60 AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY 



with either of those shortcomings, and there- 

 fore at once proceed to the Irish Parliament, 

 where the least of them will be found the most 

 suitable figure for its Chancellor's budget. 



From these and previous remarks it will 

 appear obvious, that the improvement of our 

 national industry cannot be effected through 

 the instrumentality of any of those popular 

 schemes which we have just mentioned. A 

 new scheme must be concocted, which will 

 produce the necessary amount of capital and 

 employment that employment must be agri- 

 cultural. British agriculture can only stay the 

 progress of our present calamities and restore 

 the people to a comparative state of industry 

 and well-being. 



The improvement of the industrious habits 

 of the labouring population of Britain, especially 

 of Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland, is 

 evidently a matter of a very different character 

 from what it is generally supposed to be, and 

 one of far greater magnitude, although perhaps 

 less difficult to accomplish, after all, than what 

 may willingly be admitted. That such a refor- 

 mation will soon take place, is not only our 

 wish but confident expectation ; but before it 



