with a swan's neck. A story that seems to belong to
every swan-haunted lake.

But what one railway took from us another has restored much improved. So we
say to all friends, at either end of the lines, take advantage of an
excursion, or express train, according to your means, and go and see what we
cannot at this time describe, and what exceeds all description. For the
hour, you may enjoy Trentham Hall as much as if it were your own, with all
the Bridgwater Estates, Mines, Canals, and Railways to boot. And that is the
spirit in which to enjoy travelling. Admiration without envy, and pity
without contempt.

From Trentham you may proceed through the Potteries. You will find there a
church built, and we believe endowed, by a manufacturer, Mr. Herbert Minton.
And then you may have a choice of routes. But to London the most direct will
be by Tamworth and Lichfield, on the Trent Valley line.

To those who look below the surface, who care to know something about the
workman as well as the work, such a tour as we have traced could not fail to
be of the deepest interest. It embraces the whole course of the emigration
from low wages to higher that is constantly flowing in this country. New
sources of employment daily arising in mines, in ports, in factories, demand
labour; to supply that labour recruits are constantly marching from the
country lane to the paved city.

The agricultural districts of Staffordshire have a population of under two
hundred souls per square mile. The pottery and iron districts of the same
county of over seven hundred. These swarms of men are not had where they
labour, they are immigrants. Take another instance, in Kent and Devonshire,
the wages of farm labourers are eight to nine shillings a-week. In North
Cheshire they are fifteen. The cost of living to the labourer in both places
is about the same; fuel is cheap in Cheshire. What makes the difference in
the demand for labour in Cheshire but the steam-engines?

Towns must be prepared to lodge decently, and educate carefully, children of
rural immigrants, or woe betide us all. It is education that has saved the
United States from the consequences of the tide of ignorant misery daily
disembarking on the Atlantic shores.

Sometimes we hear fears for the condition of farmers under manufacturer
landlords. Those who express these fears must have travelled with their ears
shut. More than seventy per cent. of the great landowners in the g