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= five sity of com in 22 years, they will do ci pre det to do a ahne oe and uphold the 
coming into the receipt 2 the impro The r of the 
all the benefit of their improvements, Were | claims of the „ largeness of the debt, and 
ip pak to be derived, it is too consider- | the rapid transfer of profitable aa from 
to be of public importance; but when we | trusts to railroads, call for some such 
e to account how much more than 6} or 7 | legislative measure. Even the 3 of minerals 
which will cover th payment 2 . eee left to common roads, and a many 
at from drai nstances has of late improved the A venue, is now 
e Norfolk ing, — how much greater is the a mg to the tenant and many 
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a 4 of estates, whether entailed or no ‘ith advan- | clumsy machinery by which the tolls are at present. 
of Beans, would they put more than one Bean into each tageously invest the fortunes of younger children upon | collected will be more heavily felt. The system of col- 
hole? If, therefore, a forest of giant Oaks and crops of | their n land, and what can a landowner do better with | lecting the road revenue hy turnpike-gates has frequently. 
indsor Beans can be i i i med bar and is, in i 
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Wheat, Barley, or Oats, be produced on the same prin- trifling cost, and without fettering its future appro- | to prop up an 2 meas every amendment 
he same J it because th ins | priation, and without risk, f ney so is | mu er than su substitute one simple. 
of Wheat or Barley or Oats are smaller than the grains | made a first char n the land, and is unaffected by | and equitable plan. "There i no tax more un 
| of Beans, and therefore less perfect because of less title. The machinery by which the Act is put in ope- | levied gn the road toll. It is true none pay who do 
ie, | size? No suc thing ; either A om grains i ally ration is sim mple a Fhe e possessor has only to apply to the not use road ; not fairl ly apportioned. 
i as perfect as the Bean or the Bu ut, according commissioners upon a printed form, which the commis-| A man livina on one side of a gate may carry on his- 
to Mr. Gower, the 2 . n, when * dibble | sioners will supply him, setting forth the estate, the | business over five, seven, or ten miles of road, 
their Wheat, cause 6, 8, and even 10 grains, on an extent to be drained, the proposed mode of draining, | no toll ; whilst another, on the other side of that gate, 
average, 5 be dro ropped into every hole made in their the estimated cost e 5 This application | is not only subject to the impost, but limited as to weight, 
; it must be so, for they cannot get rid of their | the commissioners hand to one of their surveyors, who | with several other vexatious interferences. In thickly 
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number, of course, will vary according to the size of|than the rent- charge, he makes a 60055 15 rep usually high, for the reason that a certain revenue must 
the Wheat), but that number will be about the average. a provisional certificate i is A Sks granted for the e T be raised to make and maintain a a great extent of road, 
Now, into how many holes made into the ground is all osa 5 and th d, however seldom used, thereby increasing the chance 
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1,350,000 by 180,000, and we have 7} grains for each surveyor’s charge for all this, when the amount taken up | are the most 3 ever y For every 100/. paid to 
hole made in the acre of ground; and let us also divide is over 1000/., seldom exceeds 1 per cent., and for this | the treasurer, a sum of not less than — is levied on 
e same number of grains by 240,000, and we have 53 charge the proprietor has the benefit of the surveyor's the public i ra tho most detailed and vexatious 
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a single grain of seed in each square foot of ground, charges are reasonable, with the a Fag esp of | other beast using the road, and passing through a gate. 
n Mr i i Now it is very evident that all ew poe: of yy 
Norfolk men require for their lands and mode of calti- | cution, Hewitt Dieis, 3; Erodertok’s, Piste Old Jewry, use a public road, more or less, in urse of a 
vating them; and let me add that 43,560 grains of | London, i ot 275 for the making and repairing which ‘ite * — 
fair-sized Wheat are in measure about three quarts, Tur rnpike Trusts.—Among the many interests which | contribute, and the most simple method of doing this is 
i. e., only just half the quantity which A am = —— will id affected by the general uge of railroads, | by a direct tax on the animal. The machinery for col- 
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part of seed required in Norfolk, according to Mr. 3 the turnpike trusts. The li ttle excitement fvery low per centage, To prevent any continuance o 
wer, i i ani by th hold the evil sought to be removed—a compulsory payment 
planted in every square foot of ground, which I main- debt, is doubtless to be mainly attributed to the great in an unfair proportion the tax might be modified 
in, under proper land cultivation, is a sufficient | o onfidence attached to the honest feeling and public according to the circumstances of the person taxed, as 
quantity of seed in any part of England for all long- spirit of the nation. The circu N under which is now the case with the — on armorial i 
— kinds of Wheat when the seed is put in no this debt has been incurred are no doubt peculiar ; but ta Na Hory arms, a certain price ; 
n the month of October, or the beginning — so ready are the people of this country vance money | sed by pro! 8 5 at ao sum; 
No —— For I wish again to repeat, what I have on any scheme sanctioned b by Parliament for a public — — for publie 9 a separate charge; 
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also use less seed in mber — 825 Gor et in in all cases, contemplated the A pm paren ef the debt, given to the interest in ra all 
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grains urnpik 
of ground. Mr. Gower, on the contrary, requires 31. out, but, on the con increased outlay in im- present amounting to nearly 40, 10004 per annum. 
1 tare been thus particular, Mr. Editor, in pried the | provem — has followed the e experience of the es mad Should begs rod plan be extended to all the roads in the 
above figures, in hopes that some of your very excellent 2 ere communication. Renewed acts have b oo the highway rate might be 
co ndents, and particularly some of „those gentle- st readily granted by the e Legislature, continuing ibe — cases, -presses most unequally on the land for 
men who have favoured me with lett will p f borrowing, the benefit of —— and the local mercantile interest. 
be so kind as to give my practice and direct a trial, — through time and habit, these bonds are looked The money 80 collected and paid into the Exchequer 
if only on a single acre each, and if they vill do — upon as a public debt, not to be violated by the technical | would, in the first instance, be available for the interest 
* I have no doubt lioin as but certain success | objection that the act on which the security originally | and iredemption of the present road debt, and the 
will be the result. But !. ə again and again repeat, | depended has been allowed to expire. In fact, the Le- | remainder of the money collected in each county be 
* they must thoro — calli vate the lands, whether | gislature, w ‘ith a most proper desire to prevent this | returned to a board which, with the assistance of i 
by the apade or EA sen t ar is, re teow fen eg cbr thy and 3 p f continued renewals, | officers, would diffuse it over the various parishes o 
oroughly and if has of late years passed a short act U t g 3 
all thoes acts that would otherwise have e: expired. It | Bath. $ 
would be most unfair, also, to tell the bondholder he| Steam Cultivation.—I am surprised that the article- 
a vanced his money on all risks of the road continuing by Mr. Hoskyns in your Gazette a few weeks ago: should 
to pay. Had the been in all respects a mercantile have called forth so few remarks. What have ap- 
ion, or a toners speculation, managed solely by | peared seem 3 unfavourable to the notion of 
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those whose mo was Br m and subject to to the steam agriculture, The priacipal objection seems to 
t S; g would weight of steam engines. But as no very great 
| be good ; va che ator bes is — — The money is power would be required, the engines need not be so 
borrowed by perso y a public act, for the sole bees bi a essrs, Garrett's portable engine, ad- 
use A 3 benefit of the public; and by no e time since in the Gazette, was sa 
ilki possibility can the er e n, weigh 50 e included, and to p to six 
| Valuable Assistance to the Improvement o “of tease the 4 or 5 ag ts ge promised him ; which = 1 but it may perhaps be something more 
| ee . — ot en — lef paid fi een I nthe best i raer a keren 3 al Would not 4 or ke ies Wie mele a 
? which the placed within react t unpaid for years. In e instances, the princi 0 orse- — 
| of land — A b i paa” with uired ? 3 pi aeh apeme a rom pon nie 
fice h ve to tenants an imy roved | much an and depreciation. A feelin of the just | fact much greater the power of ordi ; 
g — pares 15 a fi itar — rieti claims of the bondh —— has man irs itself i ii tis horses. Ifa steam cultivator could be eir umna] whieh: 
this —— “of — Government, in the matter of the | would require only four horses aw it 
le turnpike roads in Wales. A promise has also been field, nothing better could be desired ; for a farm large 
held out, that, should N attend the 3 of con- enough for a steam-engine would have full work for 
this | solidation which is now bei tried there, the same | four or five horses in carting, &c., at such — as they 
Wi —— modifications, be ex to would not wanted for drawing the e. 
England. The late Mr. McAdam’ several times sue - The cultivator itself could be v very easily ma 
- | ceeded in bringing the subject of consolidation of yor —the lighter the better, as far as is sent with 
pike trusts before Parliament, He conceived that t ed pre If the points were so bent as to enter the 
measure, ground at — 4 e or nearly so, it would jock so 
Jay is Ne podad, | and a skilful and economical nilay under an establish- much 3 1 pee! an idea, too * too, that the psi 
may eff ect this — — of their land ment of proper officers i h ty—tl j e manner, be 5 rendered Narres 
any diminution of their incomes, and as the | to superior control in London, would enable the Govern- able for dssining — Suppose ere was a 
