250 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Azan i 
1 S n. whan ee 
ties. It may beall very well, and very necessary irrelevant honour of tracing er 70 yenis — 7 5 1 er aes! eae Pergo: 2 they stil 
for a few years of one's life to are breath över [graphy and 8 e for 60 or en, ho used population in the whole: wor ids ad, and worst 
hotbed of Corn-law Pen but comes inex- ; might is new amazement an J onied gentry bore the character of he} and ve 
paun at oe at last, to find e r opie of hus- that Nature had thought of . Pesio or indus- e nif ai r the ta f ing, in general, 
bandr arped away ropa its simple bearings by the try, before there was ever a Parliament, a national aud draihern wien ene 3 their country, 
bias of conflicting opinions on a question not neces- | debt commissioner, or a charity trustee, in existence. therefore residence, er piti re OÈ OEE ring where 
sarily connected with the art or business ; and w gain, there are who are andacious enoug to el ? 105 ever hu were more desirable, and a 
meanwhile robs discussion of much of its e that had farming had fewer relations ith Parlia- culated to pr e ce a greater proportionate agg 
and all its amenity. ment, it might possibly have the independence | benefit than elsewhere. of 
While attending, during the year 
of the Commissioners =A Nati ee King EB 
n|the agricultural lectures and the ecu oper 
ae on at their educational model farm tions 
ublin, under the ir 
There was a time when it was said that he who 
was 4 
covere 
if x Mr. Mren, Mr. 
lately towa — Mr. Sheers for adven wen “their dif- 
ferent improvements or sugges 
ing world, and ate riving to direct and cheer on the 
struggling van of British 3 against a trial 
and a competition — tedly severe, but which 
they were able to foresee was as undoubtedly des- 
tined to be faced, and eventually overcome 
0 ‘then re was a à corresponding _ of 
untry, then 
on the e question of the . 
of the Bounty be of 5s. a a ge to 
exporter upon every N shippe om 
The tink was that population seal trade 
ad increased at home; and the price in the ia 
market made it no longer profitable to send the co 
elsewhere, without the ‘ Tany beaa ; 
called, of a bounty o 
h : 
8 
payers, ( 
cluded,) apan the enlightened mler of the me 
man who cut off the top of his bla tosew it on 
more | ments 
stions before the farm- | 0 
our 
under the land, had apart from 
— e mercies of the l b Who 
wned ae Freehold they made the laws for. 
personal representatives, ree 
inte rchange of the commodity itself, ave Tou ago 
those blessed 
evaporated in the same direction whic 
pseudo- sorm ‘John Doe and Richard Roe’ have 
lately take 
this ae ple are beginning to think, or, rather, 
as they cease to believe in the oration of ex 
—_— Te Let agriculture once ri ve that it 
can stand wn feet, once feel that it 
N is scanding, without help from anybody, 
that it oceupies an honest, err ser self-relying 
position of its own—and it egin Me look 1 
it in a t fea 
to the bottom, as a remedy against eae with his 
feet uncovered. 
But we are scarcely free to smile at anything yet 
\ 
in th 
have everything to learn, in regard to 
we may think ourselv It is 
= its fate Ret time 
and o 
du tice j 34 bounties here, prohibitions there, now to 
rotect the 
n time 
agricultural has been kept perpetually broken and 
the trunk dwarfed and dwindled, othe great dpe 
= of Jorge and commer 
grown up in this ae into a aie re 
of sách 8 that they have overshadowed 
the whole name an — of 
e find the lan 
er-laid, . with duties out and zu 
, pending a few and subsequent Tiis 
to most of een precious balms by which the head |! 
carrie 
British 3 Í, wealth, and enterprise, to the 
realms land where . to 
supply, psy products of art or nature to offer in in 
w 
The say that had British 
k prior in ae 5 . 15 the leading-strings 
i 
To the men of 
thing, by in ees 
nd, and a 
ost auspicious of individual En ao 
wou 
, | has been “til within the last few years, and what the 
i0 
conten 
3 Lage 
sition to tra either one or the other home to its 
3 & a can ALEXANDER do for 
out of my sunshine,” 
direeted energies, the cal mischief and disap- 
e | po ointment resulting À sa erroneous beliefs and ex- 
ons, and, — of all, the poverty of invention, 
that univ ralyse a business fostered by ex- 
trinsic aid, and 8 to s reliances, 
ings not a those who 
ntly that necessity is the mother of |i 
— 
' bids officious 
and the go-ca we should not h to h 
| that th reer rt ave now of th ear 
a class, i in arrear the g culture ce the m 
ment in the direction of simplifying the Transfer of 
tl nis t underlie | Land, one that h 
y ol hina or to i the |t 
. discovery, flooding 
entally thrown at his feet. 
eat, who say this; and more: 
that bat apd blinding and. 9 drugs of the 
— nurse, we learnt, before this 
ten on 
average) crumbling off during the co: Asas into 
the hand of the conveyancer, and without its under- 
mers’ and 
: wise ; for modern experie 
Her rio: if it have not proved aiid e 
sand directions the fact that impediments | 
sed restrictions which make business expensive and 
wW 
à e hand of og — that bloc 
one. 
; re to the landowner and the eet C. 
you 
x nee set on foot a subscription Irish 
emal igration. I will rie mention that I quitted | 
s diplomati a li 
ong been foreseen, by observers of 
this class, as the first that would arise, be 
irresistible because it is natural and spontaneou 
1 1 nd uestion; it affects the 
whole fabric of cultivation, regarded either as a home 
industry, o competition between nation an 
tition. It would be strange 1 if any cause 
i ks up capital from investment in the 
soil, and arrests the free e of the raw ma- 
terial Hes supplies every si the farmer deals in, 
be Id not be found pregna — a to his 
snare as important as those it b on the sur- 
N. H. 
EMIGRATION TO CANADA. 
I etapty avail myself of your kind permission te 
eray you a letter on the subject of emigration, to 
n of the ¢ a under whic i 
r the purpose of 
raisin 
com e industrious poor; 
my conviction that, 
had r 
by aati er means by 
mainly by m 
and wa s delighted at the report o 
oad dep 
promise, e 
ship-load w 
bodily suffering and 
But 
o think about thinking, oe — in propor rtion 
f 
e for som 
what the 
ou 
ef an art with the * 
10 
wilful ill treatment at different 
0 
main ords, a 
nd was 
continue fro no 
conversion . Bete 
I was the 
t 
e aie out "of t 
refore convince 
e years to come to 
legitimate means the N n 
the country, as the bes 
— = 1 oat of 
the try. Icon 
hension adad sayna 
interests of the country, it w 
the wages of 
apre 
ald b 
ang w 
A 
when the w 0 
armers’ houses in county C 
lave, whic 
t g. to 245, a year and their food, should hav 
ar, and of day labourers from 6d. to 
8 
Per day. 
mployment, on the 
radically beneficial act 
estates would be increasing g the 
3 of such assistance 
a certain sum to m 
y bro 
jose 8 ong We his . 
te 47 perso 5 
having waited five months wi 
I determin ed- on ascertaini 
servatio 
agate om 
tradictory reports having reach 
t that a comfortable 
Seed there with. barely any ex 
whereas up to a short time 
ment was easi — yet 
the monster — ion in 
market w . 
diffientt. = be Gaia by a poo 
ly engaged my 
the largest e 
t mode of bettering the 
those who should re 
idered that, as de 
oul 
ploying — — and a b y trough the 
independence WaS 
exertion, ativi 
back remune 
ow, 
the coun 
emigrant Y 
Commander A. Page, 
the in 
a 
unless extensive em ee. were 
urse to, it was perfectly hopeless to expect thay 
ous emigrants, 
every successive ship- 
ing 2 unhappy Ireland to the land o 
ned to think how many of each such 
ure much mental and 
of their journey, 
res» the livers of , passenger 
use and forw 
and by 
the inability of the employing class bs pe employme 
nu 
calculated ontinu 
increase, the — stress, whieh Ay 5 weh = 
use, 
to Grass, 
ye 
of poor perso 
e mbit 
women at servic 
Jam 
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Masel 
than had ever 
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ed thatit — still be advisable 
romote very 
e 
Cie 
now 
have been mind 
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