13 JUNE 1868, Page 3

The Western Chambers of Agriculture held a meeting after Ainner

at Falmouth last week, attended by some of the most influential proprietors and agriculturists in the West. A re- solution was proposed and apparently carried unanimously that the exemption of personalty from poor-rates was most unfair, and the towns of the West were asked to co-operate with the counties in securing a more equitable adjustment of a burden now equal to an income-tax of 10d. in the pound. There are materials for many a hardworked session in that resolution, which will yet puzzle financiers more than any question of Imperial finance has ever done. How are local Boards to get at personal property, unless indeed Englishmen, like Americans, get over their fear of -anybody knowing how much they have to spend?