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3. Colonisation, comprising the relieving this 

 country of our surplus population, the reduction 

 of our national debt, and the improvement of our 

 colonies. This scheme embraces the industry 

 of all classes of the community, domestic and 

 colonial. 



Hitherto we have been more than brief on 

 every point of the subject touched upon ; and 

 in offering a few practical remarks upon each 

 of those schemes the same cursory mode of 

 treatment must be observed. 



1. The reformation of our labouring popu- 

 lation. From what has been said in a former 

 page it will be perceived that the immediate 

 reformation of this class depends entirely upon 

 the gaining of one point the performance of 

 an additional quantity of agricultural labour 

 by the present number of labourers, principally 

 in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland, so 

 as to restore the balance of industry to a proper 

 state of equilibrium. By obtaining this increase 

 of industry, we obtain at the same time an 

 increase of agricultural produce exceeding in 

 value some 40,000,0007. annually, which enables 

 us to increase the wages [of our agricultural 

 labourers to this amount, and those of our 



