The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-10 00:00:00

HOME TRUTHS BY A TENANT FARMER.

At the annual dinner of the Leicestershire Agri-
tabard Association, which took place at the Bell Hotel,
Leicester, on Friday, • few home truths were spoken which
deserve special record.
lar. 0. Krum, • tenant farmer, is allusion to the de-
ploring tuna in which protectionist agriculturists spoke of
their prospects, said that things would assuredly !sunlit
such worse than at present it the agriculturists acted cm
the assumption that nothing but • return to protective
duties could save them. The position of the farmers and
government was like that of the waggoner and Jupiter in
the fable. The farmers were making government to help
them out of their mess, aad the answer was, " Flog your
honer, asd put your shoulder to the wheel ; if
you went, you an do it yourself." He thought the
aoventment would not grant them protection until the
had flogged their hours and put their shoulders to the wheel.
Protective duties more too :emote. to be trusted to fur relief,
and somethieg &unseat be done. It was • common Belie,
at such meetings as these that landlords and tenants " towed
in the seine boat " But, in his opinion, the property of the
t taints w.s on deck, and was being swept away with every
wave that broke over the vessel, while the property of the
landlords was securely stowed in the hold. (Orvet applause.)
What would th, y thick of officers on board • ship who
refused to sacrifice any of their owe property, while that or
their crew was being thrown overboard? That was just
the position of the landlords sad tenants at the present time,
and if they wished to save the vessel the officers snot
make sure sacrifices as well as the crew—toe land-
lords must sacrifice • portion of their rents (Cheers.) He
did sot wish to be disrespectful to the landed gentry; he be-
lieved the intern a of the owners and occap:ers identical. aad
AO thought they ought to mark together, and nut allow ono
one to &audios everethis and tie other nothing. (Itai-
sewed cheers.) Loa. at the operation of the repeal of toe
corn laws. The labourers of Liriesetenhire never received
so much bread, meat, beer, sad clothing fir their labour as
at the presets! time. There wu no nun for maudlin sym-
pathy about the labourer in this county. The lebower had
not suffered • penny by the repeal of the corn law..
And how much had the landlord suffered ? lie
was sorry to have to sty aaything that was
unpleasant, bet he could not suppress truth the
landowner had not suffered any loss. If • man rented 400
acres of land, aid paid 8001. rest for it, he was, according to
the chairman's account, a lour of 2004 per annum. But the
rents o. the county were no lower now than at any former
period. Oa the other hand, the reduction in all kis& of
produce made a difference in the cost of • gentleman's Wu-
bliehneent. It would, perhaps, be saying too much to fix
the saving at one-fourth, but, if they said one-eighth, that
would make 1001 to a gentleman tering 400 ecru, so that
the repeal of the corn-laws was actually putting 1001. 'year
into such a gentlemen's pocket. In conclusion, Mr. K.
recommended the farmers to endeavour to ob.ain fair
egresses% not to take farms "over each other's
heads," and thus raise rents to an impetus'
height, but to bid only a fair rent for land, and to roust on
haling equitable agree mente. If they erected haildings
upon their farms, they ought to take them away, or have an
equivalent for thins, and when they math improvements in
the soil, they ought to be rewarded for it, if they had to
quit before they wen exhausted. They ought aho to take
cue in their agreements to provide against bring eaten up
with game, and being laced under the surreillance of • set
of gamekeepers. (Applause.)
The plain truths spoken by Mr. Kilby, continues the re-
port, were warmly supported, and responded
to by other
tenant tarsus present, and have excited great interest in

RUMOURED REMOVAL OF Till LAW COURTS--
The following sate Miens the Evening l'oat:—•• The
sou ahount rumours have obtained currency ot late with
reference to • *apparel transfer of our law courts to West
stiester, said to be in the contemplation of the government.
Now we are in • position to give the most complete contra-
diction to this idle story. Such • measure is not, and never
has been, thought of. It must lot perfectly evident that to
transfer the Irish courts of law to Westminster would be
about ae happy an arrangement as to transplant the Scotch
courts from Edinburalt to Lmeols's isn.
Tits NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—We under-
stand that there are several volunteers for the command of,
' and for other positions in, the new @retie expedition to be
organised to proceed, via Behring's Strait', in search of Sir
John Frarklin ; but the whole affair is in the hands of th
Treasury, and nothing, it le expected, will be done before
/Sprit aunt. or until intelligent= is received from the Plover,
now in Bs krisg's Swaim—Visaed Soren= Giudge.
YEOVIL AORICOLTCRAL SOCIETY.—The annual
meeting of this society, which Is one of the most important
in thie county, was held on Friday. The show 01 stock wee
very superior. The alteration which wu made in the rules
daring the last year, throwing the exhibition open to all Eog-
land, app. ared to bale a most beneficial effect. It was also
decided to have no prizes for fat stock, but to increase the
number of premiums for breeding stock, the committee con-
thieving that to be of more importance to the interests of the
agriculturists generally. Thee =petition for stock was very
epirittd, and there app' ared to be • marked improvement
in the Devon*, of which there were many good specimens
exhibited. The Down sheep were of a superior quality, and
creditable to the owners thereof. Upon the whole we may
say that the show was very good, and so far as records the
reticular kind of stock wu superior to previous exhibitions.
There was • very good assortment of roots. The weather
was most unpropitious, the rain pouring down in torrents
during the whole day. After the business of the show wee
over, • numerous company assembled at ate Townhall,
where they partook of a good substantial dinner, under the
presidency of Sir Alexander Hood, But,, M.P., supported
as the right by W. Pinney, Req..:
Tug LATE COLLISION AT WOODHOUSE JCNCTION.—
' Thomas Owen, ot New Holland (remanded irom Monday).
an engine-driver in the service of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway Company, was finally examined
ea Fnday, at the Sheffield Town-ball, on a charge ot having
caused a collision on the company's line at the Wocdhouse
Junction, near Sheffield. The defendant's head bore the
mark of • frightful wound, received at the time of the ate-
' dent, and he was suffering from other injuries inflicted on
I the same °anion, which had rendered him very lame.
After a long inquiry into the circumstances ot the accident,
the magistrate severely censured the conduct of the defend-
ant in having driven at an improper speed when approaching
the junction, and fined him la, or to be committed for two
months.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT SANDAL.—Od Wed-
nesday in last week, a sad event occurred at Sandal. A
friendship has existed for some time between Mr. Charles
Fer 111041,14 a youth about sixteen years of age, and the
mes-terrets of Captain Wood. On Wednesday morning
young Fernandes obtained remission of a double-barrelled
gun of his brother's, sod went out shooting email birds ; he
returned to dinner and again went out about two o'clock. He
called at Captain Wood's stable, where he found the groom,
Michael Lynch, and a young man named Schorah, who out
✓ionally works there. Immediately on entering the stable, one
barrel of the piece went off, as is supposed, from the hammer
catching some part aftere clothes while he was in the act of
glinting the don hist. The charge of small shot
entered the right breast of the groom, Lynch, and passing
near or through the heart, killed him almost iestantane-
only. An intuit was held by Mr. G. D. Baker, the deputy
coroner, at the Castle Inn, Sandal, on Thursday evening,
when evidence having been taken, the jury retur.ed •
verdict of 8' Accidentally Killed."--Yorkshire Gawk.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WlGAN.—Accounts
have been received co an alarming colliery ciplation near
Wise*, a colliery bel 'aging to Henry WOWS, Esq. About
I twenty men were near the pit at the time the explosion took
plus. They all rushed to the eye of the pit with a view
sear. AS the Gage was being wound up, a boy about
named Henry Howarth, gee caught, and his head
emes sensed from hi. body. Several of the others in their
attempt to escape were very 119111Iftly burned.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. MARRIOTT, OF FLEET-
111111211T.—On Soturaay, about a 9uarter past four o'clock,
Kr. Henry Marri,tt, the extensive scalemaker an
monger, ei Not-street, and who was formerly a member of
the Court of C =mon Council, entered one of the carriages
on the South Wr stern Railway, for the purpose of proceed-
ing to kis eountrphoue, near Kingston. in the course of a
few minutes after the unfortunate gentleman had entered he
wee setisod to drop his hind as if unwell. A friend, who was
also is the earri-ge, went to his assistance, end found him
speeehlrae, He was taken out ot the carnage just as the
whistle was hi wing for the train to start, and was canted
into the statics. Mr Seidel, surgeon, and another medical
man saw him, and at ones pronounced life totally extinct. The
body was forhwith removed to one of the private rooms at
the Halo taf Waterloo inn, near the station, where it awaits

ea lagaeet
Flat AT UPPER HARE PARIL—About fire o'clock I
oa FriJey evening lut a fire broke out in one of the old !
wings of the mansion at Upper timelier's, the seat of Gen. !
Or tumor, who, with the family, fa sow from home, the
only persona re Wing then being a man servant and some
limits, who are lelt in charge of the house. A dispa,ek
was immediately sent to Newmarket for the engine, which
was on the spit as soon as time would permit, and the tire
was eenflord to the: portion of the house in wh eh it com-
menced, and whi n was entirely destroyed. Tne rest of the
balding*, en 4 all the new part of the mansion, was feria
ns'ely preserved. Tits firs is supposed to have been caused
by the overheating of one of the flues, by which in. nets some
j tits and other wade/oft became Juiced. But tew pe-eons
wet, then, ouin to tne fire not being seen through the
err/ thick toe —Cambridge Chronic*.
HENTRIICTION OP THE KILLILEAGII FLAX AND
Canton MILLS av Etaa.—lnformation reached Belfast oa
Wednealey Doming that these exteustve buildings were
by
destroeed fire on the evening before. The fire broke cut
about seven o'clock, and was, we understanrs,
of
by
the basting of a gas pips. The destruction of these mil s
will throw oumher of prams out of r.. meat;
met we neve to 1.-ent that tee property was o ly partially
lasantl.--Northens