The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
Hanging Of Russian HlhlIlsts al
Prince Jerome NapoISOn's Alleged
Manifesto. r
He Believes In the Eventual RostOr-
alton Of the Empire.
The Gloomy Outlook of the English
Farmers.
FOREIGN NEWS.


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Drawn OF the English Farmers = The
Continued Rain Destroying the Crops
ers Moving TO Protect Their Rights.
LONDON, August 26.-Reports from the
agricultural districts throughout nearly
the whole Of England and in some por.
tons Of Scotland, give a still more gloomy
view of the effects Of the rains during the
last few days than had previously been
communicated. The former rains had
left the crops in such a condition that
only long and uninterrupted season Of
fine hot weather would have enabled
farmers to reap even hall harvests. But
the rains OF the last week, although not SO
violent in many places as former storms,
did more damage and have left scarcely 4
yestige Of hope for the agrfculturists.
In the opinion Of many acute and expert.
enced observers the inevitable and very
general failure OF the cereal crops OF the
United Kingdom this season will be at
tended with serious political as well as
financial consequences. Many Of these
observers, who are by no means alarmists,
express the belief that the general disaster
and peCunlary embarrassment which will
now fall upon tenant farmers OF the king
dom, especially in England and in certain
parts OF Scotland, will be the last straw 10
break the Camel's back, and that early next
year, or perhaps even this winter, a yio-
lent political agitation, will be set on foot
for the purpose OF remodeling existing land
laws Of the kingdom, and to give to ten
ants and tillers Of the soil greater se-
curities against the consequences OF
such disasters as those Of this wear,
than they can hope for under existing con.
ditions. 1t is pointed out that relations
between landlords and tenants have, for a
long time, been in an unhealthy. and
dangerous condition. Farmers have been
induced to pay increased rents for their
lands, the combination between the
agricultural labors has compelled them to
pay larger wages. They have expended
large sums OF money in purchase Of i'm
proved agricultural implements, they have
spent great sums in manuring land and
have, in many instances. agreed to pay
their landlords five or six per cent on
money which they borrowed for these pur-
poses. But there has beena succession OF
unproductive seasons, the consequences OF
Which have fallen with great severity up
on the farmers. Free trade has deprived
the English farmer Of the power which he
formerly possessed to charge high prices
for agricultural products In seasons when
the crops were poor, for foreigners who
had good seasons and large crops have
been able to import grain at prices ruinous
TO the English farmer with his bad crops.
Besides this, many farms in England have
now been cultivated so long, and their
natural productiveness so greatly exhaust
ed, that to obtain even moderately good
crops without the expenditure Of large
sums of money for artificial manure has
been impossible. Farmers have year af-
ter year invested not only their capital but
their earnings in land and the land
has not returned an adequate inter-
est. Capital is now locked up in unpro-
ductive farms which can repay nothing
until serieso OF good seasons recur. Ten.
ement farmers feel deeply the necessity OF
change in existing methods OF doing
business between themselves and their
landlords, They are clamoring for such
legislation as will no longer leave them at
the mercy Of their landlords in case OF a
succession of bad seasons, or OF any un-
usua! low prices for their products, and
the tendency among the tenant farmers
and agricultural lab0rers to make a com.
mon cause against the landlords is one Of
the most peculiar features Of the stu.
alton.
In Ireland the agitation among tenant
farmers for reduction Of rent was, at
first, confined to a few districts OF the
South and West, but It has now penetrated
to the North Of Ireland. An immense
meeting was recently held in County
Antrim, and it was composed OF tenant
farmers from Antrim, Londonderry and
Tyrone, and comprised about 1000 men.
each OF them held farm at stipulated
rent. The sense Of the meeting was OK.
pressed in resolutions, which declared
there must be a reduction OF rents, that the
present critical state Of agriculture dc.
manded this, and that the law
should make provisions for determin.
Ing, In case Of dispute be-
tween tenant and landlord, what fair
rent was under the circumstances, In a
word, the condition OF the agricultural in
terests throughout the country is one
which excites growing anxiety; and
while, on the one hand, conservative
portion OF the community is alarmed at
the symptoms of discomfort which are
everywhere to be seen, the radical agita.
tors are doing all in their power to fan the
flames Of this uneasiness and discomfort,
and to feed them with the fuel which will
set in motion an, engine designed to over.
turn the entire existing fabric OF English
society and law