.. in granting a sixth of that sum for rendering Ireland
prosperous and contented."--_Speech of Lord Stuart de Decies_ at
Dungarvan, recommending the Government to reclaim the waste lands,
November 13, 1846.
[119] Hansard, vol. 154, p. 776.
[120] "I have visited the wasted remnants of the once noble Red Man, on
his reservation grounds in North America, and explored the "negro
quarter" of the degraded and enslaved African, but never have I seen
misery so intense, or _physical_ degradation so complete, as among the
dwellers in the bog-holes of Erris."--_Visit to Connaught in the Autumn
of 1847, by James H. Tuke, of York_.
[121] Ante, p. 158.
CHAPTER VI.
The Labour-rate Act passed without opposition: entitled, An Act to
Facilitate the Employment of the Labouring Poor--Its
provisions--Government _Minute_ explaining them--Heads of
Minute--Rate of wages--Dissatisfaction with it--Commissary-General
Hewetson's letter--Exorbitant prices--Opinion expressed on this head
by an American Captain--The Government will not order food as Sir B.
Peel did--Partial and unjust taxation--Opposition to the Labour-rate
Act--Reproductive employment called for--Lord Devon's
opinion--Former works not to be completed under the Act--Minute of
31st of August--Modified by Mr.
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