text: ) In that article we stated that in addition to his rent the English occupier is subject by law to the payment of tithes which in many instances amount to more than the entire rent imposed on the Irish tenant; and that by recent enactments the payment of the Protestant church has been transferred from the Irish tenantry to the landlords nine-tenths of whom are Protestants; that the English tenant pays _all_ the poor-rates while the Irish tenant is only called on to pay the _half_; and that while the former is subject to county and parochial rates in addition to turnpikes which are a heavy burden the latter pays only the county cess the amount of which depends very much on his own conduct