VOL. XIV. (2) WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IOI 
National education (done.) 
The diffusion of cheap and good literature (done.) 
A well-organised system of colonization, and especially 
of female emigration (partly done.) 
A wholesome training for the children of misery and 
vice in great cities (partly done.) 
The establishment of Protestant Sisters of Charity, and 
a better order of hospital nurses (done.) 
The establishment of savings’ banks in all small towns 
(done.) 
The abolition of flogging in the army and navy, except 
in extreme cases (done.) 
Improvements in the poor laws (done.) 
Alterations in the game laws (done.) 
Alterations in the criminal laws, such as inflicting the 
punishment of death in far too many cases (done.) 
Execution of criminals within prison walls (done.) 
Alterations in the factory system for the benefit of the 
operative, and especially as to the employment of 
children (done.) 
National works—reproductive if possible—to be under- 
taken in times of peculiar distress. 
The necessity of doing away with interments in crowded 
cities (done.) 
The system of giving allotments of ground to labourers 
(done.) 
The employment of paupers in cultivating waste lands 
(done.) 
The commutation of tithes (done.) __ 
The need for more clergymen, more colleges, more 
courts of law (done.) 
As I have already said, to the Englishman of the present 
day, the England of the times of George the Third has 
become as much a matter of “ancient history” as the 
landing of Julius Czesar, and he can share the reminiscences 
