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relationship embittered before one side or the other is brought 

 to its knees by the ruinous consequences of such bloodless 

 warfare? 



As we write these words the daily papers are full of Lord 

 Winchelsea's scheme for agricultural union. In many respects 

 it may be faulty and impracticable, but for the sake of the end 

 that he has in view, we heartily wish him " God speed." 



In the old-fashioned romance the closing scene generally 

 included a wedding. In this prosier narrative of facts, let us 

 as a fitting finis imagine that in the efforts of the above-named 

 hereditary ^ friend of the poor man, we already hear the joy 

 bells of the marriage between agricultural capital and labour ; 

 a union, it is to be hoped, almost as loving and lasting as that 

 which knits together man and maid. 



' I call Lord Winclielsea the hereditary friend of the poor because his 

 name, or rather that of an ancestor of his, occurs in the Reports of the 

 Society for Bettering the Poor, at the end of the last century. 



