THE LABOURING CLASSES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 54, 18 October 1845, Page 4

THE LABOURING CLASSES.

The following are the proposed vesoluiions respecting the labouring classes of England and Wales, to be moved by Lord John Russell :— 1. That the present state of political tranquillity, and the recent revival of trade, afford to this House a favorable opportunity to consider such measures as may tend permanently to improve the condition of the labouring classes. 2. That those laws which impose duties usually called protective, tend to impair the efficiency of labour, to restrict the free interchange of commodities, and to impose on the people unnecessary taxation. 3. That the present corn law tends to check improvement in agriculture, produces uncertainty in all farming speculations, and holds out to the owners and occupiers of land prospects of special advantage which it fails to secure. 4. That this Hcfuse will take the said laws into consideration, with a, view to such cautious and deliberate arrangements as may be most beneficial to all classes of Her Majest y's subjects. 5. That the freedom of industry would be promoted by a careful revision of the hw of parochial settlement which now prevails in Englund and Wales. 6. Tlißt a systematic plan of colonisatiou would partially relieve those districts of the countiy where the deficiency of employment i has been most injurious to the labouters in husbandry. 7. That the improvements made of late years in the education of the people, as well as its more general diffusion, have been seen with satisfaction by this house. 8. That this house will be ready to give its support to measures, founded on liberal and comprehensive principles, which may be conducive to the further extension of religious and moral instructions. 9. That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, to lay the foregoing resolutions before her Majesty.