Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Manner in which Railway Communications Can be Most Advantageously Promoted in IrelandHodges and Smith, 1838 - 213 pages |
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adopted advantage afford allowed amount Armagh Average Number Belfast Berehaven Borris-in-Ossory branch calculated carriages Carrickmacross carried Castleblaney Celbridge cent Clonmel coaches coal Commissioners Company considerable construction conveyance Cork cost crosses datum line direction district Ditto Donaghill Dundalk effect embankment engine Enniskillen Equivalent Number moved established estimate expense extent facilities favourable feet per mile Galway Glengarriff gradients Grand Canal Holycross Holyhead important improvement increase intercourse Ireland Irish Kilkenny Kingstown labour laid land length Limerick limestone line of Railway Liverpool load locomotive London Lough mails Main Trunk Mallow Maryborough miles from Dublin miles per hour Mountrath Mullingar Navan navigation nearly Newry number of passengers obtained Parliament passing port portion present principle probable profit proposed rails Railway communication receipts river road Royal Canal Sallins sections Shannon station steam summit surveys Tarbert thence tion Tipperary tons Total towns traffic Valentia valley Waterford whole Wicklow
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Page 3 - They are a frugal, industrious, and intelligent race, inhabiting a district for the most part inferior in natural fertility to the southern portion of Ireland, but cultivating it better, and paying higher rents in proportion to the quality of the land, notwithstanding the higher rate of wages.
Page 117 - On prudential considerations alone, then, we should not hesitate to recommend an immediate and liberal attention to the claims of Ireland for assistance, which cannot be conferred in any shape more likely to prove beneficial than by encouraging public works of extensive and permanent utility. It is a waste of the public available resources to suffer so large a portion of the empire to lie fallow, or leave it to struggle, by slow advances and with defective means, towards its own improvement, when...
Page 128 - Ireland, though for years past a subject of anxious attention and discussion in public, is REALLY VERY LITTLE KNOWN TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE ; and the disadvantage to both countries, arising from that circumstance, is much greater than is generally supposed.
Page 109 - The country, particularly in the west and south-western counties, is overspread with small but exceedingly crowded communities, sometimes located in villages but more frequently in isolated tenements, exclusively composed of the poorest class of labourers...
Page 3 - ... day ; yet the peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great exertion, often exposed to great privations, ignorant, but eager for 'instruction, and readily trained under judicious management to habits of order and steady industry.
Page 112 - ... of the country, and, consequently, laying a firm and sure foundation of prosperity for the Irish people. " Already considerable progress has been made towards the establishment of a better system of agriculture, and the altered and much improved appearance of the country in many places is owing to the success which has attended those endeavours. But although the land has thus been rendered more valuable, and its produce more abundant, the condition of the labouring poor has not advanced, even...
Page 111 - the lumper' has been brought into general cultivation, on account of its great productiveness, and the facility with which it can be raised from an inferior soil, and with a comparatively small portion of manure. This root, at its first introduction, was scarcely considered food good enough for swine ; it neither possesses the farinaceous qualities of the better varieties of the plant, nor is it as palatable as any other, being wet and tasteless, and in point of substantial nutriment little better,...
Page 51 - come to the conclusion that the two great lines which would open the country in the most advantageous manner, confer the most extensive accommodation at the smallest outlay, and afford the greatest return on capital,
Page 130 - Railways are assuredly, next to the invention of printing, the most powerful instrument of civilization that the ingenuity of man has ever devised. It is difficult, if not impossible, to foresee and define the results which they must, of necessity, at some period produce on the fate of nations.
Page 111 - Ireland at 45,500,000/. ; but taking it at tasteless, and, in point of substantial nutriment, little better as an article of human food than a Swedish turnip. In many counties of Leinster, and throughout the provinces of Munster and Connaught, the lumper now constitutes the principal food of the labouring peasantry ; a fact which is the more striking when we consider the great increase of produce, together with its manifest improvement in quality, which is annually raised in Ireland, for exportation...