Perhaps you are not aware of the remarkable document, on the subject in question, which has recently gone its rounds in this country.

It is called-- "'A RECEIPT TO MAKE A FORTY SHILLING FREEHOLDER.' "'Take the poorest Irishman you can get, he must be destitute and ignorant, for then he will be slavish, give him a mud cabin, but no education; let the former be a bad model of an indifferent pig-stye, and held at thrice its value.

Put him to repose on a comfortable bed of damp straw, with his own coat and his wife's petticoat, for bed-clothes.
Pamper him on two half meals of potatoes and point per day--with water _ad libitum_.

For clothing--let him have a new shirt once every three years--to give him exercise and keep him clean--a hat once in every seven, and brogues whenever he can get them.

His coat and breeches--lest he might grow too independent--must be worn upon the principle of the Highlander's knife, which, although a century in the family, was never changed, except sometimes the handle and sometimes the blade.