Whilst the Liberal press asked how the fine gentlemen and ladies, and the well paid clergy of the State Church, with whom Lincolnshire swarms, could allow such a system to arise on their estates, under their very eyes, they who send out expressly missions to the Antipodes, for the improvement of the morals of South Sea Islanders the more refined press confined itself to reflections on the coarse degradation of the agricultural population who are capable of selling their children into such slavery!