The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-11 00:00:00

dered to be reprinted together with the amendments
made by the Lords, in order that till. whole matter
might be placed before the House in a connected form.
The Noble and Learned Lord then gave notice that he
should move on Tuesday that the reasons of the Com-
mons be taken into consideration.

The orders of the day on the paper were then dis-
posed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past
Nine o'clock.

THE HUSBANDMAN OUGHT TO
BE STRONGER THAN THE FARM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,-My attention has been drawn to an advertise-
ment for letting two farms, which has appeared in the
public journals from Mr. Herbert Prickett, land and es-
tate agent, Chancery-lane, addressed to tenant farmers,
whieh fully bears out the heading of this article, and is
conformable to the system adopted by that celebrated
farmer Mr. Coke, the late Earl of Leicester. Mr
Pricket says--'Application to be made, in the first in-
stance, by letter from principals only, stating the system
of agriculture intended to be observed in the cultivation,
stecking, and management of the farm, and the amount
of capital per acre the applicant has at his command for
that object." Now, when a tenant went to Holkham, to
ask for a farm of 1,000 acres, Mr. Coke's first question
was, how much capital ho had without borrowing to
manage that quantity of land: if the tenant said 5,000/.,
"then (said the Earl) you shall have 500 instead of
1,000 acres; and as soon as you can raise 10 000/. or
104 per acre, you shall have the 1,000 acres; for, no Man
ought to take a farm unless he has 10/. per acre to feed
plenty of fine oxen and sheep by artificial means in the
winter season, and to eat his clover in the summer."
The Earl's lands being farmed upon the four-course
system, half the farm was always in clover and turnips ;
and upon a highly managed farm, where a great deal of
the corn grown upon it is converted into beef and mut-
ton, or oil cake bought to feed the cattle, &c., in lieu of
corn, any farmer may make his own guano upon the
farm, and thereby avoid adulteration in that ar&cle.
A person to keep his cattle and corn to the best
advantage, and to buy his cattle at the cheapest rate,
requires 101. per acre to start with, to " make the tenant
stronger than his farm ;" and this is the sort of tenant
Mr. Prickett seems justly to require for his employer.
Ho has evidently borrowed a leaf out of the Earl of
Leicester's book. The celebrated Mr. Bakewell, of
Dishley, the founder of the Leicester sheep, said in his
day, that half the land in England was not half farmed
from the want of the means to farm it, because there
was not half labour enough upon it ; and the beasts,
sheep, and horses bred upon it were of the worst kind,
because they cost the least in. "No man," said Mr. 8.,
"ought to breed inferior beasts, sheep, and horses, for
they eat as much as the best kinds." To farm land,
therefore, as it ought to be, and to stock it as it ought to
be with superior kinds of animals, requires a good
capital, or the tenant cannot farm it to the best ad-
vantage.
There are many tenants now inquiring for farms who
have not above one-third sufficient property to farm
and stock them as they ought to be; and such men aro a
nuisance upon any Lord's domain. I know a tenant now
who is looking out for a farm of 200 acres with a capital
only sufficient to manage 50 acres indifferently. Would
not such a tenant be a clog upon an estate? Let noble-
men's stewards guard against such men. In 20 years
following 1815, a Noble Lord not 100 miles from Oundle
sold three sets of tenants up in one village; the prin-
cipal part of them never had half capital and ingenuity
enough to manage the land. The Noble Lord was of
course blamed by many people for selling his needy
tenants up, but the fault was not with him. These needy
tenants were let into their farms by the blindness of the
steward: he required a high rent; they took it, because
the rent was not an object to them; they only wanted
possession; and good tenants were rejected who did not
come up to his mark. It is true, the steward had his
remedy against the men of straw by a distress for rent;
he came-in first, and swept all away—cattle, corn, goods,
&c.—and the butcher, grocer, draper, shoemaker, black-
smith, and others had only the body of the tenant to sa-
tisfy their claims!
I conceive any steward to act unjustly by taking such
tenants in preference to men of property who offer a
little less rent per acre. The covetous system of letting
lands to pretenders is the entire cause of so much land
in England being in such a disgraceful and wretched
state. The aristocracy of England must arouse them-
selves from their lethargy, and look a little more after
their own business and interest, or procure stewards
who will take better care of their estates, and weigh
their tenants before they enter, as the Earl of Leicester
did. If they adopted the policy of Mr. Prickett in let-
ting farms, a great part of England would be farmed and
stocked very differently to what it is now. Were noble-
men to remunerate and handsomely reward the diligent
and severely reprimand the slovenly and slothful
tenant, and take some of the land from the
weak and let it to the strong tenants, who have
money sufficient to manage it, a great service would be
rendered, not only to themselves as the owners of the
soil, but to the community at large, by employing the
agricultural labourers, instead of keeping them out of
the poor-rates in idleness. From the want of money
and labour, more than one-third of Great Britain and
Ireland is a wilderness.
It has been pub:icly asserted, that the late Earl of
Leicester, before a tenant entered upon one of his farms,
insisted upon his paying 10/. per acre into the hands of
the Earl's banker, to prove that he was worth the money
he stated himself to be possessed of. This, of course,
placed the Earl upon a very safe and sound footing, and
is the cause of the Noble Earl's estates being so ex-
cessively improved in value by the best of farming.
Banbury, August 4, 1848. SAMUEL ARNSBY.

THE GERMAN HOSPITAL. DALSTON.—The an-
milli general meeting of the governors of the above
hospital was held yesterday at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street. His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge was in the chair, supported by his Excel-
lency Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister,
B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., and many other friends of
the institution. The report of the house committee,
read by Dr. Sieveking, stated that the amount collected
at' the anniversary dinner and the fancy fair proved how
high the institution stood in public favour. In conse-
quence of the resignation of Dr. Freund, arising out of
differences with the committee, a new directing phy-
sician had to be appointed, and the vacancy had been
filled by Dr. Swaine. Amongst the new subscribers to
the hospital were his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Constantine, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, and the
Grand Duke of Nassau. The number of in-patients
during the year had been 467, and the out-patients
1,918, making a total of 2,385. The year's receipts
amounted to 4,1001. 14s. ld., and the expenditure 2,3721.
Is. 7d. On the motion of Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., se-
conded by Mr. Twining, the report was adopted, after
which votes of thanks were passed to the several officers of
the institution for their past services, and those for tho
ensuing year elected. The rules of the hospital were
then read through by Mr. Gaedechens, and some slight
alterations made. The business concluded with a vote
of thanks to his Royal Highness for presiding.
MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN.—ROMEORD7 THURS..
DAY.—A dreadful case of double murder has occurred
at Thurrock, a village a few miles to the south of this
town, and has occasioned a painful degree of excite-
ment throughout this part of Essex. The perpetrator
of the crime is the wife of a person named Grant, who
belongs to the better class of agricultural labourers.
Yesterday morning early, the husband being from home,
the wife, without any assignable cause, proceeded to
carry out the purpose which she appears to have deli-
berately planned, of murdering the whole of the chil-
dren. She left her bed, and armed herself with a
chopper, or hedge-bill, used by labourers for cutting
wood. With this she returned to the chamber, and
beginning with the youngest, a girl between two
and three years old, laid its neck across the edge
of the bedstead and chopped it till the head was
almost severed from the body. She then attacked the
next, a boy between four and five years of age, in the
same way, ID flicti^g dreadful gashes on the back of the
neck; but while she was thus engaged, the eldest boy,
about eight years of age, escaped from the house, and
informed the neighbours, a number of whom rushed to
the house, but too late to save either of the two children.
The mother was standing over them reeking with blood,
and still chopping at them with the bill. She was seized
and disarmed, and at orce declared she had murdered
the two children, and intended to have murdered the
third, if he had not escaped. The only reason she gives
for the horrid deed is, that the children were so unruly
she could do nothing with them. After she was taken
she betrayed some wildness of manner; but the neigh-
mind. She has been committed on the coroner's war-
boors state Oast they never coushlerod her of unsound
rant to the Essex county gaol.
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with a view to insure
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the safety of the public, issued the following instruc-
tions to the guards employed on the southern division
of the line :—.‘ Owing to the appointment of
, perfectly competent to the
schargeeral new
of engines, n
ellgeingeirrnnbuet unacquainted with this line of
railway, the upper-guard of the passenger trains
on the southern division will, until further orders, ride
on the foot-plate of the engine, to assist the engine-
driver and fireman in keeping a look out for the signals,
to inform the driver as he approaches the new laid por-
tions of the line, and where the regulations of the cam_
pally require the opening of the whistle, as also to make
him acquainted with the different gradients as the engine
enters upon them. The guard s are enjoined to be
watchful and attentive in the performance of this duty, and
to apprise the driver the instant the signals come
into
sight, as also to acquaint him when within a mile of the
stations, and remind him whether the train is timed to
sa theto pp
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thecedh charge of under-guard is to ride in
rideof thein ptahrec e ls,
leadingile
van of each train, to assist at the stations • giving in
down and taking up luggage ; as also to
keep a constant look out forward towards the en-
gine, and the instant the guard upon the engine signals
with his hand to have the break applied he is to do so
immediately, still keeping his eye upon the guard when
to slacken or release it altogether. The guard upon the
engine is on the instant he perceives the red signal to
signal the porter in the leading van with his hand to
apply the break, and by the motion of his hand let this,
man know when to slacken or release the break alt-o-
gether."

CGURT OF ALDERMEN.—After the Common Hall
was dissolved a Court of Aldermen was held, at which
the result of the shrievalty was declared. The City
Solicitor gave in the following certificate:—." I have to
certify, that in pursuance of the direction of the Court,
I made application to Mr. J. R. Mills for payment of 6001.
the amount of the fine imposed by the bye-law of the
Court for omitting to give bond to take upon himself
the office of sheriff, and in consequence of such applica-
tion I yesterday received the amount, which I shall pay
into the hands of the Chamberlain to the account of the
City's cash." The Court, after granting several free-
doms, adjourned.