Note 30 — LAING'S OBSERVATIONS ON EUROPE.

The paternal care which our Government takes of agriculture leaves us to grope our way by mere guess-work in all statistical questions affecting it. For want of a better guide, we may refer to Mr M'Culloch's often-quoted estimates, according to which, it would appear, that there is one labourer to each 13½ acres of arable land in England, one to each 19 5⁄7 acres in Scotland—almost exactly the proportion assumed by Mr Laing.