The " farmers,' friends," who assemIded at the Crown and
Anchor yesterday. did little but wrangle and abuse eneh other. Lord Stanhope railed at the House of Commons, in terms which even the Tory Mr. Brantill considered indecent and disorderly. Lord Wynford declared that Lord Stanhope was " rtanbliog to the devil." Lord Kenyon would not allow that tithes were a tax. The Duke of Newcastle' who wasChairman of the meeting, could not tell whether he had put Lord Stanhope's resolutions or not—he could uot "collect his ideas ;" and filially several members of the Society withdrew from it in high dudgeon, because it could not be conceited into a debating club on poor-laws and currency as well as corn. We presume that the Asso- ciation is on its last legs ; but in its hour of dissolution it will have this comfort—Lord Wytiford is so entirely convinced of the right of the agriculturists to relief, that he is going to " introduce a bill upon the subject."
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