19 SEPTEMBER 1840, Page 1

The flirmers, having finished their harvest-woils. are laaginning to

meet together to dine and talk. The Itoyal lltteks .Sericultural I ' • Association met on Wednesday.; other similar ns.-nteia I inns art' ' about to assemble to celebrate their respective annivers.tric:4. The , The till It I then I. after-dinner speeches at this meeting, at widish the Duke of lives- t."1". t!". '- Jaen yyt and many Nlembers l'arliament figured, followed the "!. 14' I '

usual etiiirse of the speeches on such occasions. l'Itry commence the

by pro!', sang the greatest moderation, and by deprecating polities inicetos of the :,-, :1- • as alto 2.,etlier foreign to their nature; but " by the opuration of the tho1,rhfh'"1",1 second clip," they wax valiant, declaim strone;ly against any bum- swore not Is, 1 doe 'n vation on the rights and privileges of the farmers, and arr deter- mined to tile in the last ditch sonnet than :vivid a barley-corn. They have gent•rally something to say, bt.11)1.4, Ilivy conclude, not complimentary to the present linisters ; and (1'Cosseta. tita■ think himself %yell oft' il'hc escnpr snrdy )grim [brit cllitchr.. \lr. Dni'Ri. ono or the ('omit' Nlembers, added it the lloyal lineks fleeting It new feature to the usual programme: he unnonneetl that

the fitrmors have the monopoly of argument as w(11 as the mono- poly of the sale of corn! The talk of the Anti-Corn-law folks is, it seems, mere idle declamation, all sound and fury ; whilst the Corn-laws are supported by reason, justice, common sense—and, what is still more efficacious, by lsrge majorities in both Houses of Parliament.