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London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19.

Warr Surrey has of late in many ways become so
remarkable, that it is difficult to my when its peculiar
notoriety will cease. A noble lord ear:y in this month
condescended, from the north of Scotland, to notice
in a letter to the Tenses what be was pleased to cell
the "croakers" of West Surrey. It would however
appear, that the noble lord himself has on his own
estate a clue of tenantry who want not only capital,
but even information, quite as much as he imagines
the farmers of Surrey do. He says he had a farm
• in such bad condition that the produce of straw and
turnips was not sufficient to keep the cows for the use
of the family and to rear the young sto&•." His lord-
ship finds "the system of affording sasis'ance by
giving manure, yolk well;" but it would certainly
Nem that the farmers on his estate must be behind
those even of Surrey, whom he is so anxious to in-
street; for he says, " When I first tried this plan the
instants uld hardly be induced to drive the mre."
Capital: d I nowledge are required then as much by
his lordship's tenants as by the most unealightened
and most miserable, in point of means, of the Surrey
tarsiers. How is this capital (to my no hieg of the
knowledge), which is as much needed in the Carse of
Clowrie as in the onnty of Surrey, to be obtained ?
The noble lord mys, " Landlords ought at once to
unite to press on the government the expedi'ncy of
bringing forward a measure at the commencement of
the session for an additional grant of drainage money."
thich,then, is the noble lord's advice-1 at. To the farmers,
to ass more manure; 2nd, to the landlords, to make the
goose lay more golden eggs for their nse than she has
already done. The facetious member for \Vest Surrey
nexttakes uphis pen and at one fell swoop pronounces
his division of Surrey. for the most part as containing
" every sign of incorrigible barrenness." Be this as
it may, he then complains also of the want of capital,
and goes a step further than the noble lord in attri-
buting the farmer's distresses to no other cause than
" the intentional acts of the government to lower the
prices of Britith•grown articles and to introduce
cheaper fore;gu.grown prod's* in its stead. While
he admits that it is impossible to re-enact the bread
tax, he also mys that " all labourers with whom I
have ever conversed have been unanimous in de-
claring that the Hammen most prosperous with them
when corn woo the desreat." According to this the
labourers with whom Mr. DRUMMOND conversed could
obtain more in the spring of 1847 when wheat was at
an exorbitant price, than they have since been able to
do with the mme wages, for wages until just lately
bad not fallen, and almost every article of consump-
tion had fallen coesiderably in price. The noble lord
and Mr. DRUMMOND are, however, quite agreed upon
one point—that it is desirable to get more capital
employed in agricuhure, and they both, after
look to the government to make some arrangement
to provide this capital for them ; while the one wants
a Erect lose, the other seeks by some extraordinary
means, by some shuffle of the cards as it were, to
bring down the rate of interest from three to one

per oast.
If it be the wish of the British public that agri-
culture should remain stationary, or that it should
return to its rude and primitive state, under protec-
tive laws, then by all means let us call upon the legis-
lature to do something for the agricultural croakers.
If, on the other baud, having gained experience
from the past—from recollection of the general inac-
tivity of agriculturists as compared with other classes
—of the loud complaints, almost incessant, from the
agricultural body while it had protection—of the I
want of exertion on the part of the landowners
—of the degraded end wretched condition of tbe
labourers, a condition from which they lave
not even yet in many counties recovered, it
should be thou.tht advisable to bring about a
kili
and to emerge from the old system, tehellnt
the government give up all idea at ones
of favourieg one chum in preference to another. Let
it be borne in mind that when the government lend
money to the poor end suffering agriculturists it is
bound in equal justice and upon precisely the same
principle to lend to any other class who may dant ibe
themselves as sufferers and who, moreover, state that
they can offer a good security, this security being
such, however, that no other body except a govern-
ment could be found to advance money upon.
Now, for a moment look to the other side of the
pictureand consider what will be the probable conse-
quence of leaving agriculture alone, of leaving land-
lords and farmers to themselves with the certainty
of having neither protection nor any further advances
from the government. A moat important and de-
sirable change will then, in all probability, take place
in the ideas as well as in the estates of the landed aris-
tocracy. Improvers of land will take the plus of
accumulators of land. Bales of land, as well to pay
off ancient debts as to raise the necessarycapital to
make modern improvement., will. be in the place of
purchases, of debts, of mortgages which used to be
made under the false notion of adding to the family
honours. There will be
i payments of debts made,
where increased debts and ncumbrances used to be
made upon an almost exhausted credit. The family
pride will consist in having • smaller estate not only
thoroughly improved, but above all, unencumbered
with debt.
Parents will probably be in lured under the im-
proved system to leave land to their younger chil-
dren, where they now leave them a charge upon an 11
already impoverished property. Thus will the hind
in the course of time become more divided and mare
improved, the people better able to obtain land sad
more attached to our constitution. When this
is done, when landlords have improved their estates,
having got. rid of their political prejudices, of their
game prejudices, of their annual talent prejudice,—
then, and not till then, may we expect men of capi-
tal to come and take the piece of some of those unfor-
tunate victims who have been ruined by trusting to i
their own ignorance, and to the tender mercies of pre.
tectionist landlords. Then may we expect those far-
mers who are able to survive the preoent crisis to
prosper,ini when they find themselves, some, no doubt,
less land, but, generally speaking, improved
farms, with convenient buildirge, living under either
their old landlords, who have changed their opinions,
or under new landlords, who have imported new
opinions, and, above all, enjoying a perfect maturity
of tame.

A DINNER was given in London on Saturday
which cams scaroely within the province either of the
gastronomic or the-law reporter, but which neverthe-
less is invested with a certain amount of interest. It
was a farewell banquet to Mr. Justice TALYOTIRD by
his old usociates of the Oxford Circuit, and in honour
xi his elevation to the bench. It was a gathering of
all the men who have belonged, or who do belong, to
the Oxford." Faces in the reception-room called
up ameeiations of the past which harmonised strangely
with the realities of the present. Jaime was tre
seeilptatt with the companions of his father;
HAL-
LAS, the historian, talking with those who first
travelled. qinnit with him; and WILLIAM,
the Arden of the Common Pleas, who has
s faithhdly identified himself with the
traditions d his family, had an opportunity, by