PREFACE. 



THE following Essay is intended to present a 

 brief outline of the present depressed state of 

 British Industry, and the necessary steps which 

 must be taken, in order to effect an improvement. 

 The object which the author has in view in 

 laying it before the public is, to turn atten- 

 tion into the proper channel, especially the 

 attention of that class of the community for 

 whose benefit his pen is more particularly en- 

 gaged, viz. Farmers' sons. Reference is made 

 in the concluding paragraph to a larger work 

 which now occupies his attention, where the 

 requisite information on the different subjects 

 which the present small one embraces will be 

 given in detail. 



W. BURNESS. 



41. Upper Albany Street, Regent's Park. 

 London, August 18. 1848. 



