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 estimates I shall not deal, but will content myself with directing attention to certain points arising out of two Government reports, that of the Census of 1891 and that of the two Assistant Commissioners, Messrs. D. Lleufer Thomas and C. M. Chapman, who inquired, on behalf of the Labour Commission, into the condition of the agricultural labourer in Wales. The first fact which stands out plain and unmistakable, on the face of the Census Report, is the vast change in Wales and its population by the gigantic developments of the Welsh coalfields. The population of Wales and Monmouth on Census Sunday was 1,771,451. Out of these 249,861 were immigrants from England, Ireland, Scotland and abroad. This accounts at a stroke for one-third of the English-speaking population of Wales without reckoning children born to them after their migration to Wales. Out of a population of 687,218 in Glamorganshire, 139,031 were English and other immigrants, while 121,653 migrated into it from other Welsh counties, mainly from Welsh-speaking rural districts. Out of a population of 252,416 in Monmouthshire, 61,061 were