nationalisation of the land. And Mr. Wallace tells us that if his idea of giving to every man the acre or two of land lie has a right to, were carried out, "the free selection of land for dwellings will induce thousands of persons to reside in the country who are now compelled to live in towns. Every village will at once begin a process of natural growth, and this increased population of the country will afford outlets for thousands of shopkeepers, mechanics, and others who now crowd our towns in ruinous competition. This outflow of the congested populations of the towns ti ill help those that remain in many ways. It will at once lower the rent of houses, raise wages, and also raise profits in all trades by the diminution of competition; while all will benefit by the diminution and final abolition of direct taxes, and of customs and excise duties; by the saving of the cost of millions of paupers, who will become self-supporting and the creators of wealth; by the great increase of the general wealth, owing to several millions of Bands being employed in producing food during hours and days now wasted; by the enormous saving owing to the diminution of drunkenness and crime that will inevitably follow (as it always has followed) the free use of land by the people; and, lastly, by the great economy and the benefit to health of ilia production of food for consumption in the immediate neighbourhood of the producer, instead of first carrying it some hundreds of miles into a great town, and there re-distributing it to time country, which the present system of exclusively large farms necessitates; a series of savings which, combined, will constitute an enormous gain, affecting, not a few individuals only, but every householder throughout the land. These great benefits will directly follow nationalisation as proposed by our society, and