ABSTRACT
At the Hall of Science, Campfield, Manchester, a large 48-year-old Irishman with a rich baritone voice rose to his feet on 7 March 1842. ‘I am going’, he told his audience, ‘to propound to you a subject which is somewhat novel.’ There was no novelty in the title of the lectures: The Land and its Capabilities and What is the remedy for our grievances? 398 for considering the extensive propaganda which had been going forward during the previous decade his claim was, to say the least, presumptuous. 399
