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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... increase , are circumstances so alarming , as to induce us to approach and lay before your Lord- ship the following facts , in the hope that a well - con- sidered and comprehensive system of Colonization may speedily be devised , more ...
... increase , are circumstances so alarming , as to induce us to approach and lay before your Lord- ship the following facts , in the hope that a well - con- sidered and comprehensive system of Colonization may speedily be devised , more ...
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... increase , and the burden of maintaining the poor is augmenting in a still more rapid proportion . During the last ... increased , property is encumbered , and charity exhausted , in an endless and hopeless endeavour to overtake ...
... increase , and the burden of maintaining the poor is augmenting in a still more rapid proportion . During the last ... increased , property is encumbered , and charity exhausted , in an endless and hopeless endeavour to overtake ...
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... increases at the rate of nearly a thousand souls a - day , or , assuming the pauperism at the rate afforded by public returns , 180 paupers are added daily , making an increase of 65,000 yearly to the mass of destitution in the United ...
... increases at the rate of nearly a thousand souls a - day , or , assuming the pauperism at the rate afforded by public returns , 180 paupers are added daily , making an increase of 65,000 yearly to the mass of destitution in the United ...
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... now retarded in its beneficial career , only by the want of that of which we have a ruinous abundance , viz . , labour . The import of Australian wool has , in a few years , L increased from a single bale of 250 lbs . 8.
... now retarded in its beneficial career , only by the want of that of which we have a ruinous abundance , viz . , labour . The import of Australian wool has , in a few years , L increased from a single bale of 250 lbs . 8.
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... increased from a single bale of 250 lbs . to the pre- sent supply of 21,000,000 lbs . , and if labour be adequately ... increasing want of cotton , and growing fears of a precarious supply . We abandoned our cotton fields in the ...
... increased from a single bale of 250 lbs . to the pre- sent supply of 21,000,000 lbs . , and if labour be adequately ... increasing want of cotton , and growing fears of a precarious supply . We abandoned our cotton fields in the ...
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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.