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commercial and manufacturing classes the same. 

 These may appear large figures, viewing them 

 in the gross ; but when subdivided among those 

 whose industry they are presumed to reward, 

 they are no larger than our present deplorable 

 condition demands. This scheme naturally 

 divides itself into two branches first, the re- 

 formation of our agricultural labourers; and 

 second, the reformation of our manufacturing 

 and commercial ones. 



1. The reformation of our agricultural la- 

 bourers, alluding principally to Ireland and the 

 Highlands of Scotland. On the very threshold 

 of the matter we are met by many jarring 

 elements. We proposed the circumstances of 

 the farm servants of England and the Lowlands 

 of Scotland as a common standard ; but when 

 we enter the domestic circle, and witness the 

 food, household accommodation, and general 

 management of the one ; and the food, house- 

 hold accommodation, and general management 

 of the other, we perceive differences which 

 cannot be reconciled. A change somewhere 

 is demanded, and the demand is responded to 

 by the interest of the landlord, the tenant, the 

 labourer himself, and the whole body of the 



