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Table E.

SCHEDULE D. INCOME FROM PROFITS (OVER £60) IN IRELAND.

		1864. £.			1865. £.
Total yearly income of		4,368,610	divided among		4,669,979	divided among
				17,467 persons.			18,081 persons.
Yearly income over £60 and under £100		238,626	{{{1}}}„	5,015 persons„	222,575	{{{1}}}„	4,703 persons„
Of the yearly total income		1,979,066	{{{1}}}„	11,321 persons„	2,028,4712	{{{1}}}„	12,184 persons„
Remainder of the total yearly income		2,150,818	{{{1}}}„	1,131 persons„	2,418,933	{{{1}}}„	1,194 persons„
Of these	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1,083,906	{{{1}}}„	910persons„	1,097,937	{{{1}}}„	1,044 persons„
		1,066,912	{{{1}}}„	121persons„	1,320,996	{{{1}}}„	186persons„
		430,535	{{{1}}}„	105 persons„	584,458	{{{1}}}„	122persons„
		646,377	{{{1}}}„	26persons„	736,448	{{{1}}}„	28persons„
		262,610	{{{1}}}„	3persons„	264,528	{{{1}}}„	3persons„[1]

The depopulation of Ireland has thrown much of the land out of cultivation, has greatly diminished the produce of the soil,^[2] and, in spite of the greater area devoted to cattle breeding, has brought about, in some of its branches, an absolute diminution, in others, an advance scarcely worthy of mention, and constantly interrupted by retrogressions. Nevertheless, with the fall in numbers of the population, rents and farmers’ profits rose, although the latter not as steadily as the former.

1. The total yearly income under Schedule D. is different in this style from that which appears in the preceding ones, because of certain deductions allowed by law.
2. If the product also diminishes relatively per acre, it must not be forgotten that for a century and a half England has indirectly exported the soil of Ireland, without as much as allowing its cultivators the means for making up the constituents of the soil that had been exhausted.