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FRIL. kr MORNING. OCTOBER 14, 1642.

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Marc,,of the country do not equally rejoice
in a ~rofid,harvest. Complaints are loud and nu-
Met'ollA •in IF.s:iex. They are whining and bitter
At an agricultural meeting held at
the latter county, onFriday last,

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a leading farmer, gave this account
of the deficiency of the crops, and the probable
Lion of the labourers
bad heard the Noble Duke of Rutland speak of
yir excellent harvests; but that remark, he was
sorry to say,. did not hold good with regard to this
county or Surrey. Coming as he did to-day from
the latter county, where he had heard of men being

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already turned oft their constant employ, and hearing
at Reigate and the adjoining parishes that their crops
had been so bad that they could not employ more
than three-fourths of the hands whom they employed
last year, he asl;ed what was to become of those la-
bourers who were discharged from their employment
—(Clear, hear.) He feared that they were in the
same state in the Weald of Sussex ; and he wished to
call the attention of the meeting to the employment
of the labourers during the ensuing winter, because
he w:ls satisfied that the farmers in the Weald of
Sussex would feel great difficulty in meeting the
demands that would be made upon them, and giving
constant employment to their labourers during the

winter.

The Chairman of the meeting. Lieut.-Col.
ELLWOOD, noticed that Sir C. BURRELL had, at
Horsham, a few days before, adverted to the
destitution of the labourers, and recommended
his neighbours to employ them, by way of cha-
rity, trenching for potatoes. Then Mr. WOOD

said—
He was obliged to those gentlemen who had
pointed out the difficulties of the coming winter ; but
he should have been still more gratified, if they had
pointed out the means of averting those difficulties.
31r. Ellinah continued —He had introduced
the subject' for the purpoSe - of provoking discussion,
for the difficulty was almost too great for him to
grapple with. When he knew that in the Weals of
Sussex and Su Trey the'farmers had' not grown more
than half a crop, when he knew that their expenses
were very great, when he knew that instead of re-
turning three Tents and in the better land four rents,
the farmer would this year scarcely return two, how, he
asked, was that farmer to meet his expense.? for the cur-
rent lea,.? It was a question of deep moment; and
that question he left to the meeting to solve. He
hoix-1,:1- and trusted that.the landlords would come for-
warl and unl,?.ss they did, he could not imagine how
the ilijfkwlties w ere to be overcome.
The Chaim= said it was his duty, as Chairman, to
speak home truths. He had been told to-day that
there was a great deficiency' of straw this year, so
that the farmers ',lad very little thrashing to do. The
-remedy for this difficulty was, he thought, a better
state of cultivation.

Mr. EhLMAN returned to the charge—
lie said it xas the opinion of some of the farmers
of the Weald of Suri!ey, that their wheat would not
average this year more than three sacks to the acre.
, beari,.ng in mind the shortness of the crop, which
:was about irom one-half to two-thirds of the average,
and that the loss was increased by the panic—whetherincreased
exiled thr or not, he would not
wasnow to
ft discuss-
4h: listop t o scuss—
e (lid not see how the farmer por an in-
Asroased cultivation: fie knew
that the farmer
osadd not be able to meet his usual expenses. How
tilt!.n could lie meet increased expenses
distress
Nyou!(.l, he was afTaid, fall most heavily on the
kbourers. When lie heard of the distress of the
ar farmers, and that they were obliged to turn of/
Awlve hands
,from one
_farm, he could easily calc,il.,"t,
the number of han3s that would be out of employ-
anent. He knew there were several union houses in
Surrey that were, he might say, overstocked, and
that there were many labourers out of employ, who
did not know where to go to earn their bread. If
those labOm•ers were thrown upon the farmers, who
bad not the means to employ them, their backs would
be hroizen_

Sach linpkwant prth:pects for the agricultural
labourere and for the farmers, are not confined
to Sus.iex. In Kent, that pattern county for
loyal squires, intelligent parson-magistrates, and
-well-educated peasantry, we are told that the
farm.:Ts 'are (Elquissing their labourers in all
direi•f.i,,ts. Ai i4ttt four months ago, S:r jAmEs
info.mied the Tory-admiring public,
and the, seryiLe Parliament, that there were
3,2;),),w.) pntyows in England alone. Now, the
,unio;l ,sorliou:les of the agricultural districts,
iminediately on the completion of harvest—when
the labott.re.4 min t, if ever, have somethintx, ac-
•iint2; to Mr. ..ELLMA.N—are overstocked, and
o'd. their hands by do-tens.
tirear. prospe.et does this Open for the
'sinter, when the 1400,000 paupers will,
nw,t, be intreased to 2,000,000, while the
says, is unable to meet
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