America and on the Continent of Europe. The proposed plan of removing poor families to the North-west of Canada from Ireland or East London, at the cost of £100 per family, which sum should provide passage to their destination as well as the provision of a dwelling-house and a few acres of land under crop, in anticipation of their arrival, is, I fear, foredoomed to failure, and from causes inherent in human nature. The location for each family must be arbitrarily chosen for them, but men like to choose for themselves; and Mr. B. Brallaghan would soon discover, or imagine, that Mr. P. O'Rafferty's lot was more eligible than his own in respect of wood, water, or other particulars, and he might ask himself, '' Why should I remain here, with a debt of £100 on my shoulders, when by removing near an imaginary line I may cancel my debt and obtain as good land under the homestead laws of the United States?" In any case, the unthrifty and the idle would throw the blame of their failure on those who had induced them to emigrate. The only possible manner in which a large emigration to Canada can be successfully promoted is by making the advantages of a settler's life in that colony sufficient to attract him, in the first place, and also great enough to counteract the formidable competition of the United States."

Mr. G. J. Holyoake ("A Stranger in America," Nineteenth Century, July, 1880) writes : "I learned in America two things never before apparent to me, and to which I never heard a reference at home. First, that the dispersion of unrequited workmen in Europe should be a primary principle of popular amelioration, which would compel greater changes in the quality