I see many of these poor people in Queenstown every day." "I have made inquiries over and over again in Queenstown and elsewhere, and I never yet heard that a single farmer emigrated and left the country who had a lease." Well might Mr.Heron say, in a paper read before the Irish Statistical Society, in May, 1864: "Under the present laws, no Irish peasant able to read and write ought to remain in Ireland.

If Ireland were an independent country, in the present state of things there would be a bloody insurrection in every county, and the peasantry would ultimately obtain the property in land, as _they have obtained it in Switzerland and in France_." That the Irish people will eventually become the masters of the Irish property, from which every effort has been made to dispossess them, by fair means and by foul, since the Norman invasion of Ireland, I have not the slightest doubt.

The only doubt is whether the matter will be settled by the law or by the sword.

But I have hope that the settlement will be peaceful, when I find English members of Parliament treating thus of the subject, and ministers declaring, at least when they are out of office, that something should be done for Ireland.
Mr.Stuart Mill writes: "The land of Ireland, the land of every country, belongs to the people of that country.

The individuals called landowners have no right, in morality or justice, to anything but the rent, or compensation for its saleable value.