text:  And though at first sight this exemption would seem to benefit only the wealthier classes still when we find as is certainly the case that it enables the Irish gentry to keep much larger establishments than men of similar fortune could attempt to do in this country; that consequently more persons are employed as servants; that it enhances the value of horses by increasing the demand for them; that it also greatly adds to the number of carriages used and of course to the employment of the artisan--we must admit that it has no slight influence on the condition both of the tradesman and the agriculturist