ANALYSIS.
CHAPTER I.
The counts in the indictment against the landlords of Ireland, pp. 2, 3—The prosperity of the emigrant, 4—The former condition of the Irish labourer, 5—The present supply of labour, 6—The casual labourer, 7—Conversion of cottiers into labourers, 8—Excess of labour supply in 1846, 9—Proportion of cultivators to area cultivated, 10, 11—More cultivators are still employed than is compatible with their proper remuneration, 12, 13—The consequences considered, if no outlet had existed for the surplus population, 14, 15—Emigration no longer so imperative a necessity, 16—No extraneous influence should be used to divert the present occupying class from their avocations, 17—The effect of the potato on population, 18—The failure of the potato restricted population, 19—Present rate of increase of the nation, 20—The prospects of the rising generation, 21—Emigration from Germany, 22—Emigration suggested by Sir G. Lewis, 23—The effects of emigration on rent and on rate of wages, 24, 25—The momentum emigration may acquire, 26—The present supply of labour and waste lands, 27—Improvement has been compatible with emigration, 28—The effect of emigration on British manufacture, 29—The effect of emigration on the British army, 30—Emigration and the love of home, 31—The whole earth placed at man's disposal, 32—Checks on population, 33—Colonization, 34—Sir G. Lewis on emigration, 35—Tables on emigration, ib.—Money remitted by emigrants, 36—The labourer and the cottier in 1834, 37—Small farms v. large, 38—Plough v. spade, ib.—Pay of the labourer and soldier, 39—Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, 40—Protestant and Catholic emigration, 41, 42—Reclamation of waste lands, 43—Emancipation of the Dorsetshire labourer, 44—Mr. Girdlestone and the Dorset labourer, 45.
