The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-25 00:00:00

LAND TENURE.

A general meeting of the Lanesehire Farmers' Club
And Chamber of Aericulture was held in the Town-ha'l,
Preston, on Saturday; the Right Hon. Colonel J.
Wilson Patten, M.P., in the chair. Thera was a large
number of landed proprietors, agents, stewards, and
tenant-farmers present, and deputations from Man-
chester, Warrington, Lancaster, and other places in
the county. Several new members basing been
admitted, Messrs. Peter Blundell, J. Tunstall, T.
Fair, nnd Forrester were elected mein' ers of the
Council, and Mr. Seotson, of Aigburth, was then
called upon by the Chairman to introduce for discus-
sion the question of the " Tenancy of Land."
Mr. Seetson, after some prefatory observations, said
the taking of land should be a simple contract be-
tween the two parties, neither having any advantage
over the other. He advocate-I long leases, and said
he was satiafied, that if long leases had been general
during the last fifty years, a great deal of money which
had gone into the pockets of the proprietors would
have found- its way into the hands of the occupiers.
The long-lease system was a good one, hut he should
want a clause enabling the tenant to sub-let. Besides
certainty of tenure, there were other things it was
met desirable the tenant should have freedom
of cultivation and compensation for improvetnent.
On the other band the landlord shonld have protection
from deterioration ef his estate, fie deprecated the
in.ual six months' notice to quit, and advocated a two
years' notice. With re-spect to the preservation of
game, an oil farmer had told him that if he could
bwin his life wain he would not farm a game farm if
it were given to him ; and the speaker rernarke I that
if a farmer wanted a head of genie f,r. hie own table he
must go ti the market for it, though game might
swarm Upon the land he rented. Ai to leaving
labourel cottagea in his hands, Mr. laic As, n thought
that if a'farmer was tit to lee trusted with the lind he
woe fit alma to be trusted with the cottages. It
was to the farmer's interest to provide the lest
&gemmed etion be could for the, labourer npon his
farm. He much questioned whet pr they were
doing all they ought to do 'with 'to labour;
they ought to grow labour on their farms and
estates. Le regard to the value of laud, he belies's)
the tenant had often done more to kettles.) it than the
owner. What he knew f owners went to prove that
they did mere to impede than to imnrove cultivation.
Speaking of the late BCIPOLI, he said that labour had cost
them 10s, per acre extra; and their grain crops had also
been parta;ly lost. Noticing the proposal to establish
jeintstock farming companiee, hy which their labourers
should lee taken into partnership' he said he thought no
good could result from aneh me schema to anybody. Re-
verting to the question of compensation to the tenant
for improvements, the speaker suggested that he should
send in his claim, that the landlnrl should make out
his demand for deterioration, if any, and that the
matter should be referred to arbirration. NVith reference
to local rates, bethought the owners of property should
he charged one half, whieh would be mere just, and
he underetood.that thieve& actually dune in Scotiend.
Mr. Hale, of Knowsley, agent for the Earl of Derby,
observed that if long leases were grantel the successor
of the actual lessee might Ito I very different man both
is character and conduct from the person who took the
farm. ,Aeltisfictery solution of that difficulty would
I-' a sferg difficrilt ding to arrive a`. He did not
see that au) body could expect a linger lease
than ten years; and a fair thing between rnan '
and man was sufficient in all cases. Ho was
quite willing to admit that the tenant should have
I some security for his outlay; but some improvements
were perish- tile in a ehort time, and compensatiGn
for permanent improvements might be me: by a well.
defineol custom of the c untsy. He himself was dire
p wed to give every good man the fullest latitude,
I though certain restrictions, agreed to in a ri+ht elicit
between buselloedand wriest, eLould be made t,sprovide
against any Ise-able abuse of the . laid fanisai ; and
he thengla it. quite desiraMe th the. e ell lee sou,
body on the laud to pc.,rve the gone With regard
to cottages, it w.k., twie•etaut that the • Tele of labour
*honied heat hand, and within reach of the farmer who
required it ; but it had n intown that, where et-
were on the Lail, the fanner had often let them
to pereme not empley el s u the lani, hut tte °than for
a greskr profit.

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paper
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leases had
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come teototethrtneincoat„ezetisofneot•ito,artilytiieFy owrotadtbreeabeeotntorhewh. hail
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rock
ortt lies; hut the teraut should have oompensatien tt There are in the possession of tilutirdettmoLsi'Oseferirl-
fot uuexhairtted improvements by law. He had never control Departmeot Tr ;,,eylimixl.nl.iyerr,, be pm, eaolo-
radellilttoel:dl_lll.7"l2"T.l"—reAsaringAnntetfaupirricanjmeweharYea
peril a farm tatisfregtorily drained when the tenant- salt,
ae t":fhilliourien,prand areyso traneparent that fine print Ina:
farmer had to do it. Al for subietting, that rrni .yoe ' i through cubes more than an inch thlek They
was a eryetem which ought not to be permitted on were taken Irma mountain of rook salt, In the region of
any wello eg ulated estate, as it introduced a class the C dorodo, in Ariz ruir 500 feet high and 15 ernes sone.
of persons never intended by the landlord, who Curdy Thee idth of the stratum 'is not known hut it has been pear •
land from him. Length of notice to quit was
sdiloTarjaiwnaannrdertii 'pirtoner scientific investigation is made
ought to have some control over those who took the tested to a 41st trircteoof thtrheeeinmelpirrtmthernotuitlh:
non-profes-
sional roTbfe.ei
a qnestion which required great consideration. In
it cannot be Sinown whether the cave is a fl-sure penetrating
cams where • man was used to a five or six years' Me stratum itself, or wheal. r the walls of the cave are
"Shift" the lease ..hwild be made out accordingly, and merely an excrescence from the great mast"
the trnant ahOrairi have an opportunity of crooecultiva- Tun Wthow's APPEAL I-The following item
den. His OWD impreesion war that a tenant on leaoino
o (says an American paper) could ooly originate in San
, should not take away with him more than one years
Francisco :--" Another California nidow is to claim
l.crop, aod that the incoming tenant rhombi pay for the sympathy of Pacific jurymen, on amount of five
-what had just been laid out. He would never allow
meadow land to be eaten over longer than Notre-tam torcho.f strychnine found in her dead husband's
and he thought the best seseon for taking a farm was
May-day. l'he greatest drawback in this country woo
want of capital among the farm corm -From In co sof
OF MA DAME BoNAPARTE, OF HAITI.
-From the Baltimore SUll of the let instant we
Mr. Rawer slid he would exterminate rabbits, the following extract :-
hoped the Game Laws wonld never become extinct In it is understood that
this country; and, as beef, mutton, end milk had (whose_ 100 or .44 Elizabethe
venerable
Patteni Madame
wehl3, hnasaPb=
h, feeble health for some time past, at her residence, corner
greatly- increased in value, he thought the landlord
of St Paul and Lexington streets, Is at preeent confined to
ought to participate in the profits. her bed by an illness which, taken in connection with her
After tome remarks by Meters. Nield (Wortley), advinced age, creates serious apprehensions &wog her rela-
Willarry (PeDWOrthara), aunt Elton. Mr. Scotinon briefly lives and Mond& with respeet to her recovery. Madame
replied, and the Chairman then addressed the meeting. Bonaparte was married to Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest
Referring to what Mr. Scoteon haul advance I in re-
ference to "simple contracts" he said both parties en- bthrioithcietr o
y,pfeceNamp4eor vn, afteril
wawarda King of Westphalia), in
tlolf regard
officers
e. r
treed into the agreement with their eyes open, end had A CAPITAL LISTENER.—The Aliditor.Ceneral.
the power of ref using any of its conditions. In referenae Pence.
to remuneration for improvements, be did think, in
the interest of the landlord, that the tenant should
be compensated in come way or other for every penny to °thßej:nt:inWtelcnilance
and others, the Lorde of the Admiralty have issued
e laid out. The only question was the difficultyHOSPlTAL and education F
ur‘
of children.--- W i
some regulations
which have received the sanction of
of doing it. If the tenant was to have compensa- the Queen. Daughters of warrant and non commie-
tion under a tenancy without a written agreement,
sioned officers, and also petty officers and men, of the
the landlord should have some means of Jude. Royal Nary and Marines, may be educated send main-
ing bow the improveuieuts had heen wade, by voucher tabled out of the funds of the hospital and schools
or oth, revise, so that he might have a fair chance of
that shall be approved of; the number of girls not to
de, idng what to give him; and be thought there might exceed 200 at any one time. Various conditions Sr.,
be some little oifficulty in that. After referring to appended as to the claims of the candidates for ant-
the war prices from 1801 t r 1815, Colonel Wilson
Patten said the question of lemma war a matter worth mission. Amongtt others, it is ripe rifled that they
the grave cousideration of bdb landlord and tenant; . mitt be above nine yew,' old; and, provided their con -
duct and progress is satisfactory, they will be retained
and he thought that it he were a tenant he rhould not in the school or le me to which they are admitted until
like to lay out a very large capital on a farm unless tine completion of their education. R gulations have
he thought he could get it back in some way or other. also been issued by which the eons and danghters of
All tenants were not equelly good, and ho knew what distressed commissioned officert of the Hoye' Islavy and
a bad timant was. Referring to an allegation that refits Marines may be educated in part out of the funds of
were ton high and sh mid be reduced, be said that when the hospital.
he had a farm vacant there were eight or ten people
rushing in to take it • and he did not hesitate to say THE EMPRESS ECOENIE'S INCOME. The
that there was scarcely a farm of which he c uld not London correspondent of the Birmingham Post
raise the rout now. Let them go to the newspapers for writes :-
woof of that. How many farms were advertised to be "I hear from • well informed source that the frapeoial
let ten years ago? And what was the number now! He family at Chltelhurst are left with an incomeprootanbor.
darn dto ray that the number now was not one tenth £12,001 a}ear. the spanish estatts •n dprivate w y I
l' p as are worth £6,000 a year, and the sale of her
uor what it was ten years ago, because of the competiti
ritri l'omodlejewellery, and pictures produced about £120,000.
/111101 g tenant-farmers. He did not see why landed pro-
The Emperor bed hardly any
perty should be put by iteelf, and not stand by the rule have enriched
himself. avid bequeathed a colossal fortune to
which regulated every other branch of industry. With his wife and sou, but if income of his own. He might
he did Lot disdain to contemplate
regard to Game, it was suggested at their Council meet- the piesibillty of flight or exile, he certainly neglected to
ft re, which, Judging alter
ing Mat the trubjmt should come on for separate die- tike pr:etauntoioonnse ems:aro:ll, the
no.
purouriouncs to have been um
otrtion. Referring then to the question of " notice to wise, Napoleon 14poleon was content to enrich others. He received
quit," re me members hawing advocated a tem years' large slims from the French treasury, but all the money not
notice, Me own opinions was that it would he for the ' claimed by state or household expenses was rpent in sub-
tenant's interest not to reduce the land system to seriptions to asrociations for public objects, charitable M.
a oommercialorieciple. -Friday Was his sent-day; for mentions, or private benevolence."
what period! He received his Inelfiesx's rents for PASSING ODDITIES. —The wayfarer does read
the spring of 1872, and should not receive any again some strange announcements. At Knightsbridge, •
until July in next year. He should show them how few days ago, he may have observed a shop.window
this was. Hie tenants had been at great disadvantage stuck foll e.f bills, some offering, in large letters, "Gas
this ' year. They had had a wretched brel year in Stoves," and others, intermingled with them, 'Skates."
petatoes ; and his belief was that if they had been Seasonable advertisements &mit g the late weather.
obliged to sell their crops in October they would not In the New Turnstile, Holborn, an inscription on the
have got two-thirds the prices they were getrang now, wall proclaims, "Gentlemen's Repairs Th no" Within
and he would not hay.' got any rent until July next. oithnoepw-oupld.itnchtgine a surgery. 'lire reality is a boot'
lie was not paying this for himself ; it was the
custom of the district. This was an advantage to the
farmer. Now, it was proposed to have a two years' HORRIBLE WHOLESALE MURDER Al CAL
notice, which must be from February to February, curra.-A horrible wholesale murder is reported from
if not two and three quarter years. What would be Calcutta. It appears that on the 30.11 ult. a native of
the conseemence of that? Es cry landlord would be the Dossai caste, armed with a massive chopper,.
obliged to secure himself by taking his rents at the sharpened on both aides, and two knives, set out of his
proper time. He hoot ventured, in the presence of • tou-e with the intention of murdering his wife and his
great majority of tenant-farmers, to state a few facts son-in-law, between whom, aa alleged by him, an ins.
Ini behalf of the landlord which he thought would be proper intimacy existed. Not finding them where he
for their mutual interest. expected they would be, he attacked ha daughter, who
Votes of thanks to Mr. Sootson and the Chairman haopene -1 :Mot to come in his way. With • stroke of the
terminated the proceedings. chopper he knocked her scalp clean off, so that the whole
of her brain visible. She immediately expired.

.-• ner Da- . WSS
In murdering her, he is reported to have said that had
she not been born, and had she not married the man,
his wife would not have been estranged from him
He next attacke I an old woman of the Dossed caste,
and dispatche i her in a similar manner. Finding then
his moth-r in the way, he dealt a Wow on her head,
and she fell down apparently dead. He stated to the
police that he struck her became he whiled to save
heWthe grief which would overtke her on his meeting
with his testrved punishment. She is in a very pre.
carious stste, and no hopes are entertained of her re.
covi-iy. He next attacked a woman of the Dholi caste,
Inflicting a severe blow on her head. She is also in •
very precarious state, and not exkiected to survive. He
then attacked a young woman of the Kellar mate,
whom he also seriously wounded on the bead, her in-
juries consisting of several cuts. She is in a prectuione
condition. After attacking seven other persons, all of
whom be wounded more or lees seriously, he was
captured by an itippector of police
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY. —A good many
people seem to be uneasy in their miode about Lord
13yron's grannuarand meaning iu some of his fanuoue
Iliac. to the Ocean. Cannot the Spiritualists help
them: Cannot they communicate with the Poet, and
ascertain from bins what he really did write? By ••
doing, they would dissipate the anxieties of many sensi-
tive and excellent persons, and probably, after giving
ouch a practical proof of the use of Spiritualism, con-
vert sceptics and unbelievelo. into inquirers and
MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED'S WIFE'S SISTER.
Tlasi Melbourne Age says :
Under any•circumstancee the session will not have been
profitless Notwithstanding the threatened oppmition, the
Rill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister has
been agreed to by the Council. Hitherto marriages of tills
description, although not void, have been voidable' hence.
forth the law here will be the same as In the neLihbouring
colony of South Australia, and different from the rest of the
Empire—that is, Should, as is most likely, the Queen assent
to the Bill.

SHOCKING MURDER AT Sr. ETIENNE.—A
murder has been committed at St. Etienne, France.
On Thuisday morning, M. Begue, Commissary of
Police in that town, received by post a letter unsigned,
informing him that M. &monde, who had gone on
the preceding evening to a representation at the
Circus, had been seen at the door changing a note of
100 f ; that three individuals bad followed him as he
came out of the theatre, had penetrated into his house
In the Rue de Fontainebleau, and there murdered and
robbed him. The communication in question also
mentioned the room in which the body would be found.
Officers of juati.e immediately proceeded to the spot,
and found a ci rpm near the chimney, c ,vered over
wi.h bedclothes. The victim was lyit g on his back,
completely dressed; a piece of cloth had been forced
into the mouth, which was open ; a circular mark round
the neck showed that the murder had probably com-
menced by an attempt at strangulation, but • deep
wound in the temple appesred to have been the
immediate cau.e of death. A woman who slept under-
neath the bedroom occupied by M. Siemonde declared
that she had not heard any noise whatever. A judicial
inso stigation has been commenced.
" WITH RESERPE!"—The Times, in a notice
on the Iron and Coal Trades, sar :
In the iii milady rich mineral district of North Stafford-
shire the scarcity of coal for manufacturing and domestic
purposes is becoming alarming. Private rest tents, with
valuable mines at their very doors, have to give • month's
notice in order to secure • load for house consumption, and
fancy prices are demanded. Several large earthenware manu-
factories have been virtually In ouaht to a standstill, and at
Stoke-upon-Trent Workhouse It has frequently happened
that no tires could be lighted excepting those required for
cooking. The North Staffordshire Railway Company are re-
duced to hitherto unlvard of straits, which have no doubt
given rise to the story that the officials have organized a
corps of guerrilla engines, the drivers of which have order'
to inn up and down the line and "hook on to anything
block" It Is averred that one night they carried off a truck
from the pr, cincts oft treat colliery, and were exulting in
the success of the raid, when they discovered that the Wick
was laden with ironstone. This story is given "with reserve,"
but the facts remain that the colliers will not werk.mech
more than half-tine, and that prices are more than 100 per
cent, higher thee they were twelve months ago.
HAWK Ell'S EVENING POTION.— Gin-and
Water. His Morning ditto : Early Purl.—Punch,
THE GOOD TIME COMING 7 It is some
Consolation to reflect that when Woman gains her
rights and Man takes her place "as a mere drudge,"
there will he a preat improvement in our dinner! (re-
marks the Pail Mall (iazette). The Nation, referring
to the "moral, and manner; of the kitchen," truly
observes that women have 'hail the cookery of the
world in their h tmls for civeral thousand years, but
all the marked advances in the art, Indeed, all the cut-
, tivation of it, have been the work of, men. Whatever
zeal women have displayed in it, and whatever excel-
lence they have aehieved in it, have been the result
of influencee in no way gastronomic, and which might
perhaps INi called emotional, such as devotion to
male relatives, or is desire to minister to the pleasure of
men in general. Few or no women cook a dinner in
au artistic spirit, and their success in doing it is nearly
always the result of uffection or loyalty, which is, of
course, tantamount to saying that female cookery as a
whole hi, and always has been, comparatively poor.
As a proof of this, the Nation points to the fact that
the art of cooking among women his declined at any
given time or place —in the northern States of the
Union, for instance—pan i passu with the growth of
female independence; that is, as the habit or love of
ministering to men's taste" hae become weaker, the
intersict is, cooking Fee fallen off.
REWARDS FOR GALLANTRY.--A Royal decree
recently :4,0,4 at Berlin authorizes lhe complete dies
tribution of the various sums lodged with the Govern-
merit during the war fer the reward of special acts of
gallantry in the rapture of trophies from the enemy.
The prizes, received appear to amount to rather over
. £12,000, and claims were Rent in by all the 16 corps of
the North German Army with the exception of the 7th.
The South German soldiers are not anywhere ieferred
to, having eeparate reward funds to look to. Accord-
ing to the terms of the decree the rewards are given in
all cases to regiments, slot to individual persons,
and are payable altogether for the capture of one
eagle, 11 colour,, and 161 guns, all actually taken in
action. The 77th Regiment of the Line (Hanoverian
Fusiliers) receives the highest dividend, having
taken on various occasions no fewer than 19 guns and
a colour. Then followed the Guard Fueiliert, who
captured 18 me dnrirg the advance on the day of
Sedan. The third on the li-t, the 93rd of the Line,
or Anhalt•Dessau Regiment, plainly owes its high
I' 'lllOl 'n hash it heal prorninent'y employed at the
fatal mup.ise of In Fisilly at Beaumont, where 10 of
the eons of hie carps fell to its Aare. Thia regiment,
by the way, bad at that time been already distinguished
In another less plessiaut but b..rlly lena hcnouradle
Manner, havimt be-n ernt on a fortnight lodide from
the aileonoed gnarl of the 4th Corm jest at the time
of the ba,tle iif Maasela-Tottr, tanialos an attempt on
Toni, where its efforts at opeu esesli4le in b.oad day.-
ligLt Wet with a very bloody and decided repulse from
the National Ga..rli nUmtcd behisiti the works of the
city.