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soil, I think it is impossible not to see that it is of 
immense importance to the possessors of property that 
the farm-labourer should have a deep interest in the soil. 
The question was agitated last session with reference to 
the policy of allotments to farm-labourers, and much im- 
portant evidence was taken upon the subject before a 
committee of the House of Commons. I have read that 
evidence, and the impression on my mind, whether in a 
political or a moral point of view, is in favour of allotting 
to the respectable labourer on a farm such a small portion 
of land as would afford occupation to the vacant hours of 
himself and his family, and give him an interest in the soil 
common with the great proprietors. I do not know a 
better occupation for the few leisure hours he has to 
devote to the superintendence of his family, than the 
attention to a small portion of land for the increase of his 
means of subsistence. I am now speaking of farm-labourers 
only, and not referring to those in towns and villages; 
and I must say, as far as my experience goes, Jimiting the 
quantity allotted to what can be cultivated by the labourer 
and his family—not converting him into a small occupier 
of land, but giving him only a garden allotment—that I 
consider such a system of allotments would have a great 
tendency to raise the moral character and inc 
happiness of the class of farm-labourers. Attentio 
condition of the labourer will do more to raise these insti- 
tutions in general estimation than any improvements we 
ean make in machinery or in stock. You who have w 
nessed the scene of the last quarter of an hour—who have 
seen respectable labouring men called forth to receive 
prizes for their good conduct—cannot have seen it without 
feeling that these institutions havea tendency to strengthen 
the bonds of connexion between the tenant and the land- 
lord. Gentlemen, if my life and health are spared, I shall 
have the satisfaction of presiding at your next meeting. 
Meetings of this kind have a great tendency to remedy 
one evil under which the agricultural community labour. 
From the extent of your farms you live separately, and 
do not possess those means of m: ently and of 
profiting by mutual intercourse 
persons in the manufacturing d 8 
bring you together in unrestrained and free intercourse, ar 
tend to destroy that unhappy prejudice among farmers that 
the particular course of agriculture pursued by each is 
est. Why, there was not a competitor | to-day w 
did not leave home under the perfect conviction that his 
beast was the best. I myself participated in that delusion 
when I left home, but I found out that I was unsu ful. 
So with the farmers generally. When they come to these 
meetings they see better beasts than their own ; and the 
go away with the opinion that they have not yet arrived at 
the utmost limits of success, but that increased attention 
will lead to more improvement. I hope all who have 
been successful this day will strive to maintain their posi- 
tion next year, and that the unsuccessful will try to 
deprive them of the advantage they have g 
hope, gentlemen, that J shall have the s 
meeting you again next year. J am afraid that 
occupation of my time and my want of experience I shall 
not be able to give you so excellent a lesson as my noble 
friend has delivered to you this day; but this 
you, that I shall equal him in the desire to promote the 
t} 
th 
prosperity of this institution, and 
however versed he may be in prac agriculture, who 
feels, whether on private or on public grounds, a more 
sincere desire than your vice-president entert 
the agriculture of this country so prospering 
improve the condition of those who pursue it, and 
the strength and resources of the British 
Several other toasts followed, including the Men ’ 
the county and city, for which Lords Ingestre and Leve- 
son returned thanks. 
Liverpool.—it is understood that Mr. Dyce Sombre, 
who, it will be remembered, disappeared from the Adelphi 
Hotel, a few days ago, has written a letter to his friends, 
in which he gives them to understand that he is in Paris. 
—The sales of cotton on Monday amounted to not less 
than 25,000 bales, and an advance of id. per lb. was esta- 
blished. This is one of the largest daily sales that has 
ever taken place in Liverpool. The hand-loom weavers 
have also had a full share of the benefit of the present 
revival in the cotton trade. From the great demand for 
the mousselines de laine, the cloth of which is better 
manufactured by hand than by the power-loom, they are 
mostly fully employed, and are receiving better wages than 
they have received at any time for the last 10 or 15 years. 
_Lutterworth.—A serious accident occurred to Mr. 
Sidney Gurney, son of Baron Gurney, whilst shooting 
with Mr. R. Gough, at Misterton, near this place, on 
Tuesday, the 26th ult. In getting over a hedge, both 
barrels of Mr. Gurney’s gun accidentally exploded, the 
contents lacerating the muscles and flesh of the left arm. 
The hemorrhage was so great that, had not Mr. Gough 
immediately tied his handkerchief tight round the arm, 
fatal consequences might have ensued. Mr. Gough then 
placed Mr. Gurney upon his shooting pony, and conveyed 
him to the Lutterworth mill, where a surgeon dressed the 
wound, and it is hoped tHat the limb may be saved. The 
concussion was so violent, that both locks of the gun were 
there is no one, 
roken to pieces.” 
Be GCidkom.—The local papers state that Mr. Thomas 
Je) den, brother to Mr. Fielden, M.P. for this town, has 
‘d the sale of his é 
t property, ratber than pay the 
amount nes by the Income Tax Commissioners. It 
appears that the three years on which the return of income 
was made were most disastrous to the firm in which Mr. 
Fielden is a partner ; 
T. Fielden refused to pay. The consequence has been the 
sale of some hay and a horse for the amount due, : 
Oaford.—The Rev. William Thompson, M.A., Fellow 
of Queen’s, has been appointed principal of St. Edmund’s 
Hall, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Grayson. The 
names of the Rev. C. P. Eden and C. Marriott, Fellows 
of Oriel, are mentioned as likely to succeed the Rev. J. H. 
Newman in the vicarage of St. Mary. The living is in 
the gift of the Provost and Fellows of Oriel, by whom Mr. 
Newman was appointed in 1828. The Rev. Dr. Pusey 
has returned to Oxford, with his health quite restored. It 
is understood that Wednesday, Oct. 11, is the day ap- 
pointed for the hearing of the appeal from the Vice Chan- 
cellor’s Court to the delegates in convocation, in the cause 
of ‘* Macmullen v. the Regius Professor of Divinity.’” 
Ryde.—On Sunday last, the Rey. R. Waldo Sibthorp 
received the Holy Communion at the parish church of 
St. Helen’s, near this town. It is presumed that this is 
a virtual renunciation of his connection with the Church 
of Rome, and of his return to the Church of England, 
from which he seceded about two years since. 
Worcester.—Mr. Strensham, of Strensham Park, in 
this county, on whose estate the author of ‘* Hudibras ”’ 
was born, bas erected in the parish church a monument 
to his memory. The following is the inscription :— 
‘ This tablet was erected to the memory of Samuel Butler, 
to transmit to future ages that near this spot was 
born a mind so celebrated. In Westminster Abbey, among 
the Poets of England, his fame is recorded. Here, in hi 
native village, in veneration of his talents and genius, this 
tribute to his memory has been erected by the possessor 
of the place of his birth—John Taylor Strensham.” 
Samuel Butler, the son of a farmer of the same name, was 
born in the ‘parish of Strensham, on the 13th February, 
"as ed in St: Paul’s, Covent Garden. 
veys.—The following are the returns for the last 
week :—-London and Croydon, 328/. ; Sheffield and Man- 
chester, 6727.; London and Greenwich, 826/.; London 
and Blackwall, 10407.; Hull and Selby, 1041/.; Great 
North of England, 1347/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 
13641. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1570/.; Birmingham and 
¢ 16012.; York and North Midland, 17982. ; 
arn, 1761. ; Birmingham and Glouces- 
be 
& 
r, 47471.; London and Brighton, 5344/.; Man- 
ster and Leeds, 55097.; Grand Junction, 88252.; Great 
ern, 15,5294. ; London and Birmingham, 17,638/,— 
The half-yearly meeting of the Sheffield and Manchester 
Company took place on Wednesday week, at Sheffield, 
when the report of the directors announced that consider- 
able improvement had-td i in the prospects of 
ine, which was now proceeding with vigour. The 
already opened, 
eaving a 
amounted to 
onge 
80 8 ex 
y the Parliamentary est 
anch line to Ashton was 
3 ley was in contemplation. 
ay Viaduct of the Dover 
ort Tunnel are fast approaching to 
completion. The timber portion of the viaduct is within a 
nge of cliffs in its rear 
at to be scarped down to a uniform incline, similar 
e cliff at the entrance of Shakspear Tunnel. The 
E g along the viaduct will be screened from the 
arapet along its side, and 
on the bottom by the timber platform. The arches of the 
tunnel are completed, but at present blocked up, and con- 
tions. The approach walls 
ds have reached their half height. The brick- 
work is much admired for soundness and execution: in 
this instance there are not only the walls of a tunnel, but 
also those of a fortress, the massive masonry in some parts 
is 10 feet thick. It is understood that the tunnel, in conse- 
quence of its immediate connexion with the fortyess, is to 
be barricaded with gates of great strength, and that provi- 
sion will be made for defending it by musketry.—Last 
week Mr. Braithwaite and another gentleman arrived at 
Brentwood from the Shoreditch station of the Eastern 
Counties Railway, each upon a four-wheel locomotive pro- 
pelled by themselves, at the rate of at least twelve miles 
an hour. The name given to these novel carriages is 
“ Railway Velocipedes.” 
IRELAND. 
Dublin.—On the 28th ult. an adjourned meeting of the 
Repeal Association took place, at which Mr. O’Connell 
noticed the article in the French Journal des Debats, 
quoted in our Paper last week. He commented particu- 
larly on the statement of the Dedats, that ‘‘ Ireland was 
blind to wish for repeal, and as to England, she ought 
never to consent to it, inasmuch as her separation from 
Ireland would cause her to descend to the rank of a third- 
rate power.’’ He then proceeded to attack the King of 
the French, and condemned in violent language every 
member of the junior branch of the House of Bourbon. 
He apologised, however, for the elder branch, which, he 
said, was always friendly to the Irish, and terminated by 
declaring that if Henry V. would give a charter to 
France, and should afterwards require an Irish brigade 
to enter Paris, he should have it in forty-eight hours, 
—The usual weekly meeting of the Association took 
place on Monday. A letter was read from the Hon, 
Mr. J. Ffrench, requesting that the people of Ahas- 
cragh, who had been punished for pulling down an arch 
erected in honour of Mr, O’Connell’s visit, might be 
now forgiven. According to Lord Ffrench, they have 
“expressed the deepest feelings of sorrow at having, how- 
ever innocently, suffered themselves to be mixed up with 
being ani 
g of 50,0002, ov 
be effected. The t 
tes would 
about to be 
any transaction which should cause them to incur the dis» 
pleasure of their august leader and of the Loyal National 
Repeal Association ;” and his lordship offered himself 
as a guarantee that “they will in future conduct them- 
selves peaceably, and strictly observe the counsel and 
regulations of the association, upon their being graciously 
pardoned by the Liberator, and the town of Ahascragh 
once more replaced within the pale of the association.” 
Mr. O'Connell said that any request from Lord Ffrench 
must be granted, and Ahascragh was accordingly forgiven 
and restored to the repeal map of Ireland. He announced 
that on the reassembling of Parliament he would devote 
one or two days at the commencement of the session, if 
the union be not repealed before that, to presenting peti- 
tions. What he wanted was to get some ten or twelve 
petitions, with 100,000 signatures each. He then read a 
letter from the United States, signed by John Arlington 
Bennett, major-general, and John Clinton Beckman, adju- 
tant-general, offering military org: ation to assist him, 
“ Of course,” he said, ‘(I spurn it (tearing the letter in 
pieces), That is the way I treat their military organ- 
isation. I have a trick worth two of that.” He 
next announced a return of the population and pro- 
bable number of voters of the town of Athlone. This, 
said he, completes letter A, and we shall new proceed in 
order, for we must finish these returns before we get up 
the three hundred—bog-trotters, as the Times calls 
them. As yet we have but four—ah! thisis what delays 
me—for I can do nothing without th returns. We 
must have everything ready for her Majesty, so that she 
may at onceissue her writs and summon the Irish Parliament 
to meet in Dublin.” He therefore moved that similar 
returns be procured from the towns of Carlow, Clare, 
Carrick, and Clonmel. The rent for the week was 
8141. 7s.—Another adjourned meeting took place on 
Tuesday, at which Mr. O’Connell complained that his 
observations on the Royal family of France had been mis- 
represented. ‘¢ He had never bestowed unqualified praise 
upon Charles X. of France. He might have spoken com- 
mendingly of his domestic virtues, but he bad committed 
the greatest of all crimes in havin nt down the cousti- 
tution of France, probably mi 
Polignac. He certainly did 
Charles X., Henry V.; and he repeated that eulogium now, 
and he also repeated that he would wish to see Louis 
Philippe—who was the friend of an infidel university, who 
had abi bed the liberty of the press, and the trial by 
jury where it was most required, that was in Crown pro- 
secutions—succeeded by Prince Henry, provided he gave 
constitutional guarantee of rational liberty. He would 
not go to war, notwithstanding the taunts of the journals. 
Je would continue the agitation peaceably, and he defied 
months of that peaceable agita- 
without the Government coming to 
talk to th an arr ment for a domestic Par- 
liament. Hi ly would not go to war to please 
the French democracy or the English conservatives.” 
of 
—Thbe first of the Repeal Arbitration Courts was held on 
29th at Blackrock, five miles from Dublin. The 
wing urbitrators, appointed by the Repeal Associ 
tion, were in attendance :—Dr. Gray, (chairman), Mr. J. 
O'Connell, M.P.; Major Nicholson, Messrs. James Nugent, 
John Rafferty, and Matthew Moriarty. Immediately after 
the arbitrators entered the court, it became densely thronged, 
and the liveliest interest appeared to be taken by the 
spectators in the proceeding. Not the slightest interrup- 
tion took place throughout the day, and two cases were 
heard and disposed of to the satisfaction of all parties. 
ated that the origin of the court was the dis- 
rtain gentlemen from the magistracy, because 
they exhibited an attachment to legislative independence, 
and the people had therefore determined to appoint their 
own magistrates—a right which the constitution and sta- 
tute law vested them with, and which they thus resumed at 
the recommendation of the Association. The court would 
be perfectly open to all, and would submit to the strictest 
scrutiny in all their proceedings, all its members having 
made a solemn pledge to do justice to all parties impartially. 
Mullaghmast.—Another of Mr. O’ Connell’s ‘* monster” 
assemblages took place on Sunday, at the Rath of Mul- 
laghmast, in the county of Kildare. The matter had been 
much spoken of beforehand, and consequently avast con- 
course of people were assembled. With the associations 
connected with the locality of Mullaghmast—the alleged 
massacre of four hundred of the principal persons of the 
district in the early period of English rule, the public had 
been made familiar, as the subject has recently given rise 
to much controversy. Mr. O’Connell appeared in the 
scarlet velvet robe which he wore as Lord Mayor of 
Dublin, and was accompanied by the Aldermen in their 
robes of office, which appeared to be objects of great 
curiosity to the peasants. Among those on the platform 
was Mr. Hughes, one of Mr. Gurney’s short-hand writers, 
who attended on the part of the Government. ‘This is the 
first occasion on which a professional reporter was sent by 
the Executive since the commencement of the present 
agitation. Mr. O’Connell said he thought that Mullagh- 
mast as the scene of English treachery was a fit and be- 
coming spot on which to show their unanimity, and on 
which, in the open day, to evince their determination not 
to be misled by any treachery. “Oh, my friends, vil 
keep you free of treachery. But do not fear—there shall 
be no bargain, no compromise, nothing but repeal and @ 
Parliament of our own. My advice to you is to confide 
in no false hopes that may be held out to you—to confide 
in nothing until you hear me say, ‘I am satisfied.’ And 
Vil tell you where I'll say that—near the statue of King 
William in College-green. We have come here to express 
our determination to die to a man, if necessary, in the 
cause of Ireland. We have come here to take the advice of 
each other, and above all I believe you have come to take my 
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