Competence in a Colony Contrasted with Poverty at Home: Or, Relief to Landlords and Labourers Held Out by Australian Colonization and Emigration. A Memorial Addressed to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, ..John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1848 - 28 pages |
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... United Kingdom . During the fifteen months that the Relief Board was in operation , 12,900,000 qrs . of grain and flour were imported from abroad into this country , of which 4,900,000 qrs . were consumed in Ireland , principally for ...
... United Kingdom . During the fifteen months that the Relief Board was in operation , 12,900,000 qrs . of grain and flour were imported from abroad into this country , of which 4,900,000 qrs . were consumed in Ireland , principally for ...
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... United States during ten years has aver- aged more than one million and a half sterling annu- ally , whilst the raising the price of land in Australia contrary to the expressed opinion of all the governors and the colonies of New South ...
... United States during ten years has aver- aged more than one million and a half sterling annu- ally , whilst the raising the price of land in Australia contrary to the expressed opinion of all the governors and the colonies of New South ...
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... United States . Thus we are to take the num- ber who have gone to the States at 867,000 , as against 469,000 , or , more properly , a million , as against 336,000 who remain in Canada ; of 1,500,000 who in twenty - two years have ...
... United States . Thus we are to take the num- ber who have gone to the States at 867,000 , as against 469,000 , or , more properly , a million , as against 336,000 who remain in Canada ; of 1,500,000 who in twenty - two years have ...
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... United States , distant three thousand miles , the richest and most productive land can immediately be bought at the fixed price of a dollar per acre . In our own colonies , 16,000 miles hence , the lowest price at which Government will ...
... United States , distant three thousand miles , the richest and most productive land can immediately be bought at the fixed price of a dollar per acre . In our own colonies , 16,000 miles hence , the lowest price at which Government will ...
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... United States takes but 5s . per annum ; and if the passage money to New York be 51. , he cannot repay his passage under twenty years . The United States emigrant therefore requires ten times , and the Canadian nearly three times as ...
... United States takes but 5s . per annum ; and if the passage money to New York be 51. , he cannot repay his passage under twenty years . The United States emigrant therefore requires ten times , and the Canadian nearly three times as ...
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100 emigrants acre adopted advantages afforded alike amount annum Australian wool average Bart Boyd British emigrants Brunswick Canada cent charity Colo colonial funds Colonial Office colonial revenue Colonists COLONIZATION AND EMIGRATION Colonization Circular consumed consumption of British cost cotton fields crease destitution effect emigrants and capital emigrants thither emigrants to Australia emigrants to Sydney empire England estimated expense of sending fifteen months foreign gone gration head of British Hence increase induce Ireland labour and employment labouring classes LORD JOHN RUSSELL lowest calculation maintaining the poor Majesty's Government manufac manufactures MARTIN'S LANE meat ment nearly object one-third outlet passage money pauperism Port price of land Public Burdens relief repay his passage reproductive Scotland send emigrants sider SOUTH AUSTRALIA South Wales square mile starving stream of emigration subsistence sum remitted supply system of Colonization tion tish North America tures United voyage well-con
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Page 14 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him • Arthur Young's Travelt in France, ml. ip 88. } Ibid. p. 51. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 23 - ... subject of colonization must ere long be undertaken by the state as a question of urgent political necessity, and contributions by parliament•will recommend themselves, not more on the grounds of public expediency than financial economy.