The Shasta courier., 1865-10-21
About Ireland.


A Fenian furnishes the San Francisco
Alta with the following facts and figures re-
| lating to Ireland and her connection with
| England, which will be found interesting al
| the present time:
The surface of Ireland contains about
| twenty millions of acres. Six million acre.
| of this area are bog and mountain, worth an
annual rent of five British shillings per acre
Fourteen million acres are arabic and pas
| ture land. worth annually one pound sterling
| per acre. Total annual value of land Of
| Ireland, fifteen and half million pounds
| equal to seventy seven and a half millions OF
| dollars.
OF this vast rental more than one. half is
| drawn over to England annually by English
men, who claim an ownership over the land
of Ireland by fraudulent grant, pretext
or " act" of Parliament, that have their roots
| in the direst. bloodiest crimes that tine world
ever heard of. The rent of this vast area
must be paid by the Irish farmers in agri-
cultural produce. for he manufactures moth
| ing else whether the farmer or his children
starve or 60 half naked or go uneducated, is
not the business of the English gentleman;"
he must have his rent, or the farmer must
go to the poor house, to America, or to the d..
| The above gives you an idea of the Irish
| landlord question.
Next comes the English Government
Through their revenue and customs officers
| they draw from the impoverished people the
enormous revenue of seven million pounds
sterling, equal to thirty five million dollars a
year-seven dollars a head every year from
every human being in Ireland. Spirits, ale,
wines. teas, tobacco, timber, leather. iron,
malt, paper, brick, in short everything that
the poor Irishman uses. has to pay ten,
twenty or thirty per cent to the British
Government ere he can touch. taste or con
sumo. Then next comes the Protestant
Episcopal Church. which costs the Irish
nation one million pounds year, or five
millions of dollars. And then the manufac-
tured goods, most of which come from Eng
land, amount to eight millions sterling a
year, whereby England fixes further drain
On Ireland offul three million pounds year
as profits on the manufactured goods Then
the English banks and English insurance
panies-some thirty Of them-are so
many syphons sucking the hearts blood out
of the poor people.
To sum up the drain from Ireland into
England, ] submit the following statement:
Rents paid to English landlords. e. 800
600 sterling. equal to S37 500, 900: taxes
paid To the English government, 81 ,00G 900
-S35 600, 900; interest to banks on money,
and insurance paid to English companies,
20, 900, ,000-Sl0. .000, ,000 paid to the Es
tablished Church. 9l 600 000-S5 600 900.
Total. Eli 500, ,000-SS7 500, 600
1t will appear from these figures that Ire
land contributes to English opulance the
enormous sum of eighty-seven millions of
dollars every year.
Suppose, then, that the Fenans. acting in
the name and on behalf of Independent
Ireland, shall issue six per cent per annum
bonds, charged upon the aforesaid revenues,
it is worth inquiring how much of debt
could liberated Ireland sustain. | answer.
and say she can borrow and sustain fourteen
hundred millions of dollars, aud pay her
way-a debt equal to one third the debt of
the United States, and nearly one third that
of Great Britain.
The population of Ireland is five and a
half milions-six hundred thousand of
which are Episcopal Protestant, 500, 600
are Presbyterians. the remainder. or about
four millions, are Roman Catholics. OF the
aforesaid number about fifty thousand
Protestant 81 Orangemen" wall take sides
with England in the coming fight, but the
rest of the population will furnish five hun
dred thousand 800. .000) fighting men. every
man of whom, if well led, will risk his life
for his country.