That.)vhich for five and twenty years had been awanting. a currency commensurate to the increased numbers and transactions of the civilized world. was now supplied by the beneficent hand of nature. The era of a contracted currency. and consequent low prices and general misery. interrupted by passing gleams of prosperity. was at an end. Prices rapidly rose. wages advanced in a similar proportion. exportsand importsenormnously increased. while crime and imisery as rapidly diuinished. emigration itself. which had reached 368.00 persous a year. sank to little more than half the amount. Wheat rose from 40s. to 6:is.: but the wages of labor of every kind advaiced in nearly as great a proportion. they were found to be about 30 per cent. higher. on an average. than they had been live years before. In Ireland the change was still greater. and probably unequaled in so short a time in the annals of history.
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