The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1873.

gamily deer, whilst tee on the other band It will make
soetthuslly poorer, therefore although it may behove
pac small portion of the unummity In keep sip the
' peewit high prism it most oertelnly behoves another,
and that by for the linger to keep them down.
We ineuneelbl lad that the purest Ugh pekoe of
meat may keys the auk as hes
sertMele been the we with oaks, of orenting •
esconomy in their use—end if gook be the eau Irre
In prism, if II be but temporary, will not have to be
altogether regretted. The eztrave In emus
bosses, sepeelelly to the kitchen, is tucheolly greet,
and the put wens attendant on our Regtlish spew of
smoking in almost proverbial. No price,. In the world
coueame 10math meat as the IA and as people
rexceame it so wastefully. eight yee
derirzt
unt be remembered, that the Privy Mena
ea *equity to be made Into the dietaries of the lowest
fed of our populadoe. The investigation we. entrustod
to Dr. Edward Smith, who ezamioed the food of 563
households in Inglend and Wales, 29 In Boothia, and
52 in Ireland. In 126 English awe the sequiny
related t• the poorer shunts of indoor work people, wok
as silk weaver., needlowomen, glove Wither%
weavers and shlrtmakers in Ludo° and le=
provincial towns • the other eame belonged =elusively
to the agrioulturil population. The results,, brought to
light were somewhat nuking. It appjted that •
large body of people wore actually or trying to
slid, on lees food, that is len (Arbon and nitrogen,
thao aooording to sonotiflo caloulations, were doomed
barely stifilskint in seel narration disease, from the
unemployed operatives of Lancashire during** ootton
&Woe. It us also dispersed that as regard.
nutriments, Bopienal woo Our worm fed division ;Sali
Kingdom. "On the whole," Dr. Smith needled—
" there was the most nutriment, the lust sum spent
upon food, the greatest soonomy in Its Wootton, the
most breed stuffs and milk, the least surer, fats, meat,
cheese and tee la Ironed. There was the least amount
of nutrhneat, the greaten variety of food, the meat
oostly oneelion of food, the least quaintly of bread
stuffs and milk, the greatest quantity of mem fele
and meat In Ragland." It was ululated thet the
lein who spent little more than half as mush In food
u the English, got fully twles as mush for their money,
In the shape of eaten and nitrogen, the two ohlid
elements of nutrition; Sootland followed 'lreland to
point of dummy. Nut Of thus was eaten by 92 per
out. of sdi the fem Wes ineluded In the enquiry. la
England the per outage was 99, in Ireland 59,
Sootland soming between the lye, and the triunity
of meat consumed by each adult, weekly, VOA 16
on.; in England, 101 on. In Scotland, sad in Ireland
4; on,, or only a quarter of the English allowance.
Of the nearthuneat of the egrindiersi labourer
Dr. Smith ghee on thi whole • favourable asount.
Theme,, be thought, won usually sail 60, though as
muck oould not always he seld of their hunk& As a
rowel ormolasiee, It may be gathered from the report,
that, the iseonotay of food le much better understood In
!reload and Scotland than In Inglu4, and that the
poorer claws in this country, partieularly in London
and the larger provincial town, ale «penally wasteful
and eztuvagant, both in the solution and cooking of
their food. And this brings me, gentlemen' to the
consideration of the last,and I think I may as, the most
Important part of my paper viz. „the meths which the
supply of moat in our waken may be iooreaud, and
the price loosened, or at the lead another so serious •
du obviated. This I feel to be entirely a praotiotl
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akar mother muse was the isereesed add el
outky for Seeding staffs, rates and
=1:14..6ber Its. Were it net for tb• high rlss
et meat, the British tanner world sot have bete sees to
pay Ids way for ONDO years—it we. that had kept him
cm his lap. Am to earn they bad to sompers with the
virgin sell of Amides, with its aeonmalallie
of mama from timber and undergrowth for
centuries; but year after year that Mire of the lead
was farther sad further from the Atlantis, and
In • few years he thought they might not
have wheat so low as it is now. With • the in urn,
• rise Is meat would follow, for very few
animals were fattned solely or put—lt was only in
the very rich pastaree that could he does& Auto gamit,
undoubtedly is some please game damaged tit• crops a
little, but on many of the ware lure of this *mat,
and others game ought to be propagated more than,
now I.: more meet could be made off sash lead In the
shape of rabbits and hare' than In any other way. He
thought the game question had become • peg on whisk
political agitators hung their grieviteese ; and he did
not think it was so groat a grievanes in reality is is
their Boogie/Ake& Thee, did the lair maws as
much meat as it ought to de? All Orr meted was
fair play: let the legislature give fair play to the lard,
and he thought the landed interest would take ears to
predate a& mush as it world pay them to prods... It
wee absurd to think Worn would pose double the
number of bears sad lose by them. When it waged
to pay them they owed to produce, just as would any
other ram of &garble buries mem, He would take
that opportunity of erreeting what be wet reported le
have mid at the lad meeting. He did not inteed to
say that the land Gould product ten times Ur amount
of meat it now does were it not foe disease, but NO
limes the quantity new imported. Mr. Pope had gone
on the old theme of the emenmption of lamb and reel,
about which the pular notion was very absurd, Did
anybody think that whore a fanner bad say 100 dairy
ours, he would rear 103 0•1••• • year? • tarp number
of them wore killer when they weer " heathens "
(never having seen a Buoday), boosts, they mold not
keep them. II the cow. weldor arras, whey world
the batter and cheese come hero Of tonna if self-
roaring was more profitable than snaking batter sad
oboes& they wield do it. But then It most remembered,
ell the time the land was predating the peas*
quantity it could, only the farmer produced that which
paid him beet. As to lamb, in tits present day the
lambs sent to market were heavier animals than the
withers of 20 years ago; and of the evils of overateak•
fug • farm he had seen an indium that day, where
some yearling salves were not worth so math mossy
as when they wits As weeks old l—(lau,ober).
Mr. T. Look attributed the p.sseas beemood pries
of mesa to the gradual prespwt of the seestry.
Mr. Dunn said the seWset was as Interesting sae
sad had hese very well handled. With regard to Yr.
I liamar's remarks is to game, It streak him very
Mel* that Mr. Homer had always lute his ova shoot-
6g-41iteghter) ; if he bad not, be was quite sue he
weild not have come to web • emulation. He (Mr.
Damon) was ectorneed that Hr. Popes view of that
metier wan the arrest ore; itod if Mr. Homer knew as
=oh as he (Mr. Duoso) did and the uperieur of
many unfortunate men, S. would never bare arrived
at such an opinion—(bar, hear) 11. also differed from
Mr. Homer as to the future importations of core. No
doubt as to America he was right; Dom that country
the supply did not now inereses. But then wat the
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the eSurrounity were nesisearay intirested in this &ab-
ject, which esatiereed the eultivaliee of the ; and
with oar teensing popalatien, it was tree of very high
Imparbeast. Est would tom the use** is Hs three-
fold owe% se alffeetbig thuls.lohiturlsls,
sad the leasureses It Yid he aid bess time to time
that we were making seers episelture ; but hie
did oat %Mak that said ha boom. sal by fast& On the
seatrary. Indeed, he believed, etentineal poorest wad
Wag made. Pistw la the peat year or two there had
beat some littie hindrances la that direeklioa by tutor-
twin seasons; but, as • rule, agrioultare had been
advsnaing. In support of this he need only refer them
to the growth of oar staple commodity—wheat. Within
his remambrattes the amount prodneed was not more
than or avenge of 20 bushels per more, but it was
said by the best authorities on the beat statistics, that
the growth was now 28 bushel, per ears. Theo, again,
within the last 30 or 40 years land hod Increased in
valoo—rents had inareased at all events.—Bsughter and
bear, hoary—some twenty or thirty per cent. ; yet
landowners had not been eatirely benefited thereby.f or
be had no hesitation in saying that their expanses had
pretty well kept pees with it, in the sera ..gee of
servants, the higher pries of butcher's meet, and other
household *hews. As to the agriculturists, for some
years there bad been • nimeasity for an improved raoe
of farmers, solo speak. Ivory clam of persons had
ascended more or low abe yodel ladder in th•
coustry ; the outlay upon Lead had increased by the
various implements used in its aultiyation, the artifi-
cial matures applied, sad the steani-plough,and all these
thins created the nesmisity for • higher oleos of farmers.
If he might we that term. The neat questioa
woe most important—had the agricultural labourer
kept pans as a rule with that rising In the social
scale experleaced by all other dares Be had his
doubts about it. lie was quite sure the labourers
were better off sew than when be was • boy, but that
they had kept,paes with the improvement of the other
alums el the community be was not quite so tare,
especially whoa compared with the artisans and miners of
the North, whale wages wets perhaps three times as
Plat at 30 or 40 years ago, Therefore, he thought,
so far, the agrioultural labourer had not kept pace with
tho other labourers of the tionntry. Yin it was
amongst the miners and highly.paid artist= that
strikes had taken pleas. A few years ago it would
have bees thought astonishing that people earning
d 2 or £3 • week should strike for higher wages: that
the spieultural labourers should desire to partake of
the general prosperity beithooght not unnaturaL The
presoak aoadition of things had been further brought
about by the feet that all classes of the country, ensept
the farming olue, had more or lees encourager' the dig-
satisfeetkei of the agricultural labourers. and expressed
the greatest possible sympathy with therm Yet those
In aides and towns who so tommiserated the apt-
cultural labourers, ware living amongst people who
were mach worm off than them—peeple in • 'tat, of
semi-stary•tion in snorts and alleys, and scarcely •
week pissed but they read of in inquest being bald on
some poor creators in the great towns who had died for
leak of the common agitated.s of life. Beau things
dld not occur in country plains. But while those
people nianOested so moon eympethy with the
agricultural lithos," they had • grime objection to
strikes that ideated them personally. Whoa the gas
men of London Us:sussed to put then: in the dark,
and the pollesinen and bakers talked about striking,
and the misers did It sad teemed likely to starve them
all for want of ooal, they very much °Nested to It; but
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satisfactory way poseibl& U not afford
to pay the large iserosse of wagesdentwitid mossething
else most be enneeded, and bo thought that
Weald be trying We labourers having • WWI=
He thought We [sodomises weld most their Melees in
this reaped to a very great extent. He had a wry
cm of allotments. end believed that Mr.lVYrarabli carried it out well ter 90 or 40 yew; and
that at Framptoa it had also answered and be weld
net help thlakiag if the priest* were carried • little
further it would meet tba wishes of the poor man to •
very great extent, sad at the least possible merits* to
both the latadowoar and Meant. He knew that farmer@
generally had got a tort of feeling against it -if they
would OlOnie him (Wag a rude exereui.on-•-, pre-
judice against it, for he believed It wee more or less
that, and ospeoelly did it prevail against a labour's,
into baring more land CL an ha could cultivate in his
leisure time. That was reasonable enough, but then
came the question could it WA be inet In another form?
1,..r instance, if a man rented a certain mistreat of land
—limit it to an acre if they would- and he knew some
of them would say that was three times too rash, bet
they must remember there we • question to meet, and
by what he was about to suggest they might
save something in wager, haprova the labourer's
position, and attach him to the soil. It might be said
a labourer could not possibly cultivate au sore by
spade husbandry in his own time. Bat his idea vat
that this land should be let to the labourers on every
farm in the most convenient please near their homes,
from the average quality land of the Una, sad at the
agricultural value; and with regard to its °ablest/cm,
he suggested that each man should have one day •
week allowed him for that purpose; with the assistance
of his wife and family he thought that would enable
bim to do it. Of course he did not mean to suggest
that all the men on • farm should have t.te came day,
but one Mondays another Tuesdays, and so mu kr.
Sweden shook his head, but be eould not help think-
Masurer eh he • scheme would be of greet advestege to t
, and very little loss to the farmers. (sr.
lanaffess : How is • farm to be worked?) He believed
lb* post man would be delighted with seek a optima if
ft amid be carried out. (Nr. Saunders; He'd always
had if.) He knew that some of his hardheaded
hiesdeerbe would not say hard-hearted, because if he
did b • was sure he should be libelling them—would
Gad Essay diffloulties in the way of milting such a
plea. Ha• difilaulty that suggested itself was bow
would the labourer provide measure for as sore. Now
he watered to say that if lioale's or any similar
system were adopted with an average family of three
children with • man and his wife, if properly followed,
and a pig were kept besides—which they eat too,—the
land would be seamed better year after year than on
farms where they only kept about lg sheep to the acre.
II the farmers would swept this scheme he believed it
would be highly successful. No doubt they all believed
wages would be higher; sad if the labourers worked
five days for them and one for themselves, (skin for
the Iv. days the mama wages as now, all the labour they
bestowed on the lead they had one day • week
would turn to profit. He could not put
down any general rule as to the quantity of land •
labourer should have if he wished, has be felt quite
sere that so mach might be muds oat of even an sae
II well aultivari by an lodostrioes man and his family
as would mow than give the advance of wages be wag
now asking. Let them remember they had to meet the
qesetioo is some way, and be believeed that if the
labourers only - ' the agricultural vales of lb. lead
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qiiestioa, whioh had best be left to the more ex perieneed
members amenpt us to discus.. I will therefore
detain you ouly a short time loner, whilst I mention
one or two Woos which I have gethered, or whloh
may hare ingested themselves to my nopreotioal
mind. met; should Tool sod lamb be oonsomed to
the extent whioh it sow is, and. hu been of late years?
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vast oosatry of Russia. from wldeb year after year the
exportattoos were larger ; and, with the development
in progress by means of railways, titers, was no reason
why, if the pesos of the world was maintaitml, Russia
should not still send as more ems than ever it had
dons before. As to the mice of meat, he thought
while the prosperity of the country was maintained,

If the animals which an inir killed before they have the deeamil -estatthee the preneet high prime.
reached materity were to be kept until they had Mr. CHAPMAN SAMMY smoldered tits maintemooe
attained their full size, would not • much greater of the Genus pries of meat depended on the am-
weight of meat be produosd? The flesh of a grown mere of the eorentry. It had been °remained by dry
animal is undoubtedly more palatable and more nutri- somas which had reduced the qa unity of stook—they
tine than that of an anima killed at an immature age, weal beck • million of sleep a year : the number of
and I cannot but thine, that where keep is plenty, it pigs was Inereased, but the priori of pork was not so
stun pay the prodimer better to allow his animals to high ash was sometimes. As to beads statistics
mien their full airs and weight before he puts them showed they reunion about the same. With Ka
iota ths meat market. lam inclined therefore to Orange he hoped the present price would continue :it
think that, abstineem, for • time, on the pert of the was neeseartry to enable farmers to meat the increased
consume:* from the fiesto of Immature animals, would expiates of labour, rates, and everything else. la
by lessening the demand for veal and lamb, itemise regard to hoopla; a greater qtaatity of nook, there
the supply, and 00 rodeos the price of beef and mutton, might be isolated came wizen that might be dose, but
Althoughl would advocate abethienet for a time from most of them endeavoured with the help of antitank
veal aad lamb, yet I think that our cattle end sheep to make the best they wield of their farm,, whereas
(asset those kept for brooding purposes), should been • years ago nothing of the kind was used. What they
grated that they may be brought, as early as possible, wanted now was • remunerative prise for core.
Into the market, consistently with th• greatest weight Mr. Duni said be thotght the motion that the land
being made of them. On the Importation of foreign would produce double what it does now was • greet
sank Mr. Whittle treated aomewbet at length at oar fallen : It now produces more sore and meat than is
last meeting, and be then showed us that the annual any other wintry. Farmers went to great expense to
loss of settle from rinderpest, (?) lettro-paeumoula do this. Sine, last Monday be had sent out—nearly
and other imported diseases, sxoeeded the total number ell into the county—more than 150 tom et oaks, about
of foreign stook brought into this tourney. Although £1,500 worth, whin must add to the met of the
this may be so pet Ido not think a total prohibition animate As to the natural produce of the soil they
of foreign stook would have • beneficial elect ; the knew that in this poor tonatry it would searesly gram
frame are wanting on which to lay the flesh, and were any meat at all.
it possible to get an unlimited number of lean stook Mr. IL POPS cionearred with Mr. Deeleo eat. the
Imported, I have no hesitation in saying, that feeding expense of fatterdeg stock through the use of artier:dab
staffs, either home grown or foreign, would be forth- being eseenalel,
coming wherewith to fat thaw. I orceald ikere fore Mr. GLIM said he wel only a consumer, and
advocate the importation of foreign eseele ; tot the certainly the tone of the dissuasion did not give him
most severe scrutiny or quarantine, and if necessary much oonseletioa. They beard from the bast authorities,
guarantee, should be eatoreed at the ports of entry, beginning with Kr. Gauge, that high Woes were the
and every possible safeguard to prevent infected mamas greet desideratum, Mr. Homer and Mr. &tenders said
frem beiag landed, adopted; but we cannot afford to the same, and Mr. Dassee Intimated that the products
stop the importation of foreign stook altogether. The of the country scold not be greatly inarmeed. It was
importation of Australian meets would probably tend also said by Mr. &waders that if the price of oars
to keep down the prim maid the publics prejudin lammed (which he desired) so would the price of
mann the use of such meats be overcome and the use meat. To himself all this was unsatisfactory. But
of them become more general. The quantity obtainable were they quits oarrect in saying the country could not
Is without limit, Indeed I may mentioa ea the authority predates more than it did at present? Probably if any
of a friend of mine, who bad farmer, been a very gentleman had stood up in that room fifty years ago
extensive sheep termer in Qmeashiad, that acumen, and made a similar murk it would have been accepted
the weasel of thousands; apea tliousaads of sheep and sa • feel ; but weeld my of them say the present pro-
cattle are thrown to the manure hen, the hides and duotton would bear any comparison with what was
tallow bang the war:oodles@ considered of any tales. grown Afty years ago? and were they to suppose that
Could some mama be suggested by which the carcases now with all the intelligence brought to bear in the
of these animals could be brought to title Gentry entire, nausea, all the moaey invested, sad with all the
which indeed, I think, has already been done to some facilities they had in improved implements and means
limited outset, so that the joints might be available in of replenahleg the soil, they were going to stead still?
their familiar forms, I think the public prejudice Be was really surprised to gad eminent agriculturists
against foreign preserved beef and mutton ralgot to • standing up cad saying they had got to the Wait of
great estate bs got over, when our monthly buts:there' production and could do no bettor with the bet Kr.
bills would, I have no doubt, be considerably leemmed. Motile had demonstrated bow they scold produce about
Cattle shows, I think, tend to statists the production as math again on half the quantity of land, and he had
of weighty agamals, and enteepiently favour the supply heard him quoted as no mean authority. Although
of meat, and to these, to a great extent, we owe the the tone of the discussion wee not In favour of having
proud position belt by the British Os of being the beet meat any cheaper, be hoped the day was not fir distant
the world eat condom : let as hope that be may ever whoa the farmers of this ormatry would be able to
maintain has position in this roman. And now, gentle, predate it so that it might be said at • math lower
men I will leave mr subject in your heads, slater* rate. Why, the ether day when Mr. Briggs wept to
thanking you for the kind consideration and attention the Chancellor of the Inetteqter about the repeal of
with whisk you have heard me the Malt Tax—and he was rare their friend Mr. Damn
Kr. Onion said he must say for one that be rejoined would not be satisfied till It was taken off —he said
la the high priori of meat, and hoped it valid long meat would be twopecem a pound &gaper if Mr. Lowe
esetimie. In tide matter the latereate of troche:lir and would omit take off the Malt Tax- He believed the
consumer were not identleal. It was all Very floe for insulters might take heart, and that with all
Lord Derby to my th• lend of Ragland would produce the acilenee and means now pommel by the agrisol-
double what it now does: there we. • gre.t cry to turista, they would be able to produce *Maw meat
that efface is all quarters, but pnotioal farmers were for the people
never beard to say ouch a thing. In some masons their Mr. Omen said if the expanses of the *titivation of
farms would carry • far metier amoont of stook than the lead west on increasing • very ooneirieraWe portion
in others, but when mamas were so varlets it was urn- of the poor lead would go out of cultivation altogether,
possible for them to provide for all. M. Pops would and be sown down to gram. Theo the produstion of
perhaps tell them always to be heavily soaked, and meat would be less than now for the poor arable Linda
when their own feeding stuffs failed get foreign oom. would produce a more nothing under erase
modities. That we. all very well • and he thought Kr. Hosea said if they amid get 2,. a pound for
most of themes * rule did ks•P • much 'WA EE their meat they could oorudderably hernia their production;
farms 'were capable of, and by •P• 1111•11 e3wildershie bat at la. it would not pay to product mon than they
✓ums of money maieted the produce of their farms in now did,
making meat. Another thing must be borne In mind, Kr. Game said some yews ego when certain lain
all farms were not adapted for grating, some being only (the Cora Lou.) were In agitation, he heard • gentle-
suited for breeding. With present prime, It was their man of Dorchester stand up and say that if those laws
Interest to produce as meth meet as mesible. Stamp were repealed the whole area of that lead (looking on
orators from the highest to the lowest might 601 up Fordington field) would go out of eultivatiou within ten
and say the land only prodnee half what it was swab!, years.
of; but, if a tradesman were told he only did half as The CRAMMER said he heard that, He believed
much names as he night he would perhaps give a that production and eonsueoption would govern prises.
rude 111211Mbr. and is was jest raying that to the farmer., As to pork the price was now no higher that 40 years
for If they did mot grow or macs as catch as they mad ego, for then he got 10a. and 10a. 61. a mon for It;
they were standing very mush io their own light, and it seemed to him that the present popu/atina had
As to abstaining from veal and lamb, he thought John got shove eating pork, because they could afford to give
Bull was very mil off and los liked those adage—in the 104. and Is. a pound for beef and esition. As to
early mason they were rionsidered daimon% and J. B. loormang produotion that must depend 011 the lesione
didn't mind peying for them. Of nurse if they could Ins great =mare, and he attributed the higher pries
get the people to abstain tram meat altogether 5 days of meat to the looms mused by anise whereby they
out of 6it would have an offset on the market. If Mr. had not so mach to seed to market. AA this time the
Pope ever berme a farmer, he should not recommend Wens of foot-sediaouth disease were to be seen in
him to buy foreign settle to fatten—they would never the lambs aow being dropped—they Wen unhealthy in
Pay to Pee'. As • sum& rub they had stook seett4h cronsevienee of the disease being heed is them with
of their own. Mr. Pope mutt have spent • good deal their mothers. The pretest pram was remunerative
of time to get up the information sontained In his for the quantity they had got to sell, but me their
paper, cad had brought before faits of great interest. expenses In prodming it compared with 20 years age.
Dr. ALDRIDGE thought Mr. Pope had lotrodueed a They found that all their tradesmen's bills were math
wondrous anomaly in his lecture. He first told them higher. and if they asked why. they were told It was
about the distressed agricultural labourer, artioh was owing to the Morseled prim of iron, male labour, and
the current topic of the day, yet said more meat was so on. The tradesman charged extra to cover his addl.
oonsumed by the distressed labourer than eve,: and no tional expenses, and Urinate had jost the Eta* right,
doubt that warn a feet. -(Kr. Pope: Operatives, not but they bed to be governed by the market rates. An
agricultural labourers). There was no doubt it was the to the maturing of all salves an4,,lambs it was
fan amongst agricultural labourers too, and that they Take for inetance horn ewes that had lambs in Neves-
did spend more in meat than they used to do. There bar, and they had water meadows to feed them on till
had been published a letter by Mr. Leone Lori, in they got to 10 or Itlbe. • quarter • but what went they
which be showed by au able analysis the stannous to be dose with whoa all their kid was dam They
increase in the animal food of whin poor people now hops their fall quantity of beans and sloop, and ea.
partake ; end that wet to prove the labourers demeaned to get as rpMk • retort at they maid. If
were not so badly off as stamp orators would he were to keep an extra thousend cheep and feed them
hare them benne He did not believe they on cake it smell not pay his. (Mr. Saunders: It
were. Twenty years ago the agrieultasul labourer might if you had Sn a posed. Mr. Damon: No, not
worked for 7s. • week, and was now paid he thought at that twice.) Th, rise of Si or 30 per asst. in the
on an mirage 10i. to in, while in the North the wens prim et labour wee • serious matter, and anima they
were let Bat in the North the nerrittlaws were eery had better mama, for both ems and cattle he did nall
slight Indeed, while In the South they were la:unease. know how they were to meet that and ether Il•P••••••
Than we. • very good anion oa the subject is this Mr. Pon said he thought it most unfortunate that
month'a CormASU It appeared there was not any great he bad treated on this subject at all: It should have
difference bstween the wages of the North end Linn been introduced by a pretest. Had he aaticdpated
all conaldered. Ti,, lee nee wee worst interesting, and what a hive he should be putting his head into be
as to the coltivatioa of the lend he really thought should hays thought the aubj :et over twice before hs
Lord Derby was right. Of mane thi all knew there had brought it forward. Most of the Ponta dleneeed
was a wonderful improvement In the @titivation at were of • peasant' nature, and he hardly felt oompetent
present on what it was 23 years ago: the green and to copo with =toy producers of meat he saw around
other crops were now probably tide* RE heavy as they him, as to the Production of the lead he would sill
used to be brfore they had the excellent manures which maintain with Lord Derby that it did not produce so
were now used, and the new eyelets of tillage; but he meek as it might. He thought there were Misdeeds of
could not help thinking that by and by every farm tenants who bed not capital enough to stook their
would be almost like • garden, and instead of producing farms, sad huadreds and hundreds of farms not half
say 25 per cant, more than it did 20 years ago would docked. If those insufficiently stocked were made its
0. au Wawa of 50 oar own He did mot see at all carry tbe foil amount they would bear, there would be
why it should nor. If they Modied analyses of the rails a considerable Weems la the meet prodused. Keay
&ad applied appropriate manures for the production of the points to ebbe Mr. 0. Hornig took meeptioa
of the several crops, in the most nonoicloa way, he had been ariewered by Kr. Damen. Be thought the
believed mash greater prodoee wows( resale deemed for meat eould be reduced, without lesessiag
Mr. 0. W. Hosea mid he was somewhat amazed at the eeneemptioa, by further importations of foreign
the subject for their dissusolon, for he thought WEEPS Weis. In the proems's. of • new company it wee
they &add be called over the coals for selling meat Meted en the aathority of Board of Trade statistical
gaits so high as tahisliere sow doing. Be heard • that whines in 1866 the Importation of Seale pre.
meg joke epee the Dorchester lumen' Club. sawed otherwise than by mania' was seat to milldam
Sew 7•611 (Ow Club VRE skylod (owns said the, in 1466 there were 91 oats., in 1860, 6,000; 1868,
beat ghistmlimen the prise of meat, and Gene to the 15,000 ,• and 1871,, 361,000 else., valued at something
imeskeien tball Ilee peeper tlthag to do was to intreduree like 000,000. Thom agates showed hew the eeßEGelly•
elli IHe did net *bit it the opiates ri the lien al foreign preserved mess wan inereasing. A.
some member did advocate it—he dare Mr. Home; admitted that If he could get Se • lb. he
may for own oeneamption or for that of hie neigh- esuld keep eidees and lambs to maturity, he theta*
bean. Mr. Pope's leiter, started with the ides that he might now keep them anal they rembel fin or eAt
they should either increase the supply or redeem the times the weights at present attained. The other
demand. He thought as • patriot be Amid not try to matiobace, lavolvizzzetioal orperkeeoe, he did net
Muse the demand for meet, for undoubtedly • meat feel competent to
secauming population heart bettor phyrion• than onset; The CantlosaS proposed • von of thanks to Mr.
besides it we. a sign of prosperity, and • good thing in Pope for the able meaner in whin% he bad brought for-
estry way. Mr. Pope showed that the hareem' in woad the subjeet • and be thought they had bad • very'
pries had been gradual for twenty-two and that satisfaetery meeting. It was the last for the present
showed It was • tweed rise: had it doubled In a year, melon nowt the dinner, and be hoped if they were
or like Oell in ids menthe, it would have been an testi- spared, that they should go through another seam in
adios that it was caused by mine distrubaatie in the the same pleneant way as the reseal one.
market, end • mottos wield (slow. He believed the I Mr. Cinnon seconded. He helped Kr. peps did net
rim in meat wee quite gonad, aid that there would aosider their Mikis= mere some than wee juatUl-
be no very greet re-astion. As te the imam ef therbe I able, se be believed they were only the Immest sad brae
so deal,i the dry masa and dimes had greatly sees- • expreedoe el their opiates,. He felt arseediagly

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they thought that pesetas • good one to appc to
farmers, and that it would not be • bed gang If ail
the labourers of the ocantry strut* at harvest
time. He was at Exeter Hall when Sir Joha
Toevelyea said "Don't strike at harvest time";
but no sheer greened test sentiment, and the silenso
indicated that many people did not oars how muoh
fanners were inomivenimeed, bemuse It Ina thought
they very mach oppramed the labourers. He did not
wish to enter tato the 'segmental nut of this @abject,
bat, as fee as possible, merely to drew a for practical
eonelasions. and to point to some remedy—partial it
might be, and very iagfestual he felt quite sum yet, at
be had said, landlord; fermen, and labourers wen all
deeply imterested in getting a fair settlement of this
qiumtioa so far as it meld possibly be attained. The
landowners defies*/ for their living La • greet atessure
on the des cultivation of the soil, and therefore wars
masersed in this matter. For them to attempt to
ignore their interest in It would be quite wrong, bemuse
they mut boar pert of the Increased burden whatever
It we.; indeed, without the es.operatioa of the land-
lord the tenant was almost powerless. Farmers had
risen somewhat in the meal scale : there was no doubt
of that at ll; both. was sorry to know that to the
List four years they had not matte proper, pecuniarily,
sad that tole was • most usiosirmate time—there wes
never • wores—for them to meet the inereseed expenses
involved, be feared, is the labour question. He wished
to make • few remarks en the labour required upon
digerati descriptions of soil. Pastures, gram, or down
lands employed a very small portion of labour: he would
estimate it at not more tine ose labourer upon a
hundred sores; while oe poet amble land, which
required so mash eultivation, it would be found that
every hundred agree required about four mos for the
year. Nov it they gave mob labourer perhaps Sr. •
weak extra, that for fonr men would be £1 • week for
100 sores, or AO • year—so bsersesed eat of 10s. per
acre. The arable Mad of this oountry was not valued at
above 30c. per acre a• • rale ;el *ours; some of the
slab valleys were worth 405., but he thought 20s. ghost
the average pries, sad before they took 10t. an acre
front the owner of poor arable land—for to that he
aoudad his remarks—be thought a great deal of it
would go out of cultivation, for probably very few Med-
lar/a eouid sustaia nob • Ices. If they looked back •
few giseersgens, they would Sad that lend had gone
out of oultivatioa in this country. In every part,
on the highest MEN they &sit trees tke mark of
the *ash, but subsequently that land had gime out of
magnetic; aad although in the leg 30 years • good
deal had been ploughed up again, it might be that its
relinquishment would follow In the track of

Pakl • _
and eultivatoi propeeli, tt muld pra them imetead
of the 5 t. extra a week they asked au additional 1461 ii
through the your. He know those Its was ad
would object to this proposal; but a clinically
theettothofess, end must be ma. 11 they were
prepared to say they would pay the labourers ea mush
a week mom mosey be did not believe It would be so
satisfactory to them as the plan Its proposed. It might
be inooevatieet and unpletemat to have so many sores
tram out of the farm for the Wiesen; but he thought
it woold be well for them to maks a merinos In some
way, and that seemed to him the Nut espeosiva. As
to the landowner his saorilloe would not be great. He
meld ern this land must be let to the labourers direct
Item the landlord; however the cottages might Weld
he would thorax* have so taray more smell tempts.
Theo again, the latidlords being ea deeply interested In
the doe cultivation of the land, most take their share
In any new arreammeet and be thought of all Maier
thole dtt.v Neared provides the labourers with
ocinfortralt cottages—these they must have at whatever
east it in!ght be. A man to revolt himself,
mod bs a good member of society, meat have a
better home than he bad had in some rheas in
the country: and with a good cottage and the had
he spoke of, he believed the labourers would bs attached
to the soil and tall es interest In it. They all knew
that ifs man had not • etenforiable home he would not
*sweat. his Nod, and would ao4 take etre of his
family; indeed, be would have to aelf-respeat : so, he
thought it the landlord's bounden duty and interest toe
Is provide oomfortable homes as a positive antssaty for
the people. So provided for, hie was sore the Mourns
would not want to go away from their homes; and,
noteritltearading the ill-Nairn •blob vu attempted to
be crested between them (the farmers) end the labourers,
he hoped they woad be willing to do that Mesh they
believed to be for their real beneet, and ran landowners,
farmers, sad labourers woad all feel that they had
mutual interests, and would try to improve their
madam ladlvldgally and unitedly se mush as possible.
With regard to regulating Unmeant of wages he would
not my moo word—that most ha aa armegement between
meant sad man, on amount of various eirentestames ;
neither would he say that wages should always be paid
Is sash; Mold, be thought that if stristly followed
that woud be exceedingly objsotionable, for there were
may tangs the master mold *apply ammo to kb!
labourers than anyone else, and the manse of oareirne
sf fad, cottage., and so on be meld provide more
admaragemsly for them then ; anyone else. Be thought
no ow should stop in to my areartgeneuts widen were
he Asir mutual basalt ahead not be nada In eon-
Minion he thanked them foe giving him so mush

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title isliour gaieties,.'
hal be very sorry for
that to happen. They were frequently mold that it
did not signify whether our Mad was ealdvated or not,
so other eountries would supply us with mos ; but he
should be sorry to swept reedit, 'soh a Mate of things,
eves if they Gould always mum peaeo,whioh they °mild
not. Daring the last fifty years Itogliuml had had
several wars, sad been on the verge of war moots more
meetly, and to &piaci on other countries for cote
would be thought be a great mistake sad • serious
blunder. In the Fiala within the last few days they
had been told it did not signify &brut our growing own,
bat that we wanted I. proclaim more sheep and otitis.
But giving op corn-growing wontl put so end to them-
fourths of the labour, mid the lead sown down top.%
on their hills naiad in the mares of five years become
dews as It ones was—(llr. Sanders: In less than
that)--oely capable of massitalansg a few sheep. If
'kis land •• •

atteation, and hoped they—would fall; diaoses—the—sa-
j so t —iappisues).
The CII4IIIIXLI invited dissuades.
Mr. BLII/All, said it was a very importaat subject
for labourer, tenant farmer, and landlord. rie was
not one who would keep lbs labourer bask from im-
proving his poeition to life--(hear, hear.) Elis taboos
wig agssteels.in.trade, add be had as mash tight to Mk*
that to the beet market as they had any of their oent-
=edit's' ; and were boa laboarer, if he oould ge:lo4.
or 12s. a weak at Warobam, ho certainly should not
work for 81. at Wool. What he oomplained of mostly,
wee the agitators going about the country and *raw
tourism in .eery possible way to set class against Mesa
mid doing all they mould to widows tha farmers. lo
the matter of perustisitem ithell blame had been 464
upon them, and It was said sea were only paid 7s. or
Bs. • week who've. in priNuisltes " hid 3a or 4e.
Tale •

(edged its Idx Po.. for the nemaer * ehthb he bed Iled thew Wes se bed eff as that ; Weed, se kit had He felt very Measly as the labour queer* for this huffier& the east was with me left sitar ill the
ken& formed- Z wthjeet, aid *pat ass aad a, 0...gb they had not kept pm PAN+ with . wal,___,___„°a• °ls taa„....wslats_____"..r.,l4at °mid ,t_a_ll3l,7 b° ==on"agalli ts tbioosarg:"" ""a Paid'y aid
far
the public would sot think than athish la midi* that ether KM= of the meaty, yet Urn wise la"' "willi.wii ww ta° aww.r. °` °"°' iimiabi7--,°°°•' '.eig'
- la.
Ileglati
girl- but
6°.16.-
SW"s
hid
at/Am of wit=gpoinever be Im. off me than elm be was • boy. He withal they were Per the last two or three years they had bad very bees Pet alma Ike lied lie hoed the thell *odd
gli Pura the sompthithat, sad the betherelff glth and hoped the lumen would be eh% degelent Grope, sad be thought num before in in thee belies keg that the laden wend get • wthy
=mi.' aad. . in some meg or other le make theca better off. To say life bed be mat things looking worm than aow, and to einsil nem : . fad. at ets„Pelissed NW tell Meal
how It might be don was one of the most diffisalt ' more dbadvantage to the farmer. About half the land *aid actPt Mr satinet wis hie Milled Ithem be
wINFRITH rasaiior CLUB. things peedble, and ea could hardly suggest a remedy that ought to ken bean sows to wheat at this time herald lima Wass Ikea eale he did, and hi always
ra Ifebnary meeting woo hold rest Thursday to meld the matte' fatly, but be would Jodi/ate what was lyiag void or In when In suth • state that it hied to do Ms best.
erasing/AI the aka Boos roo, Wool. whon thee, were ha thought would andel% that dinette°. The labourers must be op in the spied to make way for , Tim He% 04 PilliZfra laid. that* eansethert Meth?
Kr. T. chnnoton snood". yin 'b. ohnn., in wished for a large advance of Ware, and the tannin some other Top: therefore, how was it possible at the as • Meow, acid had no maisein 01 melded •
1 s
r=im it the prosidosto„ Mr., yk iy- Form 31.
..„ said they could act afford to gin It. There was the present thus for !amen without the aseleteth• of Use Haying °err groat reelseet far Kr. Dames, sat
Blamer G. Ph Whirids ; Mr. R. didionitY l but it bad to be met, Nut somas new them landlords, or something of that sort, to meet the quite eata "at anything a° wid °a this aabisets
Damn, Derebeeter ; Kr. T. a.naau, wisysith ; kys. and be adopted. The labourers were told in various sNLtdlHultyoto.rt7a farm with say setts 'be worth hillarillg, ho made la effort to be pram.. He
T. Baaaden, Watergate*, Kr. J. Dunn, Danko-stew ;- joereals—h• lied • paper Wore him—the Zolbourers• faction to themselns I ty had hese employed In bad bees *aimed with what he had heard, sad if be
Kr. loasFersibuish ; Kenn. Lannon, Foes° ; CAroaiiii—whlch advocated that the lead should be this county mu years. but he mild result*t the said a few nerds now it would be net is en leaned la
Iffr. J. Kr. Bootkoot; NJ. &ammo.. mot. I takes sod divided amongst the people in various ways, lime when the were gang to keeek all the ths matter, although he was • landowner and the
mouth; . Keeton, . nonthdown ; iii, Bosownbs, sad on what were quite Common* prialithes. The threshing moblen to plates, though they soar found mongerof • awl large NOM., of. which ha was trettses
WM% labourers were deluded by such suggeetioes being alms- that the man who used most insobinery employed the and beim In that position he bad of mine %kat grass
Th• Cunnugan said ha orao very wry that prooktont, toted amongst them, for they believed than beams, greatest number of hands. He hoped that after • little Waren In the punt*, and also from the feat of his
Kr. Batas, was not prosont ; hi, /mind ha most hi they appeared in • newspaper, though their (rinds the time, the lab's/an would owns to their moo rejoin BM* amongst labourer. as th• obergyme of Winfrith.
unwell. Et. was sere they ions all tool v." wool, the nporten knew that many things appeared to the news- the statements of egitaton, sad dith to that old Nubsg the lad Mx mouths, he had talked over the
Importance of the 'abject they bed met to topsider— Rapers which to my tho woo, wore toonwss__(lanohtos). friends who had employed than a pest ember of subject with the labourers as mush as nye* in the
the Agnealturel yahoos Quotion_sopeoway at the Brea the Queue Spaeth he observed that the Hoven- years, rather than take up with people they knit Pale% 130 tilt this —that lit warn had id.aseeeed
moist Mesa; and were so" showed to h 0,,, kinds good meat were about to Introdnai a Bill nlatiag to the nothing of. As to eettages It was well knows that among all slams 01 working men throughout lha.
Mood Kr. Demos to iniandoos it, for it required to ko Transfer of land. Haring lately spoken then oa the those most oomplathed at were mad hubs pat up by so the egrkaltaral labourers' wars must lailmee,--.—add
dealt with with a Pont dial oy son,„ and that over, difficulties of small farmers, he would not say menthes then who lived In them on the waste, and were quite femme would have to pay more. Of nuns than
dds oy tho question, and every party tooorwood to it. whatever the Bill might be* was oonvineed that peasant *yowl the tuntrol of the landlords of the neighbour- was • dials* with the Inthiset, but there
should be maddered. He not say more, but WoPrietentslpe would not answer as • tele ia this. hood. At the sun time he did not mean to my that was Me thing be bad on Kt amnions streagly
simply Lattalege Kr. Damao. country. They had that system In Fracas and other all the others were just what they oould wide, but lm• linkers against, hennas he felt Measly upon it, v,e.,
Kr. DAMS geld slam they had done hint the honour 'mottles, but he me s Wafted that ander It they Gould provements were going on. In the einem of the tild khan** lead". the Hational Agricultural
la
fie gegen ye, hi abeww,, to intro:him the sotioot not module torn or meat cheaper than now. Notwith- farmer there was one thing he omitted—the inome- Labounn' Talon. He had the Meowed objeodon to
el the Idiom, Qsalato" hi you tdosouso in doing so stand this, they mild not shot their eyes to the fast tax, which be thought was levied most nejnetly on the erase and askae—tbal weld aelathelle of no without
II won not a psi oubioot of his, and if he hal that every poor man was more or lees ambitious to get %seat firmer. He was charged half oa has teak while the other, for one led up to the other; and he had
abletrillibe 'howls one Idoosoli_ot this time pordoomi a bit of land; and he gen them credit for it, and the tradesman or any other person weld go before the done all he Gould is the Manna he neemeed in the
.—ho wpm rather have nom up uu Shin . from obe woald emoting., the holing in every way he could. A Oomosiselonen, and If be peeved he wee not making Emelt to diestater the labelled from Joining the
w man brought up In the country and working on the £lOO • year, would jet the tax altogether remitted. oaths ; while he mad maintained that their wages were
allotted Se lc salar
Sehiai but hi hial.vild' tt.d." thyLn. iototheY "d
ass t,ho land, might fancy when he sew good orops grow that Bus with farmers It dld sot signify however bad the Mall enough, at the same Mao he had dew all he
mattes Wore them for dhooodoo, no,( hod no doubt there was imam* prodt, and therefore looped for • mans were or Indifferent their seeps, they had to pay esuld to pliant their Joining the Ileloa. He had
but that they would well veatilate it. Bat he should bit of land. It was quite natural, and he Shoed* no- hdf-rate en their reat. Again if a man paid £5OO a attended Utica Inestings, had 'edlthelliatims with the
speak as the Babied ono in a thoorotioni kind of way, thing would tend more to attach him to the soll than year for a farm, he inputted to have a good boom toWes ell the subject, and spoken '.4th*e *When
throwing out various Wen for their sonaidentions the possaelon of • little more land than be had live In, indeed that was • very material oonaideration themselves. Parhen may of them hat men • hang
and they would have to meet the setter practically, got. He thoughts% ambition Wu most praiseworthy, lathe bargain, but the tax icier ems in end la anent —• very one-sided aceount—in the newsmen
which was so math more Important and difdoult. and he would do everything he could to soignee that addition to charging laootar tax on the rent, alas of • eseltheation that tuth plies thews% three el th•
He felt this, toe—that the subjoin woo so variously spirit in the poor man, and thus Masa him to his bane, charged npoe the boom as well. There °bargee egitlears and Kama Hs &Add 0•17 We Is kle had
thought of by different person. hardly two men He had always found that tier agricultural labourer wee required revision, and It was espesially doe to she said In Perste Won, that the who% lef that theent
arriMag at the same owasiesion, shot he ondd owdoolg mon interested in • " bit et lend" than extra wager : farrow new when be had to compete with all the world, given by Mr. Taylor at • ranting in Winfrlth and
expect his views to rod their approval. do si. and the questioa Imes whether or not the tandems* and beer snob a large share of the load burdens of the Memel* after is • paha* priat, was a throe of fakir
impartial man, be wished to alvoot hie miod of ovary aid fanners 11011161 Dot Meet the preeent difficulty in eountry. hood, from beglonlog to aid. It had taught bias this
partials or prejsakm ou the ant**, and to dog with it, that way, for it meat be met moinebow. He mild not Kr. 0. W. Inthea said he had non there purely lassos—that Wirer again would hi bold • seavereatioa
as far an shht he, as seals Irks& all amnia are tow,. see a way from the di/Beatiy, sad Sheraton the objaet sad simply to beer the opinion of the farmers of the with as +P later sales he had a witaese pressed. As
and, and in the lake* peedhle way. AU dram of was to Meet it in th! as• Post, csalciii. and most asidabearawsd. He °mad not Pretend to Pre say ids Meads Yr. Randall, Kr. Eikeplaird, and others were
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• ' •' ' - human °odd r - - . ("hog es ' ' the Kent es.----

He bad MN meab ;Weal, • she
inapenans el the gabled, sad wishing to kaow what
was the general opinion of that highly lateentlal and
practical dub, and he traded that Wore they WI
they skald ken more diseemin upon it. He was as
utterly anprastleal farmer; bet there wee no qa edam
bow he dwell Wet Goose% his interests he farming,
and that was simply by adopting the plea Kr. Dania
fonahadowed—throwiag it oat of oultivation--dmay
and solely that. A large part of his farm woe newly-
broken land, and it mas simply an espouse. HS had
an advantage oder flea in WA rasped, that at any
time when be could not 'fiord to go on losing money
a. he was doing. he should be very much beinefitted by
'imply throwing the land up. Tone was no doubt
about it. Bat be trusted that was not the nee with
meet of the lead, but peculiar to his newly-broken end
very bad land, and that thmering land out of sally,-
lion wee sot a Wage to which they would gemerally be
reduced. But he hal been very muds steak with as
°beneath's mad* by one of the largest estelarin 01
labour In the world, via., that labour all over the world
leaf the same standard of value • sad he Wa th led at
thecae lay at one doe or areake; the true alfalfa of
the difficulty. If they west Into the North end fogad
each very high wens paid, and into the 9 etth and
found greatly lower wages paid—and there Gould be a
dna* the fast—there mast he smoothies to aecoaat
for the different'. WAS It that the Whoa ill the North
to very much more effective than that in the Bath?
He was net • judge at labour and could not prebend to
so opinion a the sub eel ; bat he thoaght they might
apply that Wet by as meek as menthe plan
work —(bar. War). I • tabourer in the South was
equal to • 'shower la the North be could not but sap.
woes that it was worth their palm the maw wages be
bins on Ike principle of Mae- work. Ile knew the
difficulty: ignorant as be wee of the printed worlds(
of • farm, be eoald not but see there was • great dal
to be done that could not be measured by the piece,
and must be left to day work. Bit hero, as Kr. Dames
said. they wen in • difficulty. Toe labourer required
more wales; they 'apposed they scald not not MIA
to ply more. Yet if the labourer soald go to the
North or abroad and get more, there was no cps/Mies
that demand and supply would regulate each other,
and if they weld not afraid to pay it in theys days of
"No Proteetion" and the like, it seemed medially dim
that however undesirable, the resell meet follo• that
the Wad would go out of cultivation. If they could
not "dame the wages, .ad tke labourer wield get
more in the North or even in the uteohmaligned or at
ant rate midi-blamed Braille—if they could not pay
as much as wee paid elsewhere, the labourers would se,
and who could blame them I He entirely agreed with
what both Mr. Dana sad dr. Randall said—that thee
amid not and ought ought not to keep the labourers
hire if they were paying on • Wyse 'sale. But than
if it were that labour everywhere had a correspoodiag
value, unless their soil and climate were so eery Werke
that they could not compete with other plant, thee,
If they maid make tbe labourer exert himself so that
the some amount of work was done as io other place,
they would be, as it eitemed to him in • position to pay
hint like others. But ha did not see how they sniff
tat that aa day work, and be hoped practical men
would be able to arrange • Inlets of pieta work that
would meet It. Of aura in all this be was utter*
Ignorant of fanning, and his speaking to them "kat I
was like them lecturing him on law. 001110i2tOl of Ids
intorno* he hoped the practical mem preyed would
discus" the -Meet arid ectoolia whether -

..• subject sad nen me • greet
more might not be done In Omit Inds flit" it at
preent in the eating. He WOO told that In Noefolk
the system was far more =needed. He felt that tame
was greet pressure upon the farmer as Kr. Dames and
Mr. -Honda had shown. Now he (Hr. Ferrer) wee
In the happy position of no) beim • landowner. There
wagon old Latin proverb whin said that " the traveller
who has got nothing In Me packet, Magi ea he moms
the robber," and It. exit look dense with calm crow
spon tbo infernos*, laadoweere who must
rerl strisT was • omen on which greatly seasented them.
For a time be had bass I. ths position of reproseatieg
• landowner, and he could safely say of what he saw
of that onsligned olses,sed espesisily In this scanty, shot
1110 &FON to improve the enditice oi the labourer was
than and In drolly believed was now owe of the stroagest
feelings existing in the leadowslag alas& Ho Shouted
the improventest of the 00%aies MOO he had sees
shies be had been is this nasty was most en .
—(Mr. &nadirs : Weaclerfal.) He soak* eyapsshimd
with Mr. Headall as the subjoin of 1101114111 rates sad
expanse.; but, as Mr. Ronda weed know, there
charges were en owing to the adios of the laadowaleg
olam, bet wen rates and team Imposed on them by
Oovermant. It was not for the pleasure of landowaers
that rates were inereemed, bat as drills Sion inerneed
sad with Government Liberal in the highest sense of the
word, it was Mundt dedrable, and who shoo d g singly
it' that Impedes ehotild be properly oared for, that
*twain should he largely satiated, that primes
shoald be liberally eroodnoted. They mast ail aaat
these things were important, arid they wild we be
met without the Mae.. of war. Of coarse an who had
to pay bemoaned the rates, but they were brevitable, for
• stioa brought It. espeases at well as Its MOM&
He cams there to hear their opinions, sod the only
eargestion he net throw oat was shade. to pleas wosic,
Is whisk he thought might possibly be boned • sondem
of the present diassity.
Mr. Samosas aowgrataland Mr. DbONII OR UN his.
nese with whim he had nosidered sll parties in intro.
dnoltig the enbjeet Ho wished to mare • few remarks
on the laborer wealth= as he had fated it in leap
practise, though he was now oat of baseness About
ID years ago ho paid his Wtourers 7s. • week with per-
quieten. The agitators now reload perqateltes very
lightly, but it was • great mistake. • man left hist
about the time the railway to Doreksetet we. ma&,
sad ilia' or ten months after he net him, and found
that he was living in • oottage at Tordingtoa, sad
worked in the hewn st • week, bath, told him
tint he was not tali so well a as wine he had Ts. •
week with him, for, said be, "the house, petite, sad
' evened wee than half '

awere—they bad matigg et oiliest meager, ei
WWII* eel tatereoled le the *donate& el the
parish, at wide& Kr. Weld, We great leadeerase, was
While they were eneepled in the badmen
=lt' agitaters knocked 55th. deer sad Melted to be
1 beard aad to be admitted bo the mentleg. He very
Amity worded against it, and when Kr. Taylor cent IS
his mid refused to see at speak to this. Mr. Tegier
said "I wish to me you ea beleen." Re rid Mat at
the merry he should be happy to hay... intervi sw with
Sham what the meeting wearer, but he meld not allot
them to enter the sohool- r ore. SOCA, titlld gator wards they
appeared at the reetory, sad be admitted thee to his
drawiee MOO —throe of them, and there the titters..
don took pleas la whir he was mirreprornted al
abusing the fumera sod siding with the Heir. Of
mums, having no witness, that went forth to the pablie
at being the truth; bet be agar repeatei Met It was •
tinue of feleihoode from begientag to Md. TJ this
he would say that he felt sure greys. mast increase,
sad he suggested that the escapism of land Mould
meet their men its a eoacillatory moat, with klakeess,
sad good judgment, and, above all, with Aramaic They
most meet their men sort to make aew barytes, sad
it shoeld not to dons sedienly, but alter Wag well
weighed; sod it was only by arguments end **averse-
Used what the labourers that they roll be dimeded
from believing the agitators that they raid have any.
thing they liked for the esking. As to the bad cottages
that. imuli be no doubt that the wretched piers of
witioh the agitators made at much did not belong to
the Imillord, Neither ware they occupied by the lalsourere
of the fanner. —( beer. heer)—bat were 0000 pied and
owned by the poor ptople who pot them up. is Wis.
frith parish he believed there were very few realty
wretched ociitepis that belonged to the great I tad-
owner, bat were chid, at Illasknoll amd on the ma.
man, aad Issienged to their otempiers. At the mate
time he felt it very important that the labourers'
cottages should be mode as comfort 'be a. possible.
&Vital of them till roosetly hod had no privies at
drainage, and were obliged to throw everything to the
duet beep is front of their door—a diagnose to bay
parish, but he Is :tiered that was remedied Ins very
greet measure. With rasped to persona emigrating he
hod laMly had • letter from a olorgyama in Queer-
land, in whit% it was stated that many of the eeriest-
tarsi Lthoureri who went out there wish their wives
sad (milieu wider the Ides that they were to not eel,
get racy mash higher wages than in inglited but be
tittle (snare, and they wore of tee disappointed tees,
sad for every or who eueseeded there were at lame
See who did not.
Hr. Roll:Jett said Vie requirements whioh Mr.
Philippe had pointed to were being provided.
Kr. Hoilatiaas thought the rev. gentlemen's remark'
were very usefuL
Hr. Paws said, to pen:lsidro he estspeeled the
torment geeeeelly would be bewailed Inputs. by mak-
ing • mosey payment only instead of part is mesh end
Part la kind IN now, bat he should like to bear 'KA
they thought the more advisable pie..
The Owner' thought the meeting proved that
Farmers' Claim were useful. Qrstioes rebates be
°spirt sad lebour are new agitating the whole world,
sad it was • very Important oesoideratiee for them
just now. He agreed with Mr. Dania Not the labourer
mast share In the general aria adraiteemeat, end
thought by sad by. the leadowarir would be the most
unfortunate ot the three pieties interested la Kt=
tiaa, aad that they had get as relief from the
tare bruise they hat sot exerted themselves waits*
. .
pose

like MOO engaged in exameros. Bs feareil
lead would go or of ealtivatka Be arid not op.
preys Mr. Deare's saggestioe ea to leotard. They
mow gave tat labourers potaeo lead sal nuanced It fie
Mem; bet If they had allotmeets sad grew potatoes
year disc Tem ant had to provide mums to replealsh
It he thought they woeli lad a &Malty. He ma.
adored every ma. should have • good emus. and geed
garde. Ortega had beat very mock improved, but
to Mr. Philippa said there wee still room for it as to
verde, soortotodaree With good yardage sad
potato lead be thought the leb anus waid be better
sff Maa with allergia* Agra, how meld • tenser
spare see day a week a slivered, ter tha stook meg
be Weser to, or his saner' with hones to dad itail
work. He did net me the plan was preriseble. He
agreed with Mr. Ferrer that pire-werk might be mush
mete extended, sad he believed it would be. He
asiatelned that egricelturel laboured ware bedew off
tide the laborers living in t 0..., end slid he feud
this his garters were 24. • week better off that re
who had gone to Dorchester sad wee paid lbs. • weds
from what he bad foga going about th. ematry, be
masinded that the Dorset labourer, taking all thlep,
wea se well off be any. From log stria be had mud be
lode re labourers had sever her to mash Unnamed
with the vales of perquisites to at the primal tram&
he thought there aloud 1.. serer pf arrangement be-
tween muter dad ism. He alluded to the srameby
, expresed by the people of the nova with the laborers,
' sad isidarded that mot long ago they came to the
er saheeriplioas to help theca. Dell trade MOS
era mid • dealer appeal agar have to be ore. Hs
wee Mid the other day by • oriamersial oute that they
scold buy admen draper I. Denim, now that they
weld to lhsU.ld, sad there seemed great
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that tie proem Trod.,' Maier sad
drim a good deal ad trade out of the eoustry, I. sash
a are he apprehended that the labourer who had
away wend be glad to make Moir way bra agela Is
the soar. In oceoluelen be proposed a vote of theaks
Is Mr Dams for latrodadag the major.
Mr. Taman seseaded with a great dad of pleevare.
Mr. Dadra thanked them tee Si. eon eat. Ti.
murk/ ce Mr. Baadall oa the gsa.ral expeaditure
were very iatereiting, aad although., Mt. Ferrer seld
TM Wen =Mrs progress la all Mese masa mad they
sand be provided, psi there was se reason why the
sway reed be raised from omettdrd el the proper,
et the randy aid tr other two-thirds be *rapt.
Lad to to the drapers he thoeglit they were ter tie
general &desires* of the reamenity and should be
seatributed to by all. Be scald Net agree with Mr.
Barden that potato lead and gardens sr-
. . .

potato ground was more oaf lay At
meetings lately it feed bees said labourers' yogis wen
es 91. • week, but Its found with the pergalsites
thst se compared with the man who lived in • lowa
they bad fee a pees. It was the labourer la • lows
who was worn of; and theagrloaltural 'showers were
In a msoh better position than they were years ago.
Forty peers hack wSen he began, tee was 7s. and Bt. •
lb., sugar 101. wadies 91., but now tea WU 31. es es.,
sugar 41, and eandlas 61., while paraffin was even
cheaper and pas • very good light. With respect to
their perquilities they got hones and (sides for nothing,
turn, °eel. potato ground, and allotment, while the
potato land was ploughed and reposed for them, end
crops pewit carted home. lie believed that was the
general practice in his neighbourhood. Now they had
9a. • week mese wages this at the formes period, all
neessearese were &saw, sad the laboaress' families
were able to wrier too. wisek....tasey hale. -

_ -us Mit the
list be had thieve get. ler many yews potatoessailMi
bees • perlial filar% sad as to penes POW had
themes& Mae 'Ma tad may were ".1 big noes& to
serial' a sit resod be? It Moment had the teeth.
meggested they wesld be able to grow all Wads of
vegetables, sad he believed it would amens well. Al
to carters sad nephew& lie talented to have omitted
them from the plea, but they alware bad 21. • week
more Una other labourers. Am to Ka Fames opines
tint wages Is the worth ionlied mere work be whir
doubted It, sad thought that • runts of eiretuastames
made wages higher there than It the south. At the
is.. time he thought the labuuren here would rather
have • "bib of last" with time to naivete It as be
had itulleated„ thau • oorreepeeding karma of wafer
11. nagraselated Mr. Phillips as hang there sad neer
fag up thee pont shout the seasemeell ia the Leivenre
Cirettieiu sad Yr. Damao rosatirked thus Owe were

___...ei they et. _ _. _ _ ____ _ ....... __ by
the land Was til be kept in salthation like it .._ . been mare. _—.. for insta-inisle. It eon hint ohne oe fBO ;sired So reels going to the Were many mite Mat aoald
now for asma years past, It would not may keep amok a year for of. for his labourers. yet it aU west few sot get work; and, he saw In the papen • Sheet tints
but provide ths labourer with work and end food for nothing. H. complained that the lento's were not ago, that the master ot a Dein had to asp* for as
hisigelf and hie family. On sere of turnips would oandid in their stamormta. Again alto the farmers, if mita nand ward to noommiolate the returning
prod..e snore food than 30 GT 40 of pasture ; and if they they looked bask • few yew end Dogma the inarseas labourers—se many as 90 a alitt at=g fer
°eased to grow turnips sad lead Mon the lead would of rams and Wee It was soormeas. le regard to real 'grandee. One of the retuned tan-
goes go on of ealtivatioc, for they would not be able be would say nothing, that wee a sarintraot between the man that in the morning after getting lodgings at •
to grew eme epee it either. As to the notion of ratting farmer and landlord, sad unless something very sleep- Unica they had be pick oakum, and he ponied to
abeam meat in that way, be thought It the least likely Noma °marred be had.. reason to Sad fault with his his gegen in proof .11k. nature of the work. Two of
to be efferitimi. They bed to odd to the Dowd pro. bargain. But there were other *lnge corning in over his companions were so weak tiny Gould hardly get on,
denims of the soil by growing turnips and feeding with which the tamest bad no matrol, and it was very end he emended his binary by saying " the --.
olleske to grow beef and mutton. He did not refer to Nehru. He found the rate. in Winfriett pariah for the man at Puddletown ought to have his neok etretabed
the grazing part of the twangy, bet to tin poor amigo yoare 1812 3-4 averaged £493 12e. 10J.. while those in for sending them away." Twenty bad gone to the
load here whin precluded meaner one nor the other 1370-1-2 averaged £748 17e. 81., showing • yesrly is- waighboarbood of Lincoln from Blandford distriot, but
before the Weaning of this seatun, shin turnips wsr• creasedf £255 4.. 101. In 30 years. Yet all this they found they oould not gel say work. Three of them
first maltinted. Ono of the nmedias suggested U had borne with only last • little grumbling. If they returning got am far aa Oxford,when their shoes were
labourers Gould not be employed hers was emigration. looked to tre omen expense, over a few years they warn off their feet and they did not keew
bea be regarded with tort item inflow ene ea towed would end very large sums had been spent, tho chief what to do. Them statentente were made
mem or emigration from tAie eminum. While it was part of which came frees the tenant farmers. • few by moo who had returned. The Vanes did net
=(or employers toper men bir wages, he thought yews ago they had to build two asylums; and 44 to the ewe what bonnie of their dupes; but peer
ill* latter than they should emigrate. &tab- scanty prison in • few jeer. the mooey great there num away like that was not a miedsrasesarj,lage did
Med Mia would not of bear inumplant'ng, aad had been almost aa much ar the Goat of the drat build. sot know what was llf • haw were to seed a Ems
tbssgkyeeag roes might aed to edrontoceoeo, tor the tag. Besides these they had to pay for militia stares Shy milts and awe aolhiag how he fared or gel
he thought it a great madonnas. —Oh% and workhouses. They used to keep their own poor be would be hooted out of the meaty. He wondered
. Hai of them who go want at news bast, within parishes at • swat of 24. Sr 3t. 81. a week, but that some of the gaped man bad act palled the
iseio„ He thee,* it hest for all dames to do what now in Wareham Dein the evilness amounted to agitators up for it. Be believed lams of themes were
dray could to ken them at home. In the peat few 4,. 31. or h. 31. a week. (H.. Shepherd ; Moto) Not away under hueprs i mid le the,. wan aaas
' wawa hem cue pert of the bleeds arelead) east Then there was the polio, sad the way rates. It wee law to punish them was time there was. Az to;DT-la-rid. hod tares pisem There the people were well heave that the expanses of the ways bad inersan he saw Brasil wby the papers that again lenses had Wee
waled, ~„,„ed in „,„.‘„„its,s, for with the 'vomit= greatly, and 1101 i Meer the roads bed NM nadir the received from Nee of the NM who weal fn.
of the norm of /mood there was little et moo. repair of the surveyors for years, they gill had to pay Leamiagewm, sad they said the gevemmeat had behaved
gestemem At one time the population nun. Dearly 411 mach a, what the Mae were alit takes in vary bad, aad that they were Went it ilia. Wilk
heed sight names, but Is oonowtowtot of the haul. The Sanitary expenses were also laid apse 2s. 81. a day Wm Is Imglaad with He was
mem of the pc4,60 stop IS banana, almost ba. them, and they might well say "It was the last straw surprised that somebody did let go he the roestiaga,
possible for the people to live In the country, so they that broke the ssarnera beak." In regard to in- and ernes thews thiega. • farmer (old him ae emigrated in large aesthete, hot le a esseibie way: erasing weirs', he coosidared that on an arable Doroluster trinket last fiaturday that a son of wee ei wood men went arm, and prepared the way for the farm of 11.600 a year the mospler could not bis carters had base In a siteetke on the railway the
young and their Mations, and in the course of a few ormsg• with Ism time 20 lose or *Vial to 20 men other side of Loudon for emu years, tied Iss had i
years about two millions of people left that part of upon It. Now if they adenoid wages 2a. a week wines home to his fries& to tell them and all they '
the klngdom very much to the uneaten of those left that would amount to £lO4 a year; and it was int- harm not to go up non as all were very bed al; they behind, Deesuie It tad been over populated. The early possible for occupiers at the present bme toga on with hod better stay where they were. Om man wise had
mommom mot home midi., of mousy through the all these oborgss upon them—(ltsar, hear). TY* ese• some MO from the North teld him ate Sala p tame
bas of Ireland to takeout their relations eed friends, antigen would be the poor had must go out of said le them " There are plenty of as up lime, we
end it was very much to their honour. With mord ealaa..loo. He woe chatting tin other &if whit • deal emit you et emes." There was a meetinas
to the poor liealishatan, he believed no such haninders Sootobman, and they knew Sootelimea ware supposed Yeovil last week when an afloat wasted to get to
had rm. bbian_tsara bad been booed, mot to pm_ to be the deepest fellows alive and the as to go to Canada, but a man who lives at the turnpikmen e
pie
pore the way; but hie positioo was mach better epos expiate., and be asked him what below; to,do era said he had been all over Oanaida, and when MN
that of the poor Irish labourer 61 the time of the .In regard to re a ols.d.oLa
I" k :id
that
:lb. well nitre ten fall. Mr. Damen suggested giviog
alu;co,
Labourers
267D:0ra1: wastmotalegsaw.ll-killiwn= " 64
deywas ;areal quantity
ist ealitiaing it, madre:su earrygrams it I they aid that, and pm tr.: resh -thi-pits% tal akisaT
every plait
coo able.bodied loss earning eels 84, a day with greet es lows es It will feed steak; thee I than break whisk wee Mare Wier for them that g tbag had ha a rd milk Gam e dee ea fie gorm Oar people it ap, and gee it dews le peg riga as gess as Se.," eallirele end maim it 611 sommthse, As be lie

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other IS•00111A0111111 ia the sues piper shout • maa
Use eardee 61 Mr. Rhoda. He hi the etetemeate
Ii that paper were altogether
Bbsrla, dleir the weetles waded.

_WIrICO RIGIS

FAMIIMMBLII WID" 13/11“7.-:-Tela-aillUtiree imaim the
seem of • finlike:mbar welding, 00 y monis(
last, when Lieu. Henderese, of the nth reglasout,
entered Into the holy Wale of malrlmony with L.
Rosa Way, of 110. 9, Inyel TerTele. Weymouth. ati
Menages heel the Befoi Lula Caeveied the bridal
party to the old Monk, and winker it was that the
Whigs of thaw most interested brooked of no delay,
or whether the driver bad thought the roads would he
moperp, awl aborted early, we don't bean' but aho
badis only arrived rather before than alter 10 *Week,
ialis the vestry, and by Mos time gho wow
who had been Wilting at the west cad of the
oburoh, had joined them, the onemony began, The
Rev. 11. O. Hes °Rained ; the brideentaide were Kies
Brektos, Min Prior, KW Alm, Rim Bellaire, and the
Mime Tray. The bride was droned in white bosh
moan, with Taleamimme Meer handsomely brimmed
with finesse; she wore a white talk voil„ with •
wreath of orange blossoms, myrtle, and manner ; lie
bridesmaids wire Mitred la Trion ePasulo_a_k,
trimmed with tarlatan, and merges ina.
maker wee Km Robin,ii, Theeemnarein ?hand amok
we. v. 13 Wei with • whisk mina.
ben of the distiardobog of the
were bathed, the manses of Ihrealehl,
a" "aims bens weU ropresented,
tbe Meson of the TIN regimens were also
notably Lient,Goloosi UM, and LlsolonesPirel4
Adjutant Hoenig, mid o•9teirk=, was,,"2" math" lfr. norm played v
Kann, and 10 the immenalea of the leeeemay, tho
Gloria from Nes urt's Ilad lien. On ihe return el the
bridal party, Its maim bed farther Unmoved, sad
those' it was Geld, seem Might rays ef„
.enneldrie sesemed
• fent:able so.. let the !Mare aminness of the
newly-weelded pelt. The MOW mmageansat of RA A,
pours brought Mem all bask la essellent time for •
splendid breakfast at the Wooer*, Hotel, 144 awl
with Kr. Leee's proverbial good Mote. The tab% ef
mere% the mein Minn, was Monied with wenn of
white eenvoinaltand Menge hiologgig, will if..
worm A partyi •bent 30 eat down le the breinflets
sai anieverd. the bride ark bridepeem went eff by
leak ft rude Mr ashßo, the.. to opsa4 Ihdr bar
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