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profitable crop ; but if the value of the flax were added it would 

 make a considerable addition. 



The Chairman then put the resolution, which was carried 

 unanimously. 



Sir FowELL Buxton, Bart., said that Mr. Partridge, in the 

 course of his address, had stated that he was not possessed of 

 information on the subject. He had also come there to listen 

 to what passed and to learn. He was certainly very much 

 gratified at what he had seen, and at what he had heard from 

 Mr. Warnes, but he was not quite so much pleased as Mr. 

 Warnes, when that gentleman had pointed out, how by the 

 growth of linseed and the consumption of barley in the com- 

 pound, the price of the latter would rise to fifteen shillings, 

 from thence to eighteen, until it reached the good old times of 

 a guinea a coomb. Now to a man who consumed about one 

 hundred thousand quarters annually, this contemplated rise 

 offered no very pleasing prospect. (Laughter.) But among 

 the benefits and advantages to be derived from the growth of 

 linseed, there was none in which he was so deeply interested as 

 that which Mr. Warnes had stated with regard to its employ- 

 ment of the working classes. Upon that point he would not 

 yield to any one. — There was no doubt but that employment 

 was required for the population, and that it ought to be found 

 for the labourers, by those who have the means and ability to 

 promote it, and therefore he hoped, that taking the question 

 on this ground, there would be found to be no difference 

 of opinion as to the resolution he should move — " That as 

 funds will be required to further the ends of the Society, it is 

 resolved that a list be now opened for donations and subscrip- 

 tions, and that the public be invited to unite in furthering the 

 laudable objects of the Society." He (Sir Fowell) thought 

 they were aU under great obligations to Mr. Warnes, and the 

 least they could do would be to provide the means by which 

 the society was to be carried on. 



W. BuRROUGHEs, Esq., said the subject had been so well 

 discussed, that he should content himself with merely moving 



