The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

to the facilities offere

to his fellow-countrymen to transfer their in(
to places within these realms he proceeds :

"But when the:

taking a longer
his intelligence,

WIIS VI toe pone, He ►s lett slow rnis►s preciseiy the Kind or land which we have been
The ships in which his pas- told again and again by Lord John Manners, the Marquis
-4.-ncled, badly found, of Granby, and other Protectionist landlords, cannot be
cultivated at all with wheat at 40s, even if it were given
- - —.,r free. This property came into my

sage must be taken are badly c

and badly commanded."

We do not hesitate to characterize this assertion to the cultivator rent ire.. _possession in 1847."
as an impudent invention—so far at least as
regards the vessels which take emigrants from the We shall not pause to remark upon the mode in
which Mr. Cobden became possessed of this estate
port of Liverpool. There are at this moment in
the port of Liverpool such a fleet of emigrant ves-
of 140 acres, namely, that it is a• portion of the
league tribute, but proceed to describe its situation :
Eels as our contemporary, we believe, never saw.
When we mention such noble ships as the Constella "The estate, as I have said, was situated in the midst
tion, Guy Mannering, the Jacob E. Westerfelt, the
of large Protectionist landowners, who, as a matter of
course, were great game preservers—(laughter)—and it
Shannon, and others of the like Pl had therefore been particularly infested with hares and
rabbits. I authorised the tenants on my land to kill the
hares and rabbits, and to empower any one else they
pleased to kill them. (Hear.) So troublesome had been
the hares and rabbits on that little property, that they

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to produce their like,

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even entered the gardens and allotments of tlie labourers,
and one of those labourers appeared hefore the committee
of the House of Commons on the game laws in 1845,
and stated that the rabbits had not only devoured his
vegetables, his cabbages, and his peas, but had actually
dug up his potatoes. (Laughter.) At that time-1845
the Property did not belong to him ; but I took care to
explain to this worthy man in 1848, when I visited the
estate, that if the hares and rabbits ever troubled him, or
the other labourers living upon my property, that under
the present law any man may destroy hares on his own
holding without taking out a licence, and I advised the
labourers to get pins and snares upon their allotments
and in their gardens, to catch all the hares and rabbits
they could, and when they caught them to be sure and
put them in their own pots and eat them themselves."

In point of fact, Mr. Cobden's estate, surrounded
as it is by the preserves of the Duke of Richmond
and other large proprietors, is a very snug little
game trap ; and his tenants and labourers will
make a tolerably good thing by snaring such of his
grace's hares and other game as may happen to
stray into their gins, or within reach of their fowl-
ing pieces. Of course none of the intruders win
reach the London market, as none of Mr. Cobden's
tenantry will become wholesale purveyors of hares,
rabbits, pheasants, or partridges !- They may live
on tolerably dainty fare, however, without much
trouble, and at their neighbours' expense.
Well, Mr. Cobden first paid a visit to his new
purchase in /848, and forthwith began to prepare
for competition with the foreigner. He says--

" I gave orders that every hedge-row tree upon, my
estate should be cut down and removed. I authorised the
two occupying tenants upon the property to remove every
fence upon the estate, or, if they liked, to grub up only a
portion of them ; but I distinctly said I would rather see
not a hedge remaining on the property, inasmuch as it was
surrounded with woods, and I did not think fences were
necessary. That portion of the land which required
draining I had instantly drained at my own cost."

After doing all this, however, he received, "in the
course of last year," a letter from one of his tenants,
suggesting that, as he had taken his farm from the
previous proprietor under the expectation of an
average price of 565. per quarter fur wheat, he
should, now that the price was only 405., " like to
have a new arrangement made." The suggestion
was a most reasonable one, and was listened to by
our new landowner. Mind, this arrangement for a
reduced rent was made "last year" only—in 1849;
and now let us see what Mr. Cobden says, and
remember the extent of his experience :
"We settled our terms. I have bargained for my rent.
It is ro business of the public what rent I get. (Hear,
hear.) That is my business, and the business of the far-
mers ; but if it is any satisfaction to my Protectionist
friends I will admit that I am receiving a reduced rent—
(hear, and cheers)—notwithstanding that I have drained
the land, and given them the game, and removed the
hedges, and cleared away every hedgerow tree. What.
then, becomes of the argment that it is impossible to carry
on agriculture in this country with wheat at 40s. a quarter ?
(Cheers.) lam getting some rent—and not so very large
a reduction from the rent I got before ; and it is enough
for me to say that the land is being cultivated, and that
farmers and labourers are employed and contented."

He has bargained for his rent, and got some of
it—some of the first year's rent—and thi4 settles