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nrosDerity and the prosperity itself . ( Cheers . ) Now , he nhesitatingly affirmed , that as far as he was able to form opinion , it was the superiority of the Divine wisdom that baffled the folly of men . ( Cheers . ) It was the produce of + £ * Australian and Californian gold mines that was repealing the Bank Charter Act of Sir R . Peel . ( Loud heersJ It was the instinct of our countrymen to fly from the land that spurned them , and the soil that would not otect tjjemj to a country that would protect their labour , and offered to receive them . ( Cheers . ) These were , to his thinking , the two causes why the harshness and asperity of the Pree-trade measures were not at the present moment felt so deeply as they had been , and as he would be felt maintained that it
feared they again . He was not in consequence of , but in spite of , Free-trade , that the country was in part prosperous . ( Cheers . ) But when people talked of the prosperity and progress of this country , he denied that that prosperity was at all equal to what it ought to be , and to what it would be if it had not been for the mischievous legislation of Free-traders . ( Cheers . ) He denied that it was equal to what it was prior to that time . ( Cheers . ) He affirmed that if we had fust and wise laws , our progress would be infinitely greater than it now was ; that , as compared with what it ought to be it was absolutely retrograding ; that , with respect to what it was , it was now standing still ; and that , when they looked at America , it was very insignificant indeed . " ( Cheers . )
He referred to the future the mitigation of the evils of Free-trade . But there was one subject which Government must soon decide—the Income-tax . How a Protectionist would deal with this tax we hereby see . This difficult subject must be considered and must be decided upon in a very short time , and he entertained great hopes that it would be got rid of altogether , and that the country would return to a sounder system of legislation—similar to that adopted by America—and make foreigners pay a great portion of the taxes of the country . Let them call it what they liked , he was quite convinced that that was the only system of taxation tolerable in this country . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Farnham , M . P ., appears to be a gentleman with little logic and a lively faith . He had great confidence in the Government , " particularly as Mr . Disraeli had said ' there was something looming in the distance / " Mr . Bennet , one of the " judges" acknowledged the complimentary toast : — " Tenant-farmers were the great paymasters—the middlemen between poverty fend wealth , between capital and labour . It was this that had made them fare the worst , for whatever the amount of their produce might be , they
hnd to pay all above them and all below . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Packe had described himself as a large occupier , but ho was not a tenant-farmer ; and Mr . Packe the occupier could easily arrange matters with Mr . Packe the proprietor . ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) However , he thought that they had now passed the worst ; but in any case his advice to the tenant-farmers was not to look back . Bad farming could do no good , it would injure the labourer and the land , but at the same time it would not benefit themselves . ( Cheers . )" Several other toasts were then proposed , and the meeting separated .
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LORD BATEMAN AT LEOMINSTER . Loud IJateman is a noble lord , not was ; as the old ballad hath it ; and ho harangiieth at Protection meetings and supporteth Lord Derby . The other day he was at Hereford , and now he appears at LeoiniiiHter . His topic was whether or not Lord Derby was still a Protectionist and a friend of the fanner , and he settled the matter to his own satisfaction in the following way . After admitting that the country was prosperous—that prosperity did not arise from Free-trade—but from I'onfidence in Lord Derby—ho proceeded : —
" During tho latter purl , of tho last session of Parliament much was Maid about Lord Derby having given up this , taut , and tins other . It , was assorted that he wan no Pro-MH ' t , ionint , no friend to ( ho fanner , a Hucond Sir Robert Y'f ' l , and bo on . lie ( Lord Batoiimii ) maintained that these assertioni * word unfounded . At tho time that bin ( M > rd Hateman ' s ) brother ( Mr , Hanbury ) became a candidate lor Herefordshire , ho ( Lord Haleinan ) waited upon Lord Derby , and ho would innko no secret of what , transpired , becauHo it would throw no blame on any one . ' '" K obtained an interview , ho informed bin Lordship " | < he currency of Uio report Unit be bad given uj > I ' ro''etion- -that bo eonflidered tho farinerH worn- idiots to t -lumour for Protection—and that , bo did not entertain the j" » no opinion upon Liu ) Hiibjeet , an formerly ; in fact , that . Uad for
> *> the hint , nix . years advocated a principle , and had > j !« n tli ,, ji ,. | wi , ( m jj , ofii (;(> to abandon that principle . "h ( Lord Uittouuui ) also told him that ho had left , his jxirly- , „ . rather that , his party had gone far beyond him ' 1 'on that , very question , and that , he had requested his '' other to eonio torwnrd and contest tho county of llorol "' . l" » n the principles , hiH lordship had advocated , and hi wished to know before- bin brother proceeded with his ( "iiviiNH whether ho waw earnest , in tho ideas lie had entor-( ll ' ! l < m *''"' "ubjoet . Lord Derby ' s answer wan to the fo !" i ¦ " > ( '" "" > elections were over , it , waH iniposHiblo ad I . "|' ( ° Hllyr wual ' ' « 'X < '' meaHiireM would be , but , he rot . ' lSllH ' "" > ' ¦ ' ¦<) say , 1 pledgo my word if I have bcIi' !"" . ' l > ftr " " aini ) nl . a tiuflicieiit number to carry out , a ,. | , ""'" the benelit , of the agricultural classes , tliono tion * ' ' " l ^ * UlVO my vcry kest and moat oiirnout utton" uclt ltJ tho revelation given by Lord Butomun ,
Our readers will wonder at the simplicity of the agricultural mind . Lord Bateman said , he had last year recommended them not to cry out for Protection , as it seemed impossible to reverse the Free-trade system . "At the same time , " he innocently remarked , " when Lord Derby took office , he certainly thought he would have gone to the country on that policy , but his lordship was a wiser man than himself , and had not done so . It did not , however , follow that Lord Derby was no friend to the farmers . " And then he gave us a glimpse of the Bateman notions respecting the duty of a statesman .
" It was the bounden duty of the man who stood at the head of the Government solely by their assistance , to look after the interests of his party , just as much as it was Lord John Russell ' s duty to look after the interests of those on the opposite side who placed him at the head of affairs . " Sufficiently explicit and sufficiently narrow . And he very logically concluded , that " farmers would place confidence in the man who was the mainstay and the only hope of the agricultural interests . No other possible Government that he knew of could grant to them the same measure of justice , the same help , and the same attention as the present . Lord Derby ' s Government was composed of new men certainly , but men of well-known integrity , honesty , and honourable motives —men who , they might depend upon it , would never deceive the farmers . If their opinions changed he was convinced they would immediately resign office . "
However simple minded , it is clear from the theory of ethics expressed in the last sentence , that Lord Bateman is a noble lord .
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LORD WATERFORD ON " LANDLORD AND TENANT . " The Marquis of Waterford presided at the annual dinner of the Portland Agricultural Society , last week . In proposing the health of Lord Doneraile , he called him " one of those landlords who p ossess sufficient common sense to recognise a community of interest between landlord and tenant ; and who feel , that in promoting the comfort , prosperity , and happiness of the tenant he takes the most effectual means to promote his own welfare . " He advocated the culture of flax , and the growth of beet for sugar . He urged them to keep paoe with the march of intellect [? science ] . " This was not the time to persist in adhering to obsolete practices . ( Cheers . ) They should stud y to adapt new inventions and new ideas to every day life , and to employ them in the promotio n of civilization and social prosperity . ( Loud and long cheering . ) " Adverting again to the character of Lord Doneraile , he made some sensible remarks : — " If the landlord did his duty by his tonant there was little fear of the latter ' bolting' with the crop —( laughter ) —a practice of which , too many instances had occurred within the last few years . ( Hear , hear . ) Mutual confidence between landlord and tenant was tho great secret of the prosperity of both . ( Loud cheers . ) He ( Lord Waterford ) did not behove that any respectable tenant would disgrace his character for the sake of a half-year ' s rent , and leave his hereditary holding whereon his father , and his father ' s father had lived happily and respectably for centuries , if ho had confidence in his landlord . ( Repeated cheers . ) For Iuh part , ho was willing and ever eager to allow any tenant of bis for tho capital which bo expended in improving bin farm . ( Groat cheering . ) IIo would be sorry to require any of hiH tenants to lay out
bin money on bis ( Lord Waterford ' s ) land without giving him ( lie full value for any improvements he might ; make . ( Loud cries of ' Hear , hour , ' and cheers . ) Hut bo trusted that tho justice of tho landlord would induce tho tenant , to bo punctual in tho payment of his rent . ( Cheers , and cries of 'To bo sure it would . ' ) He repeated , that he was willing to give every man fair play . Any tenant , that , had improved his farm , and who could furnish him with evidence of mieh improvement , would receive its full value . ( Loud cheers . ) If the times bad gone against , the tenant , ho that he was not able to meet , bis rent , he ( Lord VValorford ) was inclined to afford him every reasonable indulgence . ( Cheers . ) Hut if be met , a man without principle , a iiuui who could sacrifice his character for the sake of
a hulf-year ' H rent ,, he would show him no ineicy . Ho would visit , him with the utmost , severity of the law—( hoar , hear ) --but ho would not hold those who niiiy lw connected with him accountable for Iuh delinquencies . ( Cheers . ) lie was aware that , a dishonest , intui hud honest , brothers , cousins , and other relatives , whom it would be cruel and unjust to punish for bin misconduct . " Thin is new doctrino in tho mouth of an Irish landlord .
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WHOM MAJOR HKKIOSFORD WOULD PKRMIT TO KM I ( JRATIO . TmH gentleman attended a meeting of the Saffron WinVlen Agricultural Society , on Friday week ; mill Hj ) oki ) to tho toast of" t , he county members . " He promised to be non-political ; but an ho never opens his mouth without committing himself , he alighted upon tho topic ; of emigration , and uttered utrungo oracles thereon : — " Immigration , if carried to a fair extent and looked to carefully , might bo conducive of great advantage to tho public , it' they could roatru-Lu it no au to ucud those poraona
out of the country they exactly wished—those who ^ were the least advantageous to us . ( Cries of ' Cobden . If Mr . Webb could restrain bis best shepherd from going to Australia to try bis fortune at the gold diggings , he would be pleased . If the people of Saffron Walden could keep at home those who made the best bread and were the best cooks , they would be pleased . But we could not do this ; and they must admit that a large proportion of those who did emigrate were certainly the sinew and bone of the country . The very regulations of the Emigration Commissioners , which , he had carefully looked through , held out inducements to the best class of the poor and o £ the labourers to go out . They would take out an able-bodied man , with a wife and children , at a lower price than they
would another ¦ when he was past 50—they made the latter pay more , and they would take another man under 40 still cheaper . Consequently , it was to those who were the strength , and pith , and marrow of the country to whom , they held , out inducements to go and seek their fortunes elsewhere . Woav he had seen it stated in a public journal that the only panacea for agricultural distress was a large amount of emigration . They were to have poor rates cut down by it . But if they looked to what had been the effect , they would not sec much diminution of paupers in the union houses of Essex , at all events , to what there were this time two years . In the last official return of the Poor-law Commissioners to January , ho found the total diminution in Essex to be extremely small , though there
had been a diminution ; consequently that showed to him . that in Essex this result had not taken place . Yet Essex might be liable to one of the vast evils that emigration might introduce . For instance , at the late harvest it had been acknowledged that in some parts of the country the prices given for reaping corn and carrying it in were excessive . He knew that in Surrey , where he happened to be at the end of August and beginning of September , in the parish where he was staying , 18 s . was commonly paid for reaping an acre of wheat—that was , he thought they would agree , pretty nearly double what it ought to be . Then they said—the philosophers would say this to them , ' As in Essex vou . have got this large amount of poor who
will reap for you , you , by the excess of labour , will have reaping cheap . ' But that was not according to their system of philosophy , for the supply of men fell over the whole surface , and if in a country so near as Surrey 18 s . was paid for reaping an acre of wheat , did they suppose that the able-bodied unmarried man would stay here to receive 8 s . or 10 s ., when by a day ' s journey he could receive 18 s . ? Another year they woidd go off to those counties , and they would be left in Essex deficient of labour , and obliged to raise the amount they paid for it . ( Hear , hear . ) Therefore he did not think , looking calmly at the case , that emigration was a very great boon to the agriculturists , unless accompanied by that power—the choice of whom they should send out . ( Cheers . )"
Do our readers need any neater reA elation of the thoughts of the War Secretary of the Derby Government , respecting what is the Protectionist idea of the rate of wages for an able-bodied man ?
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CHURCH MATTERS . TnE following resolution , we understand , was passed at a meeting of the South Church Union , holden at Brighton on Tuesday : — " 1 . That this committee tenders its most grateful thanks to tho Lord Bishop of Exeter for the firmness he has displayed in maintaining the doctrine and practice of the Church of England as regards the use of confession ; and desires , at the same time , to express its abhorrence of the false witness and shameful subornation employed to bring public odium on one whose only crime was the faithful performance of his duty . " 2 . That , considering tho state of abeyance in which the synodieal action of the Church of Knglund has no long lain , together with the important ( juostions which arc being opened out from day to day , inalcriallyuflccting its docl rine and discipline , it is the opinion of this meeting that , the most strenuous efforts should continue to be made to indue *! tho Crown to allow Convocation to meet for despatch of business , and especially for the purpose of reforming itself to meet the altered circumstances of the Church in the present day . " . ' 5 . That this meeting , being of opinion Unit a Church
deprived of a proper court of ultimate appeal in doctrinal matters , cannot l > ul ; be liable to great danger as regards the faith , and understanding that , a measure is likely ( o bit brought forward for the reformation of the present , court of appeal , in which the bench of bishops are not even to be judges of doctrine , but , simple assessors to a lay tribunal , resolved , that not . only ought , no such measures to be acquiesced in by ( 'liurehnien , but that none , t hurt aU ' eetinj * the best , interest , ;) of the Church can bo satisfactory to them which shall not , have received the sanction of Convocation . " A meeting of tho I > ii'iuinghuiu clergy was held on Monday last ., in reference to the agitated question of l , he revival of convocation , the Rev . John C Miller in the chair . An address to her Majesty against the proposed revival was adopted by a large majority , mid is to bo presented to Karl Derby through the rural dean . A memorial , signed by the churchwardens , overseers , and sixty inhabitants of SI . Dionis Unekeluireh parish , has been presented to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury , setting forth that the lute Dean of Norwich was ' incumbent , of the parish for twenty-iour years , during tho whole of which time Ik ; was nonresident , and praying that ; a clergyman inuy bo uppointed to < ht > rectory who , by residing in or near the puriNh , may bo able to fulfil in pewon tho vuriouM dutiem of liia high chargo .
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October 30 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 1031
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1852, page 1031, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1958/page/3/
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