6-1849.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GA7^iTE. 







■ Wetlandshire Mercury whic 

 fresh and damp from the Press, and castin 

 ;ern of itself upon the polish of one of thos 

 >ganies, there appeared one Saturday mom 



drty-soinething, a shori 



proprietor. Capital required, 

 [easts Penn and 

 landshire." 



Farm to let ; on Lease. 250 

 nd Pasture. Has been 



10/. to the acre. Appli- 

 Debbitt, Bogmoor, Wet- 



Yes :-No : What is it : " said the voice fr< 

 fireplace, uuenquiringly, and smothered in a ' 1 



- 

 tiooMth, language used cau^enable us to give to it; and as 



SB SlSS? SS& ^ip*$*$ s 



OttOMICLES OF A CLAY FARM. 



3* j* ? 11 ° f B °g moor is ^t famous in History : 

 nor md«d geographically. It may not perhaps have 



£r eiL V r er r eS F° n8ible ^^ ° f pubHc n ° Uce 



in Titular* ili!™^' °* f ° r 



UwLif T tl °l Upon Marlborough, Wellington, and ' 



^St\Z™^ e&t name8 ' that ™* 



"ay- -7* >W£r ot the Hero - like a 



kd the P pl a ° c U e tbalanced a11 P^iic^inurfference. Tn 



a « »ith, who far some J^ "^ ° f those folks ««er 

 ^"gh that ee u,= t °v View , . ever y other object in life 

 toalipdS ^8atl to makeeve ** ^^ J6 ° f ** 



^ e st «et itself aill i ?l , remarli the contrast between 

 ?** «u-th soluS h l/ aCes that met ^u in it. How 

 ^ther in 1 Ch ^-satisfaction had ever been not 



2j«*W JcSK.^ iu the mind ^ e ^rv 

 iSfc* 1 / out of wet nar?2 C ^ Sp0P ^ ngeX ; 



?**?•* *• ^ c rrth:feS 



te gWhep i Qo t e tai ' as you passed, and exerting bo"h 

 ^ttn? de ° Ce ° rt . ' Wh ° *" y ° Ul ' tark ° f inC ° D - 



^s^^sst^i^ z: hole 



!f d(low ttthe2!! ldow visibIe a long way up the street 

 " sws-room, Readings 



inquiringly again, and never looking u 

 1 Why young-oh ! what is his name- 



>prietor.' I wonde 



' returned the other 



" I didn't say I didi 

 provoking gravity of i 



(a grunt from the fireplace) "—young 



mything else till he 



' Leader :' which hai 

 hed he starts up, lets go the hobs, and parting I 

 t tails, turns round, and again takes possesion of tl 

 ; indescribably ; and waking up to the subject, asi 



^ WMJ uuwa xooKea east-ward, and the sun was 

 ing in : the weighty-looking pacquet had not been 

 on the table before the doo? opened, and a sbooting" 



ied. We had yesterday 

 ■■■I, ttifliinj t<> inpect personally and have refusal 

 the same. We will forward you further particular* 

 mono, v. We are, Sir, yours very tcu)y, 



'Marked on- n.uttered the 



own« »c the she patting down the 



»l** * .i ,' t 'lion's half of the first'eup'of 

 •lwo days' i.otice-«no! not so much ; not 





ouncement in th< 

 .: pacquet, direel 



b h- se hV" vil)g upon ' 



ts, and coffee-cups. Eh 



table stood h 



Small, oak-pannelled, 



r and upon every table with misi 







four dried lumps of soil, aa hard as stones, la; 

 at one end of it on separate pieces of ex- 

 and through their coating of dust feebly 



Levels- out of - 



l ' evidently. Odd com 



: 'rejected ad- 



H..,<.ry 



• i 

 jagged leaves the moral as well as physical t 



volume of Raleigh's History of the World, 



deliberate and abstracted utterance i 

 thought than syllables, he gradually f« 



'And so, my poor old Farm, I must now bid you fare- 

 ell. I who have taken your part through good and 

 now the coarse of every drain and could 

 ■very weeping outflow that has wrought 

 ge iu your once untoward look, and ill 

 ame : earth's tears of penitence and Promise ! I who 

 l many a long 

 v,, u wear this 

 .-_ 

 jrve,_as many a sad heart has said, after all its 



THE RURAL POUR. 



r 'arm labourers is a subject for 

 s inquiry. Whatever may be the morality of 

 luals on particular estates or in favoured parishes, 

 lass the rural poor are no credit to our civil and 



■ ur judgment to the jubt influ 







nit, and incontrove 







tfling arguments of partial and 



incompetent witnesses. For the proof of t 





do no mo 



ich has appeared m 



"wkfS 





ns of your Journal. There we 



find "the 



bavardage 



of « T. R. V.," and the silly, m 

 of " Georgos," who coolly tells us 







that with 





erty he feels certain he should ha 







candidate for the hulks. I hope 



he is no 







the same 





ith more discretion, though each in 



his turn 



Us us w 



id humane treatment. The last, though 



. -;, mdeuts is an extraordi- 



ry genius. His bodily presence suffices everywhere, 



d under all circumstances alike, to produce order, 



n Chichester to Chal 

 rhis clever officer suj 



:ix r ^ of T 



smeared the page below 



> "«.;>d .iiv lu, ' 



roduce it, and a monument nigti as 



olid mass of Culifut 



ih! „ur -ratitiule. This iSi cm-m. n,s. 



^W- , tupep '« name ViT- PC S " Z< 



*i8S ^^be*^? "^*^ Sostdayr"^' 



v ( . ,£VL 0m or it8 bow-window 



'•J:eaps of news-papers 



^^^^S3S32ariiS: a r n c d ,! b ed d d T, deDU H y - r icst ? e dogs ,' ° id - fa - hio ^ satx ■ -; ?ta."=*ws 



--thenewsinside^^l-S^^^^^^ « will uow 



reply, " S. S." started on his journey 



re of experience, whether 

 much wideAange than '•' 



Are pauperism and crime 



Soodiff have 



of the great and ^row- 



