The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

AGRICULTURE.

Mr. ACLAND then rose to move for a select committee
to inquire into the actions, with reference to agriculture,
of various public authorities, with a ♦iew to consider the
expediency of recommending that some one department
be made responsible for dealing with administrative and
legislative questions affecting agriculture.
The motion for an inquiry was supported by Mr. Pell,
who thought the sewage question of itself justifie•l it; by
Lord Henley, who laid principal stress on the road ques-
tion ; and by Mr. Corrance and Lord F. Cavendish ; but
Mr. Newdegate, on the °tinr hand, treated it as entirely
unnecessary.

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Mr, BRIGHT, in reply, pointed out that agriculture
and trade were pretty much in the same condition of
having their interests looked after by different offices. Tuis
wns not a very defensible thing, but he doubted whether a
committee would discover so satisfactory a remedy as a
consultation of the heads of departments among them-
selves. Agriculture, however, in Mr. Bright's opinion, bad
❑ever less to complain of, and the notion of agriculturists
• applying to either the Board of Trade or to the House of
Commons reminded him of the lady who sent for the doc-
tor "because she felt so well she was sure something was
going to happen to her." Sun and shower and industry
would do more for agriculture than Government or Legis-
lature, and his advice to farmers was to come as little as
possible to any Government office. The Home Secretary
was even now considering whether there could be any
interchange of functions between the different offices; and
if anything could be done in furthezance of the objects of
the motion it should be carried out.

Satisfied with this assurance, Hr. Acland withdrew his

motion.

Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN bronght in a scheme for remedy-
ing the ratepaying grievance by repealing altogether sec-
tion 7 of the Reform Act, which extinguished the corn-
pounder. Mr. Gladstone offered no opposition to the
introduction of the Lill, hut Mr. Hibbert regretted the
form iu which it was framed, and announced Lis intention
of opposing it at a future stage.

A first reading was given to bills brought in by Mr.
Hadfield to amend the law regulating the burials of Dis-
senterr, and by Mr. M'Lagan to amend the Game Laws fn
Scotland.

The House adjourned at half-past nine o'clock.

COURSE U F EXCHANGE.—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 12 ... 12 1
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 11 ... 12 21
Autwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 40
Brussels
Ha mburgh — ... 13 10/ ... 13 11
Paris
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Marseilles
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...1

Frankfort-on-the-Main
V ienna
Trieste
Petersburg
Copenhagen, • ,
Berlin ,
Madrid..
Cadiz
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Milan
Genoa ,
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto
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New York

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12 43 ... 12 55
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- 26 35 ... 26 40
- 26 33 26 40
- 52.1 ... 521
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The Trice of Gold.

tie quota i 01 gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange ou Loudon is VA. per £1 sterlin;:.
;neoniparing these rates with the Ein;liaii Mint price of
100. per wince for standard gold, it a;,p,.'s tl~ it
..4-o:d at the above price is abut 140th p:r ceat. dearer iu
Celts Chu In London.

The course c f exchiuge at New York on London for bills
f.O days' was on the last date about 1 Si percent.
At this rate !:,.re Is profit on the itadortntioo of gold
1.1,1!

DUNVILLE an•! Uu., Beita,:., a.e the largest
..-.ilders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky bi re-
•.rnuteuded by the medical profession in preference to ierene,,
:randy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exocria,
don. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville ana Co.
Belfast; cr 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon WA: —[Ad•
vvrtisement.