should slaughter, by the humane and almost painless method of pithing, abundant sheep, swine, oxen, on which occasions well-cured joints and fresh meats should find their way to every householder.

"I would maintain decked vessels for the deep-sea fishery, and nets for drawing along the shore. My people would catch enough for sale at nominal prices to cover expenses, as well as leave a handsome surplus for gratuitous distribution. Turf, well compressed and dried, should be everywhere available at cost price. A skilful physician, with competent assistants, should attend the poor; and disease would no longer ensue from destitution and neglect.

"In other respects," said Cornelius, "I should arrange that my labourers, either in addition to, or in lieu of wages, should have a proportion, say a tenth, of the aggregate produce of the soil. Having a direct interest in the fruits of

their toil, they would redouble exertion, and realize an increase beyond any thing that mere driving could insure. Landlords would gain, not lose, by leases in perpetuity; arrangements founded on human nature, and directly conducive to the interests of all concerned. For labour, this so precious yet underprized commodity, will not always so abound; inducements one day shall be held out to cause the husbandman to remain, in place of brutally driving him away.

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Already, I have purchased tracts in Canada and at the Cape, far exceeding my paternal domains. These are under proper management, and my tenants, when their numbers surpass the bounds of decent subsistence at home, shall be at liberty to settle on my colonial estates abroad, where well-appointed farms and comfortable dwellings await them. The voyage

would be performed in vessels chartered for the

purpose, in the society of friends, and would resemble a party of pleasure rather than the dreary transit of forlorn emigrants. And thus," continued Cornelius, "I should provide for the poor."

I was affected, I shall confess it, and prayed the Lord, with heart and soul, that life and means might be accorded to accomplish his designs, and set a golden example to the aimless, thriftless, unfeeling landlords of Ireland and of the world.

"You accord me more credit," resumed Cornelius, "than I deserve. It is well to propose, better still to execute; success, after all, is the criterion to which I cheerfully bow. I am far, indeed, from thinking, that a world where death and sin and care find admission, is convertible into a paradise-for earth is not man's abiding-place; but I believe that it is susceptible of infinite amelioration, improvements

truly paradisiacal, compared with the want, the

crime,

the woe that every where abound.

"Why should toiling, striving man be linked to misery for ever? Labour of head and hand, believe me, is man's best estate and earthly destiny; but it is at the bottom, in place of the top, of the scale. Yet the time is drawing nigh

a little bird whispers it in my ear-when the labourer, the working-man, no longer ignorant, brutalized, debased, shall rise, without impeachment of the claims of any, to the highest, best elevation of nature's aristocracy. Shall he not dwell in palaces who raises palaces? Shall she not go in rich attire whose fingers wind the silk of the toiling worm? Shall the ruby, the diamond, and the red red gold, not glitter on the miner's manly breast, or deck the fingers of his wife and child? Shall she not wear who spinshe eat who sows? Shall the purple juice recruit no more the fainting vine-dresser; or pictures

deck, or choicest harmony cheer, the dwellings of the poor? Yes, by the living God shall they! By the very Majesty of Heaven, manman himself, shall waken from the trance of ages; and the producer and the consumer, the creator of enjoyments and he who revels in them, shall be one and indivisible once more. Nature's glad voices shall breathe out forcefully again. The carolling birds, the whispering winds, the gorgeous clouds, and perfumed flowers, the sunny earth, the mighty ocean, man's glorious beauty, speak seraph-toned his ineffable destiny, the faint foreshadowings of his final home!"

Never had I so clearly, so hopefully, presented to me the prospects of our race. My whole being was steeped in ecstasy. I saw my countrymen, I saw mankind, no longer care-worn, destitute, but happy, intelligent, free. There need be no more want nor grinding poverty