8 DISCUSSION ON THE NATURAL LIMITS TO OCCUPATION. 



make this very advantage a lever to depress ordinary wages. 



HIS EXCELLENCY, in moving a vote of thanks to the 

 gentlemen who had contributed papers, said he had listened 

 to very many interesting papers, but he did not think he ever 

 listened to any paper with such interest as the one delivered 

 by Mr. Johnston. It was a subject he had thought a good 

 deal on himself. He had never heard or seen it treated in 

 the same way as Mr. Johnston had done, and he hoped when 

 completed tlie paper would have a very wide circulation 

 indeed. Iq an article in a recent number of the Nineteenth 

 Century, Mr. Johnston referred to the point slightly 5 but 

 he had dealt with it that night in such a strong way that he 

 had really advanced the scientific basis of the subject. Of 

 course, there was a great deal to be said on the other side ; 

 but he held that Mr. Johnston had really taken a step 

 forward in the consideration of the subject. As regarded 

 Mr. Taylor's paper, he was sure they had all listened to it 

 with great interest. The explanation he had given was very 

 clear, and he had no doubt his object would be fulfilled if the 

 general attention of the mining public was directed both to 

 the advantages and drawbacks of this description of timbering. 

 (Applause). 



