§ MR. BROOKE ROBINSON (Dudley)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether, considering the want of employment in many manufacturing districts, and the consequent increasing desire of artizans to emigrate, and that the only manual labour which those artizans know is, for the most part, entirely useless in the Colonies, it would be possible, in any scheme providing for technical education, to afford means by which artizans desirous of emigrating might, prior to doing so, obtain some slight rudimentary knowledge in agriculture and other labour likely to be serviceable in the Colonies?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford), in reply, said, no measure having for its object the improvement of the industrial training of our workmen would be complete which did not offer some facilities such as those referred to in the Question of the hon. Member; but he thought the chief object of legislation would be to enable English artizans to gain a bettor livelihood in their own country than circumstances now permitted.