The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-11-18 00:00:00

szroam IN THE LAND LAW&

Think • little of the pcsatioal good which timely reforms
have doss to the country. la It not a fact that the Q•larn.
who succeeded to the throw, is Int did aei
centres of &gland, Iganchreter, wod Liverpool, WI 1861.
on a. c.tunt of the dieelmilim that existed I When -vet
Om now appears In public the • orktag climes, la their
tbotwands sad tem of thousanda, rime out them welcome
and loyalty which she so thoroughly deism*, testa her
glorious reign sod blameless life. Is the toast of tie
House of lewd. lees heartily received now th in it wag in
the days when peers seat their pennies too Kieliter, and,
with their votes in the Cocuro.nte. were able to our •
strong oppritlon to the It -Mem Bill, which If persosted
In, ...old tumor termiseted In • revolutioa I Of the Home
of Lords it may be truly said they recognise the (lithos as
woU se the rights of property. and owning, as they d
me-third of the Imod in Bigland and Wales. I you'd
faun, ore them the real proprietors of their promote. Ws
shall be toki that these refs/rammer* secessary, owing to
the temptations to young was coating early into their
estate,. But as &rule, peers do not inherit before middle
lie: it is the exception, and many of the young one.
rweniltire the !wpm/Aglaia of property. Are we, for the
mks of protecting a few, • irmy Mw, foolish man (rose the
conseq moose of sheer owa firly, to hamper the whole of
' the landed proprietors of Busload, sad to make living
toes, anginas to initirove their estates and b a It their
toemtte, feel the " dead suaa's grip." from whirr. there Is
so emipe
I balm reminded you of the dlstirlel state of the
country previous to the repeal of the Lowe. T'diok
for stow moment. of the 'meats In Ml ii the Martial
riots. I was quite a chill at the time, tont s och thiege are
nover'forg 1t... It c )11104 before m• now—bends of sullen
determined men maudlin( through the roseate ; Me
shops filmed assmon at B ,ckingtorini Police, at the
Bank, and on the bridges—Ow moineke•pers, with thcr
guns loadel. sitting in the hell id mot home at Whitehall,
and s troop of the Ind Lila Guard., under Captida
Mount.boy Wards, In the stable., every respect ohlio mem
sworn in as a special coonstabie to ken s, the peace, lood.in
in • eat, of geed alarm. mud D .ke of Vi olinzt 11
1,041.111104 to keep ore'w. at all hag ord.. The dot., wsr,
wit gown with • str at hand, as was necomary and tight
' —but hi, lo • little what It was the Chartists wore asking
for. The People's Charter, es CEC.no•II named it, bad six
lariats. They were these :
Manhood Suffrage,—Annust Parlinments—V .s It
Ballnt,—Ateliti go of the Property Qualtfactoiou.—Per
meet of Ilnoibere,—Divialom of the country Into squid
Zhetwal District*

Thirty-ens years later what do.. And, We Dad that
common .ties hes triumphed where armed insurrection
tailed. We dud the lint point, Manhood Suffrage, slrn.t
elven no by the Reform Bill of lir. Disraeli. the greet
Conservative charnel in. in lent We Bad the B Bog
given us by the Government of Mr. Giadatone, the grrat
Libre loader, is 187 t The Procedl Qn•lillootiou 19r.
Members of Padiamind died the shameful death ft,
mm lied. Lineal Perilameats are inconvenient, aid
Ferment of Member& is objec.ionable ; but the last poWt.
Division of Electoral Districts—Ls not rerliatributin of
eats a 1 ature in the programme of the Liberal petty 1
And what is the result! In lan condo again n tone of
Did. and we hue distress, but no digiffectioc —disappoint-
meat. but not deeper.
I. it too mime to hope mat tee Lend Laws lath also be
calmly considered with • view to thrir improvement. that
landlords sad landowners will become the owners and
lonis of their land gni that by Free Trade in land the
agricultural clinic city swill be summoned, rho owners
sad cultivators of the lend will weather the dorm to-
g diger ; the lanolords with their acreage. reduced perhaps,
bit tigiir properties is good order. free from crush.
cog deft. • Credit MI well as • profit ti themmives ; and
the farmers. with their baleen., at their banks refaced_ .
but still ...oboist. grill able and willies to fight isneiost had
-aeons and low prices, till the good time comes, and coins
it will, when the Alnilehty shall send nigh, fruit. of the
earth in doe seston, and the country will hell the return
of prosperity to (ho scricoltor.l lettersets of Old Impend.
—Lard Oetrieff•sa it Bird frywnseas.