THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Jan. 13, 



roths, and until my services were called for on other . 



ties. In this company there were no punishments, j s jdering the Chronicle as applicable only to 



the Island of Gozo. A few days after my 



, and that I i 

 'half-pay, th 



arrival the gar dener, it frequently contains brief, but very clear, 

 > me the ill j intelligible, and masterly expositions of the principles of 



^KjuidlLgrienitBrirt. C.L^Cinruuter. 



which appeared in jour Number for Nov. 25. He 

 states, " In a late Number of the Maidstone Gazettt 

 may be seen six advertisements by different auctioneers 



ment forfour montbi at Feakle, in the county of Clare; _ 

 scarcely arrived there, when two of my fellows got mad ca 



" night, and^ paraded nex: 



Feakle, was accompanied : 

 ■whole population «.f the \i! 



t begged off. The < 



EitEi 



fiogged had I not forgiven them, 

 was congratulated as having the o 



For the last 20 years I have coi 



profitable retun 

 by Mr. Davis? ' 



M, But I am apprehensive n 



part of the country, have lodged in a family where the 



Lord was not worshipped by reading, Binging, and 



blic prayer. Nobody complained more of our Church 



; it is not so generally considered that it is our schoo 

 I our kirk, the shorter catechism, and the Bibl 

 ich have given their impress to the national characte: 

 1 developed those moral and intellectual qualitii 



ture. Let me not be supposed to insinuate that th 

 ive quotation is a true picture of Scotland as it no 

 Alas, no ; the provision for the training of your 

 I old has become wholly inadequate for our increase 

 lulation ; and there is growing up on all sides a mas 

 human beings who are sinking deeper and deeper i 



ranks of pauperism and crime ; and, if the only r&nedy 

 be not speedily applied, threaten to bring a terrible 

 retribution on those who have neglected to care for 



; they are too frequently better provided for by 

 r and gentry of the country, and I lose them. I 

 ntion another fact to show how little will influ- 

 ; a newly raised regiment was marched from 

 i commanded a company ; the 

 i march was a long one. While nearly half the 

 ;he other companies gave up, by enco 



n : . , 





men's rooms, that they misfit learn how to keep their 



Ho . was th. n ,-c,;,np'.„:,ed « by continual watcl 



. ; working on their fears, by bcoI 



, by ceaseless cares and constant a 



tudes \ Not at all. I did nothing. My men al 



enjoyed the pride of doing everything themsi 



They knew good conduct would please, and they w 



to do so ; they knew it would conduce to my credit 



they wished me honour ; they knew ill conduct v 



werages of any seven years in the last 60 years," Mr. 

 Davis states, * And what is highly important to note— 

 this large quantity has been collected in this short time 

 upon a sudden demand, with no previous anticipation of 

 any such requirement, and after a previous drainage of 

 the old stock, and still its withdrawal has had little 

 effect in raising of foreign prices, the last foreign re- 

 ports being large supplies and lower markets." And 

 iU at I am writing on this subject, I cannot but 



i regret that my letter was not published entire. 



ssage on exports, imports, and the free trade 

 theory, was I think correct. I desire only to state and 

 " w the truth ; if I was in error I beg to be sel 



promote the welfare of the country, has induced me tc 



g. 10 A. 2!a. [ WeTave no objection to^llusiom 



herefore we abridged your letter.] 



The Rural Poor.— The condition of the rura 

 f the midland counties has recently been commented 

 pon by several of your correspondents, and has fur- 

 lished a topic for some most judicious observations by 

 yourself. Will you permit a Scotsman to add a word 



nts, I doubt not, are sensible men, who abstractly, 

 l the guidance of their ordinary affairs, fully 



a"-: 





tit as well rob a 

 however, seldon 



priest. The process of 

 a rapid one ; it is not a 









temper, and much for- 

 ore the love of kind, and 













1 objects that it is this 



:i : !i.' 





^"uperion 



rue pride which equally 







is, that gentlem 



nly feeling which shrinks 





wounding the sensibility 



of others, and disdains 



I. Mi 



«''"" 'j 



of attempting 



(,;,,,uird, I) ■ 



to reclaim by abuse 



s of the soil, they a 





™re 



God 



ave they cast off regard 

 lat it is no wonder so many persons consmer 

 ise as hopeless, and look upon any attempts to r 

 as the dream of well-meaniDg, but weak enthu 

 et all consider that God himself has provi 

 ;medy, and that His blessing has always accom] 

 s honest and persevering apii 



easantry, from the use of such , 

 your correspondents suggest, can^issue only ii 



Hybrid o 



. is 



they have seei 

 and an old spo 



; ■ - 



! bold and great tyrants to their hens, and 

 cage the moment the 



eggs. The i 



> lay, as he will 



and will let you 

 iding, in the 



tfr. Hux table's Far 

 Hcultural Gazette of the 23d ult., t 

 r red by the Rev. A. H 

 ister Newton, near Blandford, my eye passed very 

 riedly over all the former part of it, being attracted 

 "an account" towards the end, which I, in common 

 Relieve) with many other farmers, have always felt 

 srested in obtaining. But never before did I see 



x:v, 



L ditto. I beg to state, for their i 

 :h 100/. of rent-charge will, for tl 

 j to 100/. 35. 7K, or nearly 2 p 



« Annual Tithe 

 alue of 100/. of 

 ing of the Tithe 



mnciple to the case of the peasantry, and vainly expect 

 ■he sons of toil to grow up industrious, obedient, sober, 

 md honest, in the total absence of auy training fitted tc 

 yield such valuable fruits ! Is there not here a forget, 

 ting of the solemn truth, that we all alike inherit i 

 nature which, if left to itself, will as certainly yield th< 

 bitter fruits of ungodliness and dishonesty, as the earth 



we are not left in doubt about our duty in this case 

 God has said, « Train up a child in the way he short 

 go, and when he is old he will not depart from it," am 

 in the Bible has fully made known to us " the way, : 

 which secures eternal life, and fits men for presen 

 duty. For proof of what may be done for a whole com 



ity by a system of such training as the Bible incul 



h let me briefly refer to the history of my nativ 



itry. At the era of the Reformation, Scotland wa 



£ into a state of apparently as hopeless ignorance 



, poverty, and anarchy, as perhaps Ireland has eve 



been ; and yet, through the blessing of God, on tha 



scheme of instruction for young and old which Knox 



1 his coadjutors succeeded in establishing,»the aspect 



society began rapidly to improve, and made such 



progress that about a century after our great Reformer 



had entered on his public ministry, we find th 



, every family almost had a Bible, yea, in most 

 mntry all the children of age could read t 

 ures, and were provided of Bible either by th< 

 s or ministers. Every minister was a very fi 



professor of the Reformed religion, according to t 



large Confession of Faith frame*! 1 1 







r office, so long as a Presbytery e 

 I any. Also, yon could not, for a 



>ortant question, namely, Has Mr. Huxtables 

 of farming been one productive of profit or loss . 

 xtable occupies two farms, and has done so 1 

 about five or six years, and for one year only, 



e farm. I have not the slightest doubt thatthe 

 , so far as it goes, is a perfectly true and correct 

 it what can it possibly prove which the puDUe 

 benefited by learning ? The * balance sheet 

 public) for this past year, should have had con* 

 with it that of the former years, upon which the 



, a ble facilityl 01 



payment and receipt which can fairly be attachet 



and let the deficit thus shown be accounted for 

 valuation taken of his " stock and crops " by some 

 or persons habitually employed -■ 



ment of results, but the principle upon whi 

 account would be conducted would, in my 1 



ie years in which . 

 and attention to fai 



?lf, in a pecuniary point of view, I am as i 

 ) doubt as before the statement appeare 

 eners' Chronicle of "101. per cent, i 



