The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-03 00:00:00

WILTSHIRE.

LANDLORDS AND FARMERS.—The Hon. Sidney
Herbert, M.P., has agreed to advance to his tenants money
on interest (after the plan of Sir R. Peel), to enable them to
improve their farms by way of drainage. He allows them
also to destroy a great portion of the game. This example
he is setting in Weahford, South Newton, and Chilhampton,
where he is also improving the habitations of the labourers—
not before it was wanted—the old cottages being a disgrace
to the county, they being only worthy of the name of hovels.
The new cottages are about 50 yards from the turn-
pike roadside, so as to allow of good gardens in
front. Two cottages are built together, each cottage having
three good bedrooms, two down-stairs rooms, with a wash-
house ; there is an extra building fitted ur as a bakehouse,
with an excellent oven, which is to serve two families ; there
ie also every otter convenience, with good water supplied from
pumps. The gardens are more than a quarter of an acre in
size, besides a considerable piece of land at the back of each
dwelling. The plan seems to be similar to that adopted by
C. B. Wall, Esq., of Norman Court, at East and West
Titherly, and Broughton. Besides this desire to improve the
condition of the agricultural labourers on the Pembroke
estates, the hon. gentleman is adding to the number of allot-
ments at Wilton, where that plan has been found to work
so well; he is also increasing the number of labourers in
Wilton Park; there are now more than 60 hands con-
stantly employed, and all of them in receipt of wages from 10s.
to 14e. per week. This, at a season like the present, and
when the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway works
are completely stopped, is of great benefit to the poor around.
Mr. Herbert has also a model farm near Wilton Park, called
the Hare Warren, after the plan of the Rev. Mr. Iluxtable,
of Sutton Waldron, near Shaftesbury.

GLOUCEBTER.SII IRE.
MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS. —The late Robert Suple,
Esq., of Clifton, has, by his will, bequeathed the following
sums to the under-mentioned charities of Bristol city ..—To
the Asylum for poor Orphan Girls, at Hook's Mills, 1,0001 ;
to the Bristol Infirmary (for general purposes), 500/. ; to the
Bristol Infirmary—to be invested, and the dividends to be
applied towards providing a fund for the bestowment by the
committee of two annual prizes to medical students to be
educated at that institution, for the encouragement of medi-
cal and surgical science, 1,0001. ; to the Bristol Tabernacle
(for general purposes), 3001. ; to the managers of the Bristol
Tabernacle—to be invested, and the dividends thereof to be
applied yearly for ever, in the purchase of meat and bread
to be distributed to poor men, women, and children,
being members or regular attendants at divine worship at the
tabernacle aforesaid, at Christmas and Lady-day, 1,0001. ' • to
the Bristol General Hospital, in Guinea-street, 2501.; to the
Bristol Female Misericordia Society, 250/. ; to the Bristol
Penitentiary, in Magdalen-lane, 2501.; to the Bristol Friend-
in-need Society, 2501.: to the Bristol Refuge Society, in
Lower Castle-street, 2561. • to the Bristol Strangers' Friend
Society, 2501. ; to the National Benevolent Institution for
the Bristol District, b 001.: total 8,2001. The late Thomas
Caddick, Esq., of Tewkesbury, has left to the Baptist Col-
lege, Stoke's-creft, Bristol, 1,0001. in the Three per Cent.
Consols, and 5001. to the Bristol School of Industry for the
Blind. The deceased, who was most liberal in his charities
during his lifetime, has also bequeathed considerable amounts
to institutions in the county of Gloucester.