SYSTEM OF EMIGRATION RECOMMENDED, Ixv 
dulged, that the Home Government would not 
be backward in recognising, and in acting upon 
a principle, the soundness of which has been felt 
and acknowledged in all ages, but the chief dif- 
ficulty of which rests in its judicious application. 
I allude to a system of emigration. Sure I am 
that if it were well organized, and care were 
taken to profit by the experience of the past in 
similar attempts, it could not fail to be attended 
with ultimate success. The evils resulting from 
a surplus population in an old community, were 
never more seriously felt than in Great Britain 
at the present moment. Assuming that the 
amount of surplus population is 2,000,000, the 
excess of labour and competition thus occasioned, 
by diminishing profits and wages, creates, it has 
been said, an indirect tax to the enormous extent 
of 20,000,000?. per annum. It has appeared to 
many experienced persons, that it is in emigra- 
tion, we should best find the means of relief from 
this heavy pressure ; particularly if the indivi- 
duals encouraged to go out to the colonies were 
young persons of both sexes, from the industrious 
classes of the community. Even if no more than 
three couples were induced to emigrate from each 
parish in England in ten years, the relief to the 
