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“You hear a good deal about agricultural prosperity. 18%.
Turn to the dictionary, and ‘ agriculturist > means one who Zr.52.
18 kil) to cultivate the land. The labourer is the agricuisuri
 quite as much as the farmer, and he belongs to a
Ydy five to one more numerous. I assure you I never saw
More distress among this class. They are generally em-Ployed.
 But their wages here never exceed 12s., and are
fen only 10s, and if you fry to calculate how a man and
hig wife and three or four small children live upon this sum,
"ith bread at 2id. a lb. you will find your arithmetical
‘alent, very much taxed. Dry bread is all that they can get.
The pigs have disappeared from their sties. They and their
hildrey are looking haggard and pale and ragged, and this
'S agricultural prosperity.”

When the war was at last brought to an end at the
Congress of Paris in the spring of 1856, two remarkable
Steps wore taken by the assembled plenipotentiaries in
Cobden’ direction. They recognized the expediency and
the possibility of submitting international differences to
“hitration, Secondly they incorporated in the public law
of Europe certain changes in the right of maritime capture
“hich tended to make trade which was free in time of peace
"8 free ag possible in time of war also.