ABSTRACT

Mr. Wilson Gray, 1 brother of Dr. Gray, of the Freeman, and a gentleman who, from a residence of several years in the United States, is entitled to speak with authority on this subject, has, in a letter addressed to Captain Kennedy (late secretary to the Devon Commission), in reply to certain questions concerning the extent to which improving landlords might transplant a portion of the surplus population on their estates in Ireland without risk of suffering to the people sent forth, or of pecuniary loss to themselves, has furnished ample details of a scheme of emigration. The first step is stated thus: –