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feet, ertelt a sacked datiactioa between too etamere
paupers, sail become • rallying poitat fur iasarreetiva. It
fact, it is weedy assereesmey. As the Nada fur the nlief of
pauperises (Seeress', seder the operating of • iiitaiatabing
Inatissaas, the Gest la whom ~lief is echoed will be thrs
Plena sod the strong; in *titer words, the moat absurd sod
extravagant tonseyusotees of the peewit poor laws will br
the leaf cured.
Seth, then, is our coateptina of the Bill which ought to
be brought into Parliament; • mazimesaa, regulated by the
greatest amount of poor•rates ever paid, sod manually dimi.
shirring at the rate of tea shillings per cent. till they are re.
deiced 40 per rent. of their preterit value; with ouch a pre.
&agile to the Bill as will mike it fair and esissisteut for any
future Parliament to memoir the rednetioa. If Air. Scar-
let will bring in a short and simple Bill to this eff.et, asd
Inat etiolate with it nay whir p.roeltial itaprovemeuts, and
will persevere in smelt a Rill for two or three years, we be-
lieve be will every it; sad we are certain he will roofer, by
each a measure, a lasting benefit upon his eouutry—sod
upon arms Faure ties ape. its labouring poor.

AGRICULTuuIf.

REPORT FOR DECENIRRIL

COUNTY DUBLIN.

The wettest of the weather during the mend mouth
has greatly retarded she busiumis of the farmer in the Sold. •
There was a good deal of rain in November, partlealerly
towards the kiter end of the month; but from this Mecum-
stance of its h.eiog falters chiefly by might, it was the rause
of 11.1 material ineoiimmiebee, sod did not iistemeo
Pees. This mouth ilsexiiin fell by day as well as by nicht,
which circumstance oecasioord a suspension of some Impair- -
taut branches of the farmer's operations. Drawing dung
from Mediu, fur various purpows, by farmers residing
withia six or seven miles thereof, seems to have beea follow-
ed, notwithstanding the arisfavourablenesa of the weather
during the month, without any cessation or interrupt-km.
Then were some potatoes to dig in the beginoime of the
month, the must of which have, at intervals since, with
a good deal of iliffirulty, been gut out of the mound.—
Some trifling spot, yet remain undue, but those are chiefly
bad ones, which the persons who have the snisfurtaue to owe
them did not think worth soy extraordinary exertions. The
Scrods partially injured the undug potatoes in a few places,
but the loss is comparatively iretgai6eaut, inasmuch as
those uoly have been injured upon which !title value was set.
I. the greater part of the county of Dahlia, potatoes when
dug out are generally put into hovers, so that the wet could
not do such as were then secured say material injury.
Persons who put potatoes in pits or boles, should lake an
to autos* a proper dry sitsistioa, and cover thews op corm
fully; and if may loss be sustained by damage from the rods,
it must be in coneems. rice of neglect or ioatteution. •No
complaint., however, of the kind, worth notice, are made. •
There are some pieces of potato ground, comparatively
not very considerable, isieuded for wheat yet to be lows,
the most of which, it is hoped, will be done in time; the
latter end of December, and oat to the middle of January,
being cuusidered a good season, if there were fair weather,
fur sowing wheat, on good potato land. The frost in the
last week, which came very sessuuably, considerably dried up
and improved the ground, and although nil has sine*
fallen, we may, severtheless, hope for more frost sad dry
weather. The early semi wheals look well in must
cases. The constant hard rain seems to hose Soso some
injury to spots of *beat in low and cold aitersdoes epos
which the • water accumulated, fur want of water-ems
or drains to draw It off as qeickly as it fell; but
it Is sully en very small spots the waters rested, so as to de-
stroy it in foto, or injure it materially. Where there was
good deep shoveling, sod the ground properly prepared with
water cuts, so damage has been sustained by the • wheels
from the Goods. The rain washed off some part of the
towering of mime early wheat on light soda, where is warms'
deeply revered or well shovelled. Some of the Omuta, whom,
roots were 1 the top of the ground, have been stripped
sod laid bare. If all that has been stripped, however, sisonid
totally perish, it does nut seem likely that it would hove any
considerably injurious effect, inasmuch as • gollicitat stock
of plants would still remain behind.
Bad weather at ibis time of the year cause* be so Mamie'
as bad weather at other seasons. A vast deal more depends
upon the weather in summer and in the ha , this, at the
other sesame; so that it is somewhat too soon, perhaps, to
speculate upon the malt of the farmer, operations since
bertreet, as they regard toe neat crop. Mae, farmers this
month, teatime the bad weather, have hero busily eagogitd
breaking f• flows intended for wheat seat year; it is femed,
however, that a good deal of this branch of loboor most be
postponed until stammer, from the necessity there will be of
setting about the ploughing fur oats in the latter red of the
aezt month, or looser. Sumo laud intended few barley sad
drill potatoes, sod some lay ground fur potatoes, has bees
ploughed up; this br.ncb of work is still closely *Waded to,
fee a good deal 'remains, and cannot bear prialposseasiret.
Early winter ploughing Mrs always a good effect, as the frost
and snow, *brit they come, meliorate mad pulverise the
broken soil, destroy the weeds in the root, and add greatly
to the fertility of the land.
A few farmers have put le all their horses to feed sie hay
In she stable; some have not yet pat in say; some have pet
In their favourite or most valuable horses oely. There is
still great plenty of gram.
The alarming accounts from various distant parts of Ire.
laud, relative to destruction dupe by the rain and floods to
p/Malatc es, at. have revived the hopes of some speculators.
Nosy farmers bold over their potatoes, which they would
otherwise scud to sadist, i• expectation of venire them at
three a penny some other time. They will very probably be
disappointed, for it seems, although much rata has feller, mad
although the floods Lave risen, that great destructiuMbas not
been done, mud that notwithstanding the mifsvoiruble wet.
slier and the misruling aceouuti, ;Meaty of potatoes and other
food fur the pour of Ireland are to be bad. It may be here
remarked, that the priers of potatoes almost invariably bear
certain proportion to the prices of oats and wheat, which
articles, particularly the Is rrrrr are nut likely to advance cue-
eiderably in price.
It is well medreatcred by permits conversant with agricul-
ture, that the system of cultivation Reliantly foliuued *lre-
land is specially defective in many ports, and the, Ate, I.
great room for imprusenseat ; mut h of that is ice be attributed
to the limiest of absentee landlords, and to the back...eat
and tithe systems—much to obstinacy mid laminate. Foe
instance, solotitution of 021111 for horses I. pliseehieg, along
with the coltivatio• of cabbage, turnips, de. after a rem
manner, would add considerably to the Mil reeourees le
various ways—ia the increase of beef, corn, de. and meet
Some farmers destroy themselves by keeping a parcel of
*trans of horses through the year kalf-kno, perishing some.
times fur weal of work, as well as for want of feed. le ten,
or, at the moll, In every thirteen or fourteen years, oe an
overage, it may be said that our rector gorrono is succeeded
by smother; when they die their bodies are of little use, ex-
cept fur dogs and searmerowl. If oxen were substitimed for
horses it' ploughing, there would be eir destruct hasher, mime
menihilation, of this hied; the oxen, in almost all cases, would
die by the butcher's knife, sad they would serve the farmer
and the public by their death, as well as by their nsefoluene
during their lives.
Doessabor 31, 11111.