A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1828
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    tinue to increase, till they will absorb the whole landed revenue of the kingdom. That indefatigable philanthropist thus now speaks from the grave: we trust that his sentiments will not be lost, upon our readers. The venerable Bishop of Chester also most strongly recommends a mode once adopted by him- self. among the married labourers at Wallingham, near Cambridge, at the time he was rector of that parish. His lordship divided a certain quantity of glebe lands into allotments of half and single acres; and each labourer, with a family, was allowed to rent one of these allotments, at the rate of three guineas per acre a-year. Upon this land, with the assistance of a little common grazing, they were, in most instances, soon able to keep a cow and a pig ; to raise more than sufficient vegetables for their families; to add materially to their comfort in many minor respects; and they were shortly enabled to contribute to the parish funds, instead of being con- sumers of them. “ At the same time,” adds his Lordship, “ the men were kept from the ale-house, their leisure time being more happily occupied in cultivating their little spot of ground; the rent was always punctually paid, and the land as well, if not better, cultivated than any in the parish.” We are happy to state that we understand Lord Stanhope is pursuing the cottage-system to a great extent on his estate in Devonshire.—In that county the labourers build cottages of mud walls and thatched, which are done at a very easy expense: his Lordship lets to the labourer as much ground as will suffice for house and garden, on a forty years1 lease, on condition that he builds a house in a specified time, of not less than three rooms, and a cow-house,—for 2s. 6d. per annum. He also jets