The Condition and Prospects of Ireland: And the Evils Arising from the Present Distribution of Landed Property: with Suggestions for a Remedy

Hodges and Smith, 1848 - 354 стор.

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CHAPTER I	1

Confiscation of Munster	7

Degrading effects of Penal Laws	14

Shorter average duration of life in Connaught and Munster	22

Security of property essential to civilization	24

Time alone can change the character of a nation	28

Penal Laws unfavourable to industry	30

Ireland has improved in spite of all depressing circumstances	36

Private enterprise sufficient if sale of land were free	172

Consolidation has been proposed as a remedy	174

Difficulties of giving them a legal right to compensation	180

Popular sympathy with the offenders	186

Proposal of assessing the landlord for his portion of the rate con	192

Great deficiency of employment for labourers in Connaught	193

Mode of working the Poorlaw Act	199

While assistance should be afforded to some places payment	205

CHAPTER III	42

Injurious effects of settlements and incumbrances	46

Agrarian outrages	52

Consolidation of farms ejectment of tenantry	58

CHAPTER IV	65

NoteExtract from Lord Lansdownes speech	67

Distress very much mitigated in the Eastern counties of Ireland	73

Much good nevertheless effected	79

Distress increases notwithstanding these exertions	86

Difficulty of ascertaining the circumstances of applicants	93

Note in illustration	99

Valuable results of this mode of relief	101

Difficulties lessened but not ended	108

Fearful prospects and great extent of distress	114

Many pretend poverty who are able to support themselves	120

Diminution of exports	126

How has this disproportion been affected by the present calamity?	129

CHAPTER VIII	135

The elements of education valuable but insufficient without	141

Capital cannot be forced	147

Large importation of the public funds from England to Ireland	148

Difference between wages of skilled and unskilled labour	154

Fisheries not sufficiently attended to in Ireland	160

Emigration to Great Britain	166

Information of a local committee essential for good management	211

Inequality of taxation the most important objection to localizing	217

Union rating would not enable the property of Ireland to support	223

The collection of rates must be insisted on	229

Poorlaw unless well administered may do much harm	232

Want of security as respects title to and possession of land	240

Legislation cannot contravene the laws of Providence which	246

Poor rates c fall wholly on the landlord the mortgagee	250

Effects if it had passed	256

The head landlord can distrain for the rent of the whole from	262

Reference to the experience of other countries	268

Improving spirit of the people of Switzerland	274

Instance of the extraordinary industry of squatters on a mountain	280

Effects of property in land in promoting feelings of loyalty	286

Entails exist in England and yet England has prospered	291

Introductory remarks	297

24	300

APPENDIX G Statistics for Leinster Ulster Munster and Con	306

APPENDIX N Co ive statement of the Occupation	313

APPENDIX Q Statistics of the several Counties in England	319

APPENDIX S Statement of the Poor Law Unions and Parishes	326

APPENDIX U Description of the Tenure by Lives renewable	332

APPENDIX Y Remarks respecting the Management of Estates	338

Extracted from MCullochs Geographical Dic	345

Назва	The Condition and Prospects of Ireland: And the Evils Arising from the Present Distribution of Landed Property: with Suggestions for a Remedy Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850 Making of the modern economy
Автор	Jonathan Pim
Видавець	Hodges and Smith, 1848
Оригінал із	Університет штату Міннесота
Оцифровано	28 бер. 2012
Обсяг	354 стор.

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