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ON THE CONDITION OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER.

pass through them, while he himself is engaged in poaching the surface by ploughing it in wet weather, without seeing that it is his own act that upholds the water.

I trust I may be allowed to close my remarks with an acknowledgment of the assistance I have received from numerous correspondents; among them I may mention Mr. Lawson, of Northumberland; Mr. Briggs, of Yorkshire; Mr. Skelton, of Lincolnshire; Mr. George Jackson, of Cheshire; Mr. Charles Howard, of Beds; Mr. Squarrey. of Wilts; Mr. Morris and Mr. Castree, of Gloucestershire; the Rev. Prebendary Brereton; Mr. Sturge, of Bristol; Mr. Fowler, of Bucks; Mr. Mechi; the Rev. J. Y. Stratton; Mr. Charles Whitehead, of Kent; Mr. Whitting, of Cambridgeshire; Mr. Hagger, of Liverpool; and Mr. James Webb, of Worcestershire.