Jaxvanv 11, 1862.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 31 
~ Commutation А 7 | to what had been said by the noble lord, tommo t on | classes from attacks which have been sometimes wan- 
O ion he asks for ЎЎ the thod hich had been sustained by our Que tor et made upon them, but rather to show from the 
the uting the ет tithe г е. If however зд mation. We pani not regard our own acie as a|lives of the engineers, as pourtrayed in the volumes 
E Ex of such Бш. г> o he will nd his ociety as small, for thou ugh ме might t look forward before u8, what very great improvements have beeu 
he has uch simplified if he purchase (whi yet his Roy time to time by a employment of skilled 
work ш a copy of the tables usually po in Highness's assistance was especially necessary in labour and well direeted capi 
m showing the value for the ensuing year of this year. We had seen him in that That the early inhabitants "ot Britain were familiar 
— Pat of tithe as fixed by the ой apportion- room we to eda us the more sensible of our loss. І | with the use of the spade and mattock is amply 
- чту One of such tables is Depuis by - sra there was a moment when he could least have been |attested by the earthworks, embankments, and ditches 
soci by * Pyne.” I have use ed both and fou em | spar pde whe the counsels of an affectionate and judi- | which remain to the present day in various parts of 
луча accurate and fully answering e eful | cious p were so necessary, it now when the | England, and. more especial the w ounties. 
s soin aa creen н n bout а rector's амеби боган of the Prince of Wales re render ed a These, however, were principally intended as the bases 
а farm 007. a year, is not, in| father's advice so necessary. f defensive operations, and had little to do with the 
ven mie nes, чун зө Roaldus, Richmond, | the subject of c ondolence with Her Majai who was | arts of peace, excepting so far as they afforded indi- 
А Y iencing the greatest sorrow all our Peg cations of M permanent settlement of strong and 
C Money on Payment for Corn.—After the ordi- а he trusted that the petii P the уон resolute m Indeed the Celts were, for the most 
ess Peterborough Corn Exchange |s n might at no distant time tend to allev yiii баал гасе, and it was reserved for the adven- 
алу ad been despatched at their annual maig | her gri us tribes of Belgiu m and Frie sland, who early 
held last Wednesday (Dee. 26) a representati: An жойы then prepared for transmission t 
made by a deputation of farmers of the чанак жое = As ri бош the Secretary of State for the e E ear the d of its реште. aee and to 
ting from the varying amount of m as me Depart: cultivate the rich — lands by the seaside and along 
chap money by the different purchaser orn, r oU eem the „valleys. y these Ps colonists 
ting the company wou d take steps to ы the | acquired possession ve all the rich land i in England, till 
fa uniform custom, whereby disputes may | . sri апте in аі родго Ъу - ills of Cumb p of 
n f of excessive sums be| 7. ales, and o ornwall; but as it was in the 
ы EM The Company declined to decide Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of their distric of Bemat osan: that e co — 
the question themselves, but after some ‹ discu: uss ion re- 
that ‚һе е matter had been brought und 
tion of Соер and that a paper bond. be 
mitted to the farmers, merchants, and others for their 
ignature, rana that it was desirable a uniform rate 
t 
d 
1 an 
10 ага. of Oats should be allowed as customary 
Ee for prompt payment of Corn, excepting in 
such eases of sale where em conditions are agr eed 
n 
Principal Works, comprising a wed { Inland |; 
СТЕ in yes By Samuel Smiles. 
John Murray. 1861. 2 vo кё 
Mr. Smiles is eminently one of the working bees 
literary hive. Without нс н e. elements w - t of Kent, is supposed by the шоя on whom 
a happy facility in creating new and agreeable com- aq irt o relies, to be due to the Fris who were 
pounds, and in the several works on which his well- IN wit АА mbanking; t ing in 
igrants thei 
they put forth em first nen efforts at т cinese 
| The „reclamation of the tra ict of Ro omney Л Mar sh, c con- 
1 1 i eir own ш 
1з. | earned popularity depends, he has given satisfactory |a great measure the r call of laborious industry in 
interest whi 
evidence that any fact or problem of interest which | i Ret ming ее (comun it from the inland as well a 
comes within his range is sure to Дай a suitable niche | the outland waters. English T ue not reach so 
i» os боер OOA of his narrative. In the volumes | far back as the period at which Romney Marsh was first 
imed t doub 
or only а рге! work is one of god 
the sabora aim has been to give an The дир is about 14 miles long and 
or millers w. — excepti ions to ча "d » de- 
ducting more erm rates above-mentioned; and on 
the other hand the buyers are few mung iege pode а 
abolish it а As а rule Aim is Did. fi it 
deliver: Saturday next after pur 
Instances w cited of ld. in The pound ина claimed, 
of 2d. in tiai NIA, of 1s. 6d. per 10 qrs. of Oat: ia өз 
; raetice, 
ры ро 
recom: e printed, and if, it probably ^will 
be, vomer signed, the great publicity given to the 
question t: 
arule of the market. 
Sotíttits. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENG 
At a Special Meeting of the Cou aei on i Wednesday 
eo mda nition аа | 
W., Peterborough. 
o 
64 of some of the -principal men by whom 8 eg "divided in to Romney Marsh, Wallend Marsh, 
the ау “development o Bus has been | Denge Marsh, and Guildford Marsh. Thetractisa dead 
promoted, and in pursuance of t plan, many | uniform level, extending from Hythe, in Kent, west- 
of the earlier pages are occupied w C ward to Winchelsea, in Sussex; and it is to this day 
sketches of those pioneers of заа y | held from thesea by a continuous wall or bank, on the 
whose * skill and industry large tracts of fertile|solidity of which the preservation of the district 
land have been won from the sea, the bog, and |depends, the surface of the marsh being under the 
the fen, and made available for human habitation level of the sea at the highest ^ On the land 
and sustenance.” A work of this kind, executed with | thus reclaimed, upwards of half million sheep 
ordinary ability and tact, is almost certain to meet besides many cattle are now depastured every year; 
with a large class of Willing: amama. ; and if the price of that tl 
these superbly prin vely illustrated present day assert; Mab: че world is cinis into 
volumes had only been ыла а ‚ые SLE Sero ара Euro Afri and Rom Marsh; 
{2 ndreds of i uiring agriculi 
ust some time to 
RE — inaccess ssible to millions dry more tha 
who read, and a brief notice of some by itn leading | sea, and sheep now aze where formerly the 
» 
owis 
hair, Lordship о] ened 1 ү proceedings 
P gr 
galle Romans r an n 
One of the points brought out most prominently by | much diffieulty have only been retained by constant 
1 
| dg hi N b his R 
that when 1 ovember last oyal| Mr. Smiles, is the remarkable change which the last 24. careful attention, and “the la 
| аар сд Consort had presided, it w. ti few centuries have wrought in the attitude of Great ey Marsh,” after being Avid papse ч A 
thought by any then present that that would be his | Britain, towards all the rest Re the world. In the hose other districts, lies to this day “at the bottom 
. last appearance аб their tings, o t any cause | infancy of improvement all our great works were |of all legislation on the subject of embankment and 
more serious than temporary illness prevented the dis- ES oreign engineers and artificers, an шада: As far back as the reign of Henry IIL, or 
ern duty узн ће ота always performed in | although it is undoubtedly true that Agriculture owes | more t ncs ago, legal proceedings 
a manner епі n 
Royal nghe arrived in this танна 21 years ago, 
political Кр а е 
меге 
is | very muc engineering science, it A. impossible to | taken ратну such landlords as үнс to pay their 
arrive at any other conclusion, than that engineering quota of the cost of keeping the banks in order, and 
ce itself " ih, its ep 
ran high, bu t with the gre eatest ta act, scien rh a the child в i the time of Edwar „ when the sea broke through 
of our agricultu Indeed, he bank near Denge gna it was attributed to the 
and adviser of her Majesty, without identification with | earry out the ЖЕКА to its niin consequences, it |^ "pravity of ill-disposed men," who in the common 
фе les of tho party. The „Society would Seed feel | may be end] эдет tha s the ematical nicety. day, had minded thei ticul 
e so cessary ng жеч эч level- gain and * sca тре t ME work." 
foreign nations, and e lin C Y embankmoni "of landed property, led "Sirmgewsi it may , the Thames, which now bears 
. allyof the. ү, Commissioners for the Ísternatinal e nsibly to those improvements in machinery and its bosom a large e psbpoetion of the available Ө wealth 
. Exhibition, was urgentl er ed nd w ch | паана а ө rm а distinguishing character- of М civilized world, is strictly speaking an artificial 
upon the s ju is nt and|istie of the industrial life of the present day. From | river almost from Richmond to the sea. The original 
mein х е. ушей! the pde qM wouid болоп їп the tbi i s point. of view x^ reciprocal dependence of agri- ER ikment was а work of much labour and difficulty, 
of the cou had joi but begun b mans or the same iau 
a Special C Conil ab Wk period instead of ала for much „as the agricultural body has tribes sx б а йу Marsh, it is 2. 
he ыч their ordina eeting in Februa ту, and 1 Ве this as as it may the work was 
Жз. they would ba e express the П und on inquiry, that many msdbcessfal carried on from one generation to another, till the 
| this sad у by framing an address to her Majesty on | exper edt Qe tended to jus ow tiy йш caution. Nor is | river was confined to its present limits, and large tracts 
The occasion, this all: for as Mr. Smiles | of ferċile land, in addition to the sites now occupied by 
Ыя requisition for ires tnn A the Special Council ost of our modern сацы oF of industry were | Southwark and Lambeth, were reclaimed from the 
ving been read by the Secretary, Lord Feversham | b eigners, mi of whom were driven by | flowing tide. For centuries, however, ri 
y gn y g 4 ever, repeated efforts 
| that an humble rua bé presented to her religious persecution to seek an asylum in England. | were made b er of E e re his 
| ©; y expressive of the sincere condolence the|Our first cloth workers, sil eavers, and lace |lost territory, and it was onl he exertions of 
Pe "i^ ү ей ма Fine s : ha hec et ы e zd E ы h pei re The A ontius 3: Hitin сазва supplemented by the 
v pring, ‚ began pottery manu-|labours of Corne 
Shown his usual diffidence in accepting the of Р 
d | b th 
facture рн, а German, — the first peet were effectually т epaired. - 
i ti B 
E d. "When 
cited the aid of i 
e perience mbers of the Council, | Ње first coach into Eng we wanted any | works of reclamation were ied ut f to p 
reala ag him to carry out the duties which would be | skilled work done, we almost invariably se an "IE " bai reip c d 
of hi t a Gene May he е to do it. Our z^ & ships were built by of enterprise extended itself to the well-known district 
e d m ї 
айыры кы лентай he felt confident, that the 
ir during ı 
Spithead i in 1545, Yee were i. to raise е Mr. Smiles, тш Abbot of pmo made үл сабий 
When ап е as required to pump w across the level, which is st after him Gray- 
from the e Lr the Supply "ot peni Poler Ке Жол. But it pub until the reign p: James I. 
Mary Rose sank аб | of Sedgemoor, in Somerset. “ Іп ancient times," says 
y 
alluded to Md кока ы 
cultivated m ind M динар ale and | 
y His al Hi gh- | 
rice, the Du l that that rich tract of 13,000 acres of land, now covered 
TE word, pong cbr prit " industry of Great | with orders an was reclaimed y drainage 
Britain is comparatively es m of very — and embankment; and it was the dykes or *rbines*? cut 
iutroduetion ; ; and , but „for the aid оше to LA. in the moor which afterwards threw Monmouth's un- 
tained € Ré ж Өт "MARS 
readiness, in common with the unanim mous feeling of 
| ment would "have pru far less rapid and th l army, and in a great measure caused their 
country, to in any measure w 
alsingham 
М gn 
Our purpose, Me. r, is|discomfiture," 16 is to be regretted that Mr. Smiles 
: Tr der. deep condolence and heartfelt sympathy. | 
pe soda E i MA at the|was not enabled to add as a sequel to his narrative, 
defend y great and perfect 
of the a iei nor to the since that since the oth of July, 1685, an; 
