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London, England, 1849-12-12 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12.
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Ways SoLoewe declared that "in the mis—
er counsellors there is safety," be could badly have
contemplated such a case as that of bewildered tenant
farmers, to whom a hundred recommendations are
offered simultaneously by as many different landlords
'Tie true, indeed, that Mr. DISRAELI adopts the lite-
ral interpretationof the pro
thin bouts that inthe
part which he leads (backwards), there are as many
min as men. It is, moreover, speciali grafia, an
honest party ; so every man gives north what is in
his heart to utter. Wheace there arises a most
satoundieg conflict ard coefusion of sounds and spe-
cifics, to ail of which every British and Irish agricul-
turist is bound diligently to gtve heed and whet:, he
has formed his ownopinton, basis then exieletea to fall
into line and take close order.
After all, however, this unabridged "liberty of pro.
phecying " is not without its use. Etch of the
prophets, be he never so false, lets out a scrap of on-
intentional truth; and each provokes from some one
wiser than himself a teepees/ or a rebuke which is
generally still more instructive. Cant and hypocrisy
are thus exposed, and the victim classes whom the
landlords have so long been fleecing, and whom now
they Lein weak fool, are kept upon their guard. In
Devonshire a great stir is made, and the over-tented
occupiers are told that if they.will but pay another
year's war price tribute and sign a long petition to
the Queen, a free trade parliament and ministry will
be dismissed, and that they. will be secured once
more 60e. a quarter for their wheat. Whereupon
Lord FORTZSCOR writes a quiet businas-like Letter to
his tenantry, promising to help with the price of
extra labour all who will zealously set about im-
proving their lands, advising those who will not thus
attempt to meet the force of oompetition to accept of
liberal compensation for surrendering their farms, but
admonishing all that they would only be blind fol-
lowers of the blind if they spent their days or
thoughts in looking for legiaLtive protection, which
was gone never to teturo. This is something like
common sense. Lord Foareseuz does not e
s. He
He
re-
lief to the farmers out of other people's pot ets
offers to pay it out of his own. And through life he
bas always been known to be a man of his word, so
that what he promises we know he mans to do.
At the Cirenoest-r meeting, in like manner, the
collision of sentiment brought out not merely the
imitative Feclisen of Lord VILLIeRS, and the Jere-
miads of the miserable MCLLISCes, but a blant,
hearty, and matter-of-fact speech from the Rev. Mr.
Caters, who in his capacity of Chairman of the
Union Board of Guardians, told his audience pretty
plainly that he would be no party to the system of
extirpating lab .urers from their humble homes and
driving them into the workhouse •, and, as a farmer,
that he had by the use of more labour this year made
more of his farm than he did last, when
prices were tigher ; and finally, as a citizen,
that he did not think it good for tither himself
er those who heard him to be occopieil with schemes
of union against the existing law cf free industry,
but that it they would improve their own condition is
landholders, and keep the poor-rates down, they would,
instead of spending too much money on experimental
procease', like artificial manures, engage more
labourers, which he had found by practical experience
would enable them to raise two crops on the same
ground, instead of one.
Identical in spirit is the advice contained in the
speech delivered at the late nteetihg of the Agricul-
tural Society of Ireland by Mr. NAPelt. A better,
kinder, or more improving landlord does not exist.
Few men have evinced moreanxiety for the diffusion of
industrial knowledge among the people of his adopted
country than Mr. NAPER has done. Yet what does
he say? In effect this—that high farming, and the
application of large capital to the cultivation of the
oil, is not to be expected in Ireland; that the
tenantry three have no other capital than their
labour ; that they can oely to rescued from
beggary, and the proprietary clam from bankruptcy,
by the application of the spare labour of the country
to its imperfectly tilled surface.
Nor does Mr. Nat ett stand alone in his opinion. In
the county of Cork an enterprise has been undertaken
on a considerable scale, by a gentleman long con-
nected with oilier branches of active and usetul em-
ployment. Unseated by free-trade, Mr. Dann ts, well
known as a higaly-snoressful railway contractor, has
taken large farms in the neighbourhood of Fermoy-
for the purpose of growing flax on an extensive
scale, and supply ng mills for cleaning and preparing
it for exportation. There is probably no product of
the soil in these latitudes which gives so much employ-
ment, in each at tge of its culture and application, as
flax; and to introduce it in a part of the king-
dom where it has long been neglected,m to do more for
the real benefit of the peasantry and the rate-payers
than all the babbling committees and associations in
favour of dear food will ever be able to accomplish for
their own narrow and selfish selves.
Turning our glance once more to this side of the
channel, what do we hear from the lips of an intelli-
gent and out-sp Asa tenant-farmer in Leicestershire?
At a recent nu etinu of the agricultural association of
that county, Mr. lilLul is reported to have said,
that—
It was a common saying at such meetings as these that
landlords and e. n tots •' rowed in the same boat." But, in
his opinion, the property of the tenants was 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
**hold. (Greet appiause.) What would they think of
officers on hood a ship who refused to sacrifice any 4 their
own property, obits that of their crew was being thrown
seaboard) That qualms the position of the landlords and
tenants at the plesest time, and if they wished to save the
vessel the SAMS meat make MOO swine,' as well as the
(ew—the landlords must naillee a portion of their rents.
(Cheers ) Ile did not wish to be disrespeedul to the lauded I
gentry ; he believed the interns of the owners and occu-
piers tdeatksl, and he theimht they ought to work together,
and as allow one to stadia everything and the other
nothing. (Renewed cheers.) Look at the operation of the
upset of the c.rn laws The labourers of L imetershire never
removed so .ash bread, meat, beer, and clothing for thole
labour as at the mast time. There was so need ive
maudlin sympathy about the lab mar in this county. The
labourer had not suffered a penny by the repeal of the can
laws.
So that gleams of light ate breaking in upon the
agricultural mind from different quarters, and the
plain duties or landlordism towards tenants and la-
bourers are beginning at last to be better understood.
Protection would be a capital diversion in favour of
the old system of extirpation and extortion, if land-
lordism could only effect it. But the attempt is
already felt to be a hopeless one; aid the blind tena-
city with which the subordinate agitators cling to
the forlorn hope, after the shrill trumpet of recall has
been sounded by order of their wiser captain, can
only tend to their speedy and complete undoing.

POOR Mr. SIDNET HULBERT! O e would think
hid rubbed a church, or fired at the Queas cm
lotion-hill. His proposal fur a suhseription to
distressed nsedlswomen to enegrsie has raised
if hornets, in the ships of peoteciunist econo-
rho all attack him as fiercely as it they had
interests" in these put nreillewomend
reduced to poverty may be the protection- '
are still rich in that great elo
politisal eapital—grievance. It is all that
liticiins have left to trade on. Aud they do'
their grievances so fondly, that whwiver,
SIDNET HERBERT, would rob tht-ni of nne
inishing distress, is trested like a robber
a penfold. When one thinks how
msgoAun have waxed fat and great on well-
managed glievaeces, it is nut amazing to find them
'et) here. Nor is one rurpreed to find an
'.ILL in DIMALLI, or a TOM STEFLE in Mr.

we fortseen that Mr. HERBERT wou:d
been attacked by this band of English

seded.
In the prospectus, however, which appears in our
edvertising columns to-day, we find no allusion to
capital or competition, and, we are glad to add, no
attempt at refuting the factious fudge of the protec-
tionists. Tao statistics of the difference between the
mile and female population of the country and of the
metropolis are
.stated, and they are certainly such as
to warrant the truly humane and moral efforts which
the associated gentlemen have determined to make.
In such an adventurous race as that of English-
men there can be no doubt that the wear and tear of
male life in voyage and venture is infinitely greater
than that of female. The first step of one who finds
him or herself sinking into the destitute or " uneasy"
class is, if youth permits, to hie to the great towns.
From thence at another crisis the male escapes by
some one of the outlets of adventure. The female
rests, and too often rote. The very idea of 28,500
women, under 20 years of age, leading a quasi-
independent life in th's city, earning a few
pence a day by work, and incurring all the direst
temptations to eke out the insufficiency by vice, is
one of the most ft arful pictures of our time. We
should like, however, to see the statistics carried
farther, and to learn how many of these were inde-
pendent of parental sway.
Meantime, we wish every success to the scheme of
female emigration, although we must repeat what we
said before that however it may alleviate, it will not
atop the eviL It is singular, that whilst fur the con-
fection of articles of common use, such as shoes, large
recourse has been hat to the cheap-salaried population
of country towns, nothing of the kind has taken place
with respect to the making of apparel by female hands,
which could with so mach advantage be distributed,
and, as it were, decentralised. Goveroment has much
in its power in this respect, as fir as its contracts are
concerned. We have no doubt that the composition
of the population of great towns must be a subject of
serious consideration. Upon all other governments
save our own, it presses in a political peint of view.
With as, we may be thankful, it presses merely in a
question of morals and humanity.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TretsuaT, 6.30 P.M.
Though to-day was fixed for the debate on the ex-
cise, there was no greater than usu
alal in the
Assembly. The debate will leaf
some drae
time, but its result is certain ; there will be a majority
--small, indeed—in its favour, bat sufficient. To this
certainly may be attributed the apathy of the As-
sembly, although the names of Montatembert, Thiers,
Berryer, Leon -Faucher, and Bt hoist d'Arcy, as speak-
ers, might have been in themselves an incentive, but
the hour fixed in the ordre sles four had, as usual, long
passed before the debate began. Several members
made their appearance, bearing petitions against the
re-establishment of the tax, and their number, coming
as they did in succession, caused some hilarity in the
Assembly. It was destined however that the debate
should not then commence, for M. Baune ascended the
tribune to ask leave to put questions to the minister of
war on the subject of his circular to the gendarmerie.
Curious to relate, the Assembly granted leave to put
the questions at once, and M. Biome accordingly put
his questions, and accused the minister of assimilating
the officers of gendarmerie to policemen. M. d'Haut-
pool replied first of all that what he had done was
legal, and he acoepted the responsibility of it. He
had made we in his circular only of the expansions
which were inserted in the re:rotations of the gendar-
merie itself. He did not know who it was that had
betrayed his duty as an officer by giving a copy of a
000fidential circular; but public opinion would decide
between a minister fulfilling his 'awful du y and the
opposition which profits by a breech of confidence.
The act complained of, continued 11. clllautpoul, was
necessary, and he had written the circular because it
was his duty to take all the measures in his power to
counteract the machinations of a party that was con-
tinually conspiring and endeavouring to deceive
people by the moat hateful mean/.
Atter this very unsatisfactory explanation General
Cavaignac rose and said, that he blamed in every
sense the circular of the minister of war. It imposed
on the gendarmerie a system of spying into the acts
of public functionaries, which was improper as it was
illegal. There were other means, he contended, that
were consistent with the hierarchy of administration
to watch over the conduct of public functionaries.
M. Charms supported General Cavaignac, and cha-
racterised the circular as tending to anarchy in the
administration.
M. d'Hautponl replied very tartly to M. Charres,
that when he wanted advice he should certainly not
ask it from him. If public opinion had been consulted
the government of which he formed a part would
have cashiered all the functionaries appointed by
the provisional government. (Agitation.) They had
not done so, but they bad determined to find out
those wto did not do their duty, or who were in con-
spiracy. The close of the debate having been called
tor, the following ordre d e jour nest irl was put :
"The Legislative Assembly, considering that the cir-
cular of the minister of war is contrary to morality
and to the law, disapproves of it, and passes to the
order of the day.
The simple order of the day had a majority over
this motion, the numbers being 371 t against 220.
M. 0. Barret was at the Assembly to-day for the
first time since he had left office.
The council of state has inserted into the law on
education a clause by which the yrefet will have the
power to dismiss the teachers is primary schools.
This is in anticipation of the law which will render
there teachers immovable.
The banquet offered by the prefect of the Seine to
' the President of the Republic took pease yesterday,
at the Hotel-de-Ville. Covers were hid for 200 en
the grand salon, formerly called the S nu Trilise,
and which was magnificently decorated for the occa-
pioa. M. Berger, the prefect, in proposing the toast,
" f o the President of the Republic, to the elect of the
10th December," said :
This diy last ear Frame had to adopt one of three resolu-
tions which exercise ra peat an influence on the aestinies of
a nation, and are at the same time the proof of liberty.
Francs, free and mistress of her cctions, assembled. and,
Irma Ler forty thousand communes arose inutimeroole groups
of Moans. The result was that a name written at the same
boar by six millions of elector', unanimous without their
kn Arledge, was afterwards hailed with immense ,miamatim.
don after the whole country gave a fresh sate:ton to this
great act by forming the Assembly, the dignitaries of which
nom somata the first magistrate of the trouble. The
anion of these two peat power's, founded on respect to
the emanation, can alone maintain the calm which
me city of Paris now calm, and which causal its prosperity.
As mous at tne municip 1 body. I am happy to salute this
double representation of the national eoursignty, which is
animated moth by love for the polls willies sad an mar-
. e is dmire to preserve order and liberty. Frantic. Monsieur,
I sidentJas given you her unmeasured coutileurn ; you
1111•11tl raspowLd to it by ea anboaLded devotion. lio.seve
me, this great nation is neither forgetini our ungrateful. It
remembered on 10th Decembm a name which was is dory,
and which would Lewin its bops ; it will remember your

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