New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-21

zen Of opden--ofa q trsdesman Of great enterprire
and ofeonsiderable property, but of one be it eb-
served, who had not been used or accustomed 20
farming, and who Was yet able TO teach English
sQricultursts lesson in agriculture. Upon bar
rem heath IN RsseI Mr.. Mech bad planted Model
Farm, and such were his improved methods OF
cultivation, of draining. Of manurng, aud Of sub
soil blowing, that upon that barren heath there
stood at that moment the very finest crops through
out the length and breadth OF Britain Exclama-
tions of ast0nisbmentl. He sdmonished country
gentlemen that new methods OF cultivation had
been too long neglected. He warned them that
instead of being before the rest of the world they
were lamentably behind il. lie cautioned them
to take care lest they were outstrpped IS farmers
By people of whom they appeared 70 entertain
much too light opinions. In fine, Sir Robert Peel,
shaking al the country gentlemen the fore-hnger
of his right hand, after his peculiar fashlon-warn
ing, exhorting, threatening, inspiring, almost in the
same sentence-reduced the House as he almost
alone could reduce il, To absolute obedience. And
the text from which he preached throughout was
this same farm Of Mr.. Mechi, of which nobody,
before that day, had ever heard. but which, from
that day and long after became the battlefield on
which Protectonists and Free-traders. Corn-Law
men and Anti Corn-Law men, Wings and Tories,
Old Fnglauders and Young Englanders, msnufac-
turers and farmers, fought many heavy fight Of
words, both before Parliament and the people.
The Model Mech and "Mechs Model Farm
became the waichwOrds OF one party, while by
the other the dictionary of the English language
was dissected for every der i've, defamstOry and
disparagipg dissyllable the dialect afforded, the
whole Of which could they have been disposed into
one loud, strong, discrediting, deamiDg and damn
ing denunciation, would have been deemed too del
icate and debonsir to designate Mech as dsgrsce-
4, "a Ira IN hat no rrad
Since all this occurred eight or ten years h1e
run their course. Free-trade has become the law
of the land our farmers have been prosperng un-
der its provisions the averments of Sir Robert
Peel az to the backwardness Of English agricul-
turalsts have been recognized as partly, If not
wholly true and Mr. Mechi, who held his
course complscently whilst the tempest h0wled
around him, now enjoys the iavoring gales and glad
deniDg sunshine of prosperous career. As IL Is
now DO ones interest to abuse him, and as he is
accounted rich and is known to be generous, kind
hearted, and enterprsiDg it follows, as a natural
consequence, that every body praises him. need
scarcely tell you that he is what be always was.
II is the world that has changed-n0t the man.
But Mr.. Mech knOws-no one better-hOw 70
turn the changes and chances of the world TO
count and / will proceed to tell you how he now
applies his knowledge.
Once every year just at the close OF the London
season, when every one in town il signing for
breath of country air, just before the commence
ment OF the harvest, when the green wheat, fully
grown is Just beginning TO get the first tinge of gold
upon its ears-once a year, when the days are
hottest in the town and brightest in the country,
Mr. Mech has an agricultural gathering az
TiptTee Hall. To this gathering are invited al the
notabilites of tie day-Mnisters of the Crown
and Ministers of the Gospel, Poets and PlenipOten-
tiaries, Peers and CommOners Lawyers and Lit
erati, Citizens and Country-fok Tradesmen and
Farmers mitstors aud admirers. all turn out IN
see Mechi's Model Farm To these, collected
at bis hospitable Hall, Mr.. Mech proceeds to show
bis Improvements lie walks them over his fields
and through his stock-yard-he expatiates upon
his difficulties and explains his improyemeDts-he
discOurses on his crops, exhibits bic machines,
lectures earnedly On his manures, shows how he
distributes them, and when the party have ac-
quired sufficient information and astounding appe-
tites, he concludes the day by setting them down
TO banquet such as a Londoner alone knows how
10 manage
Now that politics are no longer mixed up with
hechis model processes, and now that all parties
will consent 10 hear and think Of Tiptree farm
without prejudice, shall have chance of being
listened to if tell you quite the truth concerning
it, and lead you TO regard il it is and not you
would see il through the spectacles of faction. As
place Of country resort, then am bound 10 say
in the first place that Tiptree Hall is one Of
the least pleasng ever chsnced 10 visit. England
is prOyelbial for it's pleasant places Who, in
your back woods, however improved may be his
material condition will not sigh at the fond re-
membrance Of the village home in which he
grew-of the white church spire that point
ed M 10 heaven so fOndly from the clus-
tered elms OF the old manorhouse, scenes OF
many farmhouse and Christmas revel, OF the
clear bright never-failing stream that ripped past
his cottage door, the village green on which be
fought his earliest battles, the lane so calm, 20
tranquil in the evening shadows where he courted
the first fair object Of bis love, the bank where
grew the earliest and brightest primroses, the
bean field that exhaled It's thousand odOrs 10 the
dewy evening, the cultivated farm, the busy mill,
the meadow where the land-raD craked, the pile
from which he caught that first glimpse of the
wide, wide world that taught him there was
something beyond his lovely lot and thst tempted
him. perchsnce unwisely, TO desert it Alas
alas
But Tiptree Hall IL unconscious Of all this
situated on an elevated, bleak and barren heath
without tree within mile OF il larger than
laurel il boasts not q single rural beauty, such rs
We regard rural beauty in this country. Mr.. Mech
has made a great effort to compensate for this By
artificial gardening but though everything has
been done that cultivated taste ard lavish eX-
pendture could effect, yet the result, ss whole
is tminently unsatisfactory. Terraces and en-
bankments have been thrown up TO relieve the fiat
monotony of the lsDdscspe-a bog has been con-
yerted into series Of little akes-Yalks OF every
possible variety have been wound around plants
tioDs-tender shrubs have been planted and efec-
.uaIy reared on spots where uature neyerintended
that shrub should erow-hower beds have been
laid out with al the elaboration Of which the
Italian style Of gardening is susceptible-colour
has been properly introduced where nothing was