Agriculture, increase of live stock without agriculture, in the pampas and prairies, 126 fixed capital of, found by landlord in England, 114, 115 floating capital of, only, found by tenant in England, 114, 115 fixed and floating capital of, both found by tenant in Ireland, leases essential to an improved system of, in England, 230 in England, good where leases, inferior where no leases, 229-232 of England ought not to be neglected on account of her supremacy in of Rhenish Prussia, 135 of Belgium superior to that of Norfolk and the Lothians, 134 results of increased expenditure of capital on, 215-221 a fourfold increase of gross produce resulting from a fourfold in- proportions in which this increased produce is distributed, in rent, the soil permanently enriched by superior, 220, 228 no more remunerative outlay of fixed capital than in, 220 complete security essential to this outlay being made, 110-113 differs from manufactures in one important particular, 228 good, the interest of the whole community, 222 good, incompatible with tenancy-at-will, 229–232 improved, ought to be the care of Government, 222 a Board of, under a Cabinet Minister desirable, 222 in Ireland, Arthur Young on, 57, 114, 115 Mr. Caird on, 57, 114, 115 his experience that the produce of, might be threefold in- Agricultural class, numbers of the, in England and Wales and Ireland re- spectively, 182-184 proportionally less in Ireland than in Eng- Agricultural labourers, place of, supplied in England, to some extent, by INDEX. Agricultural labourers, condition of, neglected in Ireland, 208 care of, on some estates in England, 210, 212 small gardens for, 210, 212 advantages of this system, 212 459 the comforts of, ought to be provided for, even from Agricultural holdings, number and classification of, 100-103 Agricultural industry, in England, in the ratio of security of tenure, 229 in England, least where no leases, 229 leases essential to full development of, in England, 230, 231 Agricultural occupiers, number of, in England and Wales, 99 and Ireland respectively, 99 Agricultural production of Ireland might be doubled, 208 Agricultural progress, Ireland below all the other countries in the scale of, 137 Annual tenancies, the great proportion of farms in England held by, 113, 230 the rule in Ireland, leases the exception, 109, 113 occupied by holders of 15 acres and under in Ireland, 100, 102 Arable land, area of, occupied by holders of over 15 acres in Ireland, 100, 102 98 average, owned by each proprietor in Ireland, 98 Area of England and Wales, total, 182, 214 under crops, grass, bog and waste, 57, 182, 214 under crops and grass, 214 Arigna Ironworks, 424 Arkwright, Richard, inventor of the spinning-frame, 17 Austria, coal-fields and coal statistics of, 428 BALLOT, vote by, essential to the settlement of the Irish land question, 418 agriculture of, superior to that of Norfolk and the Lothians, 134 coal-fields and coal statistics of, 426 cultivators in, number of, 131 leases in, 132 outgoing tenant bound to leave the land fully cropped, 133 Pays de Waes, 129 peasantry, houses and clothing of, in, 129 poverty, little to be seen in, 130 soil of, originally sterile, now most fertile, 128, 129 133 Bishoprics of the Established Church, before and after 1834, 390, 391 Blacker, Mr., his ideas on Irish agriculture, 216 Blacker, Mr., proves that the produce of Ireland might be threefold in- Bright, Mr., his enlightened views and great public services, 405 his plan of a peasant proprietary, 419 Brown, Dr. Jemmett, Lord Bishop of Cork, and the penal laws, 327 in 1869, 402 proposed remedies on the land question, 414 Campbell, Doctor, on the suppression of the Irish woollen manufacture, 30 commencement of, 147, 148 definition of, 148 fixed, 150 floating, 151 is being constantly consumed and reproduced, 149 of a country, how constituted, 149 must be created by that country itself, 155 is in the ratio of its labour productively employed, 156 would a gift of 10,000,000l. from England to Ireland be used as? 156 the result of saving, 169 the only fund from which wages are furnished, 148 cannot be increased or kept in existence, unless employed as the wages of labour, 149 want of, expended in agriculture in Ireland, 114 fixed, found by landlord, and floating, by tenant, in England, 114, 115 1837-1865, 163 existing bars to the creation and free use of, in Ireland, 164 Case of Ireland, by Molyneux, 356 Castleacre farm, Norfolk, 215 Castle Chamber, 279 Catholic disabilities. See Ireland and Penal Laws chapels formerly hidden away in remote places and the back lanes of towns, 343 priest, the Irish, 375 his interference in politics, 375 Association, 371 how dealt with in Church Bill of 1869, 399 first allowed the Parliamentary franchise, 330 to enter Parliament, 372 to enter municipal corporations, 376 Cattle, export by Ireland to England stopped in 1663, 34 contribution of, by Ireland for relief of sufferers by the Fire of increase of, in a state of nature, no proof of agricultural progress, 126 shows no criterion of general agricultural prosperity, 6 Cavour, Count, on Ireland, 396 Cereals, decrease of, in Ireland since 1851, 403 Chalk soils the lowest, and New Red Sandstone the highest, rented in Eng- Chalk of Antrim, underlying the trap rock, 77 Chancellor of the Exchequer, how interested in the Irish question, 139 Clare, Lord, on the suppression of the Irish woollen manufacture, 31 contains much of the mineral wealth of Ireland, 73 of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries de- of our times, how esteemed and respected, 400 |