The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-17 00:00:00

THE WATCHMAN.

The Editor doe. not wish it to be thought he agrees
with in. opinions ventilated in this column • these
extracts are given with a view to show what idele are
being promulgated.
The Kingdom of God, salt now nnfolds in our midst, is
the same L se—with conditions adapted to the Nineteenth
Century; not a parmitical institution, consumptive, yet
nou.productiie, but, in every sense, the opposite based on
production, orgaulaina productio_ ,ii truly asheep-feedl.ng
institution ; not above serving tables, not above Pr
for tables; and thus not a church in any modern c'usLiel e"of
the terra—From an A w.f.:ea Pillailda 1.
TIM LAND Or MUtteeD Mtn Tag LiMOCIIIIII.
The above was the subject of an add us delivered before
"The Ancient Society of Goiters," by Mr. George liti•chell
("On. from the Plough"). "The labourers usedi.h:
said, "to have four acres of land to their "
Caesarean is my authority for thee—now ‘3ethelestre this
laud he held up an old shirk ragged and without • whole
square six inch.. in it) and they are eared Into Joining
the army and navy, end then they get this" (and he hew
op a eat-cimiste-teila. Ho declared that at present the
land of this country is only half cultivated, and he
insisted that it was for the benefit of the nation and the
whole people that this should be properly done. Al
pragent the land of Great Britain prOeittoed something
Ilk. MS millions pounds sterling worth of food, and we
had to buy another IN million pounds sterling worth of food annually in order to feed the nation. According to
• vrIT good estimate, it had been stated that Ms tenants capital Invested in the agriculture of the oeunury °nit amounted to about a per acre, and yet Mr. MOChi bad
over and over again asserted that at least ,Cl 5 Per acre
was required, fille per acre vim the wooer thing.
How waa it with so fixed a commodity as land the
niquisite capital could not be obtained! The beaks will not lend money to the farmers became the security,
owing to the bad land laws, ft n• t enough to them.
However mach a fat 4,er may Invert In the soil, it becomes
the property of the landowner, and an Maass of rent is,
in nine cases out of ten, the only benefit be geta Then,
too, if he loses his money, though it be sunk in the soil,
the land laws ere the Isadowner the first poll at the
twists Security is wanted for all money invested wall in
the Ma (very different, though, to the so-called security
given by the Agricoltural Holdings Act) and then it would
be found that the banks would not be averse to lending
eofficient capital. But security was dist wasted, and
thee freedom of cultivation. By present aMeetnenie
every yew 500,050 scree were compelled to be kept in
fallow, for which farmers had to pay rent; while the
experiment, showed conclusively that the age of fallow.
ought to have long ego departed.—Prom the "Oil& Man.

The distress In Mancheetir is declared by the Recorder
of that city to be even more severe than it was during the
cotton famine. The Mayor has announoed his intention
e contributing .t. 600 out of beqmests of which h. Is the
odgainhltmkw lac lb' Pollen* or massing et. deistitution,
but as eo many of the poor are tiumur4.l•d • cmmid•rabi•
sum will be required to alisylsi, the widowed sate.