The Times of Saturday published a letter from Sir E.
Kerrison, the well-known landlord and virtual owner of Eye, the best pocket borough in England. It is past all question the greatest contribution yet made to the discussion of the agrarian war in the Eastern Counties. Sir E. Kerrison believes the war will throw some of the best land in the kingdom out of cultivation, and suggests these remedies :—That Agricultural Unions should be recognised :—That they should be required to alter their rules, so that both sides should give a month's notice of alteration in wages : —That strikes against individual masters should not be allowed, but should extend over, say, five parishes — too much, we fear — and that failing agreement, arbitration should be tried :—That the sentimental nonsense imported into the question from praiseworthy but mis- taken notions should be abandoned, and wages be regulated on commercial principles. Sir E. Kerrison adds a strong testimony, endorsed by his farmers, to the good-conduct of his labourers, whether Unionist or independent, and his letter will, we venture to predict, be ultimately the basis of the inevitable compromise. We have not read such kindly sense for a year.
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