The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-19 00:00:00

IRISH AND SCOTCH AGRICULTURAL
STAZIS7ICS.

A return published on Tuesday shows that last year
there were under crops in Ireland the following quantities
of land, namely - 529,363 acres of what, 2,036,181 of oats,
218,503 acres of barley, here, rye, beans, and peas; 1,114,390
of potatoes, 354,362 of turnips, 99,873 of other green crops,
106.286 of flax, and 1,303,983 acres of meadow and clover.
' The cereal crops exhibit a decrease between 1855 and
1866, of 48.517 acres, but on wheat alone there is an
increase of 83,388 acres. The green crops exhibit
an increase of 134,435 acres, and the total net increase in
the extent of land tinder crops, is 64 845 acres. The quan-
tify of live stock in Ireland last year was as follows, namely :
—573,i:6 horses, 3,584,723 cattle, 3,688,143 sheep, and
915,933, pig,z. There is an increase •under every
.head
except pigs, which have decreased materially.
The totally value of the live stock in 1856 is
estimated at £33,088 701,
£4,553,902 as compared w } being a n increase
1852.
The
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horses
are f
valved at £8 each, cattle at £6 103, sheep at £1 2s, and
pigs at £1 53 each. The report on Sea
_.
agricultural
statistic, just out, shows that in 1856 the tonal area of
land under crops was 3,545,191 acres, being an incres.:e of
about 15,000 sores over the year 1855. 1,411,2321 acre.:
were under cereal crops, 263,328 wheat, 149,3512 under
poLafOCS, 460,131 under turnips, and 29 795 acres under
other gsesu crops ; 2 723 j, under flax, and 1,475,775 under
g 7 a5l and hay. The area of Ireland is 20,811,774 statute
acres, and that of Scotland nearly the same, or 20,047,462
acres, but the former eountry has 5,755,681 acres under
crops, and the latter only 3,545,191 acres. In _Scotland
the live stock last year consisted of 179,904 horses,
967.311 cattle, 5,822,478 sheeV, and 126,914 pigs, there
being an increase of horses and sheep, and a
decrease of elate and pigs. The entire number of
occupants of those farms in Scotland which contained the
crops and stock above given was only 42,913, whereas in
Ireland the number of occupants and holders from which
the statistics are collected is upwards of 600,000; and the
returns include the crops and stock of every occupier and
stockholder in Ireland. The number of Scotch occupants;
whose acreage and stock were omitted from the last
returns, is slid to have been 42,229 in 1854—having,
then among them 29,008 horses, 129,469 cattle, 149,432.•
sheep, and 26,398 pigs. It would accordingly appear that
the entire number of land and stock holders is 600,000 in'
Ireland and 85,148 in Scotland. The importance of de s'
stroying weeds in Ireland is again adverted to.

The following appeared in our Second Edition of
yesterday :
THE COALITION LEADERS AND VIE BITDGEr

The Times says, Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone started
this session with an immense desire to do something
nota •le, and to constitute themselves the principal per-
sonages of the House, but the occasion was denied them.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the most barbarous
disrespect for the feelings of his antagonists. gave up the
war 91. without letting it be fought for. Then, as there
was nothing to be done for tho present year it only
remained to have a battle about the year after, and the
year 1860. First, the cry was—you are not going to keep
on the war income tax are you ? The next cry was—you
cannot do without the war income tax can you? The two
right hon. gentlemen do not know what to be at, and will
neither have one thing nor the other—neither a full
exchequer nor a low one.