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by putting on the land; for of this I am convinced, that
if you behave liberally and handsomely to the land she
will return a liberal and haurlsome interest,. Those men

who have the courage to avow and totivitr.oi sovtliotvs•e—r
tthhoesier
any-Lent
prejudices, and who possess minds sufficiently to
induce them to adopt all known inspro
men, I to lieve, will live to see the day when those mea-
sures will confer the greatest benefit upon themselves
and the country, and they will arrive at a pitch of
prosperity hitherto unknown. They will find that which
they have hitherto been disposed to depend upon is most
fallacious ; they will find that it robbed them of one
half the energy which, as Englishmen of intelligence,
they ought to possess e they will find that they have
hitherto been ignorant of what they themselves are
capable of doing, and of what the soil of Ens:land is
capable of producing ; they will find themselves as ig-
norant in those reseects as a man who, having been ac-
customed to go upon crutches all his life, is of what he
could do if the use of his limbs were restored to him ;
they will find that what is commonly called " high
farming" is the course which they must. in future pur-
sue ; that they must not fear liberally to use the great
advantages of farming with sheep and artificial manures,
which last I look upon as a positive gift of Providence ;
irbove all, they will find it necessary to increase their
quantity of live stock ; they will find it necessary to
have such crops of turnips that they may still continue
to keep as large an amount el sheep as they now do,
and still las atria to carry a third, or a f unit, of the
crop to the yard to fatten bullocks, and thereby make
such an increase in the quantity and quality of
the dung as shall repay them.—Uttar, hear.)
I believe it is more for the advantage of all of us
to grow four quarttrs an acre at forty shillings, than
three at fifty shillings. So, with regard to meat ; I
should wish to see so great a quantify of meat raised in
this country that the farmers could afford to sell it at
two-thirds of the prices it is now fetching. What
would be the consequence of that ? Why, that those
' who now eat meat once or twice a week at the utmost
would eat it two or three times a week, and thus, as re-
gards the producer, the increased consumption would
more than equal the diminution in price. Now, with
respect to the manufacturers, I believe that this measure
will prove most beneficial to them, and I am firmly con-
vinced, from the sympathy which exists between the ma-
nufacturing and the agricultural interest, that, whatever
is advantageous to, and conduces to the prosperity of,
the manufacturer, must conduce to the interest of the
agriculturist. One great cause of the prosperity of the
manufacturer was this—notwithstanding he has had
taxes of all sorts to contend with, and also a high tax
on the raw mat, rials wh:ch he manufactured, he has
proved himself superior to all the other manufac urers
of the world, and has competed with and beaten all the
world ; he has employed his capital liberally and ski!
fully. On all occasions he has adopted the new improve-
ments in mechanics, and invariably profitei by the
advantages which science, in its various branches, could
confer upon him. And I would venture to hold
out the same inducement to you, and say, the judicious
and liberal employment of capital 'will enable you, as it
has enabled the manufacturer of this country, to cempote
—and that successfully—with the wide world. Many of
you, no doubt, have been surprised, after hearing me
address you not long ago at the meeting of St. Albari's
on the subject of the corn-laws—you must have been
surprised, I say, to hear me express the sentiments I
have just uttered.—(Hear.) Gentlemen, I own—and I
do so with ri feeling somewhat akin to shame—that the
sentiments I then expressed were adopted by me at the
time when Providence first cast me among you, previous
to which period I took but little interest in this subject.
I found myself cast among those whose lot was fixed to
the soil, and whose whale interest and prosperity were
dependent on the soil. and at a moment when the subject
of the corn-laws first became most interesting. With that
facility which most people are too apt to show in adopt-
ing opinions that apparently favour their own interests,
I adopted the opireens of those among horn I was
classed, and I tithe shame to myself when I say that I
did so without duly inquiring and fairly considering the
subject. I continued to maintain those opinions until I
saw that the questisn was coining to a crisis, and then I
found, after deep consideration and strict inquiry, that
those opiaions were erroneous. I saw that the crisis
would shortly arrive, when, in the House of Lords,l
should be called upon to give a vote upon this question,
and I then felt that my pre conceived opinions, however
honest they might have been, were not sufficient
grounds on whish to give a vote cn this deeply
impertant subject. I felt that as a Mernter of th-e
House of Lords, I was bound to reconsider the quss-
tion—as an honest man to give an unbiassed vote, and
therefore, to devote the same attention and give the
same good consideration tit every argument and state-
ment made on ene side of the question as, I am ashamed
to say, I had hitherto given ouly to those on the other.
The result was, that I came to the conclusion that the
fears which are entertained on this suejeet will prove
erroneous. I have already stated that I believe the
new measure will be productive of great good. When
I consider the progressive state of the population of this
country—a population increasing a thousand souls a
day—l cannot believe that the farming of this country,
however much it has improved, can possibly keep pace
with the increase of the population. When you con-
sider that the first want of all people is a sufficiency
of food, I think you will allow that the measure is jus-
tified by the circumstances of the times; and I would
have you take my word for it, that the employment of
capital and the exercise of skill will not be injurious,
but will produce this effect—that both the employed
and the employer will be ultimately more happy and
prosperous. I beg, in conclusion, asuin to propose
" Long success and prosperity to the Watford Farmers'
Club."
H. CLUTTER/117CE, EA., proposed the " Health of the
Earl of Essex," which was drunk with hearty cheers.
The Earl of EssEx returned thanks.
S. NIAJORIBANKS proposed the health of' Mr. Clutter-
buck, which was drunk with cheers, told suitably re-
sponded ti).
N. lIIBDERT, Esq., differed with his Noble Friend
(the chairman) in the view he had taken of the corn-law
question. He was not disposed to take the most gloomy
view of the effects of the Government measures, but he
thought that they had been introduced with a rapidity
and precocity which would occasion extreme difficulty to
those whose capital was engaged in agriculture. "I, for
ono (continued Mr. stibbert) will not despond, for I
think that when these measures shall have been fully
brought into operation, at the end of that time, either
by the increased demand which will arise in consequence
of these measures—a(' Hear, be.ir,' from Lord Essex)
—or in consequence of the increased facilities which
will be given to some of the operations of farming; or.
perhaps, in consequence of all of us corning down in some
of our demands—Jiver, hear)—agriculture may, at the
end of that period, be as progressive as it is at present."
After a few other speeches and toasts,
The Earl of ESSEX proposed " The health of the
Tenant Farmers," advising them to keep their courace
up, and assuring them that, in the end, " they would be
more prosperous and better farmers than they had
hi.hert been.
The company then separated.—Hertford Mercury.

MEDICAL REFORM.
On Saturday evening a large meeting of the general
committee of associated surgeons was held at the Fr.- e-
was especially convened
tadvisable to be adopted at
innhaesdip)enriejsb:ieari'arlatvteeeornnoin.unc' the
it'huer s(7tAiies ting
furtherance of medical reform.
Mr. BoTToatuY, surgeon of Croydon, and president
of the committee, took the chair ex-officio.
Mr. OTTLEY, the secretary, announced that Dr. Fer-
guson, of Bath, and Mr. Noble of Manchester, had
joined the asseciation. He also stated that some time
since a deputation from the association had waited upon
the council of the Royal College of Surgeons to inquire
as to any maisures the council contemplated, and al-
though the deputation was promised an answer early in
February to their inquires, and to their suggestions of
medical reform, no reply had as yet been received. A
meeting of the National Association of Medical Prac-
titioners was to be held shortly, and though its manag-
ing members had volunteered no communication with
that committee, it was desirable that there should he
combination in their efforts. As to the council of the
College of Surgeons there was a hope of amicable agree-
ment with them ; therefore it was wisdom for the com-
mittee to act for itself with the sanction and support of
the profession at large, and with powerful unanimity
place their grievances, and the remedies for them, before
the legislature.
Mr. LEWIS considered that the Lancet, in the thirteen
resolutions it had published, had fully explained the
points requiring the co-operation of the faculty. lle
feared that Mr. Wakley did not receive upon the subject
efficient support in the House of Commons, and wished
to know from the Hon. Gentleman wheth r, under the
circumstances, he was prepared to bring before the Legis-
lature a Bill on medical reform?
Mr. Waxta:y, M.P., said it was his intention to do so
at an early period, whether support in Parliament or
not. lie waited it erely to see what steps the profession
generally Nished to take, for he knew tnat no Bill would
be carried unless it were strongly
and generally sup-
ported by medical men. Sir James Graham had told
him an-I Mr. Berkeley, M.P., when they presented to
him the Bristol memorial, to which a thousand medical
practitioners' signatures were attached, that he (Sir
James Graham) would support any measure suggested by
the great majority of the profession.—(Hear, hear.) Let
cal corporatrit.i.
them, therefore, agree upon a Bill, and he (Mr.Waftley)
would place it in the hands of the Home Secretary, who,
no doubt, would lulfil his promise, and use his influence
practitioners w re
hampered
in passing it. As long as there was dissension amongst
the members of the profession nothing could be
d"u". He
though he was by hasty pledges given to eerrupt tnedi-
tinanitnous. If they wr-re, the Miiiisti r would feel it his
duty to bring the am, lioration of their condition, as sug
Bested by themselves, to a suceessful issue —(Hear.)
With respect to the council of the College of Surgeons,
rlise,4pruopvoidnedSitrhf:TguemneeiralGraham,
the faculty at large would recollect how it had been
humbled... and insulttd by that exclusive body, whose
p.rmi vt.teemnes, granted by Parliament, were intended for
otif,' b bent-fit of the whole profession, and by consequence,
the public, and not fur the advantage of a few self-
interested and avaricious in • dividuais. The power 'far-
liament had ' granted to the council Parliament could
take away, but it would not do it unless the profession
en masse urged the necessity of it. The voice of the
profession should be universal and general in dAnandulg
the alteration
•a
in the - constitution of the council. They
could not
expect Parliament to interfere in their behalf
so lung as dissensions 1 d amongst themselves.
prevailed e
Distinct n •
leernlgs were held in divers places—there
!vasneither regularity nor unanimity in their proceed-
ings, and so long as they were absent their exertions
would be futile. He advised the formation of one ge-
neral body actin,. harmoniously,the result of whose
..,
simithan
, , e"us and harmonious efforts would end, he
cm.itufenlly prAicted, in complete success.—(Cheers.)
He would suggest a g .nerai e,nvocation or ruedica! cen
gross, to be chosen: by members of the faculty in their
several counties, and to sit and decide upon the items