[13] Appendix B (4), 31,000 in 1911, the lowest figure since the Famine. There is a similar decline in the number of the Migratory Labourers, from 15,000 in 1907 to 10,000 in 1910 (Cd. 6019). [14] Appendix B (2) and (3). 2,000 families and nearly 3,000 inhabited houses. [15] The yield of Irish income tax is practically stationary at L1,000,000, as against L30,000,000 yielded by Great Britain. (Inland Revenue Report, 1910-11, page 100.) The assessment to income tax is L40,000,000 for Ireland, as against L93,000,000 for Scotland (with about the same population), and L878,000,000 for England. [16] See Appendix F. The diminution is from 99,000 to 80,000. [17] The deaths from consumption in Ireland declined from 10,594 in 1909 to 10,016 in 1910. (Irish Registrar-General's Report, 1911, p. xxvi.) [18] See Appendix B. [19] The most trustworthy thermometer of Irish trade is to be found in the volume now yearly issued by the Irish Government--the Report on the Trade in Imports and Exports at Irish Ports. In the absence of Irish Customs there must be some uncertainty in the tests, but the Government figures are collected from the "manifests" of exporters and importers. (The latest report comes up to the 31st December, 1910. Cd. 5965.) [20] The growth of Irish trade since 1900 can be seen at a glance in the following table (including exports and imports):-- L 1904 103,790,799 1905 106,973,043 1906 113,208,940 1907 120,572,755 1908 116,120,618 1909 124,725,895 1910 130,888,732 [21] The export of manufactured goods increased from L20,000,000 in 1906 to L26,000,000 in 1910. Those goods consisted mostly of linen and ships from Belfast. The export of farm stuffs increased from L31,000,000 in 1905 to L35,000,000 in 1910. [22] Ireland now exports into England three times as much live stock as any other country. She imports more potatoes and poultry than any other. She also stands in butter only second to Denmark, in eggs only second to Russia, and in bacon and hams only third to the United States and Denmark (Cd. 5966). [23] "Local authorities are more exposed to the temptation of enabling the majority to be unjust to the minority when they obtain jurisdiction over a small area, than is the case when the authority derives its sanction and extends its jurisdiction over a wider area. In a large central authority the wisdom of several parts of the country will correct the folly and mistakes of one. In a local authority that correction is to a much greater extent wanting, and it would be impossible to leave that out of sight in any extension of any such local authority in Ireland."--Lord Salisbury (1885). [24] Proposing to buy out the Irish landlords at an estimated cost of L100,000,000. [25] See Appendix D for a summary of the 1893 Home Rule Bill.