LABOURERS' COTTAGES.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I am sure that your readers who are interested in " the cottage question " will be greatly indebted to your correspondents "C. J. H." and " E. S." for their letters on the subject in your impressions of the 6th and the 20th inst. I have long held the opinion that the cottage difficulty will never be solved until agri- cultural labourers are able to obtain such wages as will enable them to pay cottage-rents which will be remunerative to the owners. The letting of cottages at less than remunerative rents is part of the mischievous " benevolent" system which must be swept away, and the sooner the better. Why cannot an agricultural labourer be put in the same position as every other workman, and be enabled to pay a fair rent for the house he occupies?
I should feel under great obligation to your two correspondents, if they would kindly furnish me with any further details which may be available on the subject of their letters to you.—I am,
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