "good-will " to be put up to auction, 121 — The devolution of tenancies of constant occurrence, 122 — The fraud on the landlord and on the incoming tenant, 123 — The landlords seldom take advantage of competition but the tenants always do, 124, 125 — Competition is an irrepressible force, 126 — Is equally prevalent in every part of Ireland, 127 — Some agency must have checked the prosperity of Ireland, 128— The commercial jealousies of Great Britain, 129 — Duties on Irish produce : cattle, wool, provisions,

XVI leather, 130 — Duties on Irish manufactures : woollen and cotton goods, leather, silk, soap, candles, 131 — Prohibitions on Irish trade, 132 — The land the only resource left to the Irish people, 133 — The rapid expansion of the agricultural population and the rise of prices of agricultural produce during the French war, 131 — The consequent pressure of the people on the land, 135 — The linen trade alone exempted from the effect of the jealousy of Britain, 136 — Expansion of the linen trade in Ulster and the prosperity of that Province, 137 — An outlet thus afforded to the agricultural population of the North, 138 — Review of the foregoing arguments, 139 — The responsibilities of Irish landlords and British manufacturers compared, 140 — ]\Ir. Cobden's view of the subject, 141 — Mr. Charles Greville's view of' the same subject, 142, 143 — Sir G. Lewis's view of the same subject, 144 — The difficulties of an Irish landlord, 145 — The eourse of his proceedings, 146 — The pastures of Ireland, 147, 14S — The trade of the North, 149— The trade of Belfast, 150.

CHAPTEE IY.

The disproportion of cultivators to the area cultivated in Ireland reconsidered, 152, 153 — Table of proportion of cultivators per acre in Ireland, England, Belgium, and Flanders, 154 — Comparison of results in produce, 155 — Proportion of cultivators per acre larger in Connaught and Muuster than in Ulster, 156 — The amount of produce nearly in inverse ratio to the proportion of cultivators iu different parts of Ireland, 157 — Tbe proportionate number of cultivators in Irelaud about the same as in Belgium, though Ireland is less adapted to spade-husbandry than Belgium, 158, 159 — The opinion of various persons on the minimum size of farms on which a tenant can live with comfort, 160, 161 — The agriculture of Belgium, 162 — The rack-rents and short leases of Belgium, 163 — The profits of the Belgian farmer, 164— The agricultural population of Belgium most wretched where the farms are smallest, 165 — Condition of the Belgian farmservant, 166 — The advantages afforded in Belgium to ' la petite culture,' 167 — The market gardening of Belgium, 168

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— The facilities of obtaining manure in Belgium — The amount of manure per acre applied in Belgium, 170— Stolen and textile crops, 171— The manufactures of Belgium auxiliary to her agriculture, J 72 — A great number of the minute holdings of Belgium held by artizans, 1133— The climate of Belgium compared with that of Ireland, 174, 175 — The rainfall of Ireland at harvest- time, 176— The lessons to be learnt from the example of Belgium, 177— A proportion of the farms in Ireland might be enlarged with advantage, 178, 179 — Judge Longfield's opinion on the subject, 180— The definition of the relations of landlord and tenant to one another and to the land, 181— The confiscations of Elizabeth and Cromwell, 182 — The ownership of an Irish proprietor identical with that of his English fellow-countrymen, 183 — A tenant's position defined, 184- —The hiring of land and the chartering of a ship compared, 185 — The conditions of each arrangement determined by contract, 186 — The rights of the Commonwealth over landed property, 187 — The equitable duration of a tenancy defined, 18S — The dissoluble nature of the connection between landlord and tennnt, 189 — Susceptibility of land to deterioration by neglect, 190 — Agriculture has become a science, 191 — Large farms are not suitable to Ireland, 192 — The landlord must be left the liberty to give the industrious tenant sufficient scope, 193 — Emigration the resource of an embarrassed tenant, 191 — Cases of emigrants who have returned to the author's estate, 195 — The extreme rights of the landlord should be exercised with great consideration, 196 — The relations of an employer of labour to his men, and of a landlord to his tenants compared, 197 — The sources of tho present discontent in Ireland, 198 — The opinion of tho Catholic Prelates on the subject, 199 — The actual occupiers of land not tainted with Fenianism, 200 — No difference of tenure would have alfected emigration, evictions, or Fenianism, 201 — The probable result of au agrarian revolution in Ireland, 202 — Tho absence of tenant-right agitation in Ulster, 203 — The three sources of uneasiness in the mind of the Irish tenant farmer, 201 — Number of Irish cultivators, 205 — Note by the Registrar General of Ireland, 200— Table of English Cultivators, 207— Tabic of Belgian cultivator*, 208, 209.

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CIIAPTEll V.

Mr. Bright's proposition considered, 211 — Difficulties in the way of establishing a yeoman class in Ireland, 212 — Tendency to sublet or subdivide, 213— Impossible to prevent the tendency by mere legal restraints, 214 — 1 La petite culture ' and subdivision in France, 215 — Number of small freeholders in France, 21G — Their indigence, 217— The largo extent of fallow in France, 218 — The inferior rate of production in France, 219 — The mortgages on these small properties, 220 — Mr. Michelet's method of solving the difficulty, 221 — The embarrassment of the French peasant proprietor occasioned by competition, 222, 223— The desire to subdivide as prominent as ever in Ireland (note), 224 — The Farmer's Club of Cork (note), 225 — The tendency to subdivision which seems excessive in France would be more intense in Ireland, 22G — The proposals to deprive Irish landlords of their proprietary rights considered, 227 — The conditions under which the state can expropriate, 228 — Mr. Butt's plan, 229 — The effect on the interests of the landlord, 230 — The expropriation of the landlord's improvements in his property, 231 — The extent of those improvements both in the North and South, 233 — Amount of compensation which has been paid to tenants, 234 — The duration of leases in England, Scotland, and Belgium, 237 — Mr. Butt's G3 years' lease, 237 — Probable consequences of Mr. Butt's plan with reference to the interests of the tenant, 238 — Three standards of valuation of land in Ireland, 239 — And three rents, 240 — Judge Longfield's opinion of fixity of tenure, 241 — Difficulties of valuation, 242 — The moral aspect of the schemes to deal with the property of the country. 243— It is an easy task to persuade uneducated people that what is apparently for their interest is right, 244, 245 — The objections to such an arrangement,

248 — The right of contract should be left as free as possible,

249 — Alterations are not always improvements, 250 — An operation which is slightly beneficial to a farm may be detrimental to an estate, 251 — An instance of the foregoing assertion, 252 — The Government bill of 1SG6, legitimate and politic in principle, faulty in detail, 254 — Some amendmerits suggested, 255 — The reversal of the presumption that what is affixed to the soil is the property of the landlord, 25G — An improvement executed by a tenant outside of an agreement to be presumed to be his property, 257 — Registration of improvements necessary, 258 — An illustration of this necessity, 259 — The difficulty of identifying an improvement after a lapse of time, 200 — The necessity of the landlord having an opportunity of acquainting himself with liabilities incurred on his account, 2G1 — The consequences to a tenant of surreptitious operations, 262 — Economy in improvements in the interest of the tenant, 2G3 — Leases most desirable but should not be issued indiscriminately, 2GI — Leases not always desired by the tenant, 2G5 — The reasons why some landlords hesitate to grant leases, 2GG — The consequences to the tenant of landlords being forced to grant leases, 2G7 — An illustration of the result, 2G8 — The result of such an obligation on the falling in of an old Gl years' lense, 209 — Great caution is necessary in legislating on this subject, 270 — A suggestion that the State should lend landlords money to compensate their tenants for existing improvements, 271 — The result if such assistance were afforded, 272 — The benefits to be derived from the distribution of capital over Ireland, 273 — The probable effects of an alteration in the law of tenure on emigration and disaffection, 274 — Conclusion, 275.

ANSWEES TO QUERIES.

Rate of agricultural wages,27G,277 — Eatc of wages for unskilled labour, 27S— Eate of wages at harvest-time,279, 2S0— Supply of labour, 281, 282 — Allowances to agricultural labourers, 283, 284 — The classes which have contributed to emigration, 285 —The classes to which the Irish emigrants belong, 285, 280 -Emigration the only alternative for the sons of small farmers, 287, 288 — Emigration not the result of evictions or landlord influenco, 289— Emigration voluntary ; sacrifices made by landlords, 290 — Emigration not the result of pressure put on the tenant by the landlord, 291 — Tillage v. pasture, 292 — Ireland is not being converted into a cattle

XX farm, 203 — During the last decade the extent of area under crops has increased, 294, 205 — The cause of the late tendency to convert tillage into pasture, 29G, 297 — Evidence on the subject from different parts of Ireland, 298, 299— The influence of the rise in the price of stock in promoting the change from tillage into pasture, 300, 301.

Eate of sub-division of land in Prance, 302.

M. de Lavergne on the progress of French agriculture, 303.

GENEEAL APPENDIX.

Judge Longficld on the difficulties of valuation, 304 — Judge Longfield on fixity of tenure, 305 — Its ultimate effect on future tenants, 306 — The competition rent converted into a fine paid to the outgoing tenants, 307 — The injustice done to the landlords, 308.

THE TJLSTEE TENANT-EIGHT.

The Ulster tenant-right, 30S — The definition of the custom, 310 — Its effects, 311 — The proper method of compensation, 312 — The position of a small tenant under the custom of tenant-right, 313 — Goodwill, 314 — Two views of the custom of tenant-right, 315 — Arbitration, 316 — The Ulster tenant's notion of tenant-right, 317 — Compensation for buildings, 318 — For drainage, 319 — The sale and purchase of tenant-right, 320 — An agricultural lease not sufficiently long to compensate the tenant for the expenditure in buildings, 321 — A tenant makes an improvement more cheaply than a landlord, 322 — The feeling of the tenantry of Ulster with respect to legislation, 323 — Subdivision, 324— North and South are under the same law, 325 — No great desire for leases in the North, 326 — Different modes of assessing the rent, 327 — An instance of subdivision, 328 — Sublet lands are generally highly rented, 329 — The anxiety to subdivide has been a little checked in the North, 330— Conditions introduced into grants of lands in Ireland by James I., 331 — Counter claims of the landlord for dilapidations and bad xxi

cultivation likely to prove a formidable offset to a tenant's claim for compensation, 332, 333.

SMALL v. LAEGKE FAEMS.

The question of small versus large farms considered, 334 — " La petite " versus " la grande " culture, 335 — Small versus large farms, 336 — Evidence on the condition of the small farmer, 337 — The consolidation of farms in Ireland has not brought their average size up to the average size of the farms in countries where "la petite" culture is practised to most advantage, 33S, 339 — Evidence on the subject, 340.

THE PEOGEESS OF IEELAND.

The prosperity of Ireland has not been on the decline, 341 — The effect of three wet seasons on Irish prosperity, 342 — The necessity of manufactures to sustain agriculture, 343.

EISE OF WAGES v. EISE OF PEICES.

Comparison of the rise in wages and in the price of food, 344.

COEK AND KEEEY IN 1S67.

Cork and Kerry in 1S67, 345— Mr. Eobertson's report, 346— Agriculture: leases; fixity of tenure, 34G, 347 — Want of skill and capital, 34S — Subdivision, 349 — The cottier and the fanner : supply of labour, 350 — The labourer cannot obtain constant employment, 351 — Large fences and small fields, 352.