Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-13
Immigration of English Agrrculturlsts.

| At length, and not before time, some of
! the noblemen and gentlemen of England
! who own large estates are getting fright
| ened at the tide of immigration toward
America, which has for this year set in
| stronger than ever. During the month of
May, Of which twenty-six days are now
over, no fewer than Ia, 900 English Agricul-
tural Iaborers have left Liverpool for the
| United States. This does not include the
| exodus from ireland. Farmers throughout
| the south of England are in despair as to
how their crops will be got in this year. It
is true that the harvest is still far off, but
whole villages are being emptied of their
population. It is something quite new
for agricultural laborers to immigrate
In anything like numbers. But they
have got inIo their heads, and not
without reason, that the chance in your
country for them is even greater and better
than it is for artisans. In many of our
English counties the farm Iaborer never
sees meat more than perhaps once a
month, and then ne can only afford fat
bacon. How can he afford to eat anything
like butchers meat when beef is eight
pence and mutton ten pence pound, and
he has but eleven shillings week wages,
and has, perhaps, seven or eight children
to feed? But you will say, what has all this
to do with fashionable life? [ reply, very
much. The great mass of our nobility and
gentry derive their incomes from their
| landed estates, and if this emigration con-
tinues, which it seems very likely to do,
wages must rise and rents fall in England,
and this, of course, Will create a still
greater comparative wealth for those who
make, or have made, their money by trade.
International IOndO,s) Exhibition 1871
The work of erecting the building, or
rather series of buildings, IN which Is TO be
held the great international London Exhl-
bition in 1871, is being pushed forward with
dispatch, the buildings being in various
stages of progress, and for the most part
nearly up to the roof line. The exhibitions
are to recur annually, the class of exhibits
varying each year. The buildings Will
therefore be of a permanent character.
The main buildings of the exhibition are
two in number, and are located on the
eastern and western arcades which flank
+ the horticultural Gardens. These build
ings are each 600 feet in length,
and 70 feet in width, and two sto-
ries high. The lower stories will be ap-
propriated to the exhibition Of manufac-
lures, tools and machinery, while the up
per stories will be used exclusively for the
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ings, sculpture, bronzes, jewelry, etc. The
total cost of the construction of the build
ings will be about $400, 600. The whole of
the arrangements as regards exhibitors are
devised in most liberal spirit, and when
we state that a shilling will be the probable
entrance fee to the whole of the buildings,
as well as to the Horticultural Gardens
except, of course, at special times-it will
be seen that with regard to the public the
utmost liberality is also manifested. The
buildings and their fittings, etc., will be
paid for by the Commissioners Of the great
London Exhibit on of 1851.