The Irish Crisis

This was the second occasion on which upwards of three millions of people had been fed “out of the hands of the magistrate,” but this time it was effectual. The Relief Works had...

Other causes concurred with the natural tendency of every people to have recourse to the cheapest description of food, in encouraging the growth of a large population depending...

This system threw off a shoot, the history of which it is necessary to trace. In order to impose some limits on what threatened to become a gigantic system of permanently suppor...

The next step was to order from the United States of America 100,000ℓ. worth of Indian corn. It was considered that the void caused by the failure of the potato crop might be fi...

The Treasury was authorized by the 1 & 2 Wm. IV, c. 33, passed in 1831, to lend money to private individuals for the improvement of their estates, provided the value of the esta...

Bengal 8,200 Bombay 2,976 Madras 1,150 Ceylon 718 Hong Kong, 18th Royal Irish 82 Mobile, U. S. 192 Toronto, C. W. 300 England, including 200ℓ. from Lord John Russell 302 -------...

The Irish have been disabused of one of the strangest delusions which ever paralysed the energies of a naturally intelligent and energetic people. Those who knew the country bes...

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£ s. d. Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen [A]2,000 0 0 H. R. H. Prince Albert 500 0 0 Her Majesty the Queen Dowager 1,000 0 0 His Majesty the King of Hanover, as Duke of Cumbe...

There is no subject of which a merely one-sided view is more commonly taken than that of Emigration. The evils arising from the crowded state of the population, and the facility...

[22] The following extract from Captain Mann’s Narrative, descriptive of what took place at this period in the county of Clare, will be read with interest: “The early culture of...

[64] The same results appeared in those parts of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden, in which the subdivision of the land has been carried to the greatest extent. The foll...