The AGRicrLTiEAL Cor^xIL foe England. 



[Jan., 



LORD LEE : — My Lords, ladies and gentlemen, I am 

 extremely grateful to voii for the way in which you have received 

 this resolution, to my friend. Lord Bledisloe, for moving it. and 

 to Mr. Eoyce for seconding in such generous terms. 



With regard to Lord Bledisloe 's remarks may I say this. I 

 admit with one solitary exception the composition of this plat- 

 form, as he called it. might create the unfortunate impression 

 that he mentioned, but may we look upon it in this hght. that, 

 always excluding my noble friend, the Chairman, this is not 

 the platform but the dock. and. as is not unusual, the dock is 

 elevated above the rest of the Court in order that the features of 

 tiie criminals may be clearly revealed to all present. 



With regard to what Mr. Eoyce said. I can assure him that 

 the suggestion that I am possessed with a mania for ploughing up 

 grass land is just as unfounded as it would be to say that some 

 General whose business it had been to fight through the war vras 

 still animated by a mania for killing in times of peace. The two 

 epochs are entirelv different, and I trust my future conduct in 

 this matter vnll be found proper to peace conditions. 



ERRATA AND ADDENDA. 



pp. 921-927, for Bkchfield throughout, read Birchwood. 

 p. 921, Line 3, for 600 read 510. 



Line 4, for less than 100 read only 43.3, and for 

 480 read 460. 



Line 9 from bottom, for 160,000 read 260,000. 



Line 4 from bottom, after completed add 

 " Since that time most of the rest of the 

 farm which needed draining has been 

 drained, and a fmi:her 3^ miles of hedges 

 have been removed." 



