The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Jan. 8.
71bs. Skirtings, 4r. 15a. ; 841bs. Shirtings, Cr. ;
40's Mule Twist, 101. Market active.
Cotton firm.
Freights to Liverpool, 50s.
CALCUTTA, Jan. 9.
71bs. Shirtings, sr. 2a. ; 8+ do., 6r. 2a. ; 40's
Mule Twist, sa. Bp. Market dull.
ir.
Exchange on London, 1 11-16.
4 per Cent. Government Securities, 941 ; 5 per
51 per Cent. do., 1194.
Cent. do., 1081 ;
Freights to England—Rice, 30s.
The Bank of Bengal has reduced its rate of dis-
count 1 per cent.

,Fll kiNCE.
BOURSE, Jan. 11.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4/ per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 40
Credit Mobilier '2Bl 25
End of month 282 50
Credit Fonder 1552
End of month —

Bank Shares 3llO
Italan Loan —
Ead of month —
Mexican Loan 24 25
DI. Bonds
Spanish Threes
ibine Debt....
Deferred
Ns.

RAILWA'

Cash
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern....
Western ............. 610
Eastern ............ ....................... 570
Sardinian . ..... 49
Austrian
Lombard ............. 4381
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman ........ 50

THE RIGHT HON. J. TV. HENLEY AND
THE TENANT FARMERS.

In a paper on " Tenant Right," read by mr. C. H.
Lattimore, at a meeting of the Horts Chamber of Agri.
culture, the following statement was made :—" After I
MIS examined before the committee of the House of Cora.
mons, Mr. Henley called me aside, and told me he could
defy any man living to argue successfully against the claim
I made on behalf of the tenant farmers. I was struck at
this, and asked whether he was sincere ; and he replied,
'Of course lam ; here are no witnesses.' I then told
him that if that were so I was surprised at his brow.
beating the witnesses ; and I asked him why he did
not take the other side. To this he replied, Why, don't
you see that if your views were carried out the tenant
farmers would he as independent of the landlords as the
landlords are of the tenants ?' I then asked why they
should not be so under commercial rents and commercial
tenures ; and he replied, If the farmers took your view of
the case it might be so ; but we (the landlords) don't intend
to emancipate the tenant farmers. We are going to amuse
them with Protection.' And then, offering his hand,
he said Good-bye.' Within a short time of that Mr.
Henley was addressing the electors of Oxfordshire as the
Right Hon. J. W. Henley, President of the Board of
Trade. The evidence given before the committee is
shelved in a blue-book, and tenant right is still to be won.
You hint a doubt and hesitate, dislike to give the
tenant the protection of the laws."
To this Mr. Henley has replied :—" An article
was shewn to me yesterday, in which Mr. Lattimore
is reported to have made a statement at the Hert-
fordshire Chamber of Agriculture of a conversation,
alleged to have taken place between himself and me, after
his examination before the committee on agricultural
customs in 1848. I know no reason why Mr. Lattimore
should wish to injure or misrepresent me, and therefore
can only say, if I had any conversation with him, he must
111.ve entirely misunderstood or forgotten what took place
twenty-one years ago. Those who have read Mr. Latti-
more's evidence, or who know me, will, I think, be cer-
tain that it is impossible I could have said what he
states, and to a perfect stranger. To others I would say
that, soon after the repeal of the corn laws, I took an
active part in breaking up our county protection society,
and giving the balance of our funds to the county hospital.
I aecnii..d eo join n.lo, ntlier Am}, societies in the county
or elsewhere, and at public dinners said I could nna no
ground to seek a change of the law ; and I did this to pre-
vent persons misleading themselves, or being misled by
others. These were my acts. I deny using the words, or
anything like them"