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— th piston and wooden stand Grafton- street. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and and ng by the new eee would be a 
bloc — peii ee a werder for the agricul-| Co.; and James Ridgway. ve ery extended consequence as not been realised. 
comple unity as one half the lowest price yet charge d| Mr. Vin ENT SCULLY has rece 977 1 peel e short 17 el Nor have British farmers, ex meee ry small numbers, 
fr thom namely, at 18. 6d.— The Counc il ordered their | under the above title, which is n n induced to locate themselves on the lands vacated 
k ee 
usual ac e verkla ‘fie the favour of these commu- 
nications. 
A Weexty Councit was hel yas held at the Soia à House 
i ver-square, on Wednesday, the 23d of June : ae on t . san and also 
3 the Earl of Ducie, President, in tho air ; supplementary a — ing moiety, as | trie 
Berners, Sir John_ Villiers Shelley, Bart., Sir the “title indicates, is a — of a “Chanel Islnd 
Robert Price, Bart. M.P., Sir Henry Shiffner, Bart., whose agricultural prosperity is i gre 
Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., „Col. Austen, po at i in Mr. Scully's opinion, to — — 
Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Browne, Capt Wentworth general facilities affecting the transfer of land in 
Buller, R.N., Dr. Calvert, Mr. W. ndish, M.P., — highly favoure oa portions of the British empire. ° 
Mr. George Dyer, M yre, adesden, Mr. | We shall make ip on eac 
randreth — Mr. Glegg, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. 1. Free tra 
H. Kemble, andson, Prof. Sewell, Mr. Simp- 
son, Mr. Robe rt Smith, Mr. Soll ys Mr. Spencer Stan- 
hope, Mr. — and Prof. 
Mr. Se n made munications 1 the 
er on aes rogress a the light i in winter 
Gadesden Dated that his own crop had 
tacked, — he understood that in Northamptonshire 
similar ieee, fs in —2 ere to the 
down and carried to 
hite magg ing into the stems and The Ea 
of Tyrconnel transmitted 1 m Sir 
inson and Mr. Grimstone, subject 
Gardn e, 
~ Egyptian Wheat and Peas, of which his lordship fa- 
ured the Council with specimens. —Messrs. Swinburne 
reported of cheap glass ‘tens for 
dairy p uncil ordered thei ual ac- 
8 tie the Weber of these cab dt 
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A SPECIAL 2 ne 2 on the Judges to 
be selected for the Lew 
y, the 23d of June: : presen nt, the Earl of Ducie, 
Raymond Barker, Mr. W. 
pson, and Mr. R 
k into 00 the special * 
ng, and decided on the Judges 
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of their meetin 
e Lewes Mee 
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appointed ‘i in the be ious departments of the Exhibition 0 
AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF IRELAND, 
Sept. 7.—Mr. Tuomas Harkness, the 9 the 
following report of the judges of the Society, in reference 
to the ee — of Mr. Bell, of Per thshire, and 
Mr. Robins 
Judges ene 7 albot de Malahide, Chas. Wm. Hamilton, 
Lower 8 Robert C. Wade, am gn 
Crossakeale; Finla W. Cusack, Lower * street; 
Thomas Thomps son, Holywoodrath, . ock; Benj jamin 
Willan, n Finglas ; Thom ut ler, ee n 
Clonee; Thomas 3 1 George Harden 
Huntstown, Finglas and Richa rd Phillips, Belgrave. 
. day = committee agen to 
2 — r. Bell's hine standing 
of Wheat, ina field belongin g i "Thomas Tho 
i ix perches ; 84 
about binding and stooking. It 
was a very heavy erop, full of rank Clover and Grasse 
and it took the men and women an hour it six minutes 
to bind and stook that which had been cut in hour. 
the ground in first-rate order, and laid the cut crop wit 
perfect ev re; in fine order for the 
binders to take up ind, e machine cut clean a 
th of k 6 inches, and the work here done 1 pao 
clean. i eel on to express it as 
their m bite Naps Maso that Mr. Bell’s e 
reaper i of great value in agri 
is, in fact, of national importance, and deserv 
highest enc nt. Mr. Bell’s machine, during 
the — iey TERTE cut as near 
could e calculated a t 74 Iris e coni- 
of merit N tili 
Reer io; 
utility, superio: 
bein 
cae an acre and 13 perches per hour.” 
1e Cha been very much gratified 
at ment performance of Mr, Bell’s = ng 
pesna eee — ve — it without bein 
a can 
S 3 ve been hid under 
La , Whether 
attention from its conciseness, a a quale 
b ec e re 
in books or in viva 
Half of this ne 3 is partly a a Laa st of a ‘pero 
la sei 
owners of Ireland that their pa i will be 
advanced by eN 3 fa perfectly 
and, which — o N existing sitesi 
e gene’ — inte “of gee 
of England and ‘of — empire at large. 
1 recollect — our own occasion. 
observations on the iasta of land have been in 
j * d. re 
The chief object of the writer is to convince the land- mo h 
uliar * 
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country, and — ay — 
ow 
forced ware = n 
ess =a of a disa ency. 
And wh ee, of land i followed 
in Ireland from the system of cheap and easy transfer, 
which has ten m a tot 
es? Evidently, beca e sudde 
vast quantity = property, sd a be promptly and peremp- 
torily sold by the auetionee e time when the 
number of capitalists of the ` most desirable order had 
been nearly extinguished 
the famine wh 
** pauperised tenants, and 
landlords by the pr 
iple ad d b | depreciators of property, was not 
Sealy. We br h er 1 fo ih ear however moderate, but erg amount of rent actually paid’ 
by a or a dishonest tenantry, whereas 
— wr -= which e * — ve scr ms oe a intrinsic value of the land 8 hi ve been the 
ties, the artificial obstacles, the standard of price—looking to the natural progress of 
rome limi —— . he disproportionate — tka ae | the country, after the famine and its consequences should 
ely aa. the actual money value of have passed a 
i It is almost a 
og investigations se ee 
Cy nec apt oc before trans be 
effected. “tit the formalities which i b oo. sales 
of land — simplified and cheapened, the value of aeons 
in any part of the Bgy Kingdom would rise 
hands, still gre so e 
legal obstacles to its free ia nsfer. Thos nts 
are occasioned principally by the mara — and 
expenses attendant upon the transfer of landed property, engagements 
ermit land to be held | 
or under 
those laws that p 
ain indefeisible 
1 period is in prac 
3 the 3 d that law refor 
| requved by which even mall 5 of 1 — 
may 2 be l * the 
or any small capitalists“ desirous of vesting 
in an of pee ap 2 a 
0 
their funds 
it, we are not at 
think 
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however we may doubt the e of adopting some 
= = rem — a easures 3 ng avoid quotin m 
r the reader to the editorial 
dec of the Bath of April py as an exposition of our | 89 
general register o of = to la 8 a 
mode—and the 
most 
Seo ti 
| transfer of land to that of stock, would be ‘among the 
ing 
h padlocks which close access to it 80 despotical 
It may be said that recent facts in ses ao the 
an 
anticipated, has been ex- 
at = igo relief — Ireland which had 
been contemplated 
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easy matter to suggest imperfections, real or imaginary, 
in the details of any proposed plan for ong nt a desir- 
ras Tepandi whilst it ass be difficult to devise a more 
Th st all persons — admit the 
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as the agency of the Encumbered 
t has em it has been, m pem human 
schemes, s — koenen of good and e e good in 
me particu! been e rated, 2 the evil has 
also pan — But, un oubtedly, the anticipated 
mediu 
* negotiable land — res. 
e yeomanry class, 
in mao that the sales of | 5 
ra — . sper been generally made at disastrously sp 
“Now, then,” as Mr. Scully says, “it is a an » 
and system of 
matter of re regret with us that some a’ 
was not afforded to le Irish ee age by deen fu 
7 standard at which 
e famine seine and 
t have 
bentures. t give his o ws here 
* One of the chief 9 — f felt | ie “the invest- 
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_ to time, without 3 or delay, raise sums of 
oney to pay his debts, to give portions to his children, 
to improve and stock his farms, and to meet hi: 
voluntary conversion of all charges that now affect 
| property— nts, crown rents, quit rents, 
tithe-rent charges, d 
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registering all ac ds, and in 
ron thenceforth be e substituted ie —— 
simple fo of 
that such 5 r be negotiable 1 Tike “bills. of 
exchange, and be eagerly so — as securities 
by bankers, Ke. “The proposed debentures would 
resemble in y respects the 8 
issued andes the Irish 2 Acts These are 
the lands drain improved, . tho 
ndvantage of a Parliamentary title and 
all other man except quit rent and tithe rent 
3 interest upon them is payable "n on every 
an and first day o pea they 
are re transferable by simple . with t stamp 
duty.” 
A petition in favour of the issue of debentures of this 
ee bee by Mr. 3 and 8 by a 
umber e Irish ari 
wners 
a Hotes of Talash 
pasda result in Ire The objec 
ces Bill in yrr ee did no 
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them to raise a limited sum 
debentures.” Who can 
injurious to 
extended as a enable 
h the means 
w paints predicate, with any degree ent a 
one desiring. 
pee gi eee fee 
but will the Saas al 
the year of grace is continued 
2. The second part 
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a very 
bia a 
Review. 
Fana Ireland and the L 
and Question. I. 
in Land. 2. The Channel Islands. * 
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J 20't0 50 aeres), by which it was ex 
By 
Scully, 
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Esq., 8 Dublin: Hodges and incent 
»The great bulk of the funds is held by small stock pro- 
in —＋ in small divisions s (from j 
ce | the r 
Cate org, the inhabitants of these ot ia favoured 
islands have nothing of the original Gaulish character ; 
