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have little time to devote himself to sylviculture.' The comments 

 of our kiudly French critic upon the New Forest are still more 

 discouraging, and we trust they may attract the notice of Sir 

 William Ilarcourt, in the leisure afforded him by immunity from 

 office, and by the peaceful tranquillity of his sylvan retreat. 

 Therein might, indeed, be a platform ' cry ' for aspiring politicians 

 in the demand that the noble forests of the United Kingdom should 

 henceforth be so managed as to yield a large and increasing annual 

 revenue. In short, the * Eeport from the Select Committee on 

 Forestry,' like many other documents, goes to prove that no small 

 portion of our existing agricultural depression is due to unpardonable 

 ignorance and carelessness." 



The Rcvuc dcs Eaux ct Furets for September has also a long 

 article on British Forestry, translated from the Saturday Review. 

 Ghamhers's Journal for the same month has an article, " Are the 

 Canadian Forests being exhausted ? " where it is argued that 

 provision must be made by law for the protection of the Canadian 

 forests both against the devastations of fire and the injudicious 

 operations of the woodman. 



Small Farm and Labourers' Land Company. — At the first 

 general meeting of this Company, held in London on September 

 8th, the Chairman (Lord Thurlow) intimated that there were 

 5652 shares held very largely by working men. They had 

 determined to sell 200 acres of the 400 acres given to the 

 Company by Sir Eobert Lindsay (now Lord Wantage), and they 

 had no difficulty in disposing of this in small lots to seven or 

 eight persons, who were to be meanwhile tenants and to pay up 

 the price of their holdings by degrees. They were receiving 

 letters every day from landowners wishing to sell land, and from 

 people desiring to buy. In answer to Mr. liussell, one of the 

 working men from Northamptonshire who had become shareholders 

 in the Company, desiring assistance in taking up some suitable 

 land there belonging to Lord Wantage, the Chairman promised to do 

 what they could to facilitate such a purchase. The idea of the 

 men is that each build a house on an acre of land and pay for it 

 by instalments, as well as renting land in certain portions, some 

 wanting ten or twenty, and some up to fifty or sixty acres. Some 

 of those men were cowkeepers, having several head of stock. 

 They were industrious men, wanting to spend their time in 

 cultivating land. Those who had eight or nine acres would be 

 able to help those who had forty or fifty acres in their surplus time. 



