This is the _net_ amount of those taxes. The _gross_ amount which is levied off the people will be about fifteen millions and a half, or nearly one third of the total amount of the income of the country, towards which Ireland does not contribute a single shilling. [6] According to the Government survey, Leitrim contains 375,992 acres; the valuation, including the houses of the gentry and shopkeepers, is L.120,000: add 25 per cent, or L.30,000, and we have the fair rent at L.150,000, or under eight shillings an acre. [7] Mr Reade, an extensive landowner, and a gentleman who appears to be perfectly competent to form a correct opinion on the subject, laid before the commissioners, as the result of his own experience, the following statement:-- Comparative Valuation of the Barony of Carberry, co. Kildare, all situated between twenty and thirty miles of Dublin; with two canals passing through it, and consisting of 45,000 acres of good feeding and tillage land, with a similar quantity of equally good land, or nearly so, in England, Scotland, France, and Belgium, originally made in 1828, and since corrected:-- ------------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------ | England. | Scotland. | Belgium. | France. | Ireland. +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------ | £ s. d.| £ s. d.| £ s. d.| £ s. d.| £ s. d. Gross contents, 48,278 acres,}| | | | | rent calculated on 42,000 }|55,650 0 0 |75,600 0 0 |55,650 0 0|41,938 0 0 |31,500 0 0 acres, }| | (Taxation | | | | | included.) | | | Tithe and direct taxation, |17,955 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 7,481 0 0 | 5,962 0 0 | 0 0 0 Poor-rate, one half, | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 325 7 6 County Cess. 1s. 8d. in the } | | | | | pound, on Mr Griffth's } | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 2,266 13 4 valuation, } | | | | | +------------+------------+------------+------------+----------- Total, | 73,605 0 0 | 75,600 0 0 | 63,131 0 0 | 47,900 0 0 |34,092 0 10 ------------------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------