28 JANUARY 1843, Page 1

It is unfortunate for the Ultra-Agriculturist party, that many of

their adherents are so rash or so gauche as to make very awkward admissions when they venture on "demonstrations." Thus, Lord MOUNTCASHEL, the other day, managed his Anti-Free-trade meet- ing at Fermoy in Ireland so badly as to give it the air of an abortive attempt to make the tenants of the district declare themselves in favour of high rents. Again, the Buckingham Conservatives, with tbeir Duke at their head, converted their annual dinner for the nonce into a demonstration against the Anti-Corn-law League,— which was fair enough; but they were so far betrayed by their anger against the new Tariff and the Corn-law as to bait one of the smaller Ministers, whom they happened to find among them, with taunts against PEEL and his supporters. Sir THOMAS FEE- MANTLE showed mettle suited to the emergency, and tossed his worriers sky-high. Lord ORKNEY had given him two handles,— one by asserting that a third part of the landed property of Scot- land has gone to the winds in consequence of the Ministerial mea- sures; for which Sir THOMAS, in delicate language, gave him the lie. Lord ORKNEY might as well have said that the late high winds had blown the Carse of Stirling over Bea-Lomond: of course there is no answer to be made to such sheer extravagance but simple' contradiction. But the Earl was 'unlucky enough, quoting a song, to say iliat he rose "royally fresh " : the badgered Minister seized the hint, and replied to the after-dinner eloquence of the Buckinghamshire Members, who had, as they thought, got him all to themselves for sport, by saying, almost in plain terms, "Go to, you 're drunk!" Before matters, however, had been worked up to that state of excitement, a lay Dr. MARSHAM, who delivered a very ratiocinative address, undertook to prove that the country supports its popula- tion. It only grows sixteen million quarters of wheat, he admitted, to-feed twenty-six millions of people; but then, the ten millions, who want the needful quarter each, are not starving, for "five millions live on oatmeal, and more than five millions rejoice in potatoes" ! Dr. MARSHAM must be a League-man in disguise.