The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18,

which alone can give succem—namely, help them- carry with it all the authority eiflim phut% supported
selves. the army and the nation. Dame that Sat Louis
At last, however, we meet with the reported pro- Napoleon, however loath, most beer. At Inuit the
ccedings of one such meeting where tho sentiments results of the petition movement, and of the debates
uttered are those of hope and encouragement, telling of the eouncila-general, give no warrant whatever
openly to the assembled farmers opinions which are for supposing that the present head of the republic
every day becoming more prevalent among the land- will be floated by an irresistible majority over the
owners. This occurred at the recent annual meeting barrier of the law. With the regard to the proba-
of the North Lancashire Agricultural Society, held bility of his demurring to yield up the executive
at Lancaster, where the president of the year, Lord power,it isneedless to speculate. It is enough to know
DE TABLET, manfully, and in as plain terms as the , that without that overwhelming majority,which there
non-political character of the meeting permitted, lis little chance of obtaining, all resistance must be
told the members that they must abandon all thought I hopeless. For these manna lam disposed to regard
of protection, and cast their lot with the rest of their the candidature of the Prince de Joinville in a much
countrymen, looking to the prosperity of the whole more serious light than that in which the Union and
community, and turning it to their own advantage Constitationnei choose to consider it. The ultralegi-
by means of skill and industry. timbre appear disposed to support Changarnior; but
any re-this general is understood to favorer the claims of tho
As from the causes we have mentioned,
ported speeches at agricultural meetings during the Orleanist Prince.
present month will be few and far between, and It seems that M. Curlier is so well contented with
the chief notices of such gatherings which we must the success of his plans for molesting republican con-
expect are likely to be brief announcements in curt versations in the Estaniinet tie Paris, that Leis about
para,,raplis, mentioning the fact of such meetings, to apply it in several other resorts of the democratic
with names of the chairman and the rural notabi i- public. The system of bullying private companies
ties, and perchance a compliment to the host's skill who talk politics in the cates, by letting loose on
in catering fur the guests, we must not omit to offer them the agents of the public force, is one of the
a few comments on Lord DE TABLET'S speech. Ile most odious aggressions on society which has yet
thought— made its appearance in the latitude of Paris.
lie need only refer to their own society as a proof of the The news received by the government from the
encouraging position of agriculture in this county. lie eolith of France arc of a nature to make it probable
could only wish, for the sake of agriculturists, that the that the state of siege will be extended to several
general state of agriculture was much better than it 'Nadi,' more departments.
was at the present time; but they were not met there to The new socialist
paper, entitled the Berolotion,
consider what bad contributed to the present depression,
neither were they met to indulge in any idle hopes and c its first appearance this morning.
byeota,SCS as to what might arise in future, but they were 'I he second session of the councils of arrondissc-
met a, British agriculturists, determined to look the present mint has begun. The council of Nancy has pro-
state of things boldly in the face, and by their own met nounced in favour of revision.
gin end exertions to meet the necessities of the times so far General Castellane has returned to Lyons from his
as they could. The present was au important period—
tour of inspection.
indeed, it might be regarded as the turning point in
the history of agriculture; and it was a favourable The place of meeting of the democratic association
augury when the farmers (and not less the land- of Liegaitz has been closed, by order of the police.
lords) of England were beginning to find out that At a special meeting of the Municipal Council of
Ms best way to meet the difficulties of the Paris the necessary powers have been given to the
ass was by the ezercise of the talents which God bad
Prefect of the Seine for offering compensation to the
Ores them, and not by lamentations over the past. He
knew the sacrifices which both farmers and landlords had owners and occupiers of the houses required for the
made during the past few years, but he besought them not prolongation of the Rue de Ilivoli. The work of
to stop in their present cieleavoun, for there was great and demolition will be commenced simultaneously
reasonable ground fur no...dation and hope in the present at the two extremities, beginning at one
state of the country generally. The farmers of this couietry
end between the Rue des roulies and the
would not like to be considered as a clam apart from the
great commonwealth, and at the present time there were Hue de la l'ilonnaie, and at the other be-
luga. of general prosperity in the country. tween the square in front of the Hotel de Ville and
lie proof of which his lordship referred to the poor the streets of Jean-de-flipiuo and Ecrivanis. A
law returns, which b11.1%111 that poor law relief had judgment for the appropriation of the ground above
diminbled, and was diminishing in every county in described, being a part only of what will be re-
England, except seven. He then went off in praise quired for the whole improvement, was pronounced
of the gnat Exhibition, the monster excursion trains on the 3rd instant. The compensation for this ground
which enabled the population of the north to view it and the eighty houses standing upon it, has been
at a cheap rate, and predicted " that when all other valued at d.,2J,1,40tifr. bac., of which 6,553,2201 r. is
classes in the country were in a state of prusperity, estimated to be due to the owners, and 702,188 fr. 8.3 e.
it must at no distant day re-act favourubly oa agn- to the occupiers. To meet these sums, and any pore
culture." Bible excess of the estimates which may be given by
And he distinctly told room that such prosperity a jury, the council has voted a sum of Y 9 millions of
must be brought about by their own exertions, and francs out of the temporary loan agreed to bo made
by availing themselves of modern improvements, by the Bank of France to the city of Paris.
referring to the state of agriculture now as cont. At the Bourse the Fives fell 20c., closing at 91.35,
pared with what it was a few cars ago, to show and the Threes fell 23c., and closed at 53.85.
what improvement had already been made, and as aii
encouragement to further exertion. The state of
the society, its increesing members and growing
funds, together with the additional numbers of stock
sad implements exhibited now, as compared with
the year 1517—a year of high prices—alt showed a
prosperous state of things. And this hopeful speech
INN responded to by the hearty cheers of the three
hundred agriculturists who act down to the society's
dinner. Nor can any one deny that this encouraging
account of the agriculture of Lancashire given by
Lord De TAHLEY es in the main true as applied to other
districts. It is impossible in anydistriet to look back
for ten or twelve years, and note what has been
done in the way of agricultural improvement within
that period, without at the same time admitting the
changes fur the better to have been very consider-
able ; and such a retrospect will convince the most
sceptical how much more than has yet been at-
tempted remains to be done. For though, in even
the least improved and least improving agricultural
districts there are not wanting works and acts which
show to demonstration what skill and energy
will do for the soil, improvement, it must be ad-
mitted, proceeds with very unequal steps. There is
a man who by enterprising outlay has more than
doubled the produce of the land he occupies, while
the next farm may be held by a fanner who has ad-
vanced very huh; beyond the routine of cultivation
pursued by his grandfather. And such instances of
want of enterprise and stationary farming are usually
bond on the estates of the landowners who persist
is keeping their tenants in a state of dependence by
1111111WS of yearly holdings, their rents not being high,
sad where the tenants have for generations sue-
seeded their forefathers in their occupations. Such
Is said to be the state of the large estates of the
Duke of CLEVELAND, and of many others we might
mention.
Still such proprietors commonly consider them-
selves, and are nut unfrequently called may others,
good landlords ; and yet • their system of manage-
ment is such as is almost invariably adverse to good
farming. Why is thin? A landowner of this sort,
regretting to a.friend the want of enterprise amongst
his tenantry, and the inferior manner in which his
land was fanned, inquired what he should do to in-
duce his tenants to improve, and received for reply,
" Double their rents and give them twenty-one years
leases." And, though such farmers would doubt-
less consider this a rough and harsh remedy, it is
certain that other farmers of more active and intelli-
gent habits would, for the sake of long leases, framed
on a fair and rational basis, often give much higher
rents, and in so doing would make much larger profits
than the slow-going old fashioned formers would
conceive it possible to pay or to make. Tho whole
secret consists in giving farmers freedom and emu-
eity:—freedom to follow out their own interests, with
security for the permanent enjoyment of the fruits
of their own industry.

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PAIUS, Buy. IT.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evasiso.
The French government has received official intel-
ligence. through the telegraph of Madrid, of the de-
feat and death of Lopez and his companions. They
were not executed like the prisoners taken at sea,
bat killed fighting.
The ronstilistionnel states that the French govern-
ment is about to communicate a note to the cabinet
of Washington on the subject of the affairs of Cuba.
The British government on receiving notice of this
resolution, has replied that it entertains the inten-
tion of making a similar communication to the go-
vernment of the United States.
M. Francois Hugo and the gt,rant of the Erene-
ment have appealed to the Court of Cessation against
the sentence pronounced by the Court of Assizes.
The appearance of the Prince de Joinville in the
field as a candidate for the presidency, which most
now be regarded as authentic, has been discussed by
the Bonapartist and legitimist papers in a tone of
supercilious levity, which is calculated to mislead the
public as to the, real weight of this candidature,
and its ultimate prospect of success. From
what I can gather from calm and important observ-
ers, the new name is making rapid way in the de-
partments, and is ttatherino numerous adherents
among the buergreisie, who regard the rule of Louis
Napoleon as launched upon a career which must
confirm, instead of mitigating, the repressive govern-
ment called into activity by the revolution. The
statesmen who support the Prince do Joinville form
by far the most important, although small, fraction
of the Assembly, in which they have earned for
themselves the title of the parliamentary party. It
is absurd to think that the new phase of their policy
has been adopted without the most deliberate calcu-
lation, or will be extinguished by anything less than
an overpowering force. The grand argument
brought against the Prince de Joinville's candida-
ture is, that thereby the party of order is divided, to
the great hazard Of defeat by the socialists. M.
Thiers and his friends would answer this argument
in two words. Theywould say that it is better that
the party of order should be divided, than commit
suicide by being united in favour of a candidature
which must remain Winged with illegality. They
would say that the fear of a socialist majority is per-
fectly idle; and that the socialist candidate could
not possibly, under the present electoral law, scrape
together two millions. The division of the party
of order is, therefore. simply reducible to referring the
question of the election to the National Assembly:lt is
evidently the object of M. Thiel.s to bring the presi-
dential contest into this field. Whatever the fiat of the
Assembly may be, it will, in his opinion, not only

(By Electric Telegraph.)

BERLIN, SEPT. 16.—Voluntary Loan, 1031 ; Rus-
sian Four-and-a-Ma per Cent., 101/; National
Debt, Exchange on London, 6.211; Hamburg,
1491; Petersburg, 1031.
VIENNA, SEPT. 16.—Five per Cent. Metalliques,
1931. Bank Shares, —; price of Gold, —; ditto,
Silver, Exchange on London, 11.33 ; on Paris,
1391.
FRINEFORT, SEPT. 16.—Five per Cent. Metal-
liques, 781. Three per Cent. Interior, 34. Exchange
on London, 1181.
Amsrganam, SErr. 16.—Five per C.cnt. Metal-
liques, 751; Five per Cent. Ardoins, 14 ; Three
per Cents. Interior, 33 13-16 ; Russian Four-and-a-
I Cents., —; Two-and-a-Half per Cent. In-
tegrals, 58 3-16. Exchange on London, 11.87
ANTWERP, SEPT. 17.—Five per Cent Mctalliquee,
781; ditto Ardoins, 131. Three per Cent. Interior,
341. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Ex-
change on London, 23.171.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 17.—Belgian Five per Cents.,
100; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 921; Ex-
change on London, 23.171.
HAMBURG, SEPT. 16.—Three per Cents. Spanish
Inland, 321. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents-,

REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CAPE OP GOOD HOPE.
—Wo believe it is in contemplation, in consequence of the
unsatisfactory nature of the last news tram the Cape, to
a( ad several more regiments to the colony. The 6th
Dragoon Guards and 40th Regiment, being the first cavalry
and infantry regiments on the list for foreign service, will
probably bo selected, and proceed to the Cape without
delay. 'These regiment. re now in Ireland. A morning
cotcmporary says: We understand that orders have been
issued for the 43rd Light Infantry to prepare for immediate
embarkation to the Cape, in addition to the reserve battalion
of the 12th Regiment, which has ban required to proceed
from the Mauritius to the scene of action. '
THE JERSEY 311.:EDEREIL—The convict Fouquct
has received a reprieve for one fortnight beyond the time
fixed by the Royal Court for his execution, Kw the sole
purpose
of
in&suirieeiranwcomhmisurc=l to him oidtvh:
cateranrarett ; and he received the intelligence with much
apparent gratitade.--Jersey Sun.