27 FEBRUARY 1959, Page 18

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MARCH 1, 1834

Evens man in England above the station of a pauper is galled more or less by the burden of the poor- rates; which have gone on increasing year after year, in spite of Parliamentary Cothinittees and speech- making and essay-writing, almost without end. Farms lying waste, and houses untenanted, attest the magnitude of the evil, The absolute necessity of providing some remedy for it, or at least of striving to mitigate its ruinous consequences is acknowledged by all; and even the Government has at last con- descended to make the amendment of the Poor-laws a Cabinet measivis