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London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

AG MCI' ItA I. STATISTICS.

THE letter of Lord Ashburton on the ,abject of agri
cultural statistics, from which S4IIIIP passages were
published in the l'auss of November 5, has elicited a
reply from ,lr. l'usey. `erne useful and practical
suggestions are offered in this communication
from the president of the Royal Agricultural Society
of England. We extract the wore important Para
graphs. Mr. fussy commences by insisting on the
extreme imt,ortance of " classification," adding that
in preparing the tables of agricultural statistics great
care should be taken to secure not only perfect acen-
racy lint also eomplete symmetry in the distributive
division. and of the several heads from period to
period. The continual variation in this particular
shown by the successive census tables—though
adopted after prolonged experience and for the sake
of greater fulness and perfection—has, as he justly
remarks, much diminisheil the value of those &reit
vial returns for purposes of restrospective comps'
risen. We are warned accordingly to avoid this
fault in the atrangement of statistical returns and
summaries regarding agriculture.

Respecting the particular subjects of such tables
Mr. fussy apprehends great difllicitlty in obtaining
accurate estimates of the grain harvests, seeing, as
he says, that the gross quantity must depend me much
on guesswork, and there is n great degree of tinier
tainty likely to affect the farmer's judgment, " net
only while his crops stand in the field, but oven while,
though safe in the riek, they have not yet been sub-
jeeted to the test of thnishing-machines."
'Elie enumeration of live fitilek Mr. l'iisey rinisiders
much more easy, and at least equally important to
the public.. Ile observe,'
" The telvantn.ze is the greater because this tangible fart
will litt;.ril. in this• long rim, an unerring clue to the more
obscure problem, the Memoir(' fertility of our soil. I
menn that if, sieve the year Ism, the flock of sheep, fur
instance. on one of your uplyieig I lanipshiee faima
heen ntisisl from :kat to MO head, Ito praetieni mats could
doubt that. by the new supply of manure, this average
itrowth ~frimni will 'lave )114.11 Itiagnip.lslsA in some (lerititte
thrisigh a more lit woe'. niiimliention of capital,
which of course, however, will reqn re also a more liberal
return of ',refits an the abate of the tenant•farmer.

" That our duelist and herle hats' been so usuitaph,4 ammo
1'44 a 1 every assistaississi with the lima th of our population
must 1.44', espeeially as that growth has weaned eltielly iR
mut r..l4.litaii and matinfaelatring districts, where, sit c ttttt re ,
the alliticti last been of men wins, in the mein, eat. not
bacon or cheese, hut fresh meat every slay. Now, though
the consumers of meat hese sissubled. totrflinlifd isms has
by no means 41.40,1111: end since the iweign supply of (trek
meat has been till of late incossitlenthle, limn MOW &mist
for the most part, must lune estiatird the stew demand by
a ilea supkply. 'l'he mference its irreaiatilsk, though we
should 100 in %win for sus, direct proof of the heat in agri•
vita mai reeoeda.
" Still I %void.% call otti• attention to the point that,
though the general itterease of production has beets great,
it has 14411 111114111W1 in (lilt/11111 s' 11e4 • way, more, that
even if we knew the exact increase in the number of stook
on any !Articular farm—say as before, from :UM Its iitet—ue
might tall very short of thetruth in imauming that. because
the sheep bad tweet &misled, so also. and nu mute, had the
isroduetion of meat %seen augmented.
" At the opening of the century, in talwr aunts, triton
pat soul I went' buys, yon will IVIIIi.II.IIWY that liVt..)ltlkribili
luutt.. was ti gist sight and Insular fur a genth.ataa.,i
table. If we ssould learn the truth, sipprehota- we should
now lilld that itiattyll%ll44llol3ll hitt surpokiv.44l 0111'. tin of that
age. In foe,, every year 1111111011 is growing younger. What,
then. will have been the real ittemarse stf produelion on a
knit that whodunits, in heal, MO Shewp, and in I`I'MI, IMNI
sheep' When tissorge 111. was king tho flock of S4M)
issight consist of sal sewer. and of their progens y. threw+, of
Du %imp, ass ancing through winters wpww hard harp
tll rtillleelltilk but lastly tuaturity-110 'sheep Italy betas
tlcatc.thletl silt' rails year to market. lint its there Iwtter
slays the flock sit Cssl aciisls, perhaps, not WO, hut 30 fat
sin ep et .'ly Nlatiels up to Smithfield. The Increase,
therefore. is not tworohl, lint sixfold. !kindest, as we know
that it is fatting atork, especially (tweed stock, which
strengthens the prodnetivo powers sof the lend, the Institut
of Ile 141.... k 11111.11 the enbil will like% lin' 1114111. 141.11 far 11101',
t 111111 1114111/klll.
" I trll,4i. in., pits will agree with Die that, mules
tZ1•e:11 care be taken in classifying 0111' tattle.., we shall hate
mole inadequate pro ltion for sitting justice lwreafter to
I Is. progressive energy of star lartaers.
"There is one other matter which we might vertainly
hope to investigate. The sAcellenee our leading loved%
of animals is HOW filly reenglit/1491. Hilt, though the, are
paid for so highly anti esported so widely by foreigners, we
tits not know how far they have stietweilutl at home in tbs.
plaving ..iir own unimproved breeds. I would, then'fory,
strongly reeiasamestill it el ttttll in which tbr nano of the
bn 1.1.11 14111.11111 14. 01114.111.41. The advantage of such a WWII
a.. 1114111.4 la' 4'4 4111i114.41, I 144.114.V4 4,
14 o 1114. volol ili11111111(111411•41
I.'. pri/es sit our piddle shows. Resides' these aristocratic
fauisilUsst, there are douhtlesse other room of plotorr frotturb
but Oval iuUinsir exesilesice your stets litunpashire dawn
are. a ease in point I which might thus
.beesinte letter,
known and news, !witty valued. la short, we want such a
loop of the distrilsistion of our breed" of shook as 'shank
gFa slay hats given sus silk at larger stale for the usigteliun Yf
the littimpt unec."

TRADE AND STRIKES.
As winter dwell the reports front the manufacturing
ilistriets, as well as the Whiel'l4 from those Mosta
markets which All none' or or 11.404 slowly, but with
unerring certainty, upon our home itiditstrY, assume
a tone gradually lwcoming more 44 quiet" in all, and
even desponding in wine! of the 'emend !midair's.
Foreign markets look dull, fereign *inters come in
scantily, foreign buyers are inereasingly cautious.
As a necessary vensequence, the accounts Trion
Manchester show that prices are upon successive
market limps getting so teeny shades lower, while
even the imoinfiteturers who have **seeped all eullt-
• with their operatives are relaxing in their
i iiiii into of production, 4,llMillg or their nutehitiory,
and grailiedly titillating egitilea the anticipated
perie4l when the dellillinil will grow sleek, prolitm
reuse, ntel short tithe IsPes stn., the rule, until glutted
inarkets receiver their buoyancy, or euntanuerm enjoy
a flour,' of pester and prosperity. yet, in the face
of a prospect like this, the 4lisagreementit between
the masters and their nein continue, and the former
lieve found it absolutely necessary to enter into a
closer snit more genet al combination for their
wetted protectien. The mine where the advance
asked by the men has been acceded to are beginning
to be clewed, as it is found that those who am at
work are supplying means to theme who are out on
strike, whereby to probing the struggle of labour
against capital. It is indeed much to be heeled that
the present movement will be prisluctive of some
sensible emmgetnent or understanding, by means
of which all similar serious differenees heleteett the
employers and the employed may he 'trebled. No
objections can he raised against the workpeeple
s.uti•ritig into arrangements for their mistind aid, and
for the slue proteetion of their interests ; but whets
to a hold demand for an a4lvatiee of wages they add
a threat against those whip em dew them, old upon
mercantileNt ability and unembarrassed pro-
gress of trails. their awn present and future pre*
verity depends, it !weenies a matter ef very merlon*
reflection what steps are necessary to lie taken by
the millowners in such a state of thing*. The
mutter, it is •Aiiivet, cameo Ising4.r be left in sus
1 in.11;1/11; litilt"T P"
their
nelitelyeekidffeetlidg
, titiErnerwitisdilisdfiiiiiiiill'itt.insin the ill advised obatinaer of the
1
' men welt necessarily be Met disesteem The

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means of the workpenple can hold out but for a com-
paratively brief period against the capital and re-
s mrces of the toasters. The result will be great
present privation, and extreme poverty during the
winter. Whilst the effort of the men to obtain an
Increase of wages was in the first instance legitimate
and, so far as themselves and families were con-
cerned, commendable, yet, when the period arrived
that trade became suddenly checked by the tightness
of the money market and the threatening aspect of
affirm in the East, then the attempt to force the
employers to accede to their demands, by means of
atimidation throu?h threats of " striking," was im-
p Aide and unjustifiable. The execution of that
threat was even worse. It embarrassed the manu-
facturers, assisted to bring trade to a stand, dis-
arranged the whole course of business, and brought
poverty and privation to their own families. It also
lessened their claims for both present and future con-
sideration. When trade was active, the merchants
realising large profits, the manufacturers prosperous,
and the chief necessaries of life dear, and becoming
more and more so week by week, there was a very
reasonable pretext fur their asking for an increase.
But the position of affairs is now entirely altered.
Trade has been crippled, is now very quiet, or, more
properly speaking, is dull, the merchants are ship-
ping comparatively few goods (for their markets
have been overstocked), and the manufacturers find
little or no demand for their products. Under these
circumstances, it appears inceredible that the
labouring populatimi will persist in a course of
action which niust be productive of irreparable loss
to many, and still more serious injury to themselves.

Pt* and to lonia! linttlligente.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Nan, Nmember 17.

Om Monday the following distinguished personages
left Paris for the Palace of Fontainebleau, having
been honoured by special invitations, which extend to
the Stud instant The Prince Murat, the Prime
Joachim Murat, his Excellency the Minister of State,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mine. Drouyn de
Mays, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of
Paris and Mine. Magnan, the President of the
Senate and Mine. Troplong, the Baron and Baroness
de Chassiron, the Austrian Minister, the Danish
Minister and the Countess de Molke, the Saxon
Minister and Mine. Seehaeli, the Count and Countess
Ferny d•lsly, the Duke and llnchess de Lesparre,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, the Duke de
Trevise, the Duke (le Bauffremont, the Count Fran-
cois de Clary, &e. &c. The Prince and Princess de
Clumsy, having received an invitation to spend a
week at Fontainebleau, had the honour of being ad-
mitted to an audience, to take leave of the King of
the Belgians before their departure to visit the Em-
peror of the French. A great number of persons
have been invited for the Pith, 22nd, and 21th.
The Emperor, during his stay at Fontainebleau,
will make an excursion t 4) the estate he purchased
some time back in the Sologue, called Lantothe-
Beuvron.

M. de Kistieletr, Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia,
invited to Fontainebleau, is prevented by a sudden
indisposition from availing himself of that honour;
but his Excellency Vely Pacha, Ambassador of time
Sublime Porte (who is not indisposed), will he pre-
sent at the fres, to which he also has been invited.
The concentration of the direction of the semi-
official newspapers, the Constitution/le/ awhile Pays,
in the hands of M. de hi tinerroniere, gives au im-
portance to any note signed by himself in those papers
amounting almost to that of an official eommunication.
Such an article has just appeared in the Pays,
headed " Turkey and Russia before Europe," and
has excited some sensation. The writer declares,
that " had he for a moment foreseen the result of
the late diplomatic negotiations, he should not. have
hesitated to advise at once that line of action which
has been tardily adopted since—nautely, the entrance
of the combined fleets into the lhudanelles at the
moment the Russians emoted the Pruth."

Two camps are to be formed on a large heale: one
at Toulon and the other at Strasbourg or Metz, the
latter not being yet decided on. The order has not
yet been given or the intention made public, but I
have it from a source not liable to be misinformed;
mid if a fact. it is an important one at this moment.
It is also affirmed that eight battalions of chasseurs
de Vincennes are to be raised and organised forth-
with.

The 15th inst., the fete-day of the Empress Eu-
genie, was celebrated et the palace of Foutainel.leau.
The Bishop of Ares said mass in the chapel of the
imperial neidence in moan of their Mitiesties, the