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                               STATEMENT
                                OF THE
                        PROVISION FOR THE POOR,
                              AND OF THE
                  CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES,
                     IN A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF
                          AMERICA AND EUROPE.

                                  BY
                        NASSAU W. SENIOR, ESQ.

                               BEING THE
            PREFACE TO THE FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS CONTAINED
                IN THE APPENDIX TO THE POOR-LAW REPORT.

                                LONDON:
                     B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET.
             (_Publisher to the Poor-Law Commissioners._)

                              MDCCCXXXV.

                                LONDON:
                  PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
                           Stamford Street.




ADVERTISEMENT.


The following pages were prepared for the sole purpose of forming an
introduction to the foreign communications contained in the Appendix
to the Poor-Law Report. Their separate publication was not thought
of until they had been nearly finished. When it was first suggested
to me, I felt it to be objectionable, on account of their