The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATUR DA Y, OCTOBER 11.

Sir Bri.wra LYTTON approached the subject
of farm leases very cautiously at Hertford,
but he so discussed it as to leave it more
obscure than he found it. He rightly ob-
served that agricultural prosperity depends, in
the long run, on the justice which is done to
the land, and called on the cultivators who
heard hire to put money on their acres.
Nobody knows better than Sir BrtwErt. Lyres
why this is not done more extensively. It is
because there is no security that the tenant will be
suffered to reap the reward of his enterprise.
When he has sunk his capital he may be turned
out, as we see daily, because the new landlord has
new arrangen.enta to carry out, or some favourite
to put in ; or he is fresh from Oxford, and will
have no dissenter on his estate. Nobody would
feel more keenly than Sir BULWEIL LrrroN the in-
justice of such treatment; nevertheless he
exhorts the tenant to have more confidence in his
landlord. Bat, singularly enough, in full view of
the fact that men will always, under equal cir-
cumstances, do more or less for land in proportion
to the permanence of their interest in it—
the occupier with a lease more than the tenant
at will, and the freeholder more than the mere occu-
pier—he instanced the proprietors of Virginia and
Maryland to show—well, we know not exactly
what to show, but here is his argument : " In certain
" districts of America—Maryland and Virginia—
" which possess the most fertile soil in the
" world, the yield is of course enormous. But
" the cultivators were not tenant-farmers. They
" were squires, they were gentlemen, and they
" unhappily forgot manure. They took from the
" earth the alkalis and the salts, and never re-
placed them. The consequence is that those
" districts even now are so hopeessly sterile that
" they have been altogether abandoned. This
"shows that the fertility of the soil depends on
" the nourishment bestowed on it. Therefore, I
" yak, can there be any stronger argument than
" this for maintaining the confidence and friendship
" which ought always to exist between landlord:
" and tenants 4"

This is curious, to say the least of it. We wish
Sir BULWER LITTON would only apply his
eminent talents to this very case, and ascertain
for himself, as he may easily do, why Virginia,
with the finest soil and most abundant resources
of any State in the American Union, has been
desolated by her very system of agriculture. The
whole story of slave society is told in that devas-
tation. But we cannot go into that now, and indee.; •
it is not necessary to do sot try oferbiiiafili
us that, Eli far from property in land lessening
men's inclination to do much for it, proprietorship
makes the occupier enterprising and speculative.
He truly says that in Eugland it is from the
men who have the most permanent and best-
secured stake in the land that agriculture expects
and receives her improvements. "Any new ides
" requiring an experiment will naturally be tried
14 first, as a general rule, by the proprietor who
" farms his own land." We have only to ride
across any agricultural county to see this truth
illustrated. A man with a good eye might
make a tolerably correct map, distinguishing the
various tenures on which the land is held, by
observing the different styles of cultivation. Yet
there aro some who believe, or think they believe,
that the best land system is that which delivers
half a county into the hands of one landlord, and
the best custom of tenancy that which leaves the
invested capital of the tenant-occupier to the good
will of the proprietor.
All the discussions at agricultural dinners have
not been so theoretical as those at Hertford. At
North Walsham, it seems, some speakers of *a
landlord clam had an uncomfortable feeling that
there was too much unanimity, and invited the
tenant-farmers present to give expression to their
opinions. This, as the sequel showed, was a some-
what rash challenge. The old doctrine was the
safer one, that the landlord is the natural repre-
sentative of the tenant, and that the latter
need under no circumstances answer for
himself. Mr. Howe.., M.P., had ventured in his
speech to claim credit for having voted for the
Poaching Bill of last session; but no sooner had he
mentioned that unfortunate measure than he was
assailed with a storm of hisses which was kept up
throughout his apology ; he scarcely fared better
when he went on to praise the Highway Bill. Mr.
BEAD, one of the judges, and a tenant•farmer,
speaking later to a toast, accepted the invitation
from the upper table to give free utterance to his
opinions. He said :
It was customary for tenant farmers to be patted on
heir backs and to be told that they were a very enterpris-
;ng and enthusiastic body of people—a very Indepeodent
and improving set. The great and noble of the land told