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 ¬are hourly vomited forth from the mines and manufactories, where contaminating multitudes and unwholesome labour produce every disgust- ing variety of decrepitude and crime, yet neither the proprietors of those establishments, nor the capitalists who roll along the streets of our cities in splendid carriages, pay any thing like their proportions to the support of the idle and the unhealthy they have produced. — Almost the whole is cast upon the cultivators of the soil, who, except in the very houses I have de- scribed, supported by their property and labour, see nothing around them but innocence and health. ¬" Your questions," said Morven, " arc now answered ; and I burn with impatience to hear how England would deal with the evils I have stated." — I felt, I confess, rather hurt at this insulting reference to my beloved country, after what I had formerly said; but contented myself for the present with informing him that other questions yet remained. ¬k 2 " How,* ¬