Well may the poor Irish come home discontented after they have been to work in England, and see how differently the poor are treated there.

I admit, and I repeat it again, that there are instances in which the landlord takes an interest in his tenantry, but those instances are exceptions.

Many of these gentlemen, who possess the largest tracts of land in Ireland, have also large estates in England, and they seldom, sometimes _never_, visit their Irish estates.

They leave it to their agent.

Every application for relief is referred to the agent.