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London, England, 1847-07-14 00:00:00

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feeders had got little profit last year, and no labour
would be well done if not well paid. lie had no doubt
that there were people at the market willing to buy all
the sheep that were offered, but the sellers should
show a little forbearance, for buyers must have some
remuneration. There was no place he -visited with
greater pleasure than Inverness; no class he better liked
to meet than the friends he met there—in .all but bar-
gain-making.—(Laughter.)
Mr. P. SELLAR, Morvich, proposed the :next toast.
Fifty years ago people in this part of the country made
their wills before they undertook a journey to London,
but the railways would soon enable people to make the
journey in a few hours. Britain had indeed ar,tived at a
new era. The employment which the railway s afforded
had been productive of much good.l§lnstead of living on
a little oatmeal, thousands of labourers were able to con-

PRICE SD.

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some mutton, and any one of them would eat as much as
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The CHAIRMAN gave " The Commission Agents, and
owtl:rionfvoisrmitatthioennfaHrkeedt
icdlonroist akngorweat
whatdea
Mr. Hyslop and Mr. G. Mackenzie."—(Applaoe.)
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Mr. IIYSLOP, Liverpool, returned thanks.
Mr. PATERSON, Skinnet, said, the commission agents
procure us smearing materials; and bring us a good deal
Butter was high, and when a large quantity was to be got
there was nothing but salt and trash. Tallow was also at
a great price. For two or three years past he had used
deal of
fdgoc);:rhimTsheelyf.
half butter and half grease, and his wool was as weighty,
and his sheep as good as ever. If they were to pay 503.
or 525. for their butter, he would advise his brother
farmers to try the mixture he recommended. There was
a secret, perhaps, in its success. The manufacturers
may have led us on to the ice; but he had no doubt it
would be good enough for this year at least. Others may
have tried it, and can report what they have expe.
rienced. Butter, entire, however, he thought the best
thing yet.
Mr. MACCASBILL, Skye, said it was due to Mr. Taylor
to state that he had used three tons of his salve, and his
wool was of as good colour and quality and as weighty
as before.

The CHAIRMAN proposed the "Breeders .of Sheep,
coupled with the name of Mr. Reed, dordonbash," who
1441- Ql;te 4142040 aheep-farmitig in the
morth,-mn-11-ourtheiisidt merited success which had at-
tended his efforts, no one could be more fitly held up as
an escouragement.—(Applause.)
Mr. REED returned thanks. It was now more than
fifty years since he commenced sheep-farming in the
north, and he had noticed a continued advance ever since.
The CHAIRMAN called for a special bumper. lie saw
that the numbers were thinning, and before any more
left, he would propose a toast, in doing which he would
have very great pleasure. The Duke of Sutherland
was the largest proprietor of land in the north ; and
as a man he possessed all the virtues that adorn our
nature. He was well known and loved for his amiable
qualities, the generosity of his nature, and his solicitude
for the promotion of the prosperity of his tenantry, as
well as the country generally. He felt that he had no
need to enlarge upon his Grace's character; and he would
at once request them to pledge " The Duke of Suther-
land, the noble head of the landed proprietors of the
north."—(Great cheering.)
The room now rapidly thinned; and after a few more
toasts, the Chairman vacated his seat.
Ordinaries also took place in the New Royal Hotel
(Mrs. Macdonald's), and in the Commercial Hotel (Mrs.
Napier's). The attendance was large and respectable;
and, as usual, the viands were first-rate.
On Saturday, Mr. Horne, of Langwell, presided at
the ordinary. The attendance was not numerous, many
of the dealers having left town; but the meeting was
rendered interesting by the open sale of wool at the
table, and conversation on rural subjects.

THE COUNTRY PARTY.
(From the Nottingham Mercury.)
We hear nothing from the " Country Party" abou
" protection to native industry," in reference to the
overwhelming load of local taxation which presses upon
the inhabitants of this town and the adjacent manufac-
turing villages, in consequence of the awful depression
of the home trade of the country, arising from the ex-
traordinary high price of provisions, by which they alone
are benefited. Oh no! not a word of it! " _Protection
to native industry" does not, it would appear, compre-
hend these objects.
The small parish of St. Nicholas, in this town, con-
taining 1,160 houses, principally occupied by working
people and small tradesmen, and without any land
attached to it, we have shown in a preceding article,
paid, on an average of two years there given, 2,600/,
per annum to the rates legally levied for the re-
lief of the poor ; whilst ten parishes in the county of
Nottingham, containing together 22,000 acres of land,
and 913 houses, owned and inhabited by noblemen,
gentlemen, beneficed clergymen, and capital agricultu.
rists and their dependents, paid to the same fund, on an
average of several years, no more than 1,0681. a year.
Why is not the cry of " Protection to native industry"
raised here ? Can the Country Party in Nottingham-
shire be really hotieq in tlAr px9fessions, whiles. they
low such an anomalous sta.M or.things as this to exist
atilt the natives of the district of which they, le)9 are
natives and denizens, and not exert themselvett,74abate
he evil ?
Two thousand six hundred pounds a yearZegally
rung from the hard hand of industry, in one small
parish in the county town, to be devoted to the relief
of the aged and necessitouz, poor; whilst only little:
more than one thousand pounds was demanded from
tha
pose; and yet no clamour is raised by the Country
Party in Nottinghamshire for " protection to native
industry." That such a feeling would be perfectly
legitimate and proper on their part, and ought to be
excited and encouraged in the bosoms of all honest
men among us, must, we think, be unhesitatingly
acknowledged: unless it can be clearly shown that the
lace and stocking makers, and their employers, in the
parish of St. Nicholas, have some peculiar stake in
the property of• the country; and have, during the
last half century, derived some extraordinary advan-
tages from the extension of trade and commerce, and
manufactures, which the proprietary of the lauds, and
woods, and quarries, and mines of the county, have
not. But can this be shown to be the case ? We
challenge the proof ! Yet the occupiers of the 1,160
houses in the parish of Saint Nicholas, poor as thou-
sands of the population are, paid 150 per cent. more
poor-rate during the period in question, than did the
occupiers of the 943 houses in the parishes referred
to, wealthy though many of them are, with their
22,000 acres of land added to them. Surely protection
for native industry is wanted here if anywhere ! But
the case of virtual exemption from the burden of poor-
rate by the management of the proprietors of some of
the parishes which we have instanced, does not com-
prehend the whole of the legal iniquity of our paro-
chial system, nor exhibit in its greatest deformity
that robbery which is perpetrated upon the property
of the industrial classes, through the medium of local
taxation for the relief and maintenance of the poor. It
is not sufficient that the proprietary of an extensive
rural district may combine together to constitute their
estates one huge game preserve, before which the fruits
of the husbandman's toil disappear, and the subsistence
of the community is withered as by a perennial
blight—neither is it sufficient for the legal aggrandise-
ment of wealth among that class that they have power
to eject the labouring population from among them, and
compel them with their families to add to the stock of
native destitution in large towns and open villages,
but the law actually grants an immunity of exemption-
under the title of " extra-parochial," to certain valuable
properties in every district of the country, frows
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officer liability to be called upon by the fiscal to contri-
bute to the support or relief of the aged, the infirm, or
destitute of the locality.
Thus, whilst hundreds of poor working
aaoinigmmeneinfaervethrye
extensive district, whose average tow
not
exceed ten
or twelve shillings a w
maintenance of their families,
a s
doesre subjected to an,
braveoppressive taxation for theeach,
relief
the maintenanance of the e
agede of h
and tinfiermdegt; and
dte
b tutnot nnfrequently their little homes broken up, and
even the bed sold from under them, to discharge the
legal demand of the parochial authority,—the law pro.
that the Duke of Portland, for the splentlid estate
eolfa"Aarealbeck, and the adjoining property of Woodhouse.
comprisinf together two thousand six hundred
acres of land, with five farming establishments, shall not
be compulsorily liable to the extent of a single farthing
for this social object.
The dwellings of a hundred industrious stocking..
makers in the manufacturing villages round Nottini.g-
ham are not worth so much by a great deal as
tate
stables and dog-kennels, and other appendages there-
with connected, at Welbeck Abbey. Yet these peer
men, out of their scanty earnings, besides providing
for the maintenance of their own families, shall be
compelled, by the power of the law, to contribute an
aggregate sum of forty to fifty pounds a year to a fu ad
for the support of the aged, and infirm, and destitute
among the labouring population around them. Yen,
even the desolate widow of fifty-five or sixty
years of age, who earns a scanty morsel of food and
a homely garment for herself by severe drudtr:
early and late, we ourselves have knownt9
pelled to pay poor-rates for a cottage belonging u
to
the Duke of Portland himself, under threat of a warrant
of distress being put into her house to enforce payment
of the same. Yet his Grace
comprising two thousand six,the owner
hundred of a fine estate
acres of land, with
a noble mansion, one of the glories of the county, mag-
nificent gardens, hunting establishment, keepers, houses,
and farmsteads of the most valuable character,
scale.
is not re-
quired to pay poor rate, even on
may have the
themaost minimum
The industrious poor man comforts of
his family curtailed to answer the demands of the
parochial fiscal,—the widow and the or phan may have
their scant morsel diminished in order that a sufficie4nt
sum may be raised to pay the salaries of parochial or
union officials, or that a morsel may be provided for fel-
low beings even still more wretched than themselves,—
but the wealthy Peer may remain scathlesz amidst all this
scorching blight of local taxation.
Verily, " protection to native industry" is needed
and we commend cases like this to the immediate con-
sideration of the Country Party, Whose energies we
shall be delighted to see directed to the abatement of so
crying an evil.

RUSSIAN CoIN.—A parcel of coin has arrived it
the Mint from Russia, sent by the Russian Government
for the authorities of that place to ascertain, by sopara-
tion and analysation, the relative quantities of the
valuable metals which it it supposed to oontlaY.