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conveyance between the metropolis and Portsea,
Portsmouth, the Isle cf Wight, and the Channel
Islands, than at present exists."
Mr. C. S. CROWLEY seconded the motion, which
was carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said Mr. Samuda, one of the p.i-
tentees of the atmospheric system, had just entered
the room. He was sure that gentleman would feel
great pleasure in answering any questions that might
be put to him. Mr. W.Cubitt, one of their engineers,
was also present, and would give any information
touching upon the ge) eral features of the proposed
line.

Mr. W. CUBITT, in answer to a question from Sir
J. Stirling, said he hai: gone over the line, and was
able to state there werc no obstacles that could be
called difficulties upon it.
Sir J. STIRLING would offer two or three observa-
tions on the communication this railway offered to
the Government in a naval and military point of view.
The two great forts of England, Chatham, and
Portsmouth, would, by the proposed line to Chatham,
be closely connected, and the Government would be
enabled with facility, and great advantage, to make
one garrison serve for the defence of both places in
the time of war ; it must, therefore, be a great object
with the Government to promote such a line. As
to the importance of the railway in naval
matters, it was only necessary to say that Ports-
mouth must ever be the great naval station of
this country, except in the case of a war with the
northern nations of Europe, including Holland. In
this case the river would become the position requiring
defence, and as in a military, so in a naval point of
view, the proposed line would afford the Government

the means. of transferring men from one point to the
other. Again, this line proposed to connect Ports-
mouth with the great military arsenal of Woolwich.
This, he conceived, would be sufficient to induce Go-
vernment to give all reasonable countenance to the
undertaking. Deptford must also be included in
this view of the proposed line. The adoption of
the atmospheric principle for this line would ap-
pear to promise very great advantages, amongst
not the least of which was the rapidity with
which almost any number of men might be
dispatched from one end of the railway to the other.
With these opinions, he begged to propose—" That
such a line, being in immediate communication
with the projected London and Chatham and Chat-
ham and Portsmouth Junction Railway, as well as
with the Greenwich Railway to Deptford, the great
national object of uniting by a continuous line of
railway the three important naval and military sta-
tions of Chatham, Deptford, and Portsmouth, will be
materially promoted."
Mr. LLOYD seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. ALLEN, seconded by Mr.
PRITCHARD, it was resolved—" That such a line will
at the same time afford the advantages of a railway
communication with the metropolis to a large and
important district of country between Epsom and
Portsmouth."

The lion. J. C. CARNEGIE, in rising to move the
next resolution, expressed his conviction that the pro-
posed line would have an excellent traffic. The line
would go through a portion of the Government plan-
tations, the oaks in which were comparatively almost
useless from the fact of there being no means of con-
veyance within 12 miles. He then proposed—" That
whilst a railway from Epsom to Portsmouth will thus
afford such great public advantages, it will in the
opinion of this meeting command a greatly increased
traffic between the metropolis and the districts of
Surrey, Sussex, and Hants, through which it will
pass, and between London and Portsea, Portsmouth,
the Isle of Wight, the port of Havre, and the Channel
Islands, sufficient to afford an amply remunerative
return for the capital expended."
The CHAIRMAN said he would here observe that he
was sure they all felt there could be but one direct
line to Portsmouth—(Hear)—and if they were to
take this project up seriously, as he hoped they would
—(Hear)—it was as necessary for them to oppose
any other line as to support their own. They did
not like to be brought into opposition with others, but
if parties would oppose them, they (the promoters of
the direct line) must take all the advantage which
the superior character of this line, as well as its being
first in the field, gave them. When they (the pro-
moters of the direct line) went to Portsmouth, the
other day, there had been no direct line to that place
proposed. Gentlemen in that town were then, cer-
tainly, ready to support a line from Brighton, in pre-
ference to one from the South-Eastern ; but he be-
lieved there could not be two opinions about this, that
had any direct line been proposed, there would not
have been any debate about either a Brighton or a
South-Eastern line to Portsmouth.
Mr. ROBERTS having seconded the motion,
Mr. Hosicuis (of Portsmouth) said there had re-
cently been a strong demonstration made at Ports-
mouth in favour of a line from Brighton and Chiches-
ter to Portsmouth, in opposition to that which the in-
habitants considered would not be so beneficial to
Portsmouth—viz., a line from the South-Western ; but
had the now projected direct line been known—had
the probability of it been contemplated for a moment
—there were parties at Portsmouth who would at once
have come forward to promote it in preference to either
of the other projects. He was satisfied that of
these 2,500 persons whose names were attached
to the requisition for that line, nine-tenths of them
would have preferred the direct line. This line was
now before the inhabitants of Portsmouth, and
everybody said it was the line that would best suit
the wants of the town. As between the two lines
already adverted to, the people of Portsmouth sup-
ported the one from Brighton by way of Chichester
in opposition to the South-Western one ; but now
that a direct line was offered to them, they at once
preferred it. The resolution was then carried.
A resolution appointing the Directors, having been
carried unanimously, and a vote of thanks given to
the Chairman, the meeting broke up.

DESCRIPTION OF REMARKABLE

FARMS.
BY ADAM BROWN.
No. ll.—Near Kelvedon, in Esser.'
ands,e
But let us return to the railway. We may take
another road back to it. We shall enter Chelmsford
at a partiryeod
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are they help be
reared for persons who are still in, or have
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habited tw
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paid remarking
come out of, unprotected trade ? They are the last.
London—commercial, competing, intensely competi-
tive London—sends hor tradespeople down to
Chelmsford now that the rail is so convenient;
and there they take lodgings and buy butter,
and milk, and vegetables, and and and
poultry, eggs,
beef, and bread, protecting, while they do so, Mr.
Baker and others of his neighbours from having to eat
all those things themselves. We are again on the
rail, faces eastward, and dashing along as fast as the
wind that comes with us from the west. So much for
the enterprise of traders and the strength of commerce.
This railway was made to facilitate the transit of agri-
cultural produce, not by the growers but by the pur-
chasers of that produce, and yet the growers want to be
protected from those! purchasers, one-third of whom
would treble the amount of what they now con-
sume, and one-half of whom would add a third to
what they now consume, even though they got
nothing more than barely three meals a dav, if they
could afford to pay the price. Mr. Robert Baker
limits the supply to them, and he also advocates the
perpetuation of their limited ability to buy. That
vast community of London—who eat the produce of
almost every blade of grass and ear of corn grown in
Essex, and who depend on the commerce of their
City for employment, and for the means of paying
for every blade of grass and ear of corn, and who
have neither enough of work to do, nor money to pay
—Mr. Baker speaks to us thus—if not in actual words
he does so in effect :
" You are the persons who pay for blades of grass
and ears of corn. lam the person who sells blades
of grass and ears of corn. You say you want more
than I have to give you ; and you tell me you would
buy still more if you were allowed to add a little to
your ability by going elsewhere. That may be, but
you are not allowed to go elsewhere ; and so long as I
can prevent it, you never shall. What, although you
taunt me with not cultivating my land well, and
growing as much upon it as I might do, I defy you
to interfere with me, and make me do otherwise than
I am doing."
But we have arrived at another station, at the diz-
tance of another twenty miles from London—forty
miles in all. This is Kelvedon. We here hire a gig,
and drive five miles north, to a farm called Tiptree
Hall. _

Here we find a farm-yard, farm-house, barns, sta-
bles, sheds, and everything very complete and com-
pact. We find every fence running square and
parallel, and all clear and useful as fences should be.
We find the soil to be very inferior compared with
Mr. Baker's farm. Yet we find that while Mr. Baker
has been allowing his soil of best quality to run

out of cultivation into grass, allowing even his
grass to run into rushes and marshy bogs, this
cultivator has been bringing his poor soil into the
highest state .of cultivation. He has one hundred
and thirty acres, for which, just about the time that
the Anti-Corn-law League became a giant, he paid
3,2501. He is not one of the League ' • but he is a
believer in the virtue of agricultural enterprise in
preference to agricultural protection ; and so far is
he from supposing that free trade would injure the
English farmers—and so far from having listened
to the forebodings of the alarmists, who are lei
on by Mr. Baker to cry " Land must go out of
cultivation if free trade is carried"—that he has,
since January, 1843, expended in hard cash the
sum of 6,200/. in improving his farm, every penny
of which, he is sure, free trade or no free trade,
will be repaid him with a good profit. While Mr.
Baker has been laying the League prostrate and
slaying it, and receiving the great token of the age,
" a piece of plate," for having upset, and destroyed,
and utterly annihilated the League—for go the inscrip-
tion on the silver sets forth his services—this farmer has
been quietly cultivating his land, and employing at least
twenty times more labourers than ever Mr. Baker
employed on the same number of acres. He has thus

stated, in letters to a local newspaper, the nature
of his improvements :—" Ist. The perfect and per-
manent drainage of the land with stones and
pipes, 4 yards apart, and 32 inches deep—
between 80 and 90 miles of drains.-2d. To the
entire removal of all timber trees, which cannot
be profitably grown in cern fields.-3d. To the
removing all old, crooked, and unnecessary banks,
fences, and ditches.-4th. The cutting new parallel
ditches and fences, so as to avoid short lands.-sth.
The enclosure of waste, and conversion of useless
bogs into good soil. 6th. The economising
time and distance by new roads, arches, and more
direct communications with the extremities of the
farm.-7th. The erection of well-arranged farm-build-
ings, built of brick, iron, and slate, in a continuous range,
excluding all cold winds and currents of air, but open
to sunny warmth.-Bth. The building a substantial
and genteel residence, with all due requisites for do-
mestic comfort and economy. 9th. The erection of
an efficient threshing machine, and needful apparatus
for shaking the straw, dressing the corn, cutting chaff,
bruising oats, &c., so constructed as not to injure the
straw; avoiding, by its perfect action, that immense
waste of grain visible in almost every truss of straw we
examine.-10th. The avoidance of thatching and risk
of weather, by ample barn room, with convenience for
in-door horse labour at threshing, &c., when not em-
ployable without, so as to have no idle days for man
or beast.-11th. The saving of every pound and pint
of manure by a tank (90 feet long, 6 feet deep, 8 feet
wide, with slated roof facing the north, and with well
and pump), into which is received the whole drainage
foom the farm-yard and stables.-12th. The convey-
ance by iron gutters and pipes of every drop of water
from the roofs of each building, so as in no manner to
dilute the manure in yards.-13th. The perfect drain-
age of the foundations of the barn, and every building
on the far:n.-14th. A steam-house to prepare food
for cattle." He says he is thus particular to state his
alterations, because—" It is from each of the above
branches of expenditure that some portion of remune-
ration is expected."
And again he ceys—" During the progress of my
undertaking I have been warned, entreated, and dis-
suaded by my farming friends, who protested that a
profitable return for such an enormous expenditure
was impossible. My calculations, however, were
made, and mere assertions without facts and figures
weighed nothing with me."
This is business-like in a farmer. And it may
now be worth while to inquire who this farmer is.
It is not a new thing to find that a man who has been
bred in trade makes the best farmer. This is another
instance of it. This agricultural reformer of Tip-
tree Hall, in Essex, is a tradesman from Leadenhall-
street, in the City of London ; no other than Mr.
Mechi, of the magic razor-strop.
The tenant who occupied Tiptree before Mr.
Mechi bought the land is still upon it. I shall
hereafter mention some particulars of their bargain.
He looked with amazement and dread at Mr. Mechi's
first proceedings; but he is long since convinced that
they are sound, practicable, and profitable.
Mr. Mechi says, after stating the benefit to the
crops :—" In a moral and social point of view, these
improvements have acted beneficially. They have
excited the energies of the tenant and his labourers,
stimulating them to think, compare, and improve.
They have awakened the curiosity of the neighbour-
ing farmers, who are watching the result, and al-
ready have they caused many undertakings in drain-
age, which otherwise would not have been thought
of." He adds :—" Had I invested my money in the
funds, there would have been an end of the matter ;
hut now I have the satisfaction of having fulfilled a
public duty (without injury to myself), by calling
into action, temporarily and permanently, a consider-
able amount of labour. I conceive that the highest
order of charity, which, by providing employment to
the willing labourer, confers a favour unseen and
leaves uncompromised (his most valuable privilege)
his self-dependence."
Mr. Mechi says he may be asked, what can a Lon-
doner know about farming ? If so, he is prepared to
answer that he has been always fond of the country,
and has been a close observer of the condition of agri-
culture. " I have seen," he says, " one farmer
making a fortune, and his next neighbour losing one :
I have seen one field all corn, and another nearly all
weeds."

And, concluding for the present, so say I. It is
the weedy field and weedy farm whose occupier
calls most lustily for protection. But Mr. Mechi is
one of those who know how to make agriculture
protect itself.—League.

YOUNG IRELAND.

" Erin ! an exile bequoaths then his blessing,
Land of my forefathers ! Erin go bragh !

It cannot be matter for surprise that any English
Minister should confess Ireland to be his chief diffi-
culty so long as the Executive continue to counte-
nance modes of administration subservient to expe-
diency, and, therefore, inimical to just and disinte-
rested principles—a petty species of Government, that,
in its most successful hour, is merely calculated to
bestow temporary and shallow benefit. That mea-
sures for Irish relief, framed in a friendly spirit, have
occasionally emanated from the British Senate it would
be both unfair and unwise to deny ; but, neverthe-
less, they have been uniformly conceded as hard-
wrung boons to party clamour, rather than bestowed
on the nation as her right. The consequence has been
that the factious and discontented have, in each in-
stance, eagerly availed themselves of the ungracious-
ness of the givers as a plea to militate against the
value of the gifts. Speeches have been spoken—
pamphlets written—meetings convened, productive
of no happier results than adverse individuals forcing
each other to eat dirt—whilst the great bulk of the
populace, for whom these wordy wars are ostenta-
tiously waged, derive from them neither moral nor
physical advantages. It is but little to the purpose
that Mr. So-and-So rise " to advert to various
Irish penal enactments," or " dwell upon several
facts in Irish history," and then sit down
again ; it may be unsuggestive of any better
remedy for these grievances than constant
subscriptions to precursor or repeal clubs. The whole
social body needs amendment, and it is not by eu-
logising the shadowy glories of 011 am Fodhah, or
execrating Saxon misrule, that this can be effected;
neither will the tranquillity of Ireland be perfected
through the misrepresenting fulminations that some-
times disgrace the Orange press and Orange dinners.
" You hear of our case as in a dream, but feel not
the smart of suffering that we endure," was the retort
of the Geraldine to Cardinal Wolsey, and it is worthy
of the deepest consideration that the complaints of the
great Earl of Kildare, in Henry the Eighth's reign,
were but the prolonged echoes of previous centuries
of woe, whose vibrations extend, with little variation,
even to our own times. Such lengthened discontents
—such reiterated complaints—may well appal the
stoutest mind as to the possibility of finding. a
Hercules to cleanse such Augean heaps ; but in truth
it is beyond the power of any one man, or any one
set of measures, however firmly and judiciously
benevolent, to eradicate these long and deeply-rooted
shoots of evil. All Ireland must bestir itself—high
and low, rich and poor. Protestant and Catholic
must, to render it effectual, unite in the sublime work
of national regeneration, and immolating on the
altar of patriotism their long-cherished vulgar pre-
judices ; their mutual rage, fear, and hatred, join
hand-in-hand to annihilate that demoniacal party-
spirit which has transmuted the historical annals
of their country into the record of one vast and
prolonged faction fight. Let Irishmen remember
those men who pretend that the grievances
of their native land may he best cancelled by inspir-
ing an excitable and ignorant peasantry with hatred
of the English name—let them remember thatdomestic
discord first summoned the English to their shores,
and through domestic discord was the union finally

cemented. England has had much to answer for—
much of neglectful injustice and oppressive pecula-
tion—but! she is, not_the -only guilty one, nor
has Ireland even been the innocent victim that some
of her so-called patriots would represent her. Na-
tions are like individuals ; their faults and follies
should be alluded to with tenderness, and never save
with the cordial hope of amendment. Flatter them,
and they become self-sufficient and reckless ; degrade
them in their own estimation, and they sink into
sullen apathy, or are goaded into passionate irritation.
Poor Ireland has suffered alternately from both treat-
ments: now surfeited with a "too-high flavoured bowl"
of flattery by the one side, and anon by the other
insulted with vilifying suspicions. Well might she
say," Save me from my friends, and I will take care
of my enemies !" But through the long list of her
woes history confirms the sad truth that her worst
enemies have ever sprung from her own bosom, and
that the truculent ranks of en Anglo-Irish faction,
rather than the English people at large, have contained
her most relentless oppressors. Without diving into
remote periods, the proof of this fact may be clearly
deduced from the events during, or subsequent to, the
late Rebellion when the coercive measures adopted
by the Irish Cabinet were, Lord Clare openly
asserted in the House of Lords, " to his
knowledge, extorted from the nobleman who governed
that country." But a truce to these old grievances—
a truce to the humbling, exposition of party frailty—
let "rascally Papists' and " bloody Orangemen "
cease to bandyderisive and insolent epithets ; let them
become less eager in the expression of their mistrust-
ful opinions; more anxious to co-operate in plans for
the general good, regardless from whom these plans
may emanate, provided they be good, and more certain
benefit will accrue to their country than in agitating
for a native Parliament, or aspersing the Catholic
hierarchy. The results of a repeal of the:union, until
it be granted, must be problematical ; it may certainly
be productive of remedial measures, and again it may
furnish but a more imposing arena for the renewal of
political squabbles—a licensed board on which to
display sordid desires and petty jealousies. Are
the men of the present day wiser, stronger, more
honest and uncompromising, than those who heard the
sublime apostrophe, " Ireland is now a nation, and
bowing to her august presence, I say, Esto perpetua .9"
Yet scarcely had these words died on the ears of a free
native Parliament, ere it commenced signing its own
death-warrant. Scarcely had the almost superhuman
exertions of the illustrious Grattan been crowned
by success, ere he had to mourn over the ingratitude
and unworthiness of those for whom he had so long
striven. But though the success of repeal to the dis-
passionate must remain doubtful, there are measures
open to the pursuit of every friend of Ireland, whose
success, be they but adopted with " a single eye" to
patriotic philanthropy, cannot admit of a doubt.
With the undeveloped resources of a fruitful land re-
maining to be opened—with the poor to be supplied
with work—the ignorant to be instructed—there is
surely a fair and wide field spread for labour, in which
the best, the noblest, the most highly-gifted, might
cincur for the happiest results. There are bogs to
be drained, waste lands to be improved, canals to be
dug, railroads constructed, manufactures improved.
Why, in the name of qommon sense, not expend a por-
tion of " rint" and pathotic energy in promoting such
means of progress ? How much can be effected
through small beginnings, but with honest persever-
ance, the establishments of Mr. Bianconi amply testify,
by whom many hundreds are daily employed in fur-
thering the increase of traffic and social intercourse.
If the chivalrous motto of ancient France, " Fais 1e
Lien advienne que pourra," fail to awaken the public
mind, will the insinuating whispers of self-interest
prove equally abortive ? Irishmen, it is for your
interest, regardless of rank or creed, to adopt such
measures; your green isle needs not an agitation—
scarcely now, thank God, a Liberator—but she is
most lamentably in want of an unprejudiced Pacificator
AN OLD HIBERNIAN.

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AI