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ot of grour ati ea fc or cultivat jon. Was not a greater | the labourer a service to induce him to seek employment se- ananimous in its favour, . Day 
anxi ay existing amongst the higher i ps ait to become landed | where; but See me $ a very different case from endeavouring | that the allotment system neds ile fait ed : 
proprietors on a large scale than w hat e witnessed amongst | to a such circumstances around him as would force him | under her manacem 
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d | Soy th that. e Lia should interfere at all with the obli- | got it direct from the landowner, at the rate of 3/. per acre, bens 
gation which lay on individual proprietors. The ditect rin said he was making a large profit from it. 
between the landlord and the poor tenant was the most ben had heard with satisfaction the statement oi z 
ficial to both, and ought by no means to be put an end tS. T his baronet the Home Secretary, and expressed his paate E 
Bill would not interfere therewith. It was only to come into | it. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill, ee 
operation in places where it would be absolutely necessary, | read a first time; and ordered to be reada Second time after 
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the humbler labourers for the posse an allotment. Not mon it surprising that the labourer should cling | right, stating that at one time she had be ah hotea Tecallerted 
only = this feae exist amongst the agricaltur al villa zes, | to Š re were many circumstances ae ae te and for 11 years i ent E” 
dely spread in towas and cities, and particu- i ? iA t th wi X : j 
uring districts. The e system of allotments } É if dri labourer was in favour of the system, Afte count telligeat s 
£ en practically known amongst the hp ate parish, a careless board of guard ians might leave hi him without | | on this snbject in West Surrey, a group of gentleme: pS, : 
villages. But it was only beginning to be known and appre- | relief till too late. _ The man bebe sgem hove cmign ‘ate in search | discussing the subject ina banking-house, W i! remained i 
ciated in rs uring towns and districts. Leeds of and affor : m a i ha a eari $ 
afforded a gr atifving € ample of its good effects, and of the à ni jay L nce. | nions expressed against the ick Pheigi, b rhes hrar $s 
eagemess with which the -Onerenve e classes availed themselves | Starv: oer od c on ae en e he gained his object. | himself for som time i pre of his superiora ne x 
of its benefits, and t ner in which some of the-mill- | For all thes he uld suppose the allot Serek | last he could bear it no longer, and het eke out with “Gen! At f 
owners in that tc 3 hea e ped forward to promete the | system antl far Opposed, because” ‘he refusal of an allotment | men, you may say what yok like, but I know it’s a good plane i 
System was highly creditable to them, more parti rl might make the labourer more ready to migrate. He c rete | for it has made a man of me Being struck with what the 2 
. Mar l and Mr. Gott, who had been the foremost in | tended that, by analogy, the eg lautare were Bound to inter- | man Said, he visited his place, and found he was raising three | 1 
procuring allotments there for their operativ. The le | fere to help the labourer to the attainment of land, The |pigsin his sty, and had a field with æ crop of potatoes; s 
setin Leeds had prove neficial, as showing that the system facilitated the establishment of loan socie- | was at his door a chaise c o men in it, 7 
of allotments was practicable even in large to b np t | ties, where the poor man conld borrow money, and t ney had | bargai h him forsome potatoes, and thi 3 nby : 
her than the agricultural classes. e established savings-banks, where he could lay it up. Upon | four or five rs bef was a common day labourer on les, i 
i nds during the hours of their reig prs aran “they e same principle he conten that they t to afford | a-week, abe then in a condition to be able to refu eth i i 
had finished their labours, and they enjoyed a great gratifica- | th Sco mgr and security in acquiring small | offered 1is potatoes insufficient. The same man showed I 
the other hand, he wo uld be very | him Gothen field, which he was renting, though he had not s 
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that his whole day was passed ps mo loom, so that he could | tual benefit on the working man.—Mr. Mines seconded os Wednesda: fe i NELY asked the Government if ce 
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only work by t ae light of the on. The man, moreover, | motion.—Mr. Hume feared that this measure would hold o sugars, recently arriv a frome New Orleans, the Produce of 
said he was planting his palates, b b moonlight, and he hoped | expectations that could not be realised. He doubted mach Louisiana, and therefore the produce of slave labour, would be © 
to be able to gather them in the same manner, In the large | whether the allotment syste 1 he feared admissible on the same terms as the sug China, 
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had already brought about in Ireland. He also dreaded giving could not at pre: be admitted w 
the parish authorities the power of levying eat re the com- | for which no eppulciaioa had yet been made, 
munity to carry out this system.—Mr. B. Esc was glad to | hesitation in rsh ed that 
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troduced eo p oyren ore or less. But on lookin; „it 
would be that only a sm nall proportion of the great mass ro: 
of landed proprietors had as yet followed this ex ple. There | its having been voluntary i To que: = 
were labourers’ gardens in the immediate vicinity of their own | of the Legislature would do away with this great source of plied that the cost of the w hou of Pi 
residences establish by the large landed proprietors, but the | good. The most beneficial operation of the system had keen | greatly exceed the estimate that is, the whole pet 
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where gardens were given with the cottages, but not called | be 928,9137. He had ev ery reason to believe that th 
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to facilitate as much as possiblatbete gesting land | inthe to put salt on his tail, but it w: 
proposed’ by om hon. friend.—Mr. S. CRAWFORD deita: ‘that baronet had put salt on some 
ents existed in the alterations and fresh di the poverty of Ireland was to be attributed to smail holdings. | supported the 
sitions of the land, oe necessary by the esta- | It was small holdings at exorbitant rents, as in the case sal the | not think the Income-ta 
blishment of such a State. Besides landlords | conacre tenants, that cre the distress of the people. | imposition of addition 
were compelled to coast and prio n give way to the preju- | Where the holdings were direct from the head landlord, and at | He was ready, he said, to Babin 
ices of those with whom were connected as their tenants = fair rent, the works d well, and the people were in | this opinion, because 
or their neigh the pe aimn classes. At the ti mfort. He could mentit 
he had heara of i es where farmers had themselves volun- 
tarily given up portions of their d for the purposes of allo 
ents. The rd also feared the a risk and and 
trouble which w ult is having to receive his ool the sugar d 
Te r gae! t eee er of tenants instead of from — err redaction 
one or two only. » whatever the reasons might be, ti h 
the fact wie prek aie that the landi ria 
ates a e landlords, = ugh alway 
kindly disposed towards the labouri ring clas: se ue arene 
e jority of cases to let o eir efa allot 
ments. There existed ode Stablishing th y the 
institution of voluntary associations, bu e l w 
pe ae et ecretary would bear in mind, that this Bill was 
— of the EARI Y employed in collection of 
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said, in order that "facilities might ve Es for hiring leads On os ane pope divide 
He quite agreed with what ha: ar “iat mo ike anners, | negative . lon 
£ that. wer” landlords voln — und with | continuing aoe for ger years i ger 
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a measure to the House which had Tot iis object the rendering 
of the labouring popula Aes more independent than they were. 
The bill aei Siu ga Aps efect that object, and he 
say of the subject, that no one w. who had tried the system 
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introduce the Bill. On a former ent he asg laap what 
he felt, that from a considera’ gd be totem the sai 
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Teasonable expe couai of any addi- | direct t atio a 
ir comfort, welfare, se Edain ae beregarded | direct fortis nal 
Howes’ with respect and attentio ei a wish for | Income-tax or 
3s. He was disposed ve a uN a considera- | drive capi 
ion to the Bill of the honourable member, and to view it|that this t between five and 
with favour, aid a hope that some apare issue mien amount of was sho 
ores —Mr. Ma 
„purely agricultural district, and he knew cue ditik "the 
hr, and except m e height of the corn and hay harvests, 
considera of labourers were without emplo: 
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labouring classes. consulted many gentlemen, and ROE? i he thoug’ 
i doubt, where there existed a | many ladies too; among others Mrs. Davies Gilbert, and on no } these poin peter and he, 
district it would be doing’ subject of equal magnitude had he ever found the testimony to direct: 
