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let * tfctfn 535 , 000 , nor the a © m&er <* f petto ** &p # udt » t upo * tbm ae fetf * tbart 1 , 800 , 000 , ro » fci * gr in s til * whole * 3 My 000 . " This , therefore , te about the number for which it would be nectmitory to provide accommodation in workhotiffes , if « il who require ffe-Hef were there to be relieved ; and * e consider it morally , indeed physically , impossible so to provide for such a multitude , or even to attempt it ^ ith safety .
" The expense of erecting and fitting up the necessary buildings would come to about 4 , 000 , 000 / ., and * allowing for the maintenance of each penon 2 ^ d . only a day ,, that being the expense at the Mendicity Establishment of Dublin , and at other similar establishments in Ireland , the cost of supporting the whole 2 , 385 , 000 for thirty TreeJra , annually would be something more than 5 , 000 , 000 / . a-ye * r ; ^ Me ¥ Mi the gross rental of Ireland ( exclusive of towns ) is estimated ttfietfs t \ i $ & 10 , QQ 0 , Q 00 / . a-year ; the net income of landlords at lest ^ cm 6 * OOQ , QO 6 / , ; the public revenue is only about 4 , 000 , 000 / , " ,. A
Updii this the reviewer remarks : — ^ . j . ; "To this we answer , that out of work , and therefore in dUtreq % 4 i& $ i would be a necessary consequence to an English , is not so to ^ Jnsii labourer . This must nave been shown to the Commissioners ^ Th . % t it was shown to one of them Mr Bicheno , is evident to an ^ one wfj o has read bis pamphlet , and remarked his accurate descriptidil 6 fmt sUte of the people . * • - " Ift therefore , the Commissioners mean anything at all whtcli ttfft be applicable to this question between them and the friends dfPBiir Laws in Ireland , it must be that 2 , 385 , 000 people are in wslutV > T potatoes for thirty weeks of ev ^ ry year , and of course , there beittg * o
provision by law , that they subsist for those thirty weeks hy be £ gin £ ; th ^ t is , that nearly one-third of the population geU iu Uy iog fiotd the charity of the other two-thirds for thirty weeks in the year , ftffVffflg ft people consisting almost entirely of peasants and landlords , o $ WIhmv the latter give very little in charity .
" Lest this should seem too preposterous an opinion to be hti ^ by the Commissioners , we ask , Why do they make a distinction between this one-third of the population for thirty weeks , and the mass ? TfijC mass lite entirely upon potatoes . ? ? " Now out of what do the other two-thirds maintain them ? The Commissioners slate * That agricultural wag-es vary from Sd . to I * , a day ; that the average of the country in general it about fr ^ d . ; 6 ftti that th * earnings of tbe labourers come , on an average of tto wh&le clan , to from 2 * . to 2 $ . 6 V . a week , or thereabouts , for the yt * r rouad / " :
It has been stated by Mr Bicheno ( one of the Commissioners ) iu his pamphlet , that , be * id * s these wages , the labourer rnaVeani by tbe labont expended on hi * con acre from 5 $ . to 1 0 * 1 * - $ § py which , togtthtrvrith the afofesAid wages , is ati an *^ M $ ft | M fattilly can earn , as there is no employment for Womeix ot c $ tl-Adrrifttlng fliat the labourer earns 2 s . Gil . a week , out of It lie
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/51/
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