The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7.

MR. DISRAELI has made a second appearance in
Buckinghamshire in his last new character, " the
" Practical Farmer." The performance at Salthill
on Wednesday, like the one before it at Ayles-
bury, was very amusing to those who can follow it
at the right distance from the scene. The pit, how-
ever, we observe, did not enter into the humour
of the artist, and some unmannerly interruptions
were the consequence. Brighter men than the
rustics of the Vale of Chiltern might be mystified
when they see a refined gentleman, whom they
have known for years only as an admirable talker,
their friend in Parliament, good at keeping COBDEN
and BRIGHT and folks of that sort in check—when,
we say, they see such an one coining among
them in tcp- boots and corduroys, setting their
fields and flocks to rights, claiming to know their
land better than they do, telling them how to make
agricultural profits, and winding up by giving his
word for the correct motherly conduct of " the
" ewe with the black nose."

There was a disposition at Salthill to rebel
against Mr. DISRAELI', assumptions. Some of his
hearers denied his facts, rejected his inferences,
and let it be seen that they set as little store
by his theories as Mr. TP—NNYSON'S " Northern
" Farmer" by the wise sayings of " Parson"
and " Doctor." One TROYPEa was the spokes-
man of the malcontents. " Mr. Disitaxm,"
he said, " was doing them harm. Buyers would
" read his rose-coloured speeches, and would notgive
"so much for the wheat." His Aylesbury discourse,
it was alleged, caused a loss of 2s. a quarter to his
constituents. TROME ER did not stop here ; ho
presumed to question the celebrated advice to
cross Downs with Cotswolds. To hear that he
would be no more successful in crossing sheep in
Buckinghamshire th►n he was • few sessions ago
in crossing Tories and Radicals in St. Stephen's
was grave enough, but the charge of spoiling the
market, Mr. DISRAELI saw, was fatal to • repre-
sentative, so he gave TROMPER a specimen of the
art of reply. Compliment and " chaff " were
mingled with what was meant for argument, the
former being of the better quality. He had not,
he said, exaggerated the goodness of the harvest.
He knew that it was • good one everywhere else,
and it never occurred to him that in South Bucking-
hamshire, " the land of the TROILPERS, the NASHES,
" the ALRIDGES, and the PULLENS, there had been
" such a complete and absolute failure." This
took. The objectors were isolated, and the laugh
went against them. The serious business was
managed with less skill. It was • bold thing to
intimate that the Aylesbury speech had checked •
decline in the price of corn. "If any person of
" authority, who is supposed to have the confi-
" dance of some part of the country, announces
" that the harvest has been so prolific and abun-
dant that it has seldom been equalled, the
" foreign importer would begin to pause, and ask
" what was the use of sending his produce to an
" island where he was told there was so good a
" harvest. I should, therefore, say that if I had
" not made that speech the price of wheat would
" have sunk 4s. instead of 2.." The notion that
importers of foreign corn look into Mr. DISRAELI'S
speeches forguidance in the conduct of their trade was
so comically original that Salthill enjoyed it ex-
ceedingly. But when Mr. DISRAELI, not content
with the cheers and laughter, returned to the
theme, and alleged that, if he was not right, a
great importation of corn would be taking place,
he was stopped by the obvious remark, " So there
" is." He was equally infelicitous in advising his
hearers how to counteract low prices. Tauxrsa
had complained that the food of man was of less
value than the food of beasts. " I will tell you,"
said Mr. DNILAELI, "what to do ; produce food
" for beasts." But it is precisely in attempting
to act on that rule that they have failed.
TROMPER was thinking of the miserable
turnip crop. Just in proportion as the farmers
have tried to produce food for beasts has been their
lass, so that Mr. DISR•ZLI'S advice is nothing more
than what Bishop Emiccrrr would call " plan-
" Bible sententiousness." On the whole, the
public will not much regret to see Mr. Disaixu
continue this new series of agricultural speeches,
so much more lively and suggestive than the old
familiar strain. But whether the reputation of the
eminent orator himself will be raised by them is
at present doubtful.