The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-08 00:00:00

BILIDPORT.

Bon' Oxognit Scnoixt..—The ananel meeting end
eximioatfon of the boys took place in the schoolroom on
Tuesday evening, when Mr. 11. Howell (Mayor), presided,
supported by the following members of comnlittee
Mews. C. Wilms. hon. sec.. C. Edmunds J. H. Edmunds,
T. Collin. W. Colfox..l. C. Baker. G. Rai 3.?. Stephens.
The !school was neatly decorated with 'stoma of ever-
green and flood designs. The examination of the bon
took place previous to the business. The programme
aim wound by the boys la a truly reputable
manner, and groat praise is due to the master, 11s. J.
beard. foe his indefatigable exertiossin conductiag the
school se creditably. Programme :—Fong " Han eat
Home," boys; reading lemon and 'gamin/Woo. N. Potter,
teacher: recitation, "Somebody's darlim." A Chomp;
song. "Touch not the Cup," bon • recitation, "Country-
man sod Resulting Sergeant,"l. LOCklf ; lesson, "Coal
8. sad Chalk," Miller, teraciter ; song, " ye and Girls of
England." boys; dialogue, "Mosey Panic," T. Morris and
F. Chard; •xaminatima of history, Mr. C. Edmund.;
recitation, "Musical butcher," F. Lecloger ;song. "Escape
from the City," boys; dialogue, " All is not gold that
Glitter,' G. Lock, W. Guppy, A. Reid, F. Whattaro. F.
Mccris, F. Chard, .04 0. Ilabb; e aminotion of arithmetic,
Mr. T. H. Edmunds ; dialogue, "Ho. to sod • Law Sulk
C. Baia, P. Whatnot, W. Guppy, and G. Mabb ; meg,
"The Beautiful World," bon The Chairman expromsd
his pleasure is (Wing the boys 'Knitting themselves
so well, and called upon the micretary. 11r. C. Wilson,
to reed the report, which stated that the committee were
highly satisfied at finding the school in such • prosperous
state. At the last Government inspection 109 boys bad
been presented—all had pawed in reeding and writing end,
ES in arithmetic, 12 boys had obtained honour certificates,
which entitled Gunn to free instructions for three years,
provided they passed the Docessery standards and made
the required number of &Meadows'. The financial state-
ment shelved that a balsa& wan due to the treasurer of
£445. The Government grant was 1229 14., but MO
only had been received in consequame of • falling od of
subscriptions. The number of names on the register was
roll, average attendance 243. The committee desired to
thank the trustees of D. Taylor's charity for their
liberality in providing nine scholarships of £5 each
per annum. (Applause.) 11r. C. Edmund. moved
that the above report be printed and circulated
among the subscribers He regretted that loath
had just removed a valuable friend of the school from
entungst them, viz., Mr. II P. Gundry. He was, however,
pleased to find the school is its usual prosperous state, and
that ttu library waa • benefit to the boys—Mr. W. Coif ox
seconded. —Carried.—Mr. T. Cello: moved that the follow-
ing gentlemen be appointed committee for the ensuing
year :—Rev. R. L Carpenter. F. J. Austin, J. Teal, and
Meson. J. Si. I'. Montague, R. Howell. W. H. Chick, W.
Collor, T. Colfax, S. Stephens, G. Rood, H. Rendell, and
C. Edmunds; Messrs, A. Reynolds, T. H. F.Amuads, and
J. T. Stephens as trustees of Dr. Ta los's Charity.—
Seconded by Mr. fltspiums, and carried uainimously.—
Mr. Rood moved, sod Mr. Edmunds seconded, that Mr. S.
W. Whetimun be stipulated treasurer, sad Mr. C. Wilson
secretary.—Carried unanimously.—A vote of thanks was
given to the Chairman, sad the National Anthem termin-
ated the meeting.

BM MOSES MONTEVIORE AT RAMSGATE.
(Fn.' " Cectrilics a How" Use World.)

Visitor. at the Granville Hotel, who, leaving the
precincts of that establishment, wander to theemtward,
find their path along the cliff impeded by a flint wall
extending for some distance at right angles to the cliff
Itself. A little door is blocked up, and all that can be
seen of the interior is • great mass of foliage, and a
rad hedge of verdure which overhange the precipice.
Passing round the wall of East Cliff Lodge, and
leaving a cornfield on his left hand, the visitor
becomes aware id an ordinary lodge and gatewsy,
beyond which are se-n, through a forest of shrubs, the
sham battlements id a Strawbarry-Hill-Gothic castle.
This droll style of decoration is carried out even to the
gateway, which is fashioned t, resemble a portcullis,
and admits the guest to the commonplace entrance of
• ,very ordinary dwelling. Modern estheticism has
not yet planted its foot inside East Cliff Lodge,
where everything is solid, sober, respectable, and em-
blematic of the taste and life of the wealthy leurpciiiiiie
of the oil •chool. The tables stand firmly on their
legs, the chair. are singularly substantial, the books
are well but plainly bound. There is an unmistak-
able air of wealth about everything • not of the
wealth which apse the mansion of the aristocracy, or
bubbles over in artistic strivings, but of that quiet
solidity which reveals in every 111-placed mile and
every ugly curve the existence of a good sound
fortune invested in the best of all passible securities.
The owner of this particularly comfortable home is
Sir Muses lifontefiore, whose great age makes him one
of the most interesting living links with the past.
While the venerable baronet was yet learning his
alphabet, the chateaux of the nobles blazed from one
and of France to the other • before he could read or
write, Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette perished on
the scaffold. In his youth the talk was of "
Pit and "Charley" Fox; of Sheridan and the Prince
Regent ; of Colonel Mellish and Beau Brummel ; the
man of whom we speak as Napoleon was "Boom,"
the Corsican ogre; the greatest French painter was
David. Sir Moms Muntefiore had reached manhood
when the eloquent Windham rose in the HOMO Of
CommoWl to ounce the opponents of bull-baiting
as towetybine Jacobins, whom strictures were alike
offee to the bull, the dogs, and the spectators;
and slipped off tiks next morning to witness • prise.
fight between Jaciea•4l and Mendota, Belcher and
Humphrey,, or sow, oth,-e lights of the hale world.
He was well before the woro when Captain Best shot
Lord Canielford, and was thirty .7roms_ of ads when the
battle of Waterloo was fought. :weal-two years
later, being then Sheriff of the City ol London, he
received the honour of knighthood; and in. ISM was
made a Istromt, it is said, entirely on aocoun: of the
personal regard of the Queen for his benevo:att
character. He was no stranger to her Majesty, who,
while living at Pyrmont, Broadstairs, with her mother.
the Duchess of Kent, frequently walked in the
pleasant grounds of East Cliff Lodge, the owner of
which begged her acceptance of a little golden key to
give her admittance at all times without ceremony.
Since the sojourn of the Duchess of Kent and the
Prince.' Victoria at the watering-place cinsecrated to
the genius and tradition of Charles Dickens, a new
generation has grown up, but the name of Montefiore
Is not unknown wherever unostentatious benevolence
receives its fitting mood of honour.
Few men have borne the weight of year' so well as the
yeeriA B.ronge. (tined by nature with • tall and =rave
frame, he has preserved health and "Maur faz beyond the
allotted term of human Ufa His forehead and white hair
would vividly recall the vpearanee of Talkyrand were
not the fathomlleis yes and the marble brow replaced by
a hearty end expression. The hurl white neck-
cloth and high-collared coat, the vast 'tills" and the
ample jebef, are of a ported now reamed into history, but
these remarkable vestments well become their owner.
There is, tidied, in Sir Mcrae Mooted-as • trace of that
most agreeable form of dandyism, the dandyism of neat.
nese and quiet elegance, which gives an aid-world die, as
it were, t its profedor. From his snowy add to the
silver hackies of his shoes, the toaster of gad Cliff Lodge
is • miracle of neatness. His speech is not unlike his
apparel, genial and hearty, with a seriousness tempered
by good-humour. ibis kindly outward aspect reveals the
Inner man. So large-hearted is his charity that it is said
no man ever sought help at East Cliff and was denied.
Denial, indeed, is Only made with extreme reluctance,
nu• late Lady HonteSore was mores to denial at all; and
Sir Mods often tells • story illustrative of her lame-
hearted benevolence. Among those who had frequently
received sums of money from him was a co-religionist of
the most undeserving and hopeless kind. Again and
again had Sir Moses mitt him cheques, and again and
stain had the Irrepressible beggar applied for assistance.
Sir Moses, having discovered that his money was spent Ia
drinking and gambling, imformed his wile that he should
eve the nu er-do-wedl no more help; whereupon Lady
Monteflore opened her own cheque-book and wrote •
cheque, remarking "My dear, I think we had better mend
him something; Pam rare nobody else will, If we do not."
The memory of this admirable lady, We Judith Cohan, is
fondly cherished at Hest Cliff Lodge, where every scrap
of linen is marked with the Hebrew equivalent for "She
has returned above.' Her custom of feeding the wild-
birda and encouraging them to frequent the dense shrub-
berries round the house, is also maintained with great
esscUtude ; in fact, it may be said that all ths wishes she
expressed while living are faithfully observed now that
abiLip dead.

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Albeit tho charity of Sir Noses Montsdors is dispensed
without mord for age, sex, religion, or country, he ro.
mains a Hebrew of the Hebrews. His keelbeet unaisstbils
Sr. osnronsed with and suffwing Jews in various
putt of the world. in their behalf he has, in spite of hia
adulated mgi, nadortaken long and fatiguing
ss't nouottatlmis of snarls luso Width= I
almost overwhelming odds. In Months( his co-religionists
he has was pljwileites for them, and honour for himself.
In barbaric morocco and autocratic Ramis, he has obtskeed
a hearing on behalf of the Jews, and when he interested
himself In the Mortara cage the lata Pops treated him
with swim' luenect. It may sown etrangs to Christiana
and others that at this moment, when the Jews have at
least • fair share of place and power, and mast of the
money la the world, the aspirations of many of timer
number should not be oonterabsd. to the Chrialien
eye they appear to have several sew Jerusalem,
such as New York, Prankfart-am-Igela,
and Lawton ; f all tido Jews of thiskrUZ
wheel WM hr fact
which owe en= esme• roma Meshes la.ll3tle ;obey.
Nano art • moroievinumpe teenage goreeeken than the
ea CUL It to on the hely elm
raitineeguilia
4: veneration la esocentested, and it Is
an Jornailem it St
has lavished the laciest Ey.
tilbulsd br hi. ever-opm hand. Over awl 0,111112&40
jonrwayed to and
bo could brihi W hos ia sisa6ll
rosideat Jew* who, 8.f., b. wiz
ia
.=„tralkir.
'owl be

Imitator masa dr of Robrows. who
St. apt to maks light= Wallaitaraaad re dwellers
therein. When Kr. Sisehoffshiaini waa asked whether he
really and devoutly Implied for the retain of the Jew. to
Paribas, be promptly replied, "Yee but whim *eked
what Mice be would bite to hold under the Dew Judaic
Mg... he ea "coeval', answered, " Paleatituaa ambas-
sador et Pasta. Not so Sir Noses Moategore, who has
laboured. not ouly with pions geol. but practical erdour,
to effect the regeneration of igloos by the encouragement
of agricultural sad nisclailical tumults among Its Inhabi-
tants, and at the present moment is the motive-Power of
a well-orgaalsed endeavour to give elect to his benevolent
desire. _ _

, --111;c7ood may In Sir Home Routelore's mind to the
resstabliehment of the Jews at Jens&lam, and, indeed,
binning part of that devout scheme. is • Jewish c
hard by the Baronet's residence and attached tilleM
synagogue, whither he is carried in a sedan chair. Hen
also are Jewish boarding sclua..ls sod the mausoleum of
, Indy Montellors, to wham memory the College is
. dedicated. It is designed to provide for ten aged Helarinra,
*as and learned in Jewish law and Talmudic literature.
Here they lead • happy life to Willi, driaking, sleeping,
and praying. During the day they are supposed to be
rporizi over musty inanusaipta and tbatir ••=infla iil
in refreshing their mind, by coat stories
mbilied in early youth in the semi-civilised v of
Reel", Poland, and Palestina The fortunate
have no cue in life, cad lead an ideal existence of learned
, contemplation in the pleasant air of Rainegatia and retire
, to rest lulled by the roar of the sm.
, Although an early riser for • man el his advanced age.
! Sir Hoses Monti:don ia rarely visible in the Marn
which is passed manly in his own room, • cheOitin
! apartment decked • ith portraits of the LW lady Monte-
lore ; of the late Sir Anthony de Rothachild, the grand- !
1 father of Lady CouttiaLindarly ; of Mrs. Cohen, the !
grandmother of Lady Banbury ; and of Captain IL•
There
o is also • bust by W of Lied Illamourad, r 4
I when at the Foreign Odic*, was always ready to aid the
. venerable Baronet in hi, egertions all behalf of parsecuted
I Jews abroad. 83 vigorous is iiir Moses llontedloire that
. his powers of conversation show no sign of falling of.
and his political opinions .1 as dearly defined as ever.
Halos good old-fashioned Tory' land • hearty admirer of
th!"-wwl-thle TorYisru. His recollections of historic
MrsTrare exceedingly interesting. it LO pleasant to
ell how he met the hero of Trafalgar at dinner
at Hr. 0 Adssidd • ;'and to mark his undo of gratification
, se he dwells on the fact that, during the time he and Sir
George Carroll were Sheriffs of London, neither man nor
! woman was hanged. As • matter of course he lives
! somewhat by rule, and is especially careful to eat very
little at dinner. Ills, however, • noteworthy fact for
the growing school of total abstainers that this good old
Tory rarely drinks far short of • beetle o( port-wine at
dinner. His cellar is noted in the county, and boasts 01
vintages sixty years old. Anothir. proof of the extraordinaraz.trength of his constitution 6 found on his
rigid
al the fasts prescribed by his religion.
Thoroughly Conservative in his lift and opinion, he has
never to the modern weakness of having gas and
water oe in hi, house. Lonna candle* and • well
sunk in the chalk supply the waste of East Cliff Lodge'
but, clinging as he don in practice to old-fsahloned
wen, be is a wide realer of newspaper. and Periodical&
He has like most men his favourite volumes, and takes
=delight in Scurm's Rejltadialla and Cicero De
en ; but be spares neither time 120 r pains to make
himself conversant with every augnes of English and
Barone= politics, and to ken, thoroughly abreast of the
meg advanced theught Of the day.

I GRATITUDE.
seem TZZ LITZ OP THII QUM.
The following appears in the Daily relarraYA :
" Bir,—The caw of a John Maloney haa been brought
: before this committee. He states that he Is 78 years
of age, and his wife 80 ; that he is too old now to
I continue to travel round the suburbs of London selling
, slippers, and wanta some assistance in returning to
'hi, trade as shoemaker, he. SO far his case resembles
' many other cases we hays to deal with, but he claims
I to have beer the means of saving the life of the Queen
I many years ago, and it is barely possible that publicity
to his case may bring forward proofs of his etatements.
He has a letter confirming the military details in the
statement I enclose herewith. and his correspondent,
I Colonel Lyons, late of the 73rd Regiment and depot
1 adjutant in 1841 seems to have taken more than •
i ' pawing interest n the case. If his story be true, it
would appear to entitle him to some ,nbdantial se-
mistimes, during the few years be may have to live.—
I am, air, your obedient eervvant, Geo. G. Hun,
Hon. Sec.--..ety for Organising Charitable Relief,
Deptford Committee, Mission Hall, King-street
B.l*. 30"
3 following is his story :—" This statement I
wish to be brought under public notice through the
press, in hops, that some one of the many who
witnessed the occurrence described therein may still
be living, and will, in person or by letter, corroborate
my statement. When Her Most Gracious Majesty
the Queen was a child three years old, I had the good
I fortune to save her life, endangered by the upsetting
of a pony carriage in Kensington Park, In August,
1822, I was a soldier in the 73rd Regiment, then
stationed at Weadon. Whilst in London on 14 days'
leave, I happened one day to be in Kensington
Gardens, where my attention was taken by a
very small pony carriage, in which was seated a child;
the pony was led by a jage, a lady walked on one side
and a young woman behind the chaise. I walked
close to the pony carriage for some time, when a large
water dog, with a Wick crossways in its mouth, got
under the pony's legs. The startled pony made a
sudden plunge on one side, and brought the wheels of
the on the pathway. The child was thrown
out head downwards, and In a second would have been
crushed under the weight of the carriage, which was
then toppling over, had I not grasped her dress before
she came to the grorund and swung her into my arma.
I gave her at once to the lady, and waisted in righting
the carriage and quieting the pony. In a few minutes
there were more than 200 persons collected round the
carriage, praising me for rescuing from destruction
'the little Drina,' aa they called the child. I had
several shillings and sixpences given me, and the
owner of the dog gave me half-a-crown. The lady then
told me to follow the carriage to the palace, where she
gave me a guinea with thanks from the Duchess of Kent
for my gallant conduct (as she exile/wed it) in ' saving
the life of her dear child, the Princess Alexandrine."
She also took my name and regiment, saying that there
would be something more done for me. In a few days
I joined my regiment at Wealon, expecting that there
would be some communication from the Duchess of
Kent to my commanding officer. After some time the
regiment wasorderea to Hull. and thence to Edinburgh,
Castlebar, and Athlone. These movements of the
regiment took between three and four years, but I
heard nothing from the Duchess of Kent. At the
request of:my wife, who was then unable, through Ill-
ness to work, I wrote to her Royal Highness. reminding
I h f the promise mule more than three year.
before,
n and addressed the letter to Kensington Palace.
After weeks I received a reply, healed "Buck-
eted Park," and stating that the Duchess had not for-
gotten her promise, and that Lora Harris, who com-
manded the district In which the 73rd was stationed,
and who was then on a visit at the park, was to leave
Inc few days to resume his command in Ireland—at
Athlone—and would be the bearer of her c.
.. About
ten days after I was summoned to the B d Office,
where the general, his aide-de-camp, and e brigade-
major were amembled. The general said, • John
Maloney, I have great pleasure in presenting
with ES, the gift, es( her Royal Highness the
of Kant, for your gallant and intrepid conduct in
Kensington Park three years ago, but you are to
understand that you are not on any occasion to write
to her or expect any more.' The regiment was soon
after sent on foreign service, and did not return to
Europe until the year 1841. I then inquired of many
persons «mousing the Prince= Alexendrina, but the
reply of all was that they had never heard the name;
so I made no further inquiry, but happening on
November 26th law, to hear an old maa recounting the
exploits of the sons of King George 111. (under the
IMMO of Tom Jerry and Bob Logic), I asked the
If he knew the name of the Princess Alexandrine,
when he told melt was the wow her present Majesty
was known by until she was eight years old. When I
learnt this I wrote to General Sir Thomas M.
Bkidulph, who replied, asking for living proof to
con obrate my assertions. I have no means of o ling
that proof but by bringing the matter before the
public, first making a sworn declaration before a
I L.agistrates of the truth of this statement —(Signed)
Joag Vaulter, Pensioner, 73rd Foot,"
MR. GLADSTONE—
. .... . . . . . .

A correeponde-Ja-is-pTibliegid between Lord Claud
Hamilton and Mr. Gladstone. The former asks Mr.
Gladstone to support his meat amettion "that the
constituencies of the country when an opportunity has
chanced to oocur, and the question ham been tried, have
returned in large majceity those who disapprove of the
conduct of the Ministry. His Lordship then proceeds
to enumerate a number of English counties and
boroughs which have since 18/13 returned supportare of
the Government, and asks if thew facts do not disprove
the assertion referred to. The ""thilf is Kr. ill"-
stone's reply and the nejoinder o Lord Claud
Hamilton :-
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bee 99, 1878.
" Dear Lord C. Hamilton.-1 Ws= your title to
make the challenge contained in your letter .4 the 117th,
but I also eek the hberty of choke as to my method of
dealing with it, and I do not see say rea.DA nisy I should
reply to speetions involving only a pert of the case, rather
than dl—sa I mean to do if I can find time—with the
whole of it / feel assured that such a complete dealing
with it will anord you, much more sompletely than the
method Foci suggest, that 'relict' which you so much
desire.—l remain, v•l7 faithfully yours,
W. E. GIADSTONIC
" Glaselonsh, Ireland, October 2, Ina
" Deer Mr. Gladstone,—Your letter of the 99th cli. his
been forwarded to nse here. Of come you have • perfect
right to choose > our method of dealing with the interro-
gations contained in my ktter. I wi.h, however, to point
out that the quests= at issue between us is not • mutter
of opinion or controversy. but one of mere fact.. You
have seented as a 'fact' that the constituencies of the
country, when ain opportunity has chanced to occur, and
the question has been tried, have returned in tart,, thajori-
On those who disapprove of the conduct of the Ministry.
That seseglion is either capable of proof or it is not. Is it
not eviddllt that the authenticated records of par linen-
limy elections during the past two years prove your ' fact'
to exist merely in your own lmsglnatlool Al it la desir-
able on public grounds that our fellow subjects in
Australia should be correctly informed on them questions.
I have token the liberty of forwardhig our letters to the
press, but should you hod tune to enter on any contro-
versial matter connected with the subject I shall of course
be happy to continue the correspoodence—Malieve me,
, deer Mt. Gladstone, very faithfully your,.
CLOUD J. Hamm.
n. Right Rou. W. Z. Gladstone. MP..

WHEN I AM (iONE
When have vanished from this scene

"UT;rild unrest,
And still live on is realms unseen
Beyond the west-
-1 wonder if one bitter scalding tear
WM haply fall upon my silent bier I
When this arm chair shall vacant stand,
And stiff and cold
Shall lie this nervous bl tie-veined hand
Beneath the mould.
I wonder if sweet flowers will ever bloom
By white hands planted--oar my lonely tomb
Yes yes I two loving earned eyes
Will then be. dila
And raised in silent anguish to the skies
In prayer for him
Who sow enfolds her in his warm embrace
But then will lie with rigid-changeled face

Tux ?Wield Profession are now ordering Cadbury's
Cocoa Eames in thousands of cases, beams it con-
tains tame nutritious and fiesh-forosiag elements than
aa7 athar bevatztabazdy litarefseabis to the thick
ttatalty Caeca When you wit for
arnaboregOosaa Zwiree be awe that yam get A, as
TEmit loittlalima tor the Woe
Ilhe Ora Pads Depoll. I

7112 GAMBLING YARKEIL
(Prom the thheaant)

"Whet kind of agriculture is practised here r the
visitor from town naturally asks hie hosts. aa they stroll
towards the turnips with loaded guns. " Oh, von had
better sae Ih. X—," is the reply. "H. is our leading
agriculturist; tell you ail shout ft.. Everybody
repeats the same story, and once Iltr. X-- • DIMS is
started everybody Wks of him. The 'squire, the clergy-
man—oven in casually calling at a shop in the market
town, or at the hotel (there are few inns now)—wherever
he goes, the visitor hears from PI of Mr. X—. •
sticosednl man—toast snocessfut, peottththi.. scientific,
Intellectual. "Like to me him! Nothing miler. Intro-
ductha.t Noumea«. Wise he'd be deligfited to see you.
Come with me.' Protesting feebly spinet intruding on
privacy, the visitor is hurried sway, and expecting to meet
a solid, "tardy, and somewhat gruff old gentleman of the
Jahn Bell type, endeavours to hunt up some ideas about
shorthorns and bacon pigs. Hs is a little astonished upon
entering the Peasure grounds to see one or more gardeners
Way among the parterres and shrubberies, the rhododen-
drons, the cedar deodoras, the Levels, the pampas grass,
the " corpet-gardening bed., and the gleam of distant hot-
houses glittering in the sun. A carriage mid pair being
slowly driven by • man In livery from the door down to
the extenaive stabling passem--cleerly some of the family
have Just returned. On ringing, the callers are shown
through a spacious hall with a bractse or two on the
marble table, into • drawing-room, elegantly furnished.
There fa • short Iron grand open with a score ...sly
left by the last player, • harp in the corner, half hidden
by the curtain; some pieces of Nankin china on the
gide tables. Where are the cow-sheds f Looking
out at window • level lawn extends, and on it ,
two young gentlemen are playing tennis, in appropriate •
costs.. The laboured platitudes that hod been prepared
about shorthorns and bacon pip am quite forgotten, and
the visitor is jusit about to risk the question if his guide
bee not missed the farni-house and called at the squire's,
when Mr. X— comes briskly in, and laughs all &Doha
about intrusion to the winds in his manner. He
.
' insists on his friend. taking some reshment, will not
take refusal; and such ii. ths,Pstwer a his vivacity, that
they find themselves sipping MAdeira, and are premed to
come and dine in the evening before the at least knows
exactly where he Is. " Just • homely spread, you know ;
pet-luck; a bit of fish and • glass of Most; now do come."
This curious mixture of bluff cordiality, with unexpected
snatches al refinement, is Mr. X—'s great charm.
"Nttl• farming tell you with pleasure.'" (Rings the
bell "John"—(to the livered servant.)—" take this key
and ring me amount book No. 68, Copse lama ; that win
be the Pet way to begin."

If the visitor knows anything of country life, be cannot
latcrrecollecting that, if the old type of firmer WOO close
rayslerions about anything, it was his eccounte. Not
• word 'odd be got out of him of profit or lose, or menus ;
be would barely tall you his rent per acre, and it was
doubtful I/ his very wile ever saw his pase-box. Opening
account book No. 6 B, the explanation proceeds • My
system of sericulture is simplicity itself, sir. It is all
founded on one beautiful commercial prompt. Osr
friends round about here (with • wave of the hand.
Indicating the country aide)—our old folks—whenever
they got • guinea put it out of right, made a hoard,
hid it in • stocking or behind • brick in the
chimney. Ha I ha I Consequently their operations
were always restricted to the same identimil locality
0:0P6, sir, no expansion. Now my plan is—
invest every penny. Make every shilling pay for the use
of half-a-crown, and turn the half-crown into seven and
sixpence. Credit is the soul of business. There you have
It. Simplicity itself. Here are the hooks' see for your-
self. I pabliah my balance half-yearly—like a company.
Then the public see what you are doing. The earth, air, as
I said at the dinner the other day (the idea was much
applauded), the earth is like the Bank of England —you
may draw on it to say extent; there's always a reserve to
meet you. You positively can't overdrawn the account
You see there's such • solid security behind you. The fact
Is, I bring commercial. principles into agriculture ; the
result is, grand WIXOM However, here's the book; just
glance over the figures."

The said figures utterly bewilder ths vieitor, who in
courtesy runs his eye from top to bottom of the long
columna-farming accounta are malty the most compli-
cated that can b• Imagined-no be, meantime, while turn-
ing over the pages, mutually absorbs the personality of the
commercial agriculturist, lie sees • tall, thin farmer, •
brown face and neck, long radian sinewy hands, pre-
tinnily twiddling with • cigar or • gelid pencil-cass--
generally the cigar, or rather the extinct stump of it,
which he every now and then sucks abstracted, in total
oblivion as to in condition. lin dress would pass muster
In towns-well cut, and probably from Bond-street, Ile
&Recta a frock and high hat one day, and knickerbockers
and sun helmet the next. His pocketa are full of papers,
letters, &c, and ache searches amid the mass for some
memorandum to show, glimpses may be seen of
certain oblong stripe of blue paper with an impressed
stamp. "Very suss( actory," says the visitor, handing
back No. 6 B: " may I Inquire how many acres you
occupy." Out comes • notebook, "Hum I There's a
thousand down in the vale, and fift•on hundred upland,
and the new place I. about nine hundred, and the
meadows-r vs mislaid the meadows-but it's near about
four thousand. Different holdings, of course. Great
nuisance that, sir ; transit, you see, costa money. City
gentlemen know that Absurd rystam in this country-
the land parcelled out in little allttment-gardans of two
or three hundred acres. Why, there's a little paltry
hundred and t entity acre freehold dairy farm Use between
my vats and upland, and the fellow won't let my waggons
or ploughing tackle take the short cut. Ridiculous.
MOM It WM/ altered, sir. Shooting! Why, yea; I have
the shooting. Glad if you'd come over. Then more
Madeira, sad after it • stroll through the gardens and
shrubberies and down to the shads, a mile, or nearly,
distant. Mare, • somewhat confused vision of " grand
shorthorns," and an inexplicable jumble of pedigrees,
grand-dam,, and g-g-g-g-g-g.dams," as the catalogues have
it; handsome hunters paraded, steam-engines putandne
water, donn.engines slicing up roots, distant columns of
smoke where steam-engines are tearing up the soiL All
the while • scientific disquisition on ammonia and the
constituent parts and probable value of town sewage as
compared with guano. And at intervals, and at parting,
• pressing invitation to dinner [when pine-apples or hot-
house are certain to make their appearance at
denertruch a flow of genial eloquence sorely was never
heard ore I
It requires • week at least of calm reflection, and many
questions to his host, before the visitor-quits carried
• away-can begin to arrange his ideas, and to come slowly
to the opinion that though Mr. X- —is as open as the day
and frank to a fault, it will take him • precious long
tiro' to set to the bottom of Mr. X—'s system ; that is
to say if there is any bottom at all to it. Mr. X— in in
brief, • gambler. Not in • dishonest, or even suspicious
sena& huts pure gambler. lie is a gigantic agricultural
peculator; his system is, se be candidly tild you, credit.
Credit not only with the bank bet with everybody. lie
has actually being making use of you, his casual and
usexpected visitor, as an instrument. You are certain
to talk about him; the more he is talked of the bettor, it
0,01 biro • reputation, which Is begining to mean a great
deal in agricultural as it has so long in other pursuita.
You are sun to tall everybody who ever chooses to con-
verse with you about the country of Mr. X—, and Mr.
X—'s engines, cattle, horses, profuse hospitality, and
Progressive science. To be socially popular is a part of
his system he sows corn among society as freely as over
his land, and looks to some grains to take root, and bring
him increase a hundred-fold, as indeed they do. What-
ever movement is originated in the neghboarhood finds
him occupying • prominent position. He goes to London
ae the representative of the local agricultural chamber;
perhaps waits upon • Cabinet Minster as one of the
deputation. He speaks regularly at the local chamber
meetings ; bin 0101.1 is ever in the papers. The press ars
Invited to inspect his farms, and are furnished with
minute detail.. Every now and than a sketch of his life
and doings, perhaps illustrated with a portrait, appears in
sane agricultural periodical. A certain anion of the year
parties of gentleman are conducted over his plaice. In pare-
chial or district matter, he la • leading man. Is It • oottags
dower show, a penny reading, • cricket club, • benefit
society-it does not matter what, his subscriptions, his
name, and his voles are beard In it. He is the life and
soul of It; the energy comes from him, though others
higher in the scale may be the nominal hnds. And the
nominal heeds, knowing that he can be relied upon
politically, are 'retain', and give him their good word
freely. He hunts, and is a welcome companion-the meet
frequently Mkss place at his house, or some of the hunts-
man call for lunch; in fact, the latter is an invertible
thing. Everybody calls for lunch who happens to pais
near any day; the hour has • reputation for hospitality.
He is the clergyman's right hand-aa in managing the
school oommittas. When the Bishop comes to the con.
firmation he is introduced as "my chief Lay supporter."
At the Rural Diaconal Conference "nip chief supporter'
is one of the lay speakers. Thus be obtains every man's
good ward whose good word Is worth anything. Social
credit maims commercial credit Yet he is not altogether
acing • part-be really likes taking the lead and pushing
forward, and means a good deal of what he says. He Is
especially quit* honest in his hospitality. All the same,
as far aa badness is concerned, it is pure gambling. When
• man is spoken lanbly of by gentry, clergy, literally
everybody, the bank is remarkably accommodating.
Such a man may get for kis bare signature-almost
premed oa him, SI if his econtanco of it were • (avow-
what another would hays to deposit solid security for.
In plain language, he borrows money and invests it in
every Possible way; His farms are simply the basis of his
await Hs buys Wood shorthorns; he buys blood horses,
and he sells than again. Hs buys wheat, hay, dm, to
dispose of them at a profit. If he chose he could explain
to you the meaning of coatings, and even of that
mysterious term to the uninitiated, " backwardation."
His speculations for the "account " are sometimes heavy.
So much so, that occasionally with thousands invested, he
has hardly any rainy money. But, then, there an the
crops ;he oaa gat money on the coming claim There
too, the live stock-money can be borrowed on the stock.
Hare lies the secret ninon of the dread of foreign cattle
disease. The increase of our docks and bards is, of cows&
a patriotic cry (and founded on fact) ; but the secret pinch
Is this-if foot and mouth, plouro-pununonia, or rindorpest
threaten the stock, the tenant-farmer cannot borrow on
that, his chid security. The local beak- shake their
cases of rindorpon aro equivalent to a reduc-
tion of IS per orat In the borrowing power of the agricul-
turist. The auctioneers and our friend have large trans-
actions-' paper" here mein. With certain members of
the hunt be books beta to • largo amount: his fan
Is not unknown at Tattersall's, or at the race-meetings.
But be dose not flourish the batting-book in the fan
of society. Ile bete-and holds his tongue. Some folke
have an ancient and foolish prejudice agaigat betting;
he respects sinners convictiosss. Far and away he
is the boot follow, the most pheasant company in the
shire, always welcome every when. He has read wisely,
Is well educated; but above all he is ever jolly, and his
jollity is contagious. Despite his invemiants and
his brow sever wean that sombre impact of
gMetetiaari:: that knitted concentration of wrinkles seen
on the face of the City man who goes daily to his "office."
The out-of-door buffnien the cheery ringing ooics, and
the upright form, only to be gained in the middle over the
breezy uplands, cling to him stall. He wakes
.everybody
up, and risky as perhaps some of his speculations are is
socially ontwaslng. The two yams gratlenien, by-the-
bye, *yin; lawn tonne from the drawing-room
window are two of his painilet whom high Premium. and
paytnents mist to keep up the free and garatereins table,
and who End farming a very pleasant profession. The
most string characteristic of their tutor is his Yankee'
like fertility of ~urea and bold innovationa--the very
antipodes of the old style of "olod-compeller."