Mr: Henley is very thankful that the people in the
neighbour- hood of Bicester are well off, and that the working classes there are likely to be Able to say to those who employ them, " We will not live here, and we will not do your work, unless you provide us better places to live in." Mr. Henley, that is, is thankful that the working classes will be able to extort what, in discussing the Union Rating. Bill, he was so anxious not to promote. On the one hand he desired to preserve the landlords' principal motive for not building better cottages, on the other he is thankfid the poor are in a position to extort them. Mr. Henley backs the landlord against the labourer with one hand, and the labourer against the landlord with the other ; but the latter he only fills with his good wishes, the former with all the weight of his Parlia- mentary influence.
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