The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-09-12 00:00:00

TUE EARL OF DELLBY_ON AGRICULTUU&L

TOPICS.
Speaking at the annual dinner of the Manchester and
Liverpoal legrioulturil Society, the Earl of Darby said
if agneeltursi improretnent was to go on as it shoald
landlords as well as tenants must take pert in it. Any
tenant good enough to ba kept pe emanently on the land
ought to have is lease if he wanted one. The conditions
of letting shouid bi few and simple, as any man fit for
the Inelnets woult do b.ist in his own way. Orme was
E.) OVCC•pteaCIVLII AI .1111 e pluses ILS to become a public
Iro wao ad, turru was to be legislation on the
subj at ; but let it to remembered the absolute sweeping
eway et the power of lueping game on farms, however
brought &boat, would, of course, Imply under their
chanzed condition's • general revaluation for routs, and
by that operation the tenant would certainly not be a
gainer; whils in other oases it might probably load to
this—tne rich in :e, fond of their sport, and willing to
make 'Edifices in order to keep it, would take more and
more of their estates into their own hands in order to
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made a tenant no grievance would remain. Al to the
ownership of the soil, ho showed the actual number of
laneleros was not eseertained, but he refuted the (*they
as to its being difficult to buy land, affirming with con.
fidenee that there is at this moment hardly a °entity in
Ragland whore a man looking for • landed investment
cannot Soil what he wanta. If it wore otherwise we
should have plenty of complaints from the capitalists of
them parts; but the fact is, I believe, that at the
present time there are, of the two, more sellers than
buyers. It may be the feet—l believe it is—that a
man who wants only • few sores does not always tied
it oe4 to buy them, but if there i.e any real demand
for small freeholds, surely it would be worth the while
of speculators to buy up large estates as they come into
the market, and to sell them again piecemeal. If that
is not done, the only reason can be that it does cot pay
--(hear, hear). Then there is another notion afloat—
that estates are constantly tending to become fewer in
number and bigger in use. I greatly doubt whether
the fact is so. My belief is—though I give it only as
thing which seems te sue probable, not seething proved
—that both very great and very small properties arc
becoming fewer, and those of • middle size more
numerous. Poor landowners prefer ten per cent, in
trade to two per cent, from land—they sell and go into
business; and, on the other hind, there Is a limit beyond
which most men do not desire to extend their holding
of what is essentially an unremunerative investment.
But why should we be left on this selajeot to mere
speculation? Is it impossible to get at the fact? Is a
Doomsday Book more difilault now than in the days of
the Conqueror?—(hear, hear). If what is tailed the
Land Qsestion Is to some to the front, as I suppose it
will, surely we ought to discuss It with as mush positive
knowledge as we can bring to bear—(hear, hoar). I sin
cot ineensible—no win woo keeps his eyes open can be
so —to the value, in • social point of view, of having •
numerous body of men concerned in landowning. My
olotention is only this, that the supply of laud in the
market folly equals the present demand, and that the
popular theory, that it is so locked up that uobody can
bay, rests on no solid foundation.

Vesuvius has oonamenoed ejeotiug lava In large quail. I
titles by au owning oa the side of the cone.
In Persia it is said people are living on grass and tho
loaves of the Lois, rad • boy has laJcia eaten.
A dog Wilda, in 114toa, namod Morris, has kicked
to death a married woman with when he was cohaliting
named Lheru:o4a, whet, she vu drunk.
In aft of j,alousy, a labourer named Bsin, at Chat •
ham, cut tho throat of the woman with when ho vu
I cohabiting, and thou gambol his own. Fatal results are

expected.
Ms. Phillips, a publican's eon was brachia, assaulted
by some wen, in &alai town, and his died from ha
injuries. Lb hmd bu threstenkd by • cabman he
tua.el ont ol Lis istiLn's Louse, but there is nu dutiatiu
clue to his 'sealant&
. . . _ .

--
The Nev. W. Sibiliorpe, of St. Barnabas, Notting.
ham, was rooently init,ated • member of the Ancient
Order of Foresters. Too oircumstswoe is remarkable
from tt.e fact that this is only the second Instance
of a Sidman Catholic Clergyman joining the order.
An old bachelor editor thus, in his spite, csimuenta
on a recent moonlight night :—••We left our sanctum at
midnight last night,aud on the way home wo saw &young
lady and gentleman holding • gate on its hinges. They
were evidently intli,.;n int at being kept out so Late, and
we saw them bite e•eu other sarong times,"
A Yankee j ,her lunt to Captain Hall, of the Polaris,
• tin can, carefully se a,d, I,baloa. "Nut to be opened
until the Polaris has reached the Arctic seas." The
vessel leaked, sad proved to be • can of patent axle-
grease, with which Captain Nall or his survivors were
affectionately requested by letter to lulariaate the axle
of this aloe, -goiug world if found at the pole.
A report recently laid before Parhainent, attributes
the due quality of 11.01O&O VOiOOF to the praratioe that
when • mother is employed out of doors the baby is
suspended from ita back to • nail in the wall, and
allowed to cry for several hours together, which go,.
tinned set of crying
.exeroisee and forms the vocal
organs in an extraordinary way.
lOki PRICE OF STOOK . —TIIO Wilga and Olorceskr
skirt Shviikirii editcs that seine extraordinary prices
for Cotswold sheep were reamed at • sale at Northleach
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wtilwiheho:sowi;mll:slerrowltas:2ingo:bseoattdeohaatiktrammululand:l
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pen" w
houl°1! prloo
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averaged ,E 5 2..; the ram lambs, ineluding two shear.
lino, 'nada £Bdi. each; and the ewe lambs ES
each. The highest prise for rem lambs was 23 guineas.
Several were wifehood for Amocloa, also Wake,
Norfolk, ko.