painfully obvious to every tr in ireland yet i have chosen to pass them over lightly and hurriedly and shall not to them they are in the main sufficiently well known to the civilized world and apart from suggestions of their contemplation can neither be pleasant nor profitable i will only add here that though in spite of poor laws and union poor houses there are still much actual want suffering and in ireland yet the beggars here are by no means so numerous nor so as in italy though the excuses for are far greater what propose now to bring under hasty review are the principal plans for the removal of ireland s woes and the of her of into independent and comfortable i shall speak of these in succession beginning with the oldest and closing with the that has come under my observation and first then of the hope of obtaining from the british crown and parliament the concession of a separate of m their o vn seems nearly to have died out of the hearts of the irish millions the death of o deprived the measure of its advocate famine and other dis followed and projects of have since to a great extent it in the popular mind yet it is to day most palpable that such a is of the highest moment to the national well being and that its concession would work the greatest good to ireland without injury to england nay i see fresh reasons for my hope that such concession is far nearer than is generally imagined on all hands it is perceived and that the amount of required by the vast widely scattered and constituted portions of the british empire is too great to be properly affected by any body parliament is just closing a long yet leaving very much of its proper business untouched for want of time and that to ireland is especially neglected then it has just passed a most unwise and act with regard to the titles of the catholic which because every act of parliament must extend to ireland unless that country is expressly excluded is allowed to operate there though the bad reasons given for its at ah have no application to that country while the it will do there are ten times greater than all it can effect in great britain had ireland a separate parliament no british minister would have been mad enough to propose the extension of this act over that country where it is certain to excite and arouse and the march of national and social improvement an irish parliament with powers and duties akin to those of an american state would be a great relief to a british and a great support to irish loyalty and irish improvement and no harm to any body these truths seem to me so palpable that i think at they cannot long be disregarded but that some one of the political changes frequently in great britain will secure to ireland a restoration of her domestic neither canada nor any other british colony can show half so good reasons for a domestic � tenant the agitation for tenant right in is destined to fail � in fact has failed already the imperial parliament will never that right nor will any constituted and yet the demand has the and strongest basis of natural and eternal justice as any fair mind must confess what is that demand simply that the creator of a new value shall be entitled to that value or in case he is required to surrender it to another shall be paid a fair and just equivalent here is a farm for instance whereof one man is recognised by law as the owner and he lets it for three lives or a specific term of years to a for ten fifteen or twenty shillings per acre the tenant it it pays the rent and it at the close of his term he is found to have built a good house on it instead of the old he found there while by and he has doubled its productive capacity and consequently its annual value he wishes to cultivate it still and offers to renew the lease for any number of years and pay the rent but no says the landlord you must pay twice as much rent as hitherto why so because the land is more valuable than it was when you took it certainly it is but that value is wholly the fruit of my labor � it has cost you c n t help that sir you improved for your own benefit and with a full knowledge that the value would to me on the of your lease so pay my price or clear out v � is this right the law says yes but justice says no public good says even more no the laws of the land should encourage every to improve the land he holds to capital and employ labor upon it so as to increase its value and productive capacity from year to year but the law of the british empire improvement and the employment of labor by taking the product from the and giving it to the landlord yet the landlord influence in parliament is so so overwhelming that no no even of this great wrong is probable and every demand for it is by a senseless against still the agitation for tenant right does good by the popular mind with some idea of the monster evil and wrong of the of land � an idea which will not always remain is now proceeding with gigantic strides and is destined for some time to continue i think a full third of the present population of ireland are anxious to leave their native land and will do so if they shall ever have the means before better prospects are opened to them are constantly with at all the principal ports 