Section i.— THE FARM PROPER.

My present idea h to take an estate from five hundred to a thousand acres within reasonable distance of London, it should be of such land as will be suitable for market gardening, while having some clay on it for brick-making and for crops requiring a heavier soil. If possible, it should not only be on a line cf railway which is managed by intelligent and progressive directors, but it should have access to the sea and to the river. It should be freehold land, and it should lie at some considerable distance from any town or village. The reason for the latter desideratum is obvious. We must be near London for the sake of our market and for the transmission of the commodities collected by our Household Salvage Brigade, but it must be some little distance from any town or village in order that the Colony may be planted' clear out in the open away from the public house, that upas tree of civilisation. A sine qnâ non of the new Farm Colony is that no intoxicating liquors will be permitted within its confines on any pretext whatever. The doctors will have to prescribe some other stimulant than alcohol for residents in this Colony. But it will be little use excluding alcohol with • a strong hand and by cast-iron regulations if the Colonists have only to take a short walk in order to find themselves in the midst of the " Red Lions," and the " Blue Dragons," and the " George the Fourths," which abound in every country town.

Having obtained the land I should proceed to prepare it for the Colonists. This is an operation which is essentially the same In any country. You need water supply, provisions and shelter. Aix this would be done at first in the simplest possible style. Our pioneer brigade, carefully selected from the competent Out-of-Works in the Ci'.y Colony, would be sent down to lay out the estate and prepare it for those who would come after. And here let me say that it is a great delusion to imagine that in the riffraff and waste of the labour market there are no workmen to be had except those that are worthless. Worthless under the .present conditions, exposed to constant temptations to intemperance no doubt they are, but some of the brightest men in London, with some of the smartest pairs of hands, and the cleverest brains, are at the present moment weltering helplessly in the sludge from which we propose to rescue them.