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otherwise could have done by their own un- 

 aided efforts, even had they left this country 

 journeymen, and which to themselves would be 

 comparatively valueless but to the mother 

 country of infinite value, as she could dispose 

 of it to a different class of emigrants possessing 

 capital, whose settlement in the colony would on 

 the other hand be of infinite value to them ; thus 

 conferring a twofold benefit upon both parties. 



At present the settler is left to fight single- 

 handed against every opposing element which a 

 strange land and climate throws in his way. 

 No attention is paid to the balance of the 

 different branches of industry. The expense 

 of labour is such as almost to exclude manu- 

 facturing and commercial industry at least from 

 entering the field on equal footing with that of 

 the mother country. Both countries, strange to 

 say, are actually suffering from two opposite 

 extremes which always ought to balance each 

 other. At home labourers are idle and starving 

 for want of bread, while in our colonies masters 

 cannot find servants nor mouths to consume 

 even the agricultural produce of their own 

 labours. 



This extraordinary and unpardonable state of 



