te during the ensuing year; and while we
confidently rely on the exertions of the landed proprietors to protect
this country from the great evils which must follow from such a neglect,
we cannot avoid calling the special attention of Government to the
alarming reports which have reached us on this important subject.

That it is an ascertained fact, that the supply of seed in this country
will be deficient, and to meet this evil we earnestly recommend that
depots for the sale of seed be established by Government.

12. That powers should be given to the Treasury to advance money, by way
of loan, to railway companies that have obtained their acts--such money
to be paid out in making the earthworks of the railway.

That, as there must be a large amount of population dependent for
subsistence, during the year, upon public or private charity, provision
should be made for assisting those to emigrate (with their families) who
cannot be supported in this country, by the exercise of independent
labour.

[With this resolution ended the suggestions for temporary relief; the
remainder regard measures of permanent improvement.]

13. That the direct employment of the great mass of the able-bodied
people by the state, has an unavoidable tendency to paralyse industry,
and to substitute artificial for natural labour.

That any system of relief to the able-bodied that does not lead to the
increase of food, or articles that may be exchanged for food, will
diminish the capital of the country, and that just in proportion as
capital decreases, poverty will increase.

That, therefore, any measures of relief for the able-bodied ought to
have for their object the encouragement of the employment of labour by
private individuals in productive works; and that the efficacy of their
action, as a stimulus to encourage and force such employment, will be
the measure of their utility.

That, in order to place the owners and occupiers of land in a position
in which they can be acted upon by such a stimulus, the whole energies
of the State should be applied to the absorption of surplus labour, to
the affording facilities for private employment, and to the removal of
the impediments that now obstruct it.

14. That, to absorb surplus labour, and at the same time to increase the
food produce of the country, piers and harbours for fishery purposes,
and model curing-houses, with salt depots attached, should be
established along the coast.

That, wit