Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 22: July-December, 1827 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 22: July-December, 1827

Assured by practical men, - Mr Nimme, the engineer, for enmple,-that a given piece of manual labour cannot be exe cuted more cheaply in Ireland than 5 England or Scotland, where wages are treble their amount with us. My on experience would not go the length of justifying this assertion, but in any case it dees not disprove the capability and willingness of the Irish labourer to act himself with as much industry and elect as others. When placed under the'lilte circumstances, because it is notorious that Ireland supplies everypart of the king's dominion with the hardest-work ing labourers they have. In their deals ings one with another, our people. Hard and over-reaching; they are so little accustomed to the possession of.

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