Harper's weekly . reason that out of the sovcilillions of acres in tlio United Kingdoi i in.,] Id I Mi| had fewer hands to teed than. only ;jOD,Oi)()persons were engaged in agriculture, out ofthirty of , and that of the ions of acres might he cultivated with advantage, giving employment lo one million fanners andsupport to their families, amounting to say fivemillion persons. The wages of agricultural la-bor in England, ho said, were 12s., 10s., 9s., :Minij,titn),u per year, llo in,wcd that if these were not opened for cultivation there was


Harper's weekly . reason that out of the sovcilillions of acres in tlio United Kingdoi i in.,] Id I Mi| had fewer hands to teed than. only ;jOD,Oi)()persons were engaged in agriculture, out ofthirty of , and that of the ions of acres might he cultivated with advantage, giving employment lo one million fanners andsupport to their families, amounting to say fivemillion persons. The wages of agricultural la-bor in England, ho said, were 12s., 10s., 9s., :Minij,titn),u per year, llo in,wcd that if these were not opened for cultivation there wasno resource for the people, as the channels of-manufacturing industry were full, and England manufactures wiihonl I the wagi-xif 1; All. Calhocn, in one of the stirring spcc< !:,?-iade by him in the early stages of the war ofS12 with Great Britain, against the policy of : Niagara is in full view of the peojand. So many propheeic* about tnglish power have been made in our . r instead of indulging in conjecturi. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. . FOREIGN NEWS. [lolicy is readied. But a prolonwithout decisive result would v, ; important part of the CongrcioiialI guiciation n.|a:n:(; he ledurrion of CONSERVATIVE PLANS. Eit declaring that the State govcrnn cm the l; .. Northern .-1 tlio rn -ays of Blumi profound politico w i»iud, by the present generation, (Mliu: midline itiidyilnmtl HARPERS WEEKLY. [December 7, 1867.


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