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LONDON. THURSDAY EVVING. NOVEMBER 5, 1835.

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EAST SUFFOLK AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION.

GENERAL AGRICULTURAL COMBINATION.

On Tuesday a general meeting of the East Suffolk Agri-
cultural Association, and' of the farmers resident in that
division of the county, was Veld at the Castle of Framling-
ham, with the avowed object of taking the first step
towards a general union of all the Agricultural Associations
throughout England into one body, having permanent de-
legates constantly sitting in London. The terms of the ad-
vertisement called on the meeting to consider the propriety
of joining the Cambridgeshire and other Agricultural As-
sociations in a general society of this description, to be
formed by the productive classes generally, as well as by
the landed interest, for the purpose of instituting a rigid
inquiry into the causes of the existing distress amongst the
landed and productive classes, and of adopting measures for
their relief. The Committee, however, were induced to
change their original intention of forming an association,
by receiving a communication from several noblemen and
gentlemen in London, that they had already formed the
nucleus of a general Association of the kind, to be called
" The Royal Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ire-
land," which appears to have been mainly projected by the
Earl of Kerry, Lord Sandon, Mr. Halyburton, Sir Charles
Lemon, Sir H. Verney, Sir Geo. Cayley, Mr. Wilson Pat-
ten, Mr. J. Benett, Mr. W. Baring, and several other mem-
bers of Parliament attached to the agricultural interest.
After some discussion, 'the Committee resolved to send a
deputation to assist those gentlemen in forming that Society,
instead of commencing one for themselves. R. Brown,
Esq., attended to explain the views of the Royal Agricul-
tural Association, and deputations from Cambridgeshire
were also in attendance. John Mosley, Esq., took the
Chair. ' Sir C. B. Vere, M. P., Sir E. Kerrison, M. P.,
M. N. Shawe, Esq., W. A. Shuldham, Esq., T. White,
Esq.; C. Lillinston, Esq.; Bence Bruce, Esq.; Rev. M.
Crutwell, Rev. H. Groom, Rev. H. Owen, and several
other gentlemen, and a large number of farmers were pre-
sent. Considerable interest was also excited by a division
of opinion respecting the Currency question ; the one
party insisting that an alteration in the Currency would
afford the only effectual relief,' and the other contending
that it was highly injudicious to press that question at the
present time.
The CHAIRMAN introduced the business of the meeting
by explaining the effect and nature of the resolutions which
were to be submitted. He complained that though no other
class in the State was equal in number or importance to the
agricultural class, yet none was more powerless and less
influential with the Government and the Legislature than
the latter ; a circumstance which he attributed to the want
of active union amongst the agriculturists, whilst the mem-
bers of the shipping, manufacturing, and trading interests
formed confederacies, so powerful, as to compel the atten-
tion of Parliament to any grievances of which thee might
feel it necessary`to complain.
Mr. SHULDHAM moved the first resolution, to the effect
that the agriculture of the kingdom was the first of its
concerns, and that it was essential to the peace and welfare
of all classes of the State that it should be relieved from
its existing distress by the early and active interposition of
Parliament.—(Cheers.) The agricultutists had petitioned
Parliament so often, and had received so little attention,
that they began now to entertain but one feeling, that pe-
titioning alone would no longer do.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
On the 21st of July last, at a meeting of that Association,
a petition was agreed to, which was intrusted to the county
Members ; and a resolution was, on his motion, also agreed
to, that the Members should be instructed to move that the
Supplies themselves should be stopped until his Majesty's
Ministers had taken some steps to relieve the agriculturists.
The petition was in due course presented, but the resolu-
tion died a natural death. Had he been in the House of
Commons he would not have hesitated to make the mo-
tion ; and although he was inclined to place confidence in
the Marquis of Chandos, yet he thought it incumbent
upon all who put themselves at the head of the agricultu-
ral party to give some such proof of their sincerity and
'e-
votion to the cause, to declare that the landed interest were
now in a condition which could be trifled no longer,
and thus convince a reluctant Government, and a reluctant
Legislature, that relief could no longer with safety be with-
held.—(Cbeers.)
The resolution was seconded and carried unanimously.
Mr. BROWN, Honorary Secretary to the Central Asso-
ciation in London, moved the next resolution, approving of
the formation of a Central Association, for want of which
point of union the local Associations had hitherto been com-
paratively inefficient. Mr. Brown took the opportunity of
explaining the views of the Royal Agricultural Association.
After referring to the failure of all previous attempts to ef-
fect an improvement in the social condition of the productive
classes, he said that, in common with those who had for
years devoted their attention to this subject, he had come
to the conclusion that a central' society in the Metropolis,
communicating with the local societies, offered the only re-
maining means of concentrating their power, so as to render
it efficient for their purposes. This Association was conse-
quently set on foot and its prospectus forwarded to the
provincial Associations. It had been formed without any
reference to party feeling or party politics ; it had no
object save that of social amelioration ; and like that
great and powerful body which had so long presided over
the internal economy of Scotland, it sought to effect its ob-
jects by a combination of all classes, the Peer and the
yeoman, the land-owner and the land-occupier, the employer
and the employed ; the nucleus of such a Society had been
formed in London, and his object then was to call on them
to support it. In his opinion it was neither an extension
of the Currency, nor the repeal of the Malk-tax, nor
the consolidation of public rates, nor the commutation
of tithes, nor the diminution of poor-rates, nor the in-
troduction of Poor Laws into Ireland, nor the breaking up
of the meat-trade monopoly, which would, alone, relieve
the farmer ; that relief only would be found effectual
which, comprising all of these, should liquidate all thoseim-
posts on the price of food which constituted a rent over and
above that which now went into the pockets of the land-
owner, and which formed (as we underttood the Hon.
Gentleman) two-thirds of the whole ; secondly, they must
effect a change in the present system of acquiring and accu-
mulating wealth, a system abounding in fraud, and productive
of the greatest evils ; and thirdly, the productive classes
must be compensated for the capital which the currency
measure of the year 1819 had been the means of unjustly
abstracting from them. If they sought to accomplish a
great change in the social system of this country, it was not
by an abandonment of the ancient principles of justice and
fidelity which bound us as a people ; it was not by a sacrifice
of national honour or national faith that they hoped or
wished to accomplish it.—(Hear, hear.) But they would
no longer consent to increase the spoils of the gambler on
the Stock Exchange ; they would no longer uphold that
system whieh, for the last twenty years, had preyed on the
very vitals of the productive classes, and which had made
the industry of the country the means of impoverishing
itself, while it enriched the speculator and the capitalist.
It was true they had incredible burdens to bear, but their
means were incredible also. The broad mass of na-
tional pauperism was what they had to relieve, and they
had no other means of lifting up the nation from that
state, but by the united hands of those honest and true
men who had laboured diligently in that situation of life
in which it had pleased God to place them.—( Hear.)
These Associations had long acted on the defensive ; if
new circumstances had arisen, which rendered it necessary
to depart from that rule, it would come from them with
better grace, since they could never so act, but for the
general interest of the 'country—agricultural prosperity
being acknowledged by Parliament to be the foundation
of national prosperity, by whatever means it is produced.
The industrious classes of England had long been looking
for a signal. Be theirs the honour to give it to them.
The war to which he summoned them was a war from
which no good man need shrink ; it was a war against
injustice, poverty, and idleness ; it was a war against that
system which divided England into two extremes of luxu-
rious wealth and fearful want ; it was a war for the bees
of the hive against those who robbed them of their honey;
it was a war, though bloodless, that was to be fought on
the fields of our country, and in which more laurels were
to be gained with the plough-share than had ever yet been
won by the sword, or the cannon-planted deck, or the
tented fields. (The Hon. Gentleman's speech, of which
the great length of the proceedings bas only permitted us
to gge a brief sketch, was remarkable for its eloquent
declamation, and was throughout warmly applauded.)
Mr. LILLINSTON seconded the motion.
The motion was then put and carried.
Sir CHARLES VERE, M.P., in reference to the petition,
stated that he had sought many azpoetunities of presenting
it in a full House prior to the budget coming on ; he could
11(11,1° SellktenitY. of doing so, but when the budget came
en, he poke fully on the subject of it, and enforced strongly
tic oeceui ty of giving some relief to agriculture, and pressed
on Government the absolute necessity of maturing during
the recess some measure to be brought forward early next
session. He declared then what he believed was their
wish, that they only required what they had a fair right to