Thus we see, that the number of servants and vagrants requiring relief, amounted to within three hundred of the numbers of the agricultural labourers, and that the number of those connected with the possession of land, and who had sought relief on account of termination of leases, non-payment of rent, expulsion because they were tenants-at-will, or temporary distress, amounted to the incredibly small number of seventy-nine.
We ought also to add, that in every instance in which a labouring man is stated in those reports to have entered the houses in a state of ill health, he was discharged at his own request when his health had been re-established. How are the assertions which we hear made every day to be reconciled with facts such as those?
[11] The only difference is that the power heretofore vested in and exercised by the Grand Juries, will, by this bill, be transferred to the Lord-Lieutenant.
[12] Poseidon=Neptune.
[13] Governor-General to the Secret Committee, 2d December 1845.
[14] Governor-General to the Secret Committee, 2d December 1845.
[15] Governor-General to the Secret Committee, 4th December 1845.
[16] Commander-in-Chief to the Governor-General, December 22, 1845.
[17] Commander-in-Chief to Governor-General, 22d December 1845.
[18] Commander-in-Chief to Governor-General, 1st February 1846.