From Table E. we saw that, during 1864, of £4,368,610 of total profits,
 three surplus-value makers pocketed only £262,819; that in 1865, however, out
 of £4,669,979 total profits, the same three virtuosi of
 “abstinence” pocketed £274,528; in 1864, 26 surplus-value makers
 reached to £646,377; in 1865, 28 surplus-value makers reached to £736,448; in
 1864, 121 surplus-value makers, £1,076,912; in 1865, 150 surplus-value makers,
 £1,320,906; in 1864, 1,131 surplus-value makers £2,150,818, nearly half of the
 total annual profit; in 1865, 1,194 surplus-value makers, £2,418,833, more than
 half of the total annual profit. But the lion’s share, which an
 inconceivably small number of land magnates in England, Scotland and Ireland
 swallow up of the yearly national rental, is so monstrous that the wisdom of
 the English State does not think fit to afford the same statistical materials
 about the distribution of rents as about the distribution of profits. Lord
 Dufferin is one of those land magnates. That rent-rolls and profits can ever be
 “excessive,” or that their plethora is in any way connected with
 plethora of the people’s misery is, of course, an idea as
 “disreputable” as “unsound.” He keeps to facts. The
 fact is that, as the Irish population diminishes, the Irish rent-rolls swell;
 that depopulation benefits the landlords, therefore also benefits the soil,
 and, therefore, the people, that mere accessory of the soil. He declares,
 therefore, that Ireland is still over-populated, and the stream of emigration
 still flows too lazily. To be perfectly happy, Ireland must get rid of at least
 one-third of a million of labouring men. Let no man imagine that this lord,
 poetic into the bargain, is a physician of the school of Sangrado, who as often
 as he did not find his patient better, ordered phlebotomy and again phlebotomy,
 until the patient lost his sickness at the same time as his blood. Lord
 Dufferin demands a new blood-letting of one-third of a million only, instead of
 about two millions; in fact, without the getting rid of these, the millennium
 in Erin is not to be. The proof is easily given.