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Yesterday theaunual ineerimg (.3e teasktsree ail ' -
Aericultural Society was held here, utterer t .re
sidency of Col. Cator, supported by Mr. 'Geo.' It or-
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man, Mr. Caird, M.P., Mr. Wilkinson, late M.P.
foiLambeth, and the leading gentry of the neigh-
bourhood. . .
After, the usual proceedings in the field the mere- _
tiers and their friendiedined together, Col. Cet Jr
in the chair. •
In Proposing " The House of C•nrunons," ih 3
CHAIRMAN Collpleil with it the 1111,111 n of Mr. Card,
a m•-;mber of that house and a distinguishtel agri-
culturist.
Mr. CAIRD, M.P., who was received with much
cheering, in acknowledging the toast, .bore tesai-
men), to the earnestnes and zeal with which the
House of Commons labour for the welfare of the
pe iple. On one subject, however, they had shown
themselves lamentably deficient, for he remembered
going down one evening early in the list session,
and finding the House almost empty he asked a
friend at the door what WAS going on ? "Oh !
nothing ; something about the tenure of lend in
India," was the answer; and' so little interest did
the question then excite that the House was within
an ace of being counted out. Very different vet old.
be the interest manifested on such a goes iou now.
'And as a member of Parliament he should 1)6 de-
ficient in his duty if, in addressing any meeting' of
his fellow countrymen, he failed to call their atten-
tion to the revolt in India. , He deemed this the
greatest crisis in the history , f England. since the
Revolution. (Cheers.) It was not our business at
present to philosephiza on the wonderful spectacle
• of a little island like ours, wide lees Via?' 30,000,000
of people, Tulin.; a naighty
at a distance of 10,000 mil- s. Thies was an inheri-
t ince bequeathed 0' us by our ancestors which we
mast retain at all hazards and at whatever sacrifice,
or lose rank I.afore the world. There were two
thirds connec el wieli this outbreak evh;ch was
wonderful indeed Yrst, the utter enprepered-
i ies 4 of the Indian Governmeitt for ab'ow that must
have been long iu contemplation ; and secondly, the
heroic constancy and courage of a small b idy of
Englishmen scattered by handfuls over a line of •
1,200 miles in length, surrounded not by au open
enemy, but by tens f thousands of mutinous sol-
diers, whom .they had been taught to look upon as
their cemrades in arms. If we lost tome of our
an dent prestige by taking only the sec .md. part in
the campaign in the Crimea, England had in India
reasserted her position by the cabin li-roAni of her
Ariglo-Saxoe sons, not. picked men, but ordinary
Englishmen. (Loud cheers.) It was dreadful to
think of the atrocities that had been committed and
the f,a,r!ul r tribution which mu-t follow, but truly
it needed some such stern rebuke to rouse 'England
to inquiry an a ex,rtio.i. What did the people or
Paid atnent of Etieland know of India ? Literally
nothing. We had treated it as sin cu• lying farm,
which, if it left no great profit to -ourselves, yet
gave profitable em leyment and wealth to some
junior members of the family who were sent out to
manage it. But the welfare of 180,000,000 of people
was not auto be treated. (Hear.) For the talent
we had received we were now called torender an
account, and if we bad hid it in the ground, ac-
tuated by no higher motives than half-yearly divi-
dends, the time seemed to have come when it must
be taken from the hand that had failed -to me it
with advantage, and be intrusted to better keeping.
(Ch etre.) For 100 years we bad borers sway over
the riclreet territory in the world, and had -been
contented not only to witness but to encourage the
grossest idolatry and superstition, without in all
that time impressing upon the native population a
particle of :he i,pirit of our religion or our princi-
ples of truth, justice, and humanity. (Hear.) It
was but a y-ar ago hat the Government in India
admitted the truth of the statements ie a memorial
presented to th-m, which alleged that the rural
population of- Bengal, many millions of people,
,a ere suffering from a native magistracy who wore
corrupt, oppressive, and incompetent, who encou-
raged the concealment and commission of crime,
while the prople were reduced to beggary and
pitiable serv.tude. (Hear.) The time had not
come, nor was this the place, for discussing our
future Indian policy; but the light was now burst-
ing in, and the people of England would riot permit
its fair fame to be tarnished by the continuance of
a policy which bore no better fruits than these.
We must lease due precedence given in our Indian
empire to English ideas, language, and religion,
not intolerant of the religion of others so long as it
was not offensive to morals, but giving no coun-
tenance or encouragement to idolatry, and selecting
for special reward in the service of the State those,
whether natives or English, who best approved
themselves our friends by similarity of religion,
-language and spirit. (Loud cheers.) He begged to
offer one word in conclusion on the vengeance to
be taken on the ruthless murderers of English
women and children. There was surely no need to
encourage such a spirit. It might be safely left in
the hands of those who welts on the spot, who
could best appreciate the crime and mete out its
punishment. Ho had no fear but that the gener-
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Chairman, Mr.
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and Mr. Caird, M.P.,
took part, on the relative expense of farm labour iu
England and Scotian I, and the condition of the
agricultural labourer in the two countries. Mr.
Norman, who had lately visited a border county,
and had specially investigated this 811 j .01., con-
tended that the lower wages of labour in Scotland
and the mode in which they were paid in kind en-
abled the farmer, at the expense of the labourer, to
pay a I igher rent ft-r his land. Ile deprecated such
a system, and should not wish to see it introduced
into this country. Mr. Caird, on the other hand,
showed, by taking Mr. Norman's figures,. that at
the prices of the last three years the payment of
the Scotelr labourer in kind
.gave him a much
greater supply of the comf its and necessaries
of life than could be procured by the
money wages of the Entail labourer, who
had to pay out of his wag. s a weekly house rent -
while the Scotch farm labourer lived rent free.
He al-o pointed to the fact that such a thing as an
agricultural labourer seek;ng parish relief was un-
known, while here they gave prizes to the lahrewer
.yho could bring up his family without parish aid.
He agreed will Mr. N rm an that a certain expen-
diture on labour was more productive on a Sewell
than an Eueddi. fa :en, and thus loft a larger ba-
lance for rent.t But that arose from the iudividu .1
labourer being better fed, bettereducated, and thus
more intelligent, while his labour was more econo-
mically and effectively applied on farms land out
with a special reference to the production of crops.
He found no fault with landlords who preferred the
beauty and charm of woodland scenery, small en-
closures, wide hedgerows and a good head of game,
and within that distance of Loudon he thought
they were right in doing so, for their property
would ultimaeely become more valuable as attrac-
tive building sites than fir ag icultural purposes.
But in such circumstances labour must be more
costly and less effective, an 1 agricultural rents
proportionally low. (Hear.) ,
Mr. WILKINSON, in proposing the health of the
Chairman, said, that he made it a rule never to
speak on a subject which he did not understand,
and he had therefore taken no part in the.discas •
sion. Oa fernier occasions in that room he had
argued soma unpalatable questions, but he believed
they now all agreed with him that farmers, like
other classes in this country, required no other
protection than their own skill, enterprise, and in-
dustry. His own agricultural experience was com-
paratively limited, and it reminded him of a ques-
tion that was put to him a few days ago by an emi-
nent banker and lend holderiti ties neighbourhood—
" Mr. Wilkinson, are you afflicted with a farm ?"
(Laughter.) He concluded by proposing " the
health of the Chairman," which was received with
much cheering.
Colonel CATOR returned thanks, referring in the
course of his speech to the advantage of providing
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