Pilcher, member of Folkestone School Board, and Chairman of Kent and Sussex Labourers' Union:

'That seeing the large number of unemployed and indigent people amassed in our cities and towns, the attention of the Government be urgently directed to the necessity that exists for facilities to enable such people to proceed to and settle in our colonies.'

Since then influential meetings have been held in the London Mansion House and in the Town Halls of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Liverpool and Manchester, and in all cases similar resolutions have been passed. In London and Manchester the resolutions were passed unanimously or nem con., though the Mayor of Manchester, who was in the chair at the latter meeting, spoke several times strongly against the motion, whilst in Newcastle only about a dozen dissentients voted against the resolutions in a crowded meeting.

The National Association for Promoting State-directed Colonisation is organising a series of meetings to be held in all the large

incial towns of England, and

ites

istance, both personal and pecur

to

wards the formation of such a strong pul

favour of State emigration

ay

encourge the Government to bring f

l a

Well

nsider scheme for the alleviation oft

Ed

country.1

tion of our over-populat

Whether there is or is not a demand i the State direction of emigration, of this I a confident, that means must be found, a quickly, to put an end to the fearful

for life which is to be met with in the Eas

at

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e

r

and South of London and in most of ou
towns. The disease has got beyond the
of private efforts, and has assumed proportions
too gigantic to be dealt with by any power
short of a government or a powerful

nor are they likely to acquiesce quietly in Lord Derby's fatalistic theory, that their condition is the inevitable result of economic conditions which are to be deplored but cannot be altered.

Whether the Government like it or not, they will have to take into their serious consideration how best to relieve this deplorable congestion of population in our large towns; and the adoption of some well-considered scheme of State-directed colonisation appears to me the only remedy for effectually dealing with a social malady which, if allowed to continue unchecked, must inevitably end in some fatal national catastrophe.

APPENDIX.

CANADA.

DOMINION LANDS REGULATIONS.

The following Regulations for the sale and settlement of Dominion Lands in the Province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, shall, on

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1st day of Jimary, 1882.

new in force, bet

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1. The surveyed lands of Manitoba and the North-West Territories shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be classified as follows:

CLASS A.-Lands within twenty-four miles of the main line or any branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, on either side thereof.

CLASS B.-Lands within twelve miles, on either side, of any projected line of railway (other than the Canadian Pacific Railway) approved by Order in Council published in the Canada Gazette.

CLASS C.-Lands south of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway not included in Class A or B.

CLASS D.--Lands other than those in Classes A, B, and C.

2. The even-numbered sections in all the foregoing classes are to be held exclusively for homesteads and pre-emptions.

(a) Except in Class D, where they may be affected by colonisation agreements as hereinafter provided.

(b) Except where it may be necessary, out of them, to provide wood lots for settlers.

(c) Except in cases where the Minister of the Interior, under provisions of the Dominion Lands Acts, may deem it expedient to withdraw certain lands, and sell them at public auction or otherwise