The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-09 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

This morning was issued the report from the Select
Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to inquire into
the best mode of obtaining accurate agricultural statistics
from all wee of the United Kingdom. The evidence taken
before the committee is appended to the report, together
with a variety et plans, tables, and returns. The report
relates the efforts which have been made, both at home and
abroad, for the purpose of devising a scheme for colleating
agriculture. statistics, and the committee then sum up their
recommeadations is the following tea resolutiose :-
1. That the systematic collection of sgricultural statistics
throughout the United Kingdom is au °limit of national
Importance, and that amongst the many classes that would
benefit by it, none would derive greater advantage than thine
connected with agriculture. 2. That it Is expedient that
powers should be give, by Act of Parliament to weeps' the
occupiers of land to make the necessary returns, in case of
their neglect or refusal to do so. 3. That the Board of
Trade should be entrusted with the, I superiatendence
of the cellectios of the statistics in Great Britain, through
the medium of the poor-law nischisery in England, and the
Highland Society in Scotland; and that the Irish govern.
ment, in continuing to superintend the collection for Ire-
land, through the atom of the constabulary, should from
time to time consult with the Board of Trade on the subject,
for the purpose of securing as much uniformity as possible
in the returns obtained for the different portions of the
kingdom. 4. That two damns of returns should be Ily
obtained, the first containing facts, the second estimates;
and that the facts should consist of returns of live stock,
and of the acreage under each description of crop, while
the estimates should eonsiet of estimates of the produce of the
harvest The acreage and stock retains should be sent in by
the 16th of July, and the estimate returns made up be
tween the Ist and 80th Nov. 6. That the schedules to be
employed (and which should be introduced into the proposed
Act of Parliameet) should be sufficiently comprehen,ive,
but that power should be given to the Board of Trade to
omit any portion of them on any particular occasion, and,
oa the other hand, to modify them as circumstances may
show to be desirable. The schedules employed in the in-
quiry of 18.54 will form an appropriate basis for the perma-
nent schedules. 6. That the inquiries should not be re-
quired to rinsed below holding, of two acres in England
and Wale,. 7. That the parochial rate-books should be at all
times aceersible to the properly qualified officers employed
in the collection of agricultural statistics. 8. That the re •
quirementa of the act for taking the corn averages should be
more strictly carried out by the local officers intimated with
their execution than appears to have been the ease hitherto,
and that the list of towns from which the returns are made
should be amended. 9. That as the collection of agricultu-
ral statioies is a matter of national interest and utility, it is
reasonable that the expenses coeneeted therewith should be
defrayed out of the national exchequer. 10. That it is deal-
!Fable that the government should introduce a bill into Par-
liament as early as possible, for the purpose of carrying into
effect each of the ab.me•mentioned recommendations as may
require the intervention of the legislature for their due
execution.

A letter from Vienne, dated the 4th, says:—" Yes-
terday evening the Duke de Montpeneler paid a virit to the
Count de Chambord who had arrived from Fronedort The
interview between the two princes lasted an hoar. This
morning at eleven o'clock the Count de Chambord returned
the visit which was of similar duration. The Duke.

Mentpeusier his left this ovenieg for Prague on his wsy to
Goths, and the Count de Chambord has returned to Probs.
dorf "

General Prim u spoken of as likely to be nominated
as aomaaadsr•in•ehiet of the Spanish sontingent for the
Crimea.

The annual meeting of the British Archaeological
Alexialion will be held at Newport, in the Ids of Wight,
daring the present month.

Id:Junien is to give a grand concert and military
fits at the Zoological audios, Edisloorgb, to-sorrow.
_

The opera Of " L Sonaambula," with Madame
Glandar as Anima, hsa beg noceedully produced at the
Theatre Royal, Dublin.

A letter from Ancona Mates that that place has
been pet is a state of siege, le oeseequesee of the aseaseins-
tios of es Austrian superior teen.

The Prime Royal of Sammy her arrived at
Breasts with his suite, travelling incognito, under the title
of Count de Weoenetein.

USE Or THZ DSGUEEREOTTPL—The 2nd Lanark-
shire Regiment of Militia, stationed at Lanark, has lost •
entsiderable number of men from desertion—the arnejority
of whoa make their way to Glasgow, after they hare re-
pred part of their bounty and necessaries. The eoinniand-
leg slim has hit upon a eapital auxiliary to identification.
80 soon as they are clothed the likenesess of the man an
tams by daguerreotype, is groups of half • done, epos
ose plats ; the picture is fidelity itself, and, es work, of art,
those we hare seen are exceedingly creditable. When a
mac disappears from Lesark, therefore, the plate upon
which his phymg is imprinted is sent down to Glasgow,
where, seder the chow of the superintendent of police, it
is shown to the constable, and recruiting sergeants for the
mimes; who, having the portrait in their remembrance,
ma look after the mainsail' he bad been an old acquaintance.
—olff Herold.
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