Society of Friends in London,
and interest 39,249 19 11
_____________ 159,063 15 4
Indian Relief Fund 13,919 15 2
National Club, London 19,928 12 2
Wesleyan Methodist Relief Fund,
London 20,056 14 4
Irish Evangelical Society, London 9,264 9 9
Baptists' Relief Fund, London 6,141 11 2
Ladies' Irish Clothing Society, London 9,533 4 0
Less received from British Association,
&c. 5,324 12 11
_____________ 4,208 11 1
Ladies' Relief Association for Ireland 19,584 0 9
Less received from Irish Relief
Association and for sales of
manufactures 7,659 6 7
_____________ 11,924 14 2
Ladies' Industrial Society for
encouragement of labour among the
peasantry 1,968 12 8
Less received from Irish Relief
Association 1,500 0 0
_____________ 468 12 8
Belfast Ladies' Association for the
relief of Irish Distress 2,617 1 6
Belfast Ladies' Industrial Association
for Connaught 4,615 16 1
There were also two collections in
Belfast for general purposes, the
amount of which exceeded 10,000 0 0

CHAPTER XVII.

TENANT-RIGHT IN ULSTER.

The Earl of Granard has taken a leading part in the movement for the
settling of the land question, having presided at two great meetings
in the counties in which he has large estates, Wexford and Longford,
supported on each occasion by influential landlords. He was the first
of his class to propose that the question should be settled on the
basis of tenant-right, by legalising and extending the Ulster custom.
A reference to this custom has been frequently made recently, in
discussions on the platform and in the press. I have studied the
history of that province with care; and I have during the year 1869
gone through several of its counties with the special object of
inquiring how the tenant-right operates, and whether, and to what
extent, it affor