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

Jonathan Pim

Hodges and Smith, 1848 - 354 стор.

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• CHAPTER I: 1
• Difference between the condition of Ulster and Leinster and that: 18
• CHAPTER II: 24
• Penal Laws unfavourable to industry: 30
• CHAPTER III: 42
• CHAPTER V: 76
• Valuable results of this mode of relief: 101
• Much suffering still exists: 108
• Fearful prospects and great extent of distress: 114
• Diminution of exports: 126
• Exciting causes: 128
• How has this disproportion been affected by the present calamity?: 129
• CHAPTER VIII: 135
• Defective education of children in workhouses: 142
• Large importation of the public funds from England to Ireland: 148
• Exertions of resident proprietors: 150
• Difference between wages of skilled and unskilled labour: 155
• Fisheries not sufficiently attended to in Ireland: 160
• Emigration to Great Britain: 166
• Private enterprise sufficient if sale of land were free: 172
• Consolidation has been proposed as a remedy: 174
• Difficulties of their position: 182
• Popular sympathy with the offenders: 186
• Proposal of assessing the landlord for his portion of the rate con: 192
• Valuable influence of some of the resident gentry: 193
• 251: 197
• Poor laws: 210
• Important that the ablebodied should be supported by labour: 211
• Inequality of taxation the most important objection to localizing: 217
• Union rating would not enable the property of Ireland to support: 223
• Great difference between the two countries as respects their capa: 224
• The collection of rates must be insisted on: 229
• If arrears be reassessed and stringently enforced some districts: 230
• CHAPTER XII: 235
• A large proportion of the land is entailed: 241
• Entails exist in England and yet England has prospered: 291
• APPENDIX: 297
• Statistics for Leinster Ulster Munster and Con: 300
• Note on subdivision: 303
• APPENDIX G Statistics for Leinster Ulster Munster and Con: 306
• Appendix N Comparative statement of the Occupation: 313
• APPENDIX Q Statistics of the several Counties in England: 319
• 205: 320
• 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
• 211: 347

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Сторінка 28 - for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and " the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded " from the perverted ingenuity of man.

Сторінка 31 - very few years, the English system " had been that of debarring Ireland from the enjoyment and use of her " own resources ; to make that kingdom completely subservient to the " interests and opulence of this country, without suffering her to share " in the bounties of nature, in the industry of her

Сторінка 30 - of " the like manufactures have of late been made and are daily increasing " in the kingdom of Ireland, and in the English plantations of America, " and are exported from thence to foreign markets heretofore supplied from " England, which will inevitably sink the value of land, and tend to the

Сторінка 30 - of the kingdom, on which the value of lands and the trade of " the nation do chiefly depend," proceeds to state that great quantities "of " the like manufactures have of late been made and are daily increasing " in the kingdom of Ireland, and in the English plantations

Сторінка 31 - that kingdom completely subservient to the " interests and opulence of this country, without suffering her to share " in the bounties of nature, in the industry of her citizens, or making " them contribute to the general interests and strength of the empire. " This system of cruel and abominable

Сторінка 36 - of these statements ; and we cannot " forbear expressing our strong sense of the patient "endurance, which the labouring classes have " generally exhibited, under sufferings greater, we " believe, than the people of any other country in

Сторінка 12 - not only conquered but undisciplinable ; and that the clergy had "scarce considered them as a part of their charge, but had left them " wholly into the hands of their own priests, without taking any other " care of them, but the making them pay their tithes.

Сторінка 49 - of his will : his will is no longer arbitrary " and precarious, but fixed and ascertained by the " custom to be the same, and no other, that has " time out of mind been exercised and declared by " his ancestors." " A copyhold tenant is therefore " now full as properly a tenant by the custom, as

Сторінка 29 - The system pursued in Ireland has had no other tendency but that " of driving out of the kingdom all the personal wealth of the Catholics, " and prohibiting their industry within it. The face of the country, " every object, in short, which presents

Сторінка 272 - ings, their plots of land. They have a kind of " Robinson Crusoe industry about their houses and " little properties ; they are perpetually building, " repairing, altering, or improving something about " their tenements. The spirit of the proprietor is " not to be mistaken in all that one sees in

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• Назва: Condition and Prospects of Ireland and the Evils Arising from the Present Distribution of Landed Property: With Suggestions for a Remedy
• Автор: Jonathan Pim
• Видавець: Hodges and Smith, 1848
• Обсяг: 354 стор.