an, and Donegal. The yearly rental of these
districts is some four millions; if the Government give the
landlords twenty years' purchase, it would cost eighty millions,
which at three and a half per cent. would give a yearly interest
of L2,800,000, of which L2,500,000 could be recovered; the lands
would be Crown lands; they would be administered by a Land
Commission, who would be supplemented by an Emigration
Commission, which might for a short time need L100,000. This
would not injure the landlords, and, so far as it is an
interference with proprietary rights, it is as just as is the law
which forces Lord A. to allow a railway through his park for the
public benefit. I would restrain the landlords from any power or
control in these Crown land districts. Poor-law, roads, schools,
etc., should be under the Land Commission.

"4. For the rest of Ireland, I would pass an Act allowing free
sale of leases, fair rents, and a Government valuation.

"In conclusion, I must say, from all accounts and my own
observation, that the state of our fellow-countrymen in the parts
I have named is worse than that of any people in the world, let
alone Europe. I believe that these people are made as we are,
that they are patient beyond belief, loyal, but, at the same
time, broken-spirited and desperate, living on the verge of
starvation in places in which we would not keep our cattle.

"The Bulgarians, Anatolians, Chinese, and Indians are better off
than many of them are. The priests alone have any sympathy with
their sufferings, and naturally alone have a hold over them. In
these days, in common justice, if we endow a Protestant
University, why should we not endow a Catholic University in a
Catholic country? Is it not as difficult to get a L5 note from a
Protestant as from a Catholic or Jew? Read the letters of ----
and of ----, and tell me if you see in them any particle of kind
feeling towards the tenantry; and if you have any doubts about
this, investigate the manner in which the Relief Fund was
administered, and in which the sums of money for improvements of
estates by landlords were expended.

"In 1833 England gave freedom to the West Indian slaves at a cost
of twenty millions--worth now thirty millions. This money left
the country. England got nothin