The New York herald., 1879-09-11
must be arrived st-namely. freeing Of the Land
from some OF its encuIubrances.


THE EMIGRATION SCHEMES.
There is another phase OF this question of "Food
rons m ss ye, gong to ts
OF emigration schemes. and emigration schemes on
quite new plan. Joseph Arch was one Of the first
TO direct the attention of agricultural iaborers TO
this means of freeing the labor market aud so
affecting the rate Of wages aud the impetus thereby
gwen TO emigration to Canada and the States had q
good deal TO do in raising the wages OF laborers.
But 1t is never easy for workineman with fam
ny to get together sufficient money to deiray the
cost OF emigration. and 80 many who would other-
wise 20 sept here Tho new scheme overcomes
this difficulty. 1t provides that men wishing to
elnigrate shall contribute regular periods fixed
pay ment to q common fund.- At such times when
sufficient funds on hand a ballot among the SUBJ
scribers will take place for the choice OF emigrants
ANY man who desires can contribute double payment
and take double chance in the ballot. This scheme
Is ooan sm1nS as n
their own to till in England they Will 60 where they
OF that more hardy and independent race. the
Scotch Highlanders. l stated above. who have
been systematically evlcted from their native sraths
and giens for years past. steady emigration to
Canada and the Western States has been gong on
for years. that it impossible to recruit Her
Majesty Highland regiments from the Highlands
themselves. Complaint OF this has been made more
than once. But il you turn your land into rabbit
deer waste what else can you expectf A
loyal. peaceable ani high-spiritcd peasantry have
been driven from their native land, the Jews
expelled from Spain and the Huguenots from
France, to make for grouse, sheep
and deer; ana o.hef Soun'r,es are ;s9rnc enrlsncu
are to blame. But this cannot 90 on forever. The
peaceable patient spirit that country life fosters
does not thrive much i'll towns, where the rubbing
together of nellects and hunger produce any thing
but Job-like patience. friend OF mine, who
is writing novel to be entitled IAN Hungred." has
adopted for tho motto OF it LA lain enIant plus
que femme" which may be indiferen'ly Englished
by the words. "Hunger often brings forth more than
woman" and il appears to me that there is germ
OF deep truth in the aphorsm. Hunger kindled that
widest birth OF the centuries. the French Revolu
ton and there IL telling what may not yet do.
did not intend to revert to this subject of Scotch
land present. but the distress has been great
for year past and is still on the increase lin conse-
quence Of the bad weather. that wonders how
with influence aud III power eau look it and still
say. with blind indifference, 1--WE recommended Her
Majesty to appoint royal commission, aHd she has
been pleased to do 1t will inquire into your
alleged distresscs. and then will consider
remedy.
There are no less than l2.000,000 acres of waste
land In the United Kingdom capable Of profitable
cultivation. OF which 5,95O.000 are in Scotland.
Were the latter cultivated the country might be self
sustaining Yet these kept waste tor the pleasure
OF few men. wnife tens OF thousands are expatri-
sometimes tempted to think that the venerable
Professor Blackie may be right and that IAN agra
rian outbreak would do good" We have had two or
three premonitions of exhausted patience north Of
the Tweed. The government even thought it was
time to be doing something. and promised Game
Law Amendment BILL Nay, they even introduced
it, but then played and daliicd with it until the late
of the season gave them opportunity OF
slaughterng it with the innocents The case this.
The of farmer in Scotland, convicted under the
Night Poaching act, OF killing rabbit outside his
Eate AAd excited lnucn lnulgnatlOn, ana at the
suggestion OF a Scotch member the govern nent
gagged to mitigate the brutal severity OF this by
enacting that when the convicng magistrate was of
opinion that the crime OF killing rabbit at night
was not aggravated bv violence, actual conten,-
plated the penalty might be diminished to that to
which the offender would have been liable had the
horrible crime been committed in the daytime It
will hardly bo credited outside this enlightened
country that under this atrocious Night Poach-
ing act the magistrate in sentencing has no discre-
tion but must condemn to Imprisonment with hard
labor. The government brought in their bill. aud
though the Night Poaching act applies to the whole
country, the mitigating bill applied to Scotland only
Mr.. p. A. Taylor, member for Leicester-that radi-
cal of radicals, we'll known, perhaps, in
America al here-not liking the idea that the
English farmer and laborer might be kicked
and fouted more than their Scotch kinsmen, moved
This agreed to. aud friends of decency and
justice congratulated themselves the fact that at
last little step had been taken toward investi-
eating the shameless atrooity of the Game law code.
But they cheered before they out of the woods
The bill went to the wall with other innocents and
the poaching laws yet unamende1 much to tho
annoyance or the Scotch especially.
AS write the report comes to hand that within
the last weeks lever than seven applications
have been granted to farmers for sequestration in
the Sheriff Court OF Ffeshire and that tho eastern
counties the number of farms the Of being
given up is steadily the increase the occupiers
States where they will only have the weather con-
tend against and not heavy taxes and extortionate
landlords also. 1t is poor consolation, but 1t is
nevertheless true, that now, in days gone by,
England Is suffering from the folly OF unwse legis-
lAtOu.