text:  If two millions of Irish labourers are working at sixpence a-day each and two millions more of human beings in the Emerald Isle are in a state of destitution it is a poor compensation for such a dreadful state of things to observe that some hundred Irish noblemen or absentee proprietors are spending ten or twenty thousand a-year each amidst the luxuries of London Paris or Naples; and that they sometimes extract five or six guineas an acre from their starving tenants