1. E. G. Wakefield, M.P. Swing Unmasked; or, The Cause of Rural Incendiarism, London, 1831. Pamphlet. The foregoing extracts may be found on pp. 9-13, the passages dealing in the original with the then still existing Old Poor Law being here omitted. [For the meaning of ‘Swing’, see p. 268 below.]
2. The pen-name of Alexander Somerville.
3. Report of the Poor Law Commission on Ireland (Parliamentary Session of 1837).
4. Dr A. Alison, Principles of Population and Their Connection with Human Happiness, 1840, Vol. 2.
5. Thomas Carlyle, The State of Ireland, London, 1807; 2nd edn, 1821. Pamphlet.