The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-01 00:00:00

LORD MALMESBURY ON LANDLORDS

AND TENANTS,
Spooking at an agricultural dinner at Christchnrch
on Tueeday evening, the Earl of Malmeshury said
there way a misfired change in farming matters gene-
rally during the past forty year!. He recollected
small turnips of the size of pigeons' eggs, and fields of
only three or four acres in extent, with thin grain.
Meetings like the present bad increased in respect of
the numbers attending them, from ten or twel re to
upward. of one hunilred. He advised the society to over
an additi net prize for the beet borne, and cattle. He
spoke at consider«ble length upon the relstione existing
between landlords and tenelettfarmers, a subject which
wail being freely opened up in Parliament with a view,
he hal no doubt, to the improve me nt of the interests
of both. He was glad many of his own tenant« were
presdtt to hear hi* view., which were only human,
ated might he wrong. As ti the relations txicing
between latdiord and tenant in Ireland awl Seotland
he knew little, but Etiglieh landlords al d tenanes were
on the, twat fraternal terms. He contended th tt the
rights of the tenant farmer were not sufficiently defined,
as in case of lea -h or other acoideat his representatives
might be deprived of hie capital invested In the land,
and this he characterised a, unfair treatment lie
you'd gladly see it stated in hlack and white, or
rather In an act of parliament, that the tenant farmer,
or hie reioesentatives shoold be fairly remuld CA ed tor
hie lasting improvements on a (atm (loud cheers). (A
Voice : That, all we want). Bat this should be a
cover ant between landlord and tenant clearly we irten
and clearly understood by both. Great fault ainst be
attached to those who, in the heat of competition fur
farms, rushed at once and took a lease or agreement
from a landlord without first melon what the olanass

in it were. This was at the bottom of all diaputes.
The tenant should first ascertain what the farm
was worth, and wheth r it would pay to take it.
The landlord generally knew the lees about this, and if
either of the two got the worse it would be the land-
lord. The result of forty rex. experience to him was
that tenants had IN-190 very careless about this, and had
oonfi led too mach to the honour of landowners. This
he ci moldered as a most pleasant feeling, but
the tenant should act like a man of buainew. (A
Voice I•• Flow about the game lawn!) Being asked
th- Titration, be would endoavour to arswer it. Mr.
BriAt had recently bald that all on a farm belonged
to the tenwit. He diii not enplane° that Mr. Bright
meant the treee, but probably he meant game. fly
the lows of England he contended that the game did
radon, to the tenant where there was no written stipu-
lation to the contrary. It must be recollected that it
the landlord did not take the game rent would he
higher. It was a monetary consideration, told the
I rmers newt consider whether the farm had better be
taken with or without the game. The remit of the
abolition of the game laws in femme at the lime of the
Revolution of Ib3L) was that, in lees than six months,
parliament was petitioned by the farmers, their
grievance being that they could not keep trespaaiera
vff their lands.

RHYME FOR THE NATIONAL
A ESEMBLY,
PLEASE to remember
The Fit th of November
Reveals the monaripeal plot :
Prance see. no reason
• As geese are In season)
Foe keepin; the freedom she's got.—Punch.