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to remit him half his rent of 60 for a farm of eighty acres, stating 

 that the crops would hardly repay his labour. The rector divided 

 it into suitable lots, and offered it to the surrounding cottagers: they 

 were eagerly taken, and, at Michaelmas day, ftO were paid to a 

 sixpence, for land which had the year before been thrown up 

 at (K). 



We could multiply facts ad infinitum, but our space forbids us ; 

 neither have we been able to enter into such minute details as we could 

 wish. It is to the soil we must look as a means of regenerating our 

 labourers, for again making them happy and peaceable, for again 

 making them large consumers of our home and colonial produce, 

 and, above all for again being moral and independent members of 

 the community, and devoted adherents of their country and her in- 

 stitutions. 



The remedial agencies more particularly applicable to town la- 

 bourers, we are forced to postpone. 



%* A body of valuable facts, on the Allotment System, will be found 

 in the ' Labourer's Friend.' Rivingtons, London, 



SONNETS. BY SIR EGERTON BRYDGES. 



SONNET 1-237. 



WHOM fear we ? Man not abject in his mind, 

 Or cow'd by conscious guilt, is match for man ! 

 Not by the pomp of office man is great 

 Tis but the glitter of the outward vest ! 



Who by the golden gaud is stricken blind 

 Deserves of human dignity the ban : 

 He is a worm in his debased state ; 

 And by the earth, he creeps in, to be press'd ! 



The groveling bosom of the feeble fool 



Is than the worm itself more mean and base : 

 Worms in their lonely paths are free from rule, 

 And to the sunny sky may hold their face. 



But courting still the splendour that he dreads, 

 The abject man the earth in tenor treads ! 



9th October, 1834. 



