Lord,Winmarleigh;—better remembered in. England by the name" .of'' Wilson-Patten i
under which, he sat so long in the- House-of Commons,,--in -addressing the Lancashire Agricultural- Association on.Neesday, very prudently- endeavoured to undo, some of the misehief rivhich Lord Beaconefield'e foolish, speech at the Mansion House on " the three incomes" which the soil always produces, may have ,done amongst Tory agitators -with slender knowledge or elenderer brains. The,plan &or attenuating severe agricultural depression which seemed to Lord Winmarieigh more simple-than any other, was a reasonable readjustment of -rent. "If theliraes were bad, then' the rent of land must 'come down, Rent must be proportioned to the value,of. land, as regulated- by its. produce." That is excellent sense i and is virtually- an answer- to the strange and wild doctrine of the three incomes. which land.- is bound to produce. The only objection is that Lord Winmarleigh, contemplates, apparently, readjustments as matter of favour, when the- farmers- will demand , readjust- ments as matter of right; and when they will reasonably ask also for- facilities fOr settling the matter without readjustments at all, by becoming, so far as opportunity pormite, the owners of the soil they till..
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