The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

LORD YARBOROUGH ON THE PROTEC-

TIONIST MOVEMENT.

Prom the Eastern Counties Herald.]
We have received the following copy of a letter,
addressee by the Earl of Yarborough to A. B nietioreu,
Req., in reference to the wooly aesetiai &boot to be belt at
Lincoln :

" B7oUldesby, Jan. 14, 1860.—Dear Boucherett,—Your
letter, enclosing copies of the resolutions and address to the
Queen, which are about to be proposed at the county
meeting on the 25th instant, only reached me late on Friday
evening,
" It was my intention to have been present at Lincoln,
but, on considering that from the large attendance of per-
sons advocating various and conflicting opinions on so com-
prehensive a subject as the terms of the requisition offer for
discussion, 1 soot find considerable difficulty in explaining
my reasons for not signing the requisition, I determined four
or five days since not to attend.
" I was asked by tdrcular to sign a requisition to the high
sheriff to convene a meeting' to take into conaicsration the
present depressed state of the agricultural and oth-r branches
of active iadenry.' I felt I could not do this, because I sat
Sally persuaded that the good state of trade in oar manatee-
tariag districts, and coasrqusat general employment of Bri-
tish animas, directly contradict such a statement.
" If the requisition had been to take into consideration
the present depressed state of the farmers and others em-
ployed in coanexioa with agriculture, I would have signed
the requisition, with a view of showing to parliament that,
is the avast of a remission of taxona being proposed next
year, these parties connected with the cultivation of the land
expect their application for relief will be osealdervid.
As you state in your letter that hopes are widely enter-
tained that the resolutions and address which you sent me
nay meet with my approbation, I will freak!, but shortly
state my reasons for not supporting them.
" I believe that those who entourage the !amen to ex-
pect relief front the re-impositiou of protective duties are
only deceiving themselves and others. I am satisfied that
the attempt to reimpose a dety on foreign corn far protec-
tion, which, to produce the desired effect, must be of each an
amount as to be at times actually prohibitive to its introduc-
tion, can only end in failure, after isoavedsing the country
with agitation, and sowing the mods of bitter animosity be-
tween the earldom industrial daises et the kingdom.
" Such • state of things I am not disposed to be Matra-
mental in promoting. 1 would radar advise that the ex-
periment of free trade, which portlanseat deliberately
determined to adopt partially, Mould have a further trial;
and see the effect under ordinary seasons' and in the
absence of those dreadful revolutions which have obliged
foreigners to send corn to this country to be sold at • lon to
the importer; and in the mean tame to encourage these
farmers with whom I am connected to expect that, if it
should appear that those who cultivate their farms judi-
ciously cannot, from the peculiarity of soil or climate,
raise such an increased quantity of produce per acre as
will compensate them for a less pries than they have
been accustomed to obtain, I would reconsider their
engagements with me as their landlord. I remember
when some of the mat intelligeat and aucoseafid
(anemia this toasty declared that lead mast go out of cul-
tivation lithe pries of whom was below 130 s. per quarter;
and I believe that farmers an still living who used to my
that unless wheat wee sold for 80a. per quarter the could
not obtain a reasonable return for their outlay. It is noto-
rious that no each prices would be insiolsd on now by any
racial apricultariots.