An immediate palliation of this indigence would be the result of introducing a legal pauper-system into Ireland; but it would be at the expense of an incalculable permanent increase of the evil. To levy a poor-rate on the country at large would be impolitic, since it would only increase the primary grievance of an insufficiency of capital, by causing a further unproductive consumption of it. To throw the burden of a pauper system on absentees would be especially unjust, since they bear precisely the same relation to the wealth of their country as its resident capitalists. In the case of Ireland, as in all analogous cases, permanent relief can be effected only by adjusting the proportions of capital and population: and this must be attempted by means suited to her peculiar circumstances. The growth of capital should be aided by improvements in agricultural and domestic economy, and by the removal of political grievances; from which would follow a union in place of an opposition of interests. Population should be reduced within due limits, In the present emergency, by well-conducted schemes of emigration; and Permanently, by educating the people till they shall have become qualified for the guardianship of their own interests. ---------------------------------------------------------------- PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, STAMFORD-STREET. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note Words hyphenated on line or page breaks have the hyphen removed if the preponderance of other occurences are unhyphenated. Hyphens occuring midline are retained regardless of other unhyphenated occurences (whiteboys/white-boys, goodwill/good-will, farmhouse/farm-house, halfpenny/half-penny, almsgiving/alms-giving). Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. Given the independent pagination of the original, these are divided by volume. A Manchester Strike. 3.17 [‘/“]Mother knows that you get Replaced. 66.26 even to the produce [the of/of the] wheels. Transposed. 67.31 and all prophe[c/s]ied that they must give up Replaced. 106.14 “Then was the time,[”] Added. 107.12 “Will our trade go on increasing?[’/”] Replaced. 114.2 during his ab[r/s]ence Replaced. 123.28 whether the misunder[a/s]tanding arose Replaced. 125.9 wages-fund of the masters a[u/n]d the Inverted. Union-fund Cousin Marshall. 22.15 they won[’]t hear one speak Added. 114.29 wit[h i/hi]n a due proportion to this fund. Removed. 121.33 said Mr. Burke, smiling[.] Added. Ireland.