Excerpt from Letters to Lord John Russell, M. P: On the Further Measures Required for the Social Amelioration of Ireland The remedies as yet applied - valuable as they are to the extent to which they go - cannot be supposed suficient of themselves to overcome the enormous amount of social evils to be contended with. Further efforts must be made. And few days pass without threatening indications of the danger that must attend their longer postponement. With the exception of the Vagrant Act, the Landed Property Act for sanctioning loans to a limited amount to landlords, and one or two others of minor importance, the Poor-law comprised the total of the measures passed in the last session of Parliament for the improvement of that horrible state of society which has long existed in Ireland; which parliamentaryreports and Royal Commissions have more or less disclosed from time to time to the few who chose to attend to them, but which would have remained still unheeded by the directors of public affairs had not the potato blight at once raised its horrors to an intolerable climax, and forced their consideration upon the Legislature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.